Fierce competition for artificial intelligence engineers and the relative paucity of intellectual property protections for AI technologies have companies turning to trade secret litigation as a powerful tool they can wield against competitors and former employees, attorneys say.
Fierce competition for artificial intelligence engineers and the relative paucity of intellectual property protections for AI technologies have companies turning to trade secret litigation as a powerful tool they can wield against competitors and former employees, attorneys say.
Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged a former OpenAI product team engineer in California federal court on allegations he hid a secret recording device inside toilet paper behind a TV in an executive conference room in order to capture confidential communications about the ChatGPT-maker's artificial intelligence technology.
Waiting time is compensable under federal wage law when employees are required to report to work but cannot begin their duties for reasons beyond their control, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday in reviving a Lidl grocery store worker's unpaid wage claims.
Shawn Fain appears to have won another term as president of the United Auto Workers and his allies won every executive board seat they sought, according to unofficial results the UAW reported Tuesday following a testy officer election.
The Eleventh Circuit refused Tuesday to reinstate a lawsuit from a doctor who said gender discrimination got her removed from University of Florida's urology department, unpersuaded by her argument that a lower court prematurely shut down the bulk of her lawsuit.
ABC told a D.C. federal court the Federal Communications Commission has effectively admitted that a probe of its parent Disney's hiring practices could not justify threatening eight of the network's TV stations' licenses with an early renewal proceeding.
A jury in western Michigan has ruled that Nexstar Media owes two of its former TV station news directors a total of around $4 million over their claims that their employer insinuated they were anti-gay after they sent a memo warning reporters to be balanced about Pride Month coverage.
The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered a former Jackson County judge to retire and barred him from holding judicial office again after finding he abused alcohol, sexually harassed female colleagues, interfered in court proceedings and deliberately concealed delays in issuing rulings.
Harvard College fired a Jewish worker after he took time off to observe Rosh Hashanah, according to a new religious bias suit the former employee filed in New York federal court.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to review a Texas A&M University professor's lawsuit alleging she was denied tenure because of pregnancy-related time off, leaving in place a state court's conclusion that the college had immunity from her Family and Medical Leave Act claims.
A former staff attorney for AmTrust Financial Services Inc. is suing his former employer in New Jersey state court, alleging that his firing was the result of a deliberate, yearslong campaign to purge the litigation department of older attorneys.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to review whether an employer owes overtime pay if it did not have knowledge that the worker was putting in the extra hours, avoiding reconsideration of a Fifth Circuit ruling in a wage case against Texas Farm Bureau.
The head of the Massachusetts State Police has the power to prohibit officers from taking time off around the Independence Day holiday, the state's intermediate-level appeals court said Tuesday, affirming that the matter is not subject to collective bargaining.
A New Jersey federal judge upheld a decision allowing sales agents to pursue wage claims as a collective against an insurance company, rejecting the insurer's arguments that the workers weren't similarly situated and that their overtime claims were improperly certified.
A former Rivian LLC service technician brought a proposed class action against the automaker in Washington state court, claiming the company pressured workers to forgo their legally protected meal and rest periods, and failed to pay them for mandatory training sessions completed at home and off the clock.
Employees at a Denver medical network's call center aren't paid for all the time they work, a lawsuit filed in Colorado federal court Tuesday alleges, claiming the workers aren't fully compensated for the time they spend booting up their computers and logging in to nearly a dozen software programs.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a lawsuit brought by a former United Airlines customer service agent seeking to bring claims against her union for failing to take her wrongful discharge claim against the company to arbitration.
A Second Circuit panel Tuesday seemed leery of RTX Corp. investors' bid to revive allegations that the aerospace manufacturer violated securities laws by concealing an aircraft engine defect, with several judges pointing out how the complaint seemed to lack allegations that executives knew different disclosures were necessary.
Workers don't have the right to consult a union representative before taking an employer-mandated drug test, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors said, asking the board to rule that the so-called Weingarten right isn't available in the context of drug and alcohol testing.
The National Labor Relations Board has urged the Fifth Circuit to reject Amazon's challenge to an order to negotiate with workers at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse, arguing its appeal of a union's 2022 election win misstates the board's analysis and distorts the evidence.
A healthcare workers union has accused CarePoint Health and operators that took over two of its New Jersey hospitals of failing to make 2024 retirement fund contributions under a settlement in the defunct nonprofit's Delaware bankruptcy case.
Elon Musk, X Corp. and its affiliate holding companies have reached a new deal to resolve a proposed class action by former Twitter Inc. workers over severance benefits related to Musk's take-private acquisition of the social media giant.
A California federal judge said Tuesday that OpenAI must work on an expedited timeline to furnish some documents in Apple's suit accusing the company of using former employees to access secret information, calling Apple's concerns about the preservation of some evidence "well-taken."
A North Carolina federal judge said she had concerns Tuesday about whether the previous competition director for Joe Gibbs Racing LLC disclosed his former employer's trade secrets to a rival team in violation of a court order placing certain restrictions on his employment.
Earthbound Holding LLC asked a Texas federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing the retailer of allowing cybercriminals to get their hands on sensitive employee data, saying workers failed to allege that they suffered an injury in the attack.
The federal government asked a Maryland federal court to throw out a suit brought by more than 300 former federal workers who say their agency layoffs were politically motivated, arguing the workers must pursue their claims through an administrative process before heading to court.
Despite recent calls to overturn the National Labor Relations Board's decision in McLaren Macomb, New York's robust regulation will remain intact, limiting practitioners' ability to offer nonsupervisory employees severance agreements with confidentiality and nondisclosure provisions, says Matthew Berman at Valli Kane.
Spirit Airlines' planned sale of deidentified business data to Google for artificial intelligence training exposes gaps in the Bankruptcy Code's privacy guardrails, particularly for employee information, say attorneys at Patterson Belknap.
A New Jersey state court dismissed an adult daycare company's suit against Fox Rothschild LLP and one of its attorneys related to their prosecution of a fraudulent loan lawsuit that led to a $65,000 sanction against the firm, according to a court order.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has grown its public finance team with the addition of a former Ballard Spahr LLP attorney who specializes in real estate financing, bringing its total lateral hires from Ballard Spahr to 40 since February.
The Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday disbarred a personal injury lawyer who pled guilty for his part in a scheme using stolen accident reports to find clients and financially benefit from settlement money.
A Baker Botts LLP patent attorney has moved for almost $3.4 million in attorney fees and expenses in a defamation suit an inventor brought against her that was dismissed.
A former BigLaw associate accused of insider trading is seeking records from ex-employers Sidley Austin LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP to help fight charges that he tipped others about nonpublic deals the firms were working on.
Haynes Boone announced it has hired a transactional attorney from Loeb & Loeb LLP as a partner in its New York office to bolster its real estate practice.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is urging a California federal court to order an entrepreneur to arbitrate malpractice claims stemming from the firm's representation of her in a sexual harassment claim against a technology investor as it seeks to collect more than $1.7 million in unpaid fees.
