Drinker Biddle & Reath has laid off 22 associates and has scheduled a meeting to announce the elimination of lockstep compensation. The initial reports came from Above The Law, in which it was reported that most of the layoffs are in Chicago and some are in Philadelphia. A law firm spokesman declined to comment on [...]
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives released a health care reform bill on Thursday that includes a government-run insurance plan and imposes a tax on the wealthiest Americans to help pay for it. Democrats said the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bill would cost $894 billion over 10 years — below President Barack [...]
“Friend” requesting colleagues is often harmless and even may be appreciated by other co-workers; but if the boss “friends” their subordinates, employment lawyers say it smacks of liability issues. Bosses who send friend requests via Twitter, Facebook and other social sites is becoming very commonplace, but lawyers say it needs to stop, reports Law.com. Online relationships [...]
The city of St. Louis agreed to pay $80,000 in damages, attorney’s fees and costs as a result from a lawsuit filed by a Christians who were denied distributing literature at a gay pride event. In 2006, members of the St. Louis-based Apple of His Eye ministries said they were threatened with arrest by the [...]
A district sales manager was allegedly was fired for making her annual pilgrimage to the ‘sacred’ grounds of Salem, Mass., to celebrate the Wiccan New Year. She claims her boss told her that while she’s up there she’ll “need a new career in your new year. I will be damned if I have a devil-worshiper [...]
At an event Thursday put on by Safe Internet Alliance, Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke against the idea of net neutrality regulations calling it the “fairness doctrine for the internet.” Blackburn told the attendees that musicians, songwriters, actors and other entertainers “fully understand what the fairness doctrine would be when it applies to TV or radio,” [...]
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to a DWI when he went driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair after pounding down at least 8 beers. In August 2008, Dennis Anderson, 62, blood alcohol content was 0.29, three times the legal limit, told the police he left a bar in his chair after enjoying the beer. Soon [...]
In another hit to the legal community, WilmerHale is said to be laying off 57 of its staffers today. All staffers may not have been informed as of yet, but will include staff in Washington D.C., Boston, and New York City offices, says AboveTheLaw who broke the story. The firm was formed by the merger [...]
The Lutheran church in Sweden said Thursday it will conduct gay weddings starting Nov 1. Excited about starting this new tradition, Kristina Grenholm, the church’s director of theology “We are the first major church to do this.” The decision came after the Swedish parliament earlier this year passed legislation allowing homosexuals to legally marry, changing [...]