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This week, Wal Mart agreed to settle 63 suits alleging the company refused to pay overtime and forced employees to work through their breaks. A spokesman said the total payout will be somewhere between $350 Million and $640 Million, depending on class action specifics. This is the latest (and largest) payout in a string of settlements and lost employment lawsuits the company has faced this year.

Replace my name with yours and my “name” with the ridiculous name of your choosing, and tell me you did not have this exact conversation at some point in your early teenage years:
Tim: I hate my name. It’s stupid. I don’t want to be called Tim anymore.Mom/Dad/Gramma/Buddies: Well, what do you want to be called?Tim: [...]

Paris Hilton. Pamela Anderson. That Girl from “the Hills”.
Wal Mart should’ve known better.
Rule #1 of being a media-obcessed diva is you have to be wary when you burn your entourage.
The WSJ ran a front pager (via the ABA Journal), reporting that film studio Flagler Productions is charging admission to whomever feels like viewing its stock [...]

A couple of months ago, Wal Mart Assistant General Counsel Miguel Rivera made it clear via a memo to its outside counsel that the legal profession was anything but safe from its policy of exporting efficiency on its suppliers. (They put a moratorium on across-the-board rate hikes, citing skyrocketing associate salaries. Really.)
Well, now [...]

The latest decision in Wal-Mart’s ongoing legal battles with its employees is in, and this one is probably going to increase the legal flies the retail giant will be swatting at in the near future.
A Pennsylvania judge has tacked $49 Million in attorney’s fees onto a $141 Million judgment for unpaid overtime against the nation’s [...]