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When preparing employment agreements, businesses often want to include provisions that restrict employees in their use of company information, contact with customers, or choice of next employer. These restrictions, called restrictive covenants,...

Adrea, LLC ("Adrea") filed a patent infringement action against Barnes & Noble, Inc., barnesandnoble.com llc, and Nook Media LLC (collectively, "B&N"), which alleged that B&N's e-reader Nook infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 7,298,851 ("the '851 patent"),...

The hours and days following an accident in which you suffer injury can be confusing and stressful. Nevertheless, mistakes made during this time period can affect the entire life of your civil case. Since it is common for a significant amount of time...

The NLRB has affirmed the certification of a micro bargaining unit at a Macy’s retail store. Macy’s Inc. and Local 1445, UFCW, 361 NLRB No. 4 (July 22, 2014) The certified unit consists solely of roughly 40 cosmetics and fragrance counter workers....

When we think about compliance training, we typically conjure up the popular topics: sexual harassment training, anti-bribery training, code of ethics training…the superstars, the popular kids. The courses that most employees take because they cause...

The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) plays a crucial role in our national safety infrastructure. Yet the agency has been subjected to significant criticism — and even been the butt of jokes — for the last several years. In 2003, Air Marshal...

In a 5–4 opinion issued in Union Carbide Corporation v. Daisy E. Synatzske et al. No. 12-0617 (Tex. July 3, 2014), the Texas Supreme Court held that Chapter 90 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code as applied to the plaintiffs does not...

It should come as no surprise that defending against Non-Producing Entities—most of which are Patent Trolls —is expensive, especially for small businesses and corporations. In support of his ongoing legal battle with the patent troll Personal Audio,...

The foundation of every anti-corruption ethics and compliance program is a risk assessment. It is important to design and implement a process to conduct an initial risk assessment, to update the risk assessment, and to ensure that you maintain an...

Corporate inversions have been the target of regulatory or statutory tax proposals for many years. However, the recently attempted combination of Pfizer and AstraZeneca received prompt and more far-reaching attention in the U.S. Congress......

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