Benefits

  • November 15, 2024

    Pa. Top Court Snapshot: Silent Partners, Skill Games In Nov.

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's November argument schedule will task the justices with determining whether a property owner's absentee partner is an "indispensable party," whether CBD oil is reimbursable under workers' comp, and whether operating legally gray "skill games" should disqualify someone from getting a gaming license.

  • November 15, 2024

    Semiconductor Co. ASML Faces Suit Over Trade Downturn

    Semiconductor industry supplier ASML Holding NV has been hit with a shareholder class action alleging that it stunned investors as it significantly lowered its 2025 revenue forecast after earlier brushing off the potential impact of economic headwinds affecting its industry.

  • November 15, 2024

    Veterans Seek Class Certification In Burn Pit Injuries Suit

    A pair of veterans alleging the military misclassified their burn pit injuries as not combat-related have told a D.C. federal judge that they satisfied the criteria for size and common relief sought to proceed as a certified class.

  • November 15, 2024

    Tenneco Asks Justices To Review 6th Circ. Arbitration Denial

    Automotive parts company Tenneco asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to review a Sixth Circuit decision from August that refused to force individual arbitration of a proposed class action from workers alleging retirement plan mismanagement, arguing lower courts had disagreed on how to apply federal arbitration law.

  • November 15, 2024

    McDermott Welcomes Back Employee Benefits Atty In DC

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP's status as a top BigLaw firm with a specialized practice focused on employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, prompted an employee benefits attorney to recently return to the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

  • November 15, 2024

    Hospital Workers' 2nd Circ. Appeal May Wait For Deloitte Case

    Workers for Montefiore Medical Center seeking to revive retirement plan mismanagement allegations may see a delayed ruling in their case until another Second Circuit panel rules on similar claims against Deloitte, a panel judge said Friday during proceedings.

  • November 15, 2024

    Biden Withdraws Cohen Weiss Atty's PBGC Nomination

    President Joe Biden has withdrawn his nomination of a Cohen Weiss & Simon LLP attorney to lead the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., four months after putting her name forward and less than two weeks after former President Donald Trump secured a return to the White House.

  • November 14, 2024

    Pinterest Investor Attys Get $2.5M More After Deal Monitoring

    A California federal judge on Thursday awarded an additional $2.5 million in fees to attorneys who've been monitoring Pinterest's compliance with a deal that ended investors' claims the company fostered a culture of race and sex discrimination, ruling that he's "satisfied" with both parties' efforts in the wake of the settlement.

  • November 14, 2024

    Judge Slams Gov't For Resisting LA Campus Housing Orders

    A California federal judge has told the federal government that it can't "resist accountability," rejecting a bid to stay court-ordered construction of housing for military veterans on a Los Angeles campus.

  • November 14, 2024

    EEOC Says Texas, Think Tank Can't Scrap Bostock Guidance

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a federal court to shoot down Texas' challenge to workplace harassment guidance the agency issued based on the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock decision, arguing the state failed to demonstrate that the guidelines had caused them any harm.

  • November 14, 2024

    Paramount Ruling Breaks Key Litigation Tool, Chancery Told

    A Delaware magistrate in a Chancery decision shielding company records from stockholder demands based on anonymous, presuit sources and purportedly new, post-demand requests threatens one of the few sources available for probing corporate wrongdoing, a stockholder attorney told a vice chancellor on Thursday.

  • November 14, 2024

    Worker Says Prudential Shorted Benefits By Excluding Stock

    A Microsoft employee sued Prudential Insurance in Washington federal court, claiming the company reduced his disability pay by declining to consider his stock awards when calculating his monthly earnings to figure out how much in benefits he could receive.

  • November 14, 2024

    Whole Foods Workers Seek Massive Class In 401(k) Fee Suit

    Former Whole Foods employees have asked a Texas federal judge to turn their suit against the company into a class action, saying they'd like to represent nearly 100,000 current and former employees in litigation accusing the grocery chain of mismanaging its 401(k) plan.

  • November 14, 2024

    Robbins Geller Tapped To Lead Software Co. Investor Suit

    A pair of pension funds represented by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has beaten out individual investors vying to lead a shareholder class action against MongoDB Inc. over the software company's growth projections.

  • November 14, 2024

    Trump Picks RFK Jr. To Lead Health & Human Services

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaccination activist and former presidential candidate, is his nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • November 13, 2024

    7th Circ. Won't Halt Ind. Gender-Affirming Care For Minors Ban

    A split Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court's preliminary injunction order Tuesday that stopped an Indiana law prohibiting its physicians from providing gender-affirming care through medication to minors, finding the plaintiff's view on the law would result in allowing parents to decline to take a seriously injured child to the hospital.

  • November 13, 2024

    Saxena, Cohen Milstein To Lead Sprout Social Investor Suit

    Saxena White PA and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC will represent a putative class of social media management company Sprout Social Inc. investors in consolidated litigation after the company missed its financial guidance and struggled to integrate an influencer marketing platform it acquired.

  • November 13, 2024

    6th Circ. Partially Vacates Insurer's ERISA Disability Suit Win

    The Sixth Circuit partially invalidated on Wednesday an insurance company's win in an ex-worker's suit seeking additional disability benefits, directing a lower court to reconsider arguments regarding when to apply a 24-month policy limitation on benefits for total disability caused by a mental health condition.

  • November 13, 2024

    Groom Law Atty To Lead Morris Manning Benefits Group In DC

    A former Groom Law Group principal who spent almost 15 years with that firm has moved to Morris Manning Martin LLP to lead its employee benefits and executive compensation practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.

  • November 13, 2024

    Casino Queen To Pay $7.1M To Wrap Up ESOP Suit

    The parent company of Illinois-based Casino Queen has agreed to pay a group of workers $7.1 million to shutter their proposed class action claiming their employee stock ownership plan paid too much in a $170 million deal to buy stock in the company, costing employees millions in benefits.

  • November 13, 2024

    Attorneys Seek $983K Fee For Work On $2.95M Benefits Deal

    Six attorneys who settled a benefits class action on behalf of about 14,000 employees of an aerospace and auto parts manufacturer asked a Michigan federal judge to approve nearly $1 million in fees, saying this would be a standard payout in light of the $2.95 million settlement.

  • November 13, 2024

    Settlement Talks Falter In Schnader Harrison Pension Fight

    Negotiations between a former Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP partner and the now-shuttered firm appear to have failed for now in the former partner's proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action as the parties missed the deadline for a deal this week.

  • November 13, 2024

    Fla. College Nabs Early Win In Retirement Fee Suit

    A Florida federal court handed Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University an early win Wednesday in an ex-worker's proposed class action alleging mismanagement of her retirement plan, finding she hadn't demonstrated any individual injury from the recordkeeping fees or investments she had challenged.

  • November 13, 2024

    Cadwalader Brings New Partner To Corp. Team From Kirkland

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced Tuesday that it had hired an adviser to companies and private equity funds from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, touting her experience in complex business transactions.

  • November 13, 2024

    NY Suit Co. Says Union Fund Can't Bypass Trial In Debt Fight

    A Rochester, New York, suit manufacturer shouldn't have to pay $6.2 million to a union healthcare fund before standing trial on claims that it defrauded the fund and violated federal benefits law, the manufacturer told a federal judge.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Judicial Independence Is Imperative This Election Year

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    As the next election nears, the judges involved in the upcoming trials against former President Donald Trump increasingly face political pressures and threats of violence — revealing the urgent need to safeguard judicial independence and uphold the rule of law, says Benes Aldana at the National Judicial College.

  • Series

    Riding My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Using the Peloton platform for cycling, running, rowing and more taught me that fostering a mind-body connection will not only benefit you physically and emotionally, but also inspire stamina, focus, discipline and empathy in your legal career, says Christopher Ward at Polsinelli.

  • Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents

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    Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.

  • The Future Of ERISA If High Court Ends Chevron Deference

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming decisions in two cases involving fishing company challenges to regulatory requirements could weaken or repeal Chevron deference, meaning U.S. Department of Labor regulations adopted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act may be heavily scrutinized, modified or vacated by federal courts, say Naina Kamath and Julie Stapel at Morgan Lewis.

  • What Recent Study Shows About AI's Promise For Legal Tasks

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    Amid both skepticism and excitement about the promise of generative artificial intelligence in legal contexts, the first randomized controlled trial studying its impact on basic lawyering tasks shows mixed but promising results, and underscores the need for attorneys to proactively engage with AI, says Daniel Schwarcz at University of Minnesota Law School.

  • Litigation Inspiration: A Source Of Untapped Fulfillment

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    As increasing numbers of attorneys struggle with stress and mental health issues, business litigators can find protection against burnout by remembering their important role in society — because fulfillment in one’s work isn’t just reserved for public interest lawyers, say Bennett Rawicki and Peter Bigelow at Hilgers Graben.

  • Series

    Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    A lifetime of skiing has helped me develop important professional skills, and taught me that embracing challenges with a spirit of adventure can allow lawyers to push boundaries, expand their capabilities and ultimately excel in their careers, says Andrea Przybysz at Tucker Ellis.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Forget Everything You Know About IRAC

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    The mode of legal reasoning most students learn in law school, often called “Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion,” or IRAC, erroneously frames analysis as a separate, discrete step, resulting in disorganized briefs and untold obfuscation — but the fix is pretty simple, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Employers, Prep For Shorter Stock Awards Settlement Cycle

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    Companies that provide equity compensation in the form of publicly traded stock will soon have one less day to complete such transactions under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Nasdaq rules — so employers should implement expedited equity compensation stock settlement and payroll tax deposit procedures now, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • How Firms Can Ensure Associate Gender Parity Lasts

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    Among associates, women now outnumber men for the first time, but progress toward gender equality at the top of the legal profession remains glacially slow, and firms must implement time-tested solutions to ensure associates’ gender parity lasts throughout their careers, say Kelly Culhane and Nicole Joseph at Culhane Meadows.

  • 7 Common Myths About Lateral Partner Moves

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    As lateral recruiting remains a key factor for law firm growth, partners considering a lateral move should be aware of a few commonly held myths — some of which contain a kernel of truth, and some of which are flat out wrong, says Dave Maurer at Major Lindsey.

  • Series

    Cheering In The NFL Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Balancing my time between a BigLaw career and my role as an NFL cheerleader has taught me that pursuing your passions outside of work is not a distraction, but rather an opportunity to harness important skills that can positively affect how you approach work and view success in your career, says Rachel Schuster at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Navigating ACA Reporting Nuances As Deadlines Loom

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    Stephanie Lowe at Liebert Cassidy walks employers through need-to-know elements of Affordable Care Act reporting, including two quickly approaching deadlines, the updated affordability threshold, strategies for choosing an affordability safe harbor, and common coding pitfalls.

  • 6 Pointers For Attys To Build Trust, Credibility On Social Media

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    In an era of information overload, attorneys can use social media strategically — from making infographics to leveraging targeted advertising — to cut through the noise and establish a reputation among current and potential clients, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

  • Del. Ruling Stands Out In Thorny Noncompete Landscape

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    In Cantor Fitzgerald v. Ainslie, the Delaware Supreme Court last month upheld the enforceability of forfeiture-for-competition provisions in limited partnership agreements, providing a noteworthy opinion amid a time of increasing disfavor toward noncompetes and following a string of Chancery Court rulings deeming them unreasonable, say Margaret Butler and Steven Goldberg at BakerHostetler.

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