You've been arrested for a DUI, your arraignment is coming up, and you're itching to tell your side of the story. Maybe you weren't drunk, or you think the breathalyzer was broken, or you shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
On December 14, 2015, the Seattle City Council passed a highly controversial bill purporting to allow individuals who drive for transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize. The law would further permit the Director of the...
California begins 2016 with a number of new employment laws, ranging from compensation rates for piece-rate employees to permissible uses of the Federal E-Verify system. Employers should familiarize themselves with the requirements of these new...
Christmas came early for the European Commission, as a multi-year effort to reform the continent’s aging data protection framework was finally agreed upon with the European Parliament and Council, which will significantly change the compliance...
Not theology, or a 1940s movie. Partner Alex Cohen explains the term Fallen Angel from the Book of Jargon® – US Corporate and Bank Finance. Latham & Watkins' innovative Book of Jargon® series demystifies legal and business jargon. The newest edition...
For years, employers have used criminal background checks as part of the hiring process. These days it doesn’t take long to find a person’s virtual history on the internet. What kind of information is an employer legally allowed to use? And how much...
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana recently granted an insurer’s motion for summary judgment, finding that an excess workers’ compensation and employers’ liability policy was not reinsurance and that the limit of...
Reconsideration requests are a webmaster’s tool for getting back into the good graces of Google after a site has been slapped with a manual search penalty. We’ve seen this more than a few times with new clients who come to us and it is usually a...
The plaintiff’s lawyer should have known that the purported facts on which a civil rights suit against the New York City police department was predicated…
EBA has published its guidelines on the conditions for group financial support under the BRRD. National regulators must tell EBA by 8 February 2016 whether they comply or intend to comply with the guidelines.... By: Dentons
