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Delaware Supreme Court rejects challenge to executive compensation decisions

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

On January 14, 2013, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Chancery's ruling that a complaint failed to state a claim for waste in

Contractual clause requiring return of confidential information at termination helps former employer obtain injunction on misappropriation claim

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

Trade secret misappropriation cases turn on details. Accordingly, it is always interesting to see the particular details which tilt a court's decision one

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Court of Appeals interprets definition of "independent contractor" under ors 670.600

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 12 2012

A new case from the Oregon Court of Appeals, Compressed Pattern LLC v. Employment Department, provides some clarity about the “maintain a separate business location” prong of Oregon’s unique independent contractor statute, ORS 670.600

Plaintiffs’ firms gaining steam in new wave of say-on-pay shareholder suits?

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2012

Over two years ago, Congress enacted Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires public companies to conduct an advisory shareholder vote on the company’s executive compensation plan the so-called “say-on-pay vote.”

Court rejects use of alter ego doctrine to “borrow” contractor license

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2012

California’s Contractors’ State License Law, Business & Professions Code Section 7000 et seq., requires contractors to be licensed unless they are exempt from licensure

How do Florida courts protect "goodwill" through non-compete agreements?

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 11 2012

Florida Statute section 542.335(1)(b) provides a nonexclusive list of "legitimate business interests" that are protected under non-compete agreements

S-O-X protects only public company whistleblowers, or does it?

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 6 2012

Thomas Spinner was a CPA whose firm provided accounting and audit services to a public company

New wave of lawsuits targeting disclosures on “Say-On-Pay;” plaintiffs use M&A litigation tactics to attack executive pay

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 6 2012

The plaintiffs’ bar has taken new aim at public companies’ annual meetings: filing lawsuits to enjoin annual shareholder approval of stock plan proposals and “Say-On-Pay” (“SOP”) votes, typically arguing that the proxy disclosures regarding these topics are inadequate

Employee was bound by stipulated injunction that prohibited his solicitation of customers

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 1 2012

In an underlying lawsuit, Wanke sued its former employees Scott Keck and Jacob Bozarth for misappropriation of trade secrets, among other things