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New ASTM Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments Includes Substantive Changes

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

On November 6, 2013, ASTM International (ASTM) published a new Standard Practice for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, known as ASTM E1527-13.1 The new ASTM standard includes a number of substantive revisions to the existing E1527-05 standard...

FTC Expands Scope of Hart-Scott-Rodino Reporting Rules for Pharmaceutical Patent Rights Transfers

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The Federal Trade Commission has broadened the rules dictating when pharmaceutical companies must report a transfer of exclusive patent rights to the U.S. Department of Justice and FTC for antitrust review and approval. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino...

Understanding the Plain View Doctrine

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The plain view doctrine is an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, which allows law enforcement to seize incriminating items that are in plain view....
By: Law Office of E. Thomas Dunn, Jr.

SEC Whistleblower Program: Gathering Steam

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The SEC’s Whistleblower program has been steadily gaining momentum. The increase in whistleblower protections and incentives to report misconduct is a real and serious risk....
By: Michael Volkov

"Eating Turkey Made Me Fall Asleep And I Missed My Shift": How Employers Can Deal With The Most Outrageous Excuses For FMLA Leave

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, nearly one-third (32 percent) of your employees have called in sick when they're not actually sick. Perhaps just as notable, 30 percent of your employees admit that they have reported to work despite...

Federal Court Allows FDIC D&O Suit Involving Business Judgment Rule To Proceed

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

On November 14, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia denied motions to dismiss filed by former officers and directors of a failed federal thrift who allegedly contributed to the bank’s collapse by failing to exercise due...

Workers or their heirs collect back pay 44 years after suit was filed

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Forty-four years after the initial suit was filed, two retired workers and the estates of 30 others will receive back pay and interest because they lost their jobs and seniority in a railroad merger.

Actos MDL Case Update

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

The first of more than 1,500 Actos cases consolidated in a Louisiana federal court is scheduled to go on trial in January 2014. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) began MDL No. 2299 in December 2011 with 11 cases....

Microsoft, Yahoo! Revamp Performance Appraisal Systems

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

Microsoft Corporation has changed its performance review process to exclude stack ranking, while Yahoo! has chosen to implement the sometimes-unpopular appraisal system. Although critics have argued that the practice may inhibit employee productivity...

Ask not for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee! The construction trial (Law & Order: Hard Hat files Part 9)

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/11/13

This is the final section of a 9 part series discussing the entire trajectory of a construction lawsuit involving claims of design errors or omissions....
By: Melissa Dewey Brumback

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