Navigation While diversity and inclusion has increasingly topped the priority lists of corporations, corporate legal departments are calling upon their outside counsel to keep up with their expectations. But progress is a two-way street, and legal departments have their own room to grow. Click Here To Read The Full Article
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McDonald's Settles Some of the First Workers' Lawsuits Over COVID-19 Protections
The public nuisance lawsuits, one in California and one in Illinois, alleged that McDonald’s failed to protect its restaurant workers from COVID-19. The suits, one of which alleged workers had to wear doggie diapers and coffee filters as masks, both resulted in preliminary injunctions against the fast-food chain. Click Here To Read The Full […]
Higher Law: California's High Court Says No to Prison Pot | Michigan AG Weighs in on Workplace Weed | Fox Rothschild Adds Cannabis Counsel | The FDA Rejects CBD Dietary Supplement Bid
Stashing pot in California’s prisons is still illegal, even after voters in 2016 decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, California’s Supreme Court held Thursday. Click Here To Read The Full Article
Counsel Steps in to Defend Duane Morris in Shareholder Derivative Lawsuit
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here. Click Here To Read The Full Article
Consumers Filed Fewer Lawsuits In 2020, New Report Says
A report released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a unit of LexisNexis, found that consumer protection filings in federal court, including data breach class actions, dropped to 12,922 from 14,432 in 2019, even though the COVID-19 pandemic created some new cases. Click Here To Read The Full Article