Contract Disputes, Employment Contract, Employer Liability Issues

Start the Clock—The Case for Including Contractual Limitations Periods in Employment Agreements.

Dickinson Wright on 7/14/2025

Contractual limitations periods provide parties on both sides of an agreement certainty regarding the filing of a potential action. But many employers do not know that they may include such contractual limitations periods in...more

Delaware Supreme Court Curbs Erosion of Forfeiture-for-Competition Protections

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/7/2024

Delaware has long been favored by businesses for many reasons, including its courts’ deference to parties’ ability to contract. Recently, however, the Delaware Chancery Court was seemingly less deferential to restrictive...more

South Carolina Professor Loses Breach of Employment Contract Case

Burr & Forman on 11/9/2020

A tenured professor at Erskine College in Due West claimed the institution breached its employment contract with him as set forth in the faculty manual. The trial court overruled the jury verdict in the professor’s favor, but...more

California Court of Appeals Holds That No Initials Are of “No Legal Consequence” To Enforce Arbitration

Epstein Becker & Green on 9/30/2020

On July 8, 2020, the California Court of Appeals held that when an employee fails to initial a specific part of an arbitration agreement, but still signs it, the agreement is still enforceable....more

[Webinar] COVID 19: PilieroMazza Addresses Client Concerns on the Impact to Their Business - March 18th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET

PilieroMazza PLLC on 3/16/2020

As always, PilieroMazza’s primary focus is to keep our clients, resource partners, and the business community at large informed on how our attorneys can help you address your business and legal concerns. With Coronavirus...more

Court to Consider Whether California Ride Share Drivers Who Make Airport Runs Are Exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/4/2019

On November 26, 2019, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) might not apply to Uber drivers who are engaged in interstate commerce while driving passengers to or...more

Easily “Shocked”? At Least for Wage Claims, California Supreme Court Lowers Standard for Unconscionability in Arbitration...

Littler on 9/19/2019

In OTO, L.L.C. v. Kho, the California Supreme Court refused to enforce an employee’s arbitration agreement on the basis that it was unconscionable. Unconscionability has long been a common-law defense to contract...more

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