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Compensation
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Labor Law Prof Blog
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Gaobo Pang & Mark J. Warshawshy, Calculating Savings Rates in Working Years Needed to Maintain Living Standards in Retirement (130). Joseph Gerakos (left), Christopher D. Ittner (center), & Frank Moers (right),…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Will Pay Big Bucks to Brokers
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup will pay $3 billion in retention payments to top-producing brokers to keep them from being lured away from the firm, reports the Wall St. Journal. Morgan…
International Law Prof Blog
United Nations Compensation Commission
The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which settles damage claims from Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, announced that $460 million was made available this week to 12 successful claimants. The…
Alabama Employment Law Report
Fair Pay Act to be signed into Law on January 29th
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the passage of which was one of President Obama's main priorities, appears ready to be signed into law. President Obama is scheduled…
Marler Blog
Chinese Dairies to Compensate Sickened Babies – 1.1 billion yuan ($160 million)
AP and the Haphazard Gourmet Girls report that the companies whose tainted milk products sickened nearly 300,000 children and were blamed in the deaths of six will likely pay 1.1…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Rewarding Prosecutors for Performance”
Main December 20, 2008"Rewarding Prosecutors for Performance"The title of this post is the title of this new article appearing on SSRN from Professor Stephanos Bibas (who has another recent piece…
Legal Profession Blog
Pondering the Heuristics of Baseball Players, CEOs, Lawyers, and Toothpaste
Posted by Jeff LipshawOver at Concurring Opinions, the always insightful Lawrence Cunningham ponders the seeming immunity to the present financial crisis in the world of baseball salaries.Baseball salaries versus CEO…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Rejects Jurisdiction Over Compensation Claim
In Testa v. Nixon Uniform Co., (Del. Ch., Nov. 18, 2008), the Chancery Court rejected an argument that it had equitable or other jurisdiction over a claim that in essence, was for a…
Labor Law Prof Blog
SSRN Top-10 List of Recent Employment & Labor Downloads
Richard L. Kaplan, A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits (1078).Marcos Pompeu Pareto, The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential…
International Law Prof Blog
Libya Settles All Outstanding Terrorism Suits in U.S.
Libya and the United States settled 26 outstanding lawsuits filed against Libya by U.S. citizens, according to today's New York Times. The U.S. suits included actions for the 1988 bombing…