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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes convicted of 4 fraud charges
Holmes could face 20 years in prison after a jury convicted her of defrauding investors of her Silicon Valley blood-testing company. → Read More
Failure not fraud: Highlights from day 1 of Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos trial
Holmes’ counsel painted the famed founder as a mission-driven “young CEO” whose company failed due to business obstacles. → Read More
Judge strikes down California's Proposition 22
A judge said that language in the voter-approved ballot measure illegally infringes on the Legislature's role of overseeing the state's workers' compensation sy → Read More
Inside the SEC's first registered blockchain assets
Attorney Mark Selinger does not advertise himself as a cryptocurrency expert. His job was to apply 75 years of regulations to a brand-new token and blockchain platform. → Read More
Blue Cross Blue Shield plans a clear favorite among marketplace shoppers
Marketplace shoppers are cost-conscious but they also consider brand names when selecting an insurance plan. → Read More
Contact tracing apps and consumer privacy: What employers should know
“I’ve stopped using the words 'going back to normal' because I don’t think we’re going back to whatever it was before,” said Heather Federman, the vice president of privacy and policy for BigID. → Read More
Law Firms Flock to Litigation Funders Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Some litigation funders are seeing a flood of inquiries from law firms as they brace for the economic and litigation realities of life after the global pandemic. → Read More
Judge Reluctant to Designate Lyft Drivers as Employees Amid Pandemic, Despite ‘Obvious’ Worker Misclassification
The judge questioned whether Lichten & Liss-Riordan’s Shannon Liss-Riordan was using the COVID-19 pandemic to overcome previous attempts to get her clients reclassified as employees. → Read More
Judge Asks Uber and Plaintiffs Lawyers to Find Less Restrictive Paid Sick Leave Policy During Pandemic
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California ordered lawyers at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Lichten & Liss-Riordan to discuss a temporary policy that would allow Uber drivers to take paid sick leave without a doctor's note. → Read More
How the COVID-19 Crisis Is Reshaping Alternative Dispute Resolution
As with law firms many alternative dispute resolution organizations had to transition to fully remote operations to comply with shelter-in-place orders virtually overnight. And some experts predict that the imprint of the pandemic could outlast the crisis. → Read More
How to Heed Privacy Law in the Midst of a Pandemic
Coronavirus hasn’t dismantled privacy protections in GDPR CCPA and other privacy laws yet. → Read More
Frequent Uber and Lyft Foe Says Misclassification of Drivers is Worsening the Global Health Crisis
In a pair of emergency motions for preliminary injunction, lawyers from Lichten & Liss Riordan who represent classes of Uber and Lyft employees are asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to find that they should be classified as employees, so that they can take advantage of state-mandated sick leave. → Read More
9th Circuit Shuts Down Public Access to Courthouses
Hearings will be live-streamed as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit prohibits public access to all locations during non-court weeks. → Read More
Short-Term Work Around or the New Normal? Firms Cope With Covid-19 Reality
Law firms in the Bay Area seek to contain the spread of coronavirus—and team member stress—with their emergency response plans. → Read More
Judge blocks California’s mandatory employee arbitration ban
Business groups convinced a judge that the bill could disrupt the creation of employment contracts if preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act. → Read More