A recent District of Columbia federal court ruling reminds employers that a severance agreement containing a release of claims under the False Claims Act does not guarantee dismissal of a suit on... Read more »
Steno, a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay, enables law firms to defer service costs until their case resolves, has closed a Series B funding round of $15... Read more »
Saturday, August 26, 2023 On May 9, 2023, a New York jury returned a verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll, awarding her roughly $5 million for her claims of defamation and... Read more »
The US Department of State announced visa restrictions on Chinese officials linked to the alleged systematic assimilation of over a million Tibetan children in state-operated boarding schools. This decision is part of... Read more »
Topics: Business Transactions and Restructurings, Personnel Policies and Procedures As the economy changes, corporate restructures, mergers and acquisitions are on the rise. There is a plethora of employment-related issues that should be... Read more »
Clearview Social, an application for law firms to help their lawyers share content on social media, has launched a new feature, Social Shuffle, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that automatically generates variations of... Read more »
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Practicing law is hard, and the penalties for saying stuff that’s not true can be high. Just ask Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who was recently sanctioned... Read more »
Saturday, August 26, 2023 The False Claims Act (“FCA”) seeks to protect government funds supporting public services by imposing treble damages and penalties on entities that falsely claim money from the United States or... Read more »
Texas District Court Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel temporarily blocked SB 14, which bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts children already taking gender-affirming prescription drugs, from going into effect on Friday. The... Read more »
Judge’s ‘Inappropriate’ Facebook Comments Lead To ‘Harsh Lesson’