Specialty Group: Employment and Labor Law

Two recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court provide employers with some helpful means of combating employment claims brought on a classwide or collective basis. Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles Contac ...

Contact: Mark S. Thomas & Robert W. Shaw; Williams Mullen (North Carolina & Virginia, USA) In Taveras v. UBS AG, No. 12-1662 (2d Cir. February 27, 2013), the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reviewed t ...

Contact: Clarkslegal (Reading, England) Whilst whistleblowers are protected against detriment and dismissal as a result of blowing the whistle, they often suffer in more subtle ways such as ostracism by their colleagues ...

Contact: Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP (Missouri, USA) If you thought there was nothing an employer could really do when a departed employee discloses the employer’s confidential information, think again. Last ...