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Full-Text Articles in Labor and Employment Law
Megafirms, Randall S. Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab, Robert G. Hansen
Megafirms, Randall S. Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab, Robert G. Hansen
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This Article documents and explains the amazing growth of the largest firms in law, accounting, and investment banking. Scholars to date have used various supply-side theories to explain this growth, and have generally examined only one industry at a time. This Article emphasizes a demand-side explanation of firm growth and shows how the explanation is similar for firms in all "project" industries. Legal regulation also plays an important role in determining industry structure. Among the areas covered in this Article are the growth of Multidisciplinary Practice firms (MDPs). MDP growth can best be understood by looking more broadly at the …
Predicting The Future Of Employment Law: Reflecting Or Refracting Market Forces?, Stewart J. Schwab
Predicting The Future Of Employment Law: Reflecting Or Refracting Market Forces?, Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In this Article I predict how employment law will change in the future. My task is positive rather than normative. I will not argue that the developments I foresee are good ones to be applauded. Rather, they arise "inevitably" from the way the law will react to changes in labor markets.
Of course, as Professor Ronald Dworkin emphasizes, in developing a theory of law one cannot sharply distinguish between the positive and normative. Dworkin points out that even in describing the current legal framework, one must choose what to highlight and what to ignore, a process based on values. When …
Restrictive Covenants, Employee Training, And The Limits Of Transaction-Cost Analysis, Gillian Lester
Restrictive Covenants, Employee Training, And The Limits Of Transaction-Cost Analysis, Gillian Lester
Faculty Scholarship
Restrictive covenants are an increasingly common feature of employment, used across a wide range of industries, occupations, and employees. In its most common form, a restrictive covenant prohibits an employee from competing with the employer within a certain geographic area fora specified period of time after departure, usually one or two years. Sometimes these clauses are drawn more narrowly, proscribing specific activities such as continued dealings with former customers. Regardless of scope, the typical remedy when an employee breaches such a covenant is injunctive relief.
A substantial literature within law and economics debates the merits of restrictive covenants from an …