5th Circuit Short Circuits Plaintiff's Use of State Court

In certain parts of Texas, plaintiffs seek to avoid being in federal court at all costs. Today, the 5th Circuit clarified a procedural hurdl...

How Much Would it Take to Wet Your Whistle?

That's a 64 million dollar question, literally. JP Morgan whistleblower gets $63.9 million in mortgage fraud deal.   It seems quite like...

5th Circuit's View on Extraterritorial Application of SOX? Not Yet

One of the many issues still to be decided for whistle-blowing claims under Sarbanes Oxley is how far does the law extend, if at all, for co...

50 Years Ago, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes the House of Representatives

The statute that among many other things marked the beginning of employment law as a discipline, passed a major hurdle 50 years ago today wh...

Happy 50th, Sex As a Protected Category

Fifty years ago, on another February Saturday, after what had been a grueling fight to pass a strengthened Civil Right bill out of the House...

Next Year's Headache for Employers

Not to ruin the Christmas season, but when you get through the holidays and start focusing again on looming legal issues, you might want to ...

Keyboard Filing - Being a Whistleblower Just Got a Lot Easier

It will be interesting to see what the response is to today's announcement by the Department of Labor that complaints under any of the 2...

Two Names You May Not Know and May Never Hear Much About

But if you are at all interested in what may be coming out of new NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin's office, and if you are an emplo...

The Things People Say and Do

One of the many changes that have happened since I first started practicing law in 1975, is the appearance of services which monitor the fil...

ENDA Half-way Home?

For the first time ever the United States Senate seems poised to pass legislation that would prevent discrimination against gays, lesbians a...