Labor & Employment

Healthcare | Technology

Angelo Spinola | Littler Mendelson P.C.

Editor: Why are wage and hour class actions so prevalent? Spinola: The FLSA was enacted in 1938, but there wasn’t much litigation until about 15 years ago, after which the number of class action cases just exploded. In fact, 91 percent of today’s labor and employment class action...

Healthcare

Jill S. Vorobiev | Dykema Gossett PLLC

Are civil rights discrimination complaints under the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") on the rise? The enactment of Section 1557 of the ACA was viewed as unprecedented. The law emerged as an opportunity to potentially create sweeping change in relation to the administration of healthcare...

Intellectual Property

Robert I. Steiner | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Editor: Intellectual property is one of a company’s most valuable assets. Why are trade secrets particularly at risk when an employee leaves a company? Steiner: So much of a company’s value comes not from its physical plant, equipment or any other so-called bricks and mortar that...