By Kacey L. Faughnan, Byron N. Brown, IV, and Sean G. Williamson
Businesses now have an additional weapon with which to protect their trade secrets. Effective May 11, 2016, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) was signed into law. The DTSA provides a federal cause of action for the protection of trade secrets related to products or services ...
By Kacey L. Faughnan, Byron N. Brown, IV, and Sean G. Williamson
Businesses now have an additional weapon with which to protect their trade secrets. Effective May 11, 2016, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) was signed into law. The DTSA provides a federal cause of action for the protection of trade secrets related to products or services ...
Following recent news reports about Target’s bathroom controversy and North Carolina’s bathroom law, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has issued a Fact Sheet outlining its views on bathroom access rights for transgender employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. You can view the ...
Litigation is stressful. The anxiety normally first sets in with the service of the Complaint, even if you anticipated it was coming. You scurry to talk with your employees who may be witnesses, you amass relevant documents from the personnel file, and you send out a litigation hold requesting that folks preserve all their ...
By Will Gibbons
Few college football coaches can claim both a legendary record and a unique choice of headwear in the way the late University of Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant can. The question circulating the legal community of late, however, revolves around the extent to which the University can assert that uniqueness in the form ...
It has been one year since the National Labor Relations Board’s so-called “ambush” or “quickie” election rule went into effect. According to the Board, the rule was “designed to remove unnecessary barriers to the fair and expeditious resolution of representation cases” and “streamline” the process. In ...
This month, five members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team filed a wage disparity complaint with the EEOC against the U.S. Soccer Federation. The Women’s team alleges that despite the fact that they are doing equal work, they are not receiving equal pay as the Men’s National Soccer Team. The Women’s team alleges ...
Bob Craddock and Graham Matherne, Partners in the Firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Service Team, wrote an article that was recently published in the Memphis Daily News. The article, "Trade Secrets and the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine," explains the Tennessee Uniform Trade Secrets Act and how it can prevent a former employee from ...
Aiming to improve public service, ease the administrative burden on staff, and reduce the amount of paper submissions and files, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has begun using an online charge system. The new system allows an individual who has filed a charge of discrimination to check the status ...
On March 17th, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued another decision unfavorable to McDonald’s USA and certain McDonald’s franchisees. This was the Board’s fifth decision in this massive case, in which the unions and the Board’s General Counsel are trying to prove that McDonald’s and its franchisees are ...