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This is the conclusion to the article, Panel of Experts for Everyone About Anything – Part One and Part Two. Here we give another demonstration of the software described in Part One. Part Two provided a demonstration where...more
Campbell v. Aberdeen Providing Ground Federal Credit Union, 2025 WL 608046 (D. Md. Feb. 25, 2025)(Bredar, J.), is an employment discrimination case. At its most general level, the holding was that “a litigant may not invoke...more
The SEC and CFTC settlements with HSBC and Scotia Capital come after years of federal regulators’ and prosecutors’ steadily increasing scrutiny of off-channel communications. Anchoring these settlements are long-standing...more
On March 16, 2023, in a published decision in Norma Davis v. Disability Rights New Jersey, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that a former employee’s private social media accounts and personal cell phone records are...more
Previously, we analyzed the proper scope for discovery requests that asked for employee drug and alcohol test results. In this article, we analyze a far more potent discovery substance—cell phone data....more
Flattening the Curve: Are Vaccination Mandates a Viable Strategy for Hospitals? Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (“SARS-CoV-2”) vaccines hold promise to control the pandemic and help restore normal social and...more
With the outbreak of COVID-19, all have been impacted, particularly in the workplace. Many have been furloughed or laid off. Others have transitioned to work-from-home, and essential workers have had to find ways to safely...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) sued Yale New HavenHospital (“Yale Hospital” or the “Hospital”) on February 11, 2020, alleging the Hospital is in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment...more
It has become almost routine for employees pursuing whistleblower and other employment-related claims against their employer to engage in "self-help discovery," using their access to files and databases to collect and gather,...more
If you are like most, you probably have 4-5 different chat applications on your phone to talk to friends and family members. Dad only likes to text via SMS, brother Peter only uses Facebook Messenger, Aunty Bridgette can...more
In this three-part series, we are exploring best practices for handling a charge of discrimination. The first part of the series addressed important preliminary questions you should be asking upon initial receipt of the...more
As technology advances, businesses and employees are embracing “bring your own” opportunities beyond “bring your own device,” or BYOD – which refers to when employers allow or even mandate employees to bring their own...more
There has been a lot of buzz about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision about arbitration, Epic Systems Corp v. Lewis. It looks like employers can now avoid class actions by having their employees sign arbitration...more
As technology continues to evolve, organizations are increasingly facing challenges concerning whether, and to what extent, they allow employees to utilize their own devices for work purposes. When employees use their own...more
Many organizations struggle with whether to permit employees to use their own electronic devices (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, laptops) to conduct business on behalf of the organization. In addition to discovery challenges...more
Some of us may remember a time when companies were not as concerned about where their information was maintained, as most of it was kept in some form or fashion in file cabinets or individual desks, or perhaps stored offsite...more
Any employer that has been the subject of e-discovery requests can attest to the difficulty and expense encountered when compiling and producing company electronic communications. These burdens have been further exacerbated...more
Smart phones and tablets are now commonplace on the construction job site. Are your cell phone policies as outdated as the original the flip phones that you issued to your employees? Do you even have a cell phone policy?...more
Just this week, in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Huang, No. 15-269 (E.D. Pa. September 23, 2015), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied the Securities and Exchange...more
A new California appellate court decision provides much needed guidance regarding the proper scope of discovery in representative actions brought under the California Private Attorneys' General Act of 2004 (PAGA), Cal. Lab....more
In the modern world, employees routinely receive work-related data on personal mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and access personal data on work-owned devices. ...more
In September 2014, Apple introduced a new mobile-operating system called iOS8. iOS8 offers enhanced data-encryption protection to Apple users and the content stored on their mobile devices. Apple's advancements in...more