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Newsletter 31 May 2013	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: E-Discovery of Audio Data – What is Considered Reasonable? Mayer Brown Newsletter Scenario A series of trades engaged in by a financial services company employee have become the subject of regulatory interest and private litigation.
Newsletter 30 April 2013	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Managing the Risks & Costs of the Production of Private or Confidential Information: Redaction & Production Strategies Mayer Brown Newsletter Scenario A financial services organization is a party to a litigation in which plaintiffs are seeking information concerning business practices that impacts a number of the organization’s customers.
Legal Update 4 April 2013	Successor Liability Applies to Claims Under the Fair Labor Standards Act According to Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Mayer Brown Legal Update In a recent decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld the imposition of successor liability for FLSA claims on a company that had acquired the assets of an insolvent predecessor at an auction conducted by a state law receiver.
Newsletter 28 February 2013	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Managing the Risks and Costs of Responding to Third-Party Civil Subpoenas Mayer Brown Newsletter A large customer of a manufacturing company is sued by a putative class of shareholders claiming various securities law violations related to an alleged failure to disclose the declining sales of one of their products, for which the manufacturing company provides parts.
Newsletter 31 January 2013	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Managing the Risks & Costs of Electronic Data: "Defensible Deletion" Mayer Brown Newsletter For years, a large company has been effectively retaining the vast majority of all electronic data generated by its systems and employees.
Legal Update 29 January 2013	District of Columbia Circuit Holds NLRB Recess Appointments Invalid, Undermining Numerous NLRB and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Decisions Mayer Brown Legal Update The recent (January 25) ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidating President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board calls into question the validity of every action taken by the NLRB since January 4, 2012.
Newsletter 29 January 2013	2012 Tips of the Month – A Compilation Mayer Brown Newsletter
Legal Update 24 January 2013	Fifth Circuit Holds That Employer’s Access to Data Stored on Employee’s Personal Cell Phone Not Shielded by Stored Communications Act Mayer Brown Legal Update The intersection of individual employee privacy and the proliferation of the use of hand-held devices and smart phones for business purposes, including the increasing popularity of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, continues to generate thorny questions for employers.
Legal Update 14 January 2013	New California Employment Laws Mayer Brown Legal Update A number of important employment-related laws came into effect at the start of the new year. We have organized them by topic and provide summaries of the key aspects of each.
Newsletter 28 December 2012	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Cloud Computing and Data Privacy Mayer Brown Newsletter Scenario A multinational company is negotiating an agreement with a cloud computing provider to maintain and hold all of the company’s electronically stored information and data. The general counsel of the multinational company is concerned about data privacy and data protection both in the United States and worldwide.
Newsletter 31 October 2012	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Best Practices for Preparing a Clawback Agreement Mayer Brown Newsletter Scenario A large corporation is sued over the alleged breach of a substantial contract. Due to the complex nature of the contract, the corporation’s business executives frequently sought advice from in-house counsel when entering into, and performing under, the agreement.
Newsletter 28 September 2012	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Managing the Risks and Costs of E-Discovery in Class Actions Mayer Brown Newsletter Scenario A large manufacturing company is a defendant in a putative nationwide class action lawsuit. The putative class will most likely number in the thousands, or tens of thousands, of consumers, resulting in potentially significant damages and expensive electronic discovery costs for the company.
News Release 6 September 2012	Mayer Brown launches employment law podcast series discussing the impact on employers of the most recent legal developments Leading global law firm Mayer Brown today announces the launch of the UK employment law podcast series.
Newsletter 31 August 2012	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Effectively Managing a Large-Scale Document Review Mayer Brown Newsletter A multinational company is in litigation with multiple parties regarding a patent dispute. Due to the breadth of the claims and the complexity of the issues involved, the parties expect to produce millions of documents in discovery. With merits depositions scheduled to take place in the upcoming months, the multinational company must engage in a comprehensive document review to produce documents, prepare its witnesses and refine its litigation strategy.
Newsletter 31 July 2012	Electronic Discovery & Records Management - Tip of the Month: Selecting And Working With An E-Discovery Vendor Mayer Brown Newsletter A multinational construction company receives a wide ranging subpoena from the US Department of Justice demanding the production of a variety of documents maintained at various locations inside and outside the United States.
Legal Update 24 July 2012	California Court of Appeal Rejects NLRB’s View that Federal Labor Law Prevents Use of Class Waivers in Employment Arbitration Provisions Mayer Brown Legal Update Twice in as many months, the California state appellate courts have enforced an arbitration agreement requiring arbitration of wage-and-hour claims on an individual basis.
Media Coverage 10 July 2012	Legal opinion: Reform of compensation for unfair dismissal Personnel Today London Employment partner Chris Fisher and associate Purvis Ghani look into the proposal to give the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills the power to change the compensatory award for unfair dismissal.
Media Coverage 2 July 2012	Special administration and the National Health Service The Lawyer Bylined article by Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency partner Devi Shah and senior associate Nichola Padget discussing potential restructuring of the South London Healthcare Trust. This article first appeared in a slightly different form in The Lawyer, 2 July 2012.
Newsletter 29 June 2012	Tip of the Month, June 2012 - Managing the Risks and Costs of Email Archives: Part II: Preservation, Collection & Production Mayer Brown Newsletter This is Part Two of Two in a set of Tips of the Month addressing email archives. The tip of the Month for May addressed initial considerations and functionality relating to email archives.
Legal Update 29 June 2012	TUPE: When will it apply to outsourcings? Mayer Brown Legal Update Since the introduction of the TUPE Regulations in 2006, customers and suppliers have generally taken a cautious approach to the new "service provision change" test, applying TUPE to most outsourcing situations. This has inevitably led to increased costs for suppliers which are often passed on to the customer.
Legal Update 27 June 2012	US Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Three Cases Affecting Employers Mayer Brown Legal Update As the Supreme Court looks ahead to its next term, the Court granted certiorari in three cases of particular significance to employers. In these cases, the Court will address the impact of offers of judgment on federal wage and hour collective actions, the scope of vicarious liability for acts of supervisors under Title VII, and the type of equitable relief available to plan fiduciaries regarding the enforcement of reimbursement provisions.
Media Coverage 26 June 2012	Workplace social media policies too restrictive, NLRB says Westlaw Journal: Employment © Thomson Reuters 2012 Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Marcia Goodman (Chicago) quoted on employers constructing workplace social media policies that follow the National Labor Relations Board’s restrictions.
Legal Update 18 June 2012	US Supreme Court Issues Opinion in Christopher v. Smithkline Beecham Corp. Mayer Brown Legal Update The outside-sales exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) provides that an individual who is employed “in the capacity of outside salesman” is not entitled to overtime pay. See 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1); 29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(1).
Audio 14 June 2012	Introduction – The View from Mayer Brown UK Employment Law - The View from Mayer Brown Nick Robertson takes a look at three recent Employment cases involving whistleblowing and sex discrimination, service provision change rules in TUPE, and victimisation.
Legal Update 6 June 2012	California Appellate Court Issues Major Decision on Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements in Employment Context Mayer Brown Legal Update The California Court of Appeals has issued a decision in a putative class action that roundly rejects virtually every argument used by the California plaintiffs bar to circumvent the US Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion.

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