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There is a line in Professor Reich-Graefe’s recent essay, Keep Calm and Carry On, 27 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 55 (2014), that is attracting a lot of interest among lawyers, law students, and legal academics: [R]ecent law school graduates and current...

Infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau can only serve one contempt sentence at a time. So a federal judge who jailed Trudeau last year for civil contempt to try to force him to pay something towards a $37.6 million fine released him Wednesday.

Germany's data protection laws, already known as one of the strictest in the world, are facing an even stricter approach when Federal Minister of Justice Heiko Maas on February 11, 2014 announced a new draft bill that would allow consumer protection...

In late 2013, the U.S. Green Building Council released its latest version of LEED, Version 4. Most of you have certainly heard of LEED but you may not know what LEED really means. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a...

California Water Supplies Likely to be Impacted - In a reversal potentially impacting the water supply to millions of Californians, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a biological opinion issued by the United States Fish and...

The success or failure of an employer’s defenses in employment litigation often turns on what motivated a termination decision. My consistently subpar performance or my complaint about harassment? My taking of leave or requesting of accommodation, or...

On March 14, 2014, CMS released an interim final rule implementing a six-month extension of the low-volume payment adjustment and Medicare-Dependent Hospital (MDH) program under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule for fiscal year...

The CFPB, in alignment with its continuing focus on payday lending, will hold a field hearing in Nashville, Tennessee on March 25, 2014, on payday lending. The CFPB previously took enforcement action against a payday lender for unfair and deceptive...

Last month, the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) released its biennial National Business Ethics Survey (NBES). I was honored to serve on the NBES Advisory Panel this year, particularly given its reputation as a definitive barometer of workplace ethics....

We are a retail store. An employee in the warehouse requested an assigned chair to sit on when he is between tasks. Must we comply with this request in our California locations?...
By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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