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AI predicted to fuel mass litigation against companies
Legal action against companies will have a ransomware-like quality pretty soon as bad actors leverage artificial intelligence to make the filing of complaints quick and cheap, the founders of a risk ...
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Jury may decide whether SHRM conducted sham bias investigation
A jury should decide whether the Society for Human Resource Management maliciously engaged in race discrimination, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Based on the facts alleged, a reasonable jury could ...
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Greenwashing cases fall for first time in 6 years, but high-severity filings surge: report
RepRisk’s latest report found 1,841 documented events of misleading communications by companies, with 56% of those — 1,038 — related to environmental claims, constituting greenwashing. Private ...
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Politics in the workplace can become a nightmare for employers
As a consequential U.S. election nears in less than a month, determining political control of Congress and the White House, political speech in the workplace is rising. Millions of voters — especially ...
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Uber turns Nevada into contingency fee-cap battleground
An Uber-led ballot initiative in Nevada would impose the strictest contingency fee limit in the country, potentially helping companies if it were to deter complex class action lawsuits by making it ...
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Social media posts cost DraftKings $200,000
Sports betting company DraftKings agreed to settle for $200,000 charges it violated Regulation FD disclosure rules, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced September 26. The regulation ...
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SEC charge hinges on director’s lack of ‘social independence’
When the Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against a board member last month for causing his company to file materially misleading statements, it put a spotlight on the role ...