Sexual Harassment

The new year brings a few new laws for employers, including law firms, though the changes are relatively minor compared to past years, according to Christie Totten, an employment law attorney with Davis...

An Illinois federal jury has awarded a $95 million verdict - including $80 million in punitive damages - to a store worker who claimed she was sexually harassed and assaulted by a manager...

Byline: Bruce Krasnow Alan Kessler was bleeding in his stomach and blacking out when he returned home after being kicked by a horse. It had been over an hour since the incident, and...

From turbulence at the top of Hewlett-Packard Co. to the smooth-but-tragic transition at Apple Inc., succession planning gained worldwide attention last year. In the highest-profile move of the year, Tim Cook took the...

Constitutional Claims and Civil Rights Student and parents sought review of summary judgment granted in favor of school district and college regarding violations of stuent's free exercise of religion and right to due...

HEADNOTE Objectives The aims of this study were to examine reciprocal longitudinal associations between exposure to workplace bullying and symptoms of psychological distress and to investigate how self-labeled victimization from bullying explains the...

Articles Mark C. Weber, A New Look at Section 504 and the ADA in Special Education Cases, 16 Tex. J. on Civ. Liberties & Civ. Rights 1 (2010). The author argues that children...

I. INTRODUCTION Public schools' confiscation and retention of cell phones for periods beyond school time arguably violates parents' fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment due process...

By IsraelNationalNews.com Shlomo Fuchs, a hareidi-religious man who allegedly called a female soldier "harlot" Wednesday when she refused to move to the "women's section" of the bus, was charged with sexual harassment Thursday....

Employment law has been a hot practice area and 2011 did not disappoint. Here are some of the highlights of the past year's most notable employment law stories: As the recession rolled on,...

By IsraelNationalNews.com "If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed', the London Guardian reported this week. And what if Abraham were to visit? The Guardian article painted a bleak picture...

Rank Law Firm Personnel Attorney name total Breakdown attorneys address non-attorney equity partners website employees non-equity partners paralegals associates of counsel 1 Michelman & 70 5 Robinson, LLP 15760 Ventura 45 31 Blvd.,...

An Illinois employer may be liable for violating state and federal privacy laws by accessing personal e-mails through an AOL account a former employee had left active on her work computer. That was...

LOS ANGELES -- In what has been described as the most active legislative session in years, the state of California will release up to four (4) mandatory-to-post labor law changes. The Legal Research...

A California jury has awarded $67.4 million to a woman who claimed that a male nurse sexually assaulted her following a surgical procedure. Winning attorney Michael Piuze suggested in closing arguments that the...

HEADNOTE The rush to physician group integration requires due diligence and attention to detail. Physician group integration is a hot issue and likely to remain that way. National healthcare reform and various economic...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Emily Dopper and her boyfriend, Willem van Leeuwen, tourists from the Netherlands, were on their way to lunch at the Boathouse restaurant in New York's Central Park when they encountered the...