This time of year, many companies consider summer interns. It’s a great opportunity for everyone. The student gets experience and you get free workers, right? Not so fast. Although forty-seven percent of students who graduated college in 2012 worked as…
Nikon has won a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Polaroid and another company. The lawsuit was related to a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera marketed by Polaroid, which Nikon claimed was very similar to one of its own cameras. The Polaroid…
Halliburton is asking the courts to decide on its appeal against allowing shareholders to file lawsuits against companies for inflating share prices fraudulently. The Supreme Court has now agreed to hear Halliburton’s case. The company is attempting to block off…
Is the National Football League allowed to use photographs without consent? That is the question at the crux of a new copyright infringement lawsuit that has been filed by a team of seven photographers against several defendants, including the National…
Concerns are being raised about the potential for insider trading involving high-speed traders who make investments based on market- moving data. Recently New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman called on federal officials to take steps to prevent such insider trading,…
Shareholders of Netflix suffered a second disappointment recently when a judge refused to allow their shareholder lawsuit to proceed, because they had not fixed deficiencies that had been found in an earlier version of the lawsuit. Through the lawsuit, shareholders…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRVy2gJZs-4 There are three critical documents that all companies should have. The first is an employee handbook that governs your relationship with your employees. Second, you’re going to want to have a Commission Agreement for all commission employees. California…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CT-2V2pDSo Sam Sherman was on San Diego 6 commenting on Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s liability
Sam Sherman was recently asked by San Diego News 6 to comment on the current allegations against Mayor Bob Filner. Click here to watch this interview. To learn about Mr. Sherman’s employment practice, view his profile.
Overconfident CEOs are much more likely to make the kind of risky business decisions that result in a shareholder lawsuit. According to the results of a study that was published recently in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, overconfident CEOs…