Employment

  • June 30, 2026

    Conn. Servers Seek Quick Win On Minimal Duties Claims

    Restaurant servers have asked a Connecticut state court to throw out a steakhouse's argument that some of their unpaid work was too small to matter, saying a recent state high court ruling makes clear that no amount of work can go uncompensated under state law.

  • June 30, 2026

    SAG-AFTRA Asks House Panel To Advance AI Deepfakes Bill

    The president of actors union SAG-AFTRA spoke to a congressional subcommittee Tuesday to press the need for a bill to allow for the removal of deepfakes from the internet, framing the advent of digital replicas of people as a fundamental alteration in the methods of human interaction that cannot be ignored by lawmakers.

  • June 30, 2026

    EEOC Says Auto Dealer Fired Worker Over Sabbath Request

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued an auto dealership chain in Georgia federal court Tuesday, alleging it fired a sales employee after refusing to excuse him from Saturday work because of his religious beliefs.

  • June 30, 2026

    Justices Won't Hear MSPB Case After Slaughter Decision

    The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday denied a former Merit Systems Protection Board member's bid to review a D.C. Circuit decision upholding her firing from the agency, following a Monday high court decision finding that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies.

  • June 30, 2026

    Venable Adds Former Cooley Employee Benefits Atty In DC

    Venable LLP has hired a former Cooley LLP special counsel who focuses her practice on employee benefits matters including retirement, health and welfare plans, the firm announced Monday.

  • June 30, 2026

    UCHealth Workers Fight Bid To Toss Wage Suit

    Two former hospital workers urged a Colorado federal court to keep alive their proposed class and collective action alleging University of Colorado Health shorted hourly employees through a time-rounding policy and denied them required meal and rest breaks, saying their claims are sufficiently detailed to proceed.

  • June 30, 2026

    NC City Beats Ex-Paralegal's Besmirched Reputation Suit

    A North Carolina city's characterization of how a fired paralegal allegedly misused city resources is not enough to sustain her suit accusing the city of trampling on her reputation and using her as a scapegoat for her boss's misdeeds, a federal judge said in throwing out the case.

  • June 30, 2026

    Ex-Name Partner Drops Suit Over 'Toxic' Workplace At NJ Firm

    A former name partner at the personal injury firm now known as Corradino & Partners LLC dropped a suit against the firm and its remaining principal over allegations the partner was forced out of the firm by being subjected to a "toxic and intolerable environment."

  • June 30, 2026

    2 Ex-Clifford Chance Attys Say Firm Wants To Claw Back $6M

    Two former practice group leaders at Clifford Chance LLP have sued in New York federal court alleging the firm is trying to claw back nearly $6 million in total from the pair after they moved to Sidley Austin LLP early this year.

  • June 30, 2026

    Covington Beats Defamation Suit Over Soccer Abuse Report

    A Texas appellate court on Tuesday said the state's free speech law frees Covington & Burling LLP and the National Women's Soccer League from a defamation suit brought by a former Houston Dash coach over his inclusion in a report detailing purportedly abusive conditions in the sport.

  • June 30, 2026

    BREAKING: EEOC Scraps Long-Standing Affirmative Action Guidance

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday it has rescinded several decades-old guidance documents relating to voluntary workplace affirmative action plans, concluding the previous positions were out of step with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

  • June 30, 2026

    Gordon Rees Adds 8 Partners In Northern California

    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has expanded its offices in Northern California with eight new partners who have expertise in multiple practice areas, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.

  • June 30, 2026

    Broker Dropped From Fatal Fla. Turnpike U-Turn Crash Suit

    The estate of one of three people killed in a Florida Turnpike collision last year has dropped C.H. Robinson from its negligence lawsuit after the freight broker said it didn't even arrange the shipment and wasn't connected to the trucking company or driver involved in the accident.

  • June 30, 2026

    Cannabis Co. Says EEOC Sex Harassment Claims Too Vague

    Cannabis giant Ascend Wellness Holdings Inc. is urging an Illinois federal court to throw out claims from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that a class of unnamed women employees faced constant sexual harassment, saying the complaint is too vague for the company to be on notice for what it has to defend against.

  • June 30, 2026

    Trump Loses Bid To Remove Copyright Office Leader For Now

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to let the Trump administration remove U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter for now, leaving in place a D.C. Circuit order that allows her to keep leading the office while her lawsuit challenging her firing proceeds.

  • June 29, 2026

    High Court Gives Fed Independence A 'Fragile' Reprieve

    The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown its weight behind Federal Reserve independence by rejecting President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, but experts say the fight over central bank control may not be finished — just moving to a new phase.

  • June 29, 2026

    FLRA Union Case Management Rule Struck Down As 'Arbitrary'

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday vacated a Federal Labor Relations Authority rule changing its process for handling union representation cases, agreeing with a coalition of unions that the decision to transfer power from the FLRA's regional directors to its members was arbitrary and capricious.

  • June 29, 2026

    Wash. Teachers Win $120M In 23-Year Retirement Dispute

    Washington's Department of Retirement Systems owes nearly $120 million to a class of more than 26,000 public school teachers after decades of wrongfully withholding interest and investment returns from their retirement accounts, according to a state judge's ruling in a long-running employee benefits case.

  • June 29, 2026

    Moving Organizer Disputes Poaching Claims After Fallout

    A Connecticut federal judge on Monday probed the line between two overlapping trades because a disputed noncompete contract doesn't define either one, hoping to understand a moving company's arguments that a woman it once allegedly described as a partner poached clients, employees and intellectual property before relaunching her own company.

  • June 29, 2026

    UChicago Instructor Loses Suit Over Review, Grievance Fight

    A former instructor's dispute over an allegedly improper performance review cannot move forward against the University of Chicago and a Service Employees International Union local because he hasn't raised viable claims over the process that led to his contract nonrenewal, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

  • June 29, 2026

    Gov't Arg. For DOGE Access Stay Is 'Red Herring,' Judge Says

    The Trump administration can't convince a Maryland federal judge to rescind her order opening discovery into allegations the Department of Government Efficiency flouted her orders to stop accessing sensitive Social Security Administration data.

  • June 29, 2026

    Black Driver Says Concrete Co. Fired Him For Calling Out Slur

    A Black former driver for a concrete company alleges in a suit filed Monday in Georgia federal court that he was fired after complaining that a colleague called him a racial slur and taking leftover concrete from a job even though he got approval from management to do so. 

  • June 29, 2026

    Wayne-Sanderson Says Wage Claims Blocked By $70M Deal

    Wayne-Sanderson urged a Maryland federal court to enforce nearly $70 million in settlements the poultry processor reached with workers and to block dozens of individuals who are suing or threatening to sue in Alabama state court alleging wage suppression.

  • June 29, 2026

    26 States Sue To Nix Medicaid Work Rule For Medically Frail

    More than two dozen states sued the Trump administration Monday in Massachusetts federal court in a bid to strike down new Medicaid work requirements for certain enrollees, saying the administration did not consider the consequences the requirements would have on vulnerable Medicaid enrollees.

  • June 29, 2026

    3rd Circ. Preview: DuPont Pensions, Detainees' Court Access

    An appeal testing the limits of ERISA fiduciary liability goes before the Third Circuit in July when DuPont and Corteva seek to overturn a district court ruling that a corporate spinoff damaged employees' retirement benefits. The court will also hear argument on whether heavy equipment giant Caterpillar forced a competitor out of business by pressuring a vendor. Here are some highlights from the court's July calendar.

Expert Analysis

  • NY Defamation Carveout Hinges On Causation, Not Labels

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    A New York federal court's decisions in two cases involving tortious interference claims, and the recent Second Circuit ruling in Satanic Temple v. Newsweek Digital, highlight that the dispositive question for alleged defamation is whether injury flows through reputation or through direct interference with a relationship, says attorney Andrea Natale.

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    Power To The Paralegals: Burnout As A Structural Problem

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    Law firm leadership can best retain their paralegals not by encouraging self-care, but by seeking top-down structural solutions for the quiet proliferation of responsibilities and the vicarious exposure to client trauma that particularly drive burnout in this vital role, says Erika Sneeringer at Brockstedt Mandalas.

  • DOL Deal Offers FMLA Lesson On Handling Intermittent Leave

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    The U.S. Department of Labor's recent deal with the University of Tennessee paying an employee over $30,000 for alleged violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act offers lessons about responding to intermittent leave requests, avoiding forced resignations and providing required notices, says Jason Knott at Zuckerman Spaeder.

  • Takeaways From 1st Del. Ruling Applying Moelis Amendments

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    Delaware corporations should carefully review contractual arrangements and governance documents following the Court of Chancery's recent enforcement of a non-Delaware forum selection clause in a CEO's employment agreement under 2024 amendments to the state's General Corporation Law, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Ill. Law Firm MSO Bill Clashes With Court Power, Ethics Rules

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    An Illinois bill prohibiting law firms from certain business arrangements with management service organizations, sent to the governor for signature last week, encroaches upon the courts' constitutional powers and goes beyond the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct in regulating investment in law-related services, says Matthew O’Hara at Smith Gambrell.

  • Justices' Montgomery Ruling Doesn't Expand Shipper Liability

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    Whether negligent hiring liability claims against shippers will increase after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last month in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II is anyone's guess, but the ruling itself will have no impact on shippers' actual liability in personal injury claims relating to trucking accidents, says Ronald Leibman at McCarter & English.

  • 3rd Circ. Decision Sheds Light On BIPA Bank Exemption

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    The Third Circuit's recent decision in McGoveran v. Amazon illuminates how courts are extending the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act's financial institution carveout beyond banks and insurers to technology vendors and other businesses handling biometric data, a defendant-friendly shift that still casts uncertainty around BIPA's enforcement, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.

  • Constructing AI Compliance Plans As State Laws Diverge

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    With Colorado, Connecticut and the federal government recently announcing wildly different approaches to artificial intelligence regulation, creating a workable compliance program means addressing overlapping obligations using shared systems rather than separate silos, say attorneys at Ogletree.

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    State Courts Must Be Gatekeepers Of Expert Testimony

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    Based on my experience in the state judiciary, emulating federal courts' role as gatekeepers of expert witness testimony would help state court judges maintain the appearance of impartiality and assist juries, thus enhancing the overall confidence people have in their justice system, says Lorie Gildea at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Examining 3 Notable DOL Moves In The First Half Of 2026

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    With the U.S. Department of Labor addressing independent contractor classification, joint employment and white collar exemptions so far this year, employers must understand this shifting landscape to ensure proper treatment of employees based on their classification and to mitigate enforcement risk, say attorneys at Conn Maciel.

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    Moshing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Entering a mosh pit is much like entering the practice of law — it is difficult, you have to know both the written and unwritten rules, and conduct yourself according to the expectations of each community, says Christopher Deubert at Constangy Brooks.

  • Why Highly Specialized Experts May Risk Exclusion At Trial

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    Expert witnesses with highly specific areas of focus may be vulnerable to exclusion in court, making it important for attorneys to check how potential witnesses' qualifications can be bolstered by their publications and other professional activities, say Evan Weisberg and Christopher Cunio at Hunton, and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

  • Steps For Employers After 7th Circ. BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

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    The Seventh Circuit's recent ruling in Clay v. Union Pacific sharply limits per-scan statutory damages theories in pending Biometric Information Privacy Act cases by retroactively applying a 2024 amendment, but employers should not mistake the holding for a broad safe harbor, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.

  • Defending Against Remote Work Risks During The World Cup

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    With World Cup matches underway, remote work policies and security measures can help employers manage the risks of employees working from sports arenas and other nontraditional locations, including hours-worked compliance, network security and data protection, says Lisa Burton at Ogletree.

  • Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

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    U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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