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If you own a company that provides cell phones and/or tablets to its employees, take note:  text messages of your employees are subject to litigation hold notices, too, just like email, files on your computers, and physical files. As was made abundantly clear by the Southern District of Illinois in its recent, lengthy opinion in...Read More

The NLRB recently announced that it will not seek Supreme Court review of two U.S. Court of Appeals decisions invalidating the NLRB’s Notice Posting Rule. The Notice Posting Rule would have required most private sector employers to post a notice in a prominent location explaining to workers their rights to join a union and bargain collectively....Read More

Now that we have started a new year, many have set their new year’s resolutions.  Often these focus on short-term health, relationship, emotional, and spiritual goals.  However, 2014 is a great time to address a long-term financial goal: planning your estate affairs.  Sure, it’s easy to put it off for another day, but, unfortunately, we...Read More

Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP (KDDK) – an experienced full-service civil law firm dedicated to effectively serving the legal needs of clients for more than 105 years – is pleased to announce that Jeffrey K. Helfrich has been named a Co-Managing Partner effective January 1, 2014. Helfrich has focused his legal practice on business...Read More

All of us know that Americans are spending more time with social networking.  Those aged 18 to 64 who use social networks say they spend an average of 3.2 hours per day doing so, according to new research released by Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange (OTX). The law governing providing notice of a lawsuit to individuals...Read More

An “all requirements” supply contract (a.k.a purchase order, purchase contract) binds the purchaser to buying all of its needs for a specified product exclusively from the supplier. Likewise, the supplier, in turn, agrees to fill all the purchaser’s orders during the term of the Agreement. In this ever-competitive but limited source global marketplace, suppliers often...Read More

This year, in an important decision for contractors, design professionals and owners, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, which includes Indiana, upheld enforcement of a contractual limitation of liability clause, which resulted in the design professional’s liability being capped at $70,000, despite the owner’s claim that its damages were in excess of...Read More

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The explosion in social media use over the last decade has catalogued a treasure trove of easily accessible personal information online.  As it relates to screening job applicants, this information can sometimes contain harmless details regarding individuals, such as favorite sports teams, movies, or music, and otherwise useful information, such as confirmation of education and...Read More

When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “HIPAA” was implemented, it was designed to regulate “covered entities” such as health care providers, hospitals and health insurance companies.  Because of this limited regulation, many entities with access to “protected health information” or “PHI” were outside the scope of HIPAA.  Those “non-covered” entities included data storage...Read More