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In the first-of-its-kind ruling last week, the Fifth Circuit held that the EEOC’s investigators and lawyers cannot rely on its “Enforcement Guidance on Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII” to bring...By: Orrick - Global Employment Law Group

On 6 August 2019, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (the “CMA”) imposed an ‘Unwinding Order’ on a U.S. company, Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc (“Bottomline”), active in the business payment automation technology space, and its UK...By: Orrick - Antitrust Watch

Non è raro che nelle vicende societarie ci si possa ritrovare in situazioni di stallo decisionale (c.d. deadlock): è il caso ad esempio, delle S.r.l. in cui le partecipazioni sono detenute al 50% da due soci, che possono dunque trovarsi in disaccordo...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Earlier this year, Washington adopted a new law—Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1450—that places significant restrictions on the enforceability of non-competition agreements. The law applies to “every written or oral covenant, agreement, or contract...By: Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

On July 16, 2019, three prominent whistleblower law regulators spoke at PLI’s Corporate Whistleblowing in 2019, which was co-chaired by Orrick partners Mike Delikat and Renee Phillips....By: Orrick - Global Employment Law Group

On July 22, 2019, the Ninth Circuit withdrew its recent decision in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, Inc., and ordered that it would certify to the California Supreme Court the question of whether the worker classification test...By: Orrick - Global Employment Law Group

Every player interested or already active in the German market needs to have a working knowledge of the key principles of German employment law which offers a good level of protection to employees. This is especially true for U.S.-based...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

For nearly five years, major U.S. corporations have been subject to intense scrutiny over their decisions on whether to release internal pay gap percentages in response to shareholder proposals by Arjuna Capital, LLC and other activist shareholder...By: Orrick - Equal Pay Pulse

The FTC and the DOJ Antitrust Division have again warned companies, along with their board members and officers, of the legal prohibition on interlocking directorates: when an individual, or an organization’s agent(s), simultaneously serves as an...By: Orrick - Antitrust Watch

Following the Japanese government's recent amendment of the rules under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (the "FEFTA"), foreign investors seeking to invest in companies engaged in certain information and communications technology...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP