Labor & Employment Law

Estreicher & Yost on Class & Collection Action Employment Settlements
Samuel Estreicher and Kristina Yost (New York University Law School and Jones Day - New York Office) have posted Measuring the Value of Class and Collective Action Employment Settlements: A Preliminary Assessment on SSRN...

Are Arbitration Proceedings Confidential
Arbitration Download estreicher.txt is another excellent New York Law Journal article by Professor Sam Estreicher and attorney Steven Bennett dated August 13, 2008. As the article explains the law with regard to whether arbitration proceedings is all over the map...

Estreicher and Bennett on Hall Street Associates
Parties Can't Modify FAA Standards for Judicial Review (registration required) is an interesting April 15, 2008 New York Law Journal article by NYU Law School Professor Sam Estreicher and attorney Steven Bennett...

Doing Business in China: The Labor And Employment Law Story. Is That Elliott Spitzer
On May 9, 2008, The Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University (NYU) will be putting on what looks to be an excellent seminar on China's new labor contract law. The seminar will take place in Pollack Colloquium, Ninth Floor, Furman Hall, NYU School of Law, 245 Sullivan Street...

'First 48' airs confession, draws criticism from Lester guardian
In an interrogation aired on national television Tuesday night, Lt. Toney Armstrong of the Memphis Police Department drew a confession from 33-year-old Jessie Dotson for the Lester Street mass murder...

The Lester Bower Case
Sunday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, "Witness says condemned Arlington man isn't responsible for 1983 slayings," by Tim Madigan. Just a few paragraphs into the Star-Telegram story, the woman knew something was terribly wrong...

Employment Contracts
General Contract Law Principles

New York Employment Law
alleged violations of New York employment law.

Furloughed Workers
File Employment Lawsuits

Failure-to-accommodate claim yields $1.82M award
$1.82 Million Awarded in Employment Lawsuit

Employment
Employee rights including labor law, harassment, safety, unpaid overtime, discrimination and union disputes.

Middle Eastern Discrimination
Cruise lines to pay $485,000 settlement in employment lawsuit.

SuperValu, Inc.
$15 million settlement reached in employment class action lawsuit.