By Christopher P. Stief Consider this scenario: You are the Assistant General Counsel for Employment with a national company and just learned that the … Read more
The WikiLeaks Breach: A Wake-Up Call About Disgruntled Employees
By Michael R. Greco If the recent WikiLeaks release of more than a quarter-million sensitive files is not a wake-up call to companies about the need to … Read more
SAP Ordered to Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion For Theft of Software and Documents
By Michael R. Greco If you had dismissed Oracle’s lawsuit against rival SAP as just one more squabble between giant IT competitors, you likely … Read more
What Every Employer Needs to Know to Avoid an ‘Office Party Gone Wrong’
By Patricia F. Weisberg The annual office holiday party is a great way to reward your employees for a job well done throughout the past year. However, you … Read more
Are We Really Surprised? NLRB Takes on Facebook Comments
By Gerald F. Lutkus Are we really surprised? We all knew it would come. Sooner or later the “New NLRB” was going to focus on social networking policies and … Read more
Overcoming Fear of the Holiday Party
Nothing cracks me up more than war stories from employment lawyers talking about the holiday season. One guy I know says his phone is ringing off the hook … Read more
Georgia’s New Non-Compete Law: Growing Questions Emerge
By Joseph P. Shelton As noted in an earlier post, in the election on November 2, 2010, Georgia voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment … Read more
NLRB Gives You Another Reason to Avoid a Social Media Policy
Remember when I said that you don’t need a social media policy? That using existing guidelines for dealing with employees who mess up on social media … Read more
Georgia Voters Give Landslide Approval to Restrictive Noncompetes
By Joseph P. Shelton In a landslide victory with 68 percent of the votes, the constitutional amendment authorizing a new statutory framework for … Read more
How LinkedIn Torpedoed One Employer’s Trade Secrets Claim
In a sobering reminder that online social media is changing the way many companies do business in unforeseen ways, a federal court recently shot down an … Read more