November 2024

Multi-million-dollar jury awards, commonly known as nuclear or thermonuclear verdicts, are on the rise in the post-pandemic era.  Consequently, practitioners are now more reliant than ever on appellate courts’ review of the legal sufficiency and the potential excessiveness of jury awards.  Accordingly, this article seeks to offer practitioners a tool to assist in the pursuit

Employers nationwide can breathe a collective sigh of relief. On Friday November 15, 2024, District Judge Sean D. Jordan of the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a motion for summary judgment finding that the Department of Labor (DOL)’s 2024 Rule – that would have increased the minimum salary level required