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Profits: The Real Power Player in CEO Compensation

Nov 26, 2024 | wiglafjournal.com | Colleen Murphy

When it comes to paying top executives, companies love to tie compensation to metrics like revenue growth and market share expansion. After all, these are clear indicators of a company’s size and reach. But while capturing market share can tell a story of growth, they’re not always the best measure of financial health. For example, Uber failed to return a profit for many years, finally turning profitable $1.887 billion in 2023, first time since 2018.
Body Cam Prices Too High? New Class Actions Bring Antitrust Claims

Oct 17, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Colleen Murphy

A merger between makers of body-worn cameras for law enforcement put a damper on competition, according to a group of antitrust suits pending in a New Jersey court. Taxpayers are allegedly facing big price increases for the cameras and Tasers since Axon Enterprise Inc., the largest maker of such equipment, bought a competing company, VieVu, from its former owner, Safariland, according to the suits.
How the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Expands the Duty to Accommodate

Sep 28, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Charles Toutant |Alexa E. Miller

As of June 27, 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) significantly expanded protections for pregnant applicants and employees by requiring employers with 15 or more employees to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, whether or not such condition qualifies as a disability, as long as the accommodation does not pose an undue hardship on the employer.
SEC Alleges Deutsche Bank Subsidiary Gave Misleading Statements on ESG Investment Process

Sep 26, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Maydeen Merino |Daniel Feldman |Jayni F. Hein

DWS Investment Management Americas has agreed to pay $25 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that the Deutsche Bank AG subsidiary made misleading statements and failed to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors into its mutual fund investment recommendations and did not develop an anti-money laundering program. DWS marketed itself as a leader in the ESG space, including through its marketing of the ESG Integrated Products, the SEC claimed.
Judiciary OKs Limited Remote Public Access—But Should the Policy Go Further? | National Law Journal

Sep 26, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Andrew Maloney |Lisa Willis |Brian Lee |Avalon Zoppo

In 2005, then U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III received a request from a network to permit a high-profile trial regarding intelligent design to be televised. But Jones said he quickly learned the federal judiciary didn’t allow hearings to be broadcast. “It’s too bad because there were some really seminal moments in that six-week trial that people should have heard and they’re lost now in history because that wasn’t allowed.
Court Slams Door as Litigants Rush to Change Venue Amid Judge Shortage

Aug 1, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Colleen Murphy |Aleeza Furman

A New Jersey judge closed the door on civil litigants who sought to change venues to escape a trial moratorium stemming from a shortage of judges. Assignment Judge Kevin Shanahan of Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren counties denied six motions on Tuesday to change venue to another county from litigants who sought to escape the consequences of a trial moratorium in Vicinage 13. Judge Kevin M. Shanahan, Assignment Judge for Vicinage 13 (Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties).
The Evolving Role of Big Law Leadership: The Morning Minute

Jul 25, 2023 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Chris O’Malley |Colleen Murphy |Adolfo Pesquera |Riley Brennan

Want to get this daily news briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up. WHAT WE’RE WATCHINGCHANGED MANAGEMENT - A faster pace. More laterals coming and going. More mobile clients. Global political and domestic social happenings that require public positions. Hybrid work. Remote work. Artificial intelligence. Firm chairs and managing partners are facing new demands from challenges and events in the last few years. And, as Law.com’s Patrick Smith reports, it’s taking a toll.
My Turn | American divide eerily reminiscent of Northern Ireland

Feb 7, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Colleen Murphy

A pro-Putin musician, who once waved a dead Ukrainian’s skull around on stage, was shot in the head in what is suspected to be a “revenge hit” for his anti-Ukrainian behavior, RadarOnline.com has learned.Igor Mangushev, 36, is currently in the hospital recovering from his near-fatal injuries.He was reportedly shot in the head on the night of February 3 while fighting in Ukraine under Vladimir Putin’s mercenary chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin.According to Daily Star, the attack against Mangushev came...
My Turn | American divide eerily reminiscent of Northern Ireland

Feb 7, 2023 | news-gazette.com | Colleen Murphy

Twenty-five years ago next month, I visited Northern Ireland amidst the run-up to the public referendum on the Belfast Agreement/Good Friday Agreement, ending more than three decades of violent conflict known as “the Troubles.”Northern Ireland has a population of 1.8 million (about two-thirds the size of Chicago). During the Troubles, more than 3,700 were killed in Northern Ireland and close to 48,000 were injured in the 36,000 shootings and 16,000 bombings that took place.