US District Judge Lucy Koh slammed major companies’ proposed settlement to end litigation accusing the firms of colluding to not hire each other’s employees and keep wages unfairly low as an embarrassing, unreasonable offer.
Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe offered $324.5 million in settlement funds to thousands of tech employees that …read more
August 9, 2014
I am pleased to be a guest speaker at the Canadian Society of Association Executives’ (CSAE) National Conference 2014 in Niagara Falls this fall (October 29-31). I will be co-presenting with Mark Katz of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, the co-author of our competition …read more
Bundled discounts are common marketing schemes that normally benefit consumers and competition; however, courts and commentators have found certain circumstances when they might be illegal monopolization. The line between hard competition and exclusionary conduct has confounded antitrust counselors and their pricing …read more
August 7, 2014
As most, though not all, Canadians now know (and some Americans and international marketers and companies know) Canada introduced federal anti-spam legislation on July 1, 2014. As has now been widely written and commented upon both in the four years in the run-up to the coming into force …read more