Legal Research

Employment Law: Book Available for Auditing Pre-Employment Screens
The book is not from me. I learned of its existence from BRB's Public Records Blog's Audit Your Pre-employment Screening Practices: "The Safe Hiring Audit, a book available June 23rd, provides a blueprint to evaluate and improve a company's hiring procedures...

Background Screening and Investigations - Book Review
Background Screening and Investigations: Managing Hiring Risk from the HR and Security Perspectives is a wide-ranging guide to the technology, resources, policies and procedures, and trends in employment screening...

DHS OIG Audit of Airport Passenger and Checked Baggage Screening Performance
OIG-08-25 - Audit of Airport Passenger and Checked Baggage Screening Performance (Unclassified Summary), February 2008 (PDF, 8 pages): "The number...

Circumstances That May Trigger an Audit
With IRS Problems in your past, the last thing you want to do is undergo an audit whether it is a correspondence audit or a face-to-face audit.  The IRS has specific situations that alert it to scrutinize certain taxpayers...

The Ongoing Push for Screening
Screening is a fraud on the public and makes a monkey of the idea that law is a profession and that lawyers are their clients? fiduciaries. In order to understand the problems raised by screening, consider a typical case...

Panel set up to develop practical guidance for audit committees
The Audit Committee Guidance Committee has been set up to develop practical guidance for audit committees. It will help to strengthen corporate governance practices of listed companies in Singapore, focusing on the practical aspects and considerations of the work of audit committees...

Employment Contracts
General Contract Law Principles

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

California Fertility Clinic Warned
For Not Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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

Bank of America Faces Class Action over Mortgage Foreclosure Practices
Bank of America Faces Class Action over Mortgage Foreclosure Practices

NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships
NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships

Hip & Knee Replacement
alleging sterilization practices can cause implant failure.

Express Scripts Inc.
Over $9.5 million payout in deceptive business practices lawsuit.