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EEOC Wants In On NLRB’s Fun: EEOC Focuses On Waivers, Releases and Arbitration Agreements

By Joseph S. Murray IV For the past couple of years, the nonunion employment bar has watched as the National Labor Relations Board upended the law surrounding handbooks, waivers, arbitration agreements and a host of other aspects of the employment relationships. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, apparently not content to allow the NLRB to have all […]

Paralegals Beware: Wire Instruction Fraud Plagues N.C. Lawyers

By Camille Stell In recent weeks, Lawyers Mutual has received multiple reports of North Carolina attorneys who were targeted by scammers attempting to divert seller closing proceeds following real estate transactions.  Unfortunately, several of these attacks were successful and hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen and are very unlikely to be recovered. Often, paralegals […]

Judge Halts DOL Overtime Regulations – Now What?

By Murphy Fletcher I imagine that, if you are reading this blog, you have heard the big news: after 5 p.m. on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, a federal judge in Texas issued an order granting a nationwide preliminary injunction that will prevent the DOL overtime regulations from going into effect today, Dec. 1, as everyone […]

How Well Does Your Company Keep Secrets?

By Steven Snyder Most of us have seen the headlines over the past couple years about massive data breaches affecting millions of people. We have all likely received at least one letter notifying us that our confidential information may have been implicated in one of these breaches. The reason for this is that most states […]

Heard-Leak: Valuable Lessons for Defense Counsel

By Nicole Patino “I kept asking how I could improve, but my supervisor would never tell me what I was doing wrong, and when I was fired, it came out of the blue.” It’s a complaint that we repeatedly hear as clients come into our offices, sure that they are victims of wrongful termination. They […]