On September 8, 2021, unsealed documents from a lawsuit launched in November 2020 by former Washington Football Team (WFT) General Counsel David P. Donovan against Beth Wilkinson, a litigator hired by the National Football League (NFL) to investigate sexual harassment claims at WFT, revealed that Donovan accused Wilkinson of lying […]
Author: Connie Bertram
After four hours of deliberations, on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, a federal jury in California handed down a verdict in the closely-watched criminal trial of four former employees of Applied Materials. The four defendants were charged with stealing and possessing trade secrets of Applied Materials and engaging in a conspiracy […]
UPDATE on September 7, 2021: Last week, the Second Appellate District stayed Superior Judge Sotelo’s ruling that the dispute between Dentons and Zhang should be resolved through arbitration. The Court found that it needed to resolve a potential dispute between section 925 of the California Labor Code, which prohibits employers […]
On July 14, 2021, a New York state judge excluded evidence of sexual harassment allegations against former Tinder CEO Gregory Blatt in the long-running litigation between the founders of Tinder and Match. In early 2018, early employees of Tinder and Match, including co-founder Sean Rad, accused Match Group and IAC, […]
On July 15, 2021, a Denver federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging DaVita Inc. and its former CEO, Kent Thiry, for conspiring with competing employers not to solicit executives and other senior personnel. DaVita operates dialysis and kidney care centers across the country. These charges are the result […]