Litigation

Employee Benefits (ERISA)

Sara Pikofsky | Jones Day

Following the spectacular collapse of Enron in 2001, a cottage litigation industry was created in which a handful of plaintiffs’ firms now routinely rush to bring ERISA class actions whenever a pension plan invests in the stock of the corporate sponsor and the stock price declines...

Technology

Ashish S. Prasad | Discovery Services LLC

Introduction Social media platforms, including applications like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, are immensely popular. According to one source, 75 percent of people aged 18 to 24 have profiles on social networking sites like Facebook, while one-third of people aged 35 to 44, and nearly twenty...

Immigration

Michael D. Patrick | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

The need for consistency, fairness and predictability in administrative rule making and decision making is imperative and desired by foreign nationals, employers, immigration practitioners and adjudicators alike. Although agencies – none more so than those that deal with...