The Fourth Circuit recently concluded that a Sears employee's state law claims seeking money damages based on denial of insurance benefits was preempted by ERISA.

Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) policies typically provide coverage for both the company and its employees for certain defined "wrongful employment acts," such as discrimination, illegal harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination.

On April 11 and April 27, 2016, the Senate and House, respectively, passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA).

Global Protein Prods., Inc. v. Le, 42 Cal. App. 5th 352 (2019)

We represented Madonna, Warner Bros. Records and WB Music in a lengthy copyright lawsuit, culminating in the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal of plaintiff's sampling copyright infringement claim.

The case is Torres v. Greystar Mgmt. Servs., L.P., No. 5:19-cv-00510.

The Court of Appeal affirmed on the ground that Limon had not suffered a sufficient concrete or particularized injury to have standing to sue Circle K.

In this class action, truckers for Wal-Mart alleged they should have been but were not paid for layovers, rest breaks and inspections.

The Eighth Circuit recently concluded that there was no contractual basis to conclude that a pharmacy benefit manager agreed to class arbitration with four pharmacies because the...

In a negligence case, the City of Los Angeles made a settlement offer to the plaintiff pursuant to Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 998 a few days before the hearing on defendant's motion for summary judgment.

2015 and 2016 saw a wave of transactions among cable, satellite, and other linear programming distributors: AT&T & DirecTV, Altice and Suddenlink, etc.

There has been a lot of attention in the media lately with respect to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica issue and its fall-out (including today's coverage of the announcement that Facebook ...

Large-scale corporate data breaches have unfortunately become increasingly common events, posing a variety of challenges to the companies that suffer them.

Over the past three decades, an expanding set of technologies – cookies, pixels, software development kits and various other types of software...

On October 13, 2016, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final and temporary regulations under section 385 of the Internal Revenue Code.

On May 8, 2015, the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service released Chief Counsel Advice Memorandum No. 201519031.

On May 5, 2021, another federal district court, this time for the Northern District of California, permitted the IRS to proceed with a John Doe summons very similar to the one served on Circle last month (the subject of a recent post)

Cyberattacks, by their very nature, know no borders and nor therefore should a private fund's response.

The term blockchain refers not to a single entity or etwork, but rather to a type of technology. There are many existing and potential implementations of blockchain.

As one of the fastest-growing asset classes, the private credit market has reached a level of maturity that indicates secondary transaction volume will continue...