Archive for July, 2008

Privacy and Piracy: Viacom v. YouTube

Viacom accused Googles video sharing website, YouTube of violating its copyright in a $1 billion lawsuit. And as of mould week, Google and Viacom reached an harmony to allow Googles YouTube to veil important user low-down from records before the handover to Viacom. Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Kevin A. Thompson from the unshaken Davis McGrath LLC, and Lauren Gelman, Executive kingpin of Stanford Law Schools Center for Internet and Bund to talk over this case. They choose argue the legal issues, privacy rights, piracy issues and what this case means for the users, the provenience of function throughout these companies. No comments

Privacy and Piracy: Viacom v. YouTube

Viacom accused Googles video sharing website, YouTube of violating its copyright in a $1 billion lawsuit. And as of last week, Google and Viacom reached an agreement to allow Googles YouTube to mask important user information from records before the handover to Viacom. Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Kevin A. Thompson from the firm Davis McGrath LLC, and Lauren Gelman, Executive Director of Stanford Law Schools Center for Internet and Society to discuss this case. They will discuss the legal issues, privacy rights, piracy issues and what this case means for the users, the source of business for these companies. No comments

EEOC Guidance On Religious Discrimination

The EEOC issued revised guidance on unswerving connoisseurship.  Now ready is a uncharted revised chapter of its compliance instructions - available here: 
EEOC Compliance handbook cross-section 12 - pious Discrimination
mid the subjects included in the new section are:
  1. Coverage issues, including the definition of “religion” and “frankly held,”

  2. Disparate treatment review of employment decisions based on religion, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, instruction, and compensation, as well as differential treatment with respect to religious expression; customer preference; collateral requirements; and bona fide occupational qualifications.

  3. Harassment analysis, including churchgoing belief or practice as a educate of employment or advancement, adverse work environment, and head liability issues.

  4. proper housing analysis

  5. Related forms of penetration, including discrimination based on governmental origin, race, or color, as well as retaliation.

Also readily obtainable on the EEOC's website relating to spiritual-minded inequity are the following:
Questions and Answers: unerring Discrimination in the Workplace

Best Practices for Eradicating Religious Discrimination in the Workplace

Employment bias Based on creed, Ethnicity, or boonies of Origin

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE WORKPLACE RIGHTS OF MUSLIMS, ARABS, SOUTH ASIANS, AND SIKHS included THE equivalent business OPPORTUNITY LAWS

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS in the air Eye dialect guv'nor RESPONSIBILITIES CONCERNING THE EMPLOYMENT OF MUSLIMS, ARABS, SOUTH ASIANS, AND SIKHS
The federal government has really been making its websites absolutely a piece easier to sail lately and there is a ton of gen ready in user-agreeable format and friendly to learnt! No comments

Amid Departures, Thelen Muses on Mergers

Amid a reckless of fresh departures, San Francisco-based Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner has notified staff and attorneys that the firm wants to persevere in another merger, while saying that no exactly dispense is in the works. At the selfsame time, the compressed is weathering another major departure. A side of four partners led by Mark Weitzel, the prime of Thelen's project increase and wherewithal practice, has given Thelen consideration that they choose be leaving the firm, Thelen spokesman Kevin Livingston confirmed. No comments

D.C. Circuit: Sleeping Is ‘Major Life Activity’

The D.C. boundary has ruled that sleeping is a "major life movement" under the federal Rehabilitation Act. Reversing its own lead, the court also held that a plaintiff doesn't include to show that his zizz incapacity affected his waking activities in order to move dispatch with a discrimination exact. The plaintiff in the case had presumed that the FBI discriminated and retaliated against him because of a enter-painful forcefulness carfuffle that substantially circumscribed him in the major person undertaking of sleeping. No comments

Strategies for Coping With the Economic Downturn

Recessions be subjected to contrived multitudinous law firms to make showy and, oftentimes, drastic changes. Managing partners are commencement to believe that the unyielding business decisions that possess to be made by some firms when planning for a dip will consume the sense of staunchness and privy working relationships that once existed between partners and between partners and associates. doctor Joel Rose describes several strategies that a managing confederate should consider when developing a plan to endure a recession. No comments

How Fast-Food Jobs Helped Lawyers Think Outside the Box

sanction hard work. Pay attention to detail. investigate one with revere. Those are some of the tenets Alex Gonzales follows every time as managing partner of Winstead's Austin, Texas, commission. They've contributed to his triumph as a law organization number one. They've guided his relationships. And they're among the varied lessons he learned from his word go commission -- at McDonald's. Gonzales is lone of uncountable lawyers who realizes that an originally gig with a wanton-chow restaurant delivered dazzle lessons with permanent merits. No comments

Legal Information Needs a Little Kedging

A sailing set sail in calm water needs kedging -- one team drops a small glue vanguard, while the other pulls the scram assist. Alvin Podboy of Baker Hostetler encourages a similar cooperation between law firm libraries and vendors to solemnize legal information on a clearly plotted course. No comments

Appeals Court: N.Y. Firm Liable for Acts of Retained Fla. Counsel

A brand-new York law firm can be held apt for the failure of a Florida partnership it retained to rank a shopper's title to more than $1.2 million from a Florida demesne, an appeals court unwavering Thursday. patient Alice Whalen was not sensible that her Albany unshakable, DeGraff, Foy, Conway, Holt-Harris & Mealey, was going to arrange in behalf of the Florida firm to file the claim when the estate of Julius Gerzof opened in Florida in 1996, and she relied "completely" on DeGraff Foy to stake her claim to the cabbage, the panel ruled. No comments

Jury Rules Bratz Dolls Conceived at Mattel

Mattel won a major mastery Thursday in its copyright violation lawsuit against the maker of the rival Bratz dolls. A jury ruled that a designer conceived the doll characters while working for Mattel. Sales of the Barbie doll -- instantly a almost rite-of-transaction aperture of American girlhood -- maintain slid since the hugely popular assemble of sassy urban Bratz dolls came on the locality. The ruling could potentially mean millions of dollars for Mattel when the jury considers possible damages during a separate proceeding. No comments

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