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[JURIST] Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, defense contractor Raytheon Company [corporate website] has announced that it's placed chief financial officer Edward S. Pliner and another employee on administrative leave and also offered to settle a SEC inquiry into accounting practices of its commuter aircraft business. Raytheon offered to pay $12 million as part of the

The Wall St. Journal recently noted how mainstream Twitter is becoming in the workplace. The article notes that many employers are proactively using the service to recruit better qualified employees faster and cheaper. Companies such as Microsoft, Raytheon and MTV now list job openings on Twitter. As the article points out: People who respond to job tweets typically have social-media skills, and some ...

... company, Thermicon. After FLIR rejected their offer, the employees entered into negotiations with another company, Raytheon Company ("Raytheon"). The employees had assured FLIR that they would not misappropriate any trade secrets in ... Thermicon based on the notion that misappropriation would inevitably result from Thermicon's operation. As a result of the lawsuit, Raytheon terminated negotiations with the employees. Shortly after, the employees advised FLIR that they were not moving forward with ...

... interest in the new company and declined the offer. The defendants then entered into negotiations with Raytheon Company to acquire licensing, technology and manufacturing facilities for Thermicon. They assured their former employer that they would not ... by evidence that plaintiffs had filed the lawsuit with a "anti-competitive motive." For instance, plaintiff's CEO testified that the company could not "tolerate a direct competitive threat" by defendants. He further testified that he had no evidence ...

... it clear that plaintiffs don't enjoy a free pass. New Deals Thursday, January 11, 2007 By Janine Friend Raytheon Company has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its wholly owned subsidiary Raytheon Aircraft Company to Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, a company formed by Onex Corporation and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, for $3.3 billon. Also, Realogy, a real estate franchisor and owner of brands Century 21, Coldwell Banker and ...

Zipperer v. Raytheon Company, No. 06-2493 affirms the District Court's determination (on a judgment on the pleadings) that ERISA preempts an employee's state-law claims against his employer arising from an alleged "...erroneous estimate of his retirement benefits which, he claims, led to his voluntary early retirement." The plaintiff had transferred between Raytheon subsidiaries. After being told what his benefits would be, he retired. Then they told him that his benefits would be even ...

... GCs among the 100-best paid legal officers: Aerospace and Defense Jay Stephens Raytheon Company $1,415,461 David Savner General Dynamics Corporation $1,215,000 Terrence ... 375 Terrence Linnert Goodrich Corporation $1,023,818 Entertainment Alan Braverman The Walt Disney Company $4,450,000 Paul Cappuccio Time Warner Inc. $3,600,000 Louis ... These 12 women made the list of the 100 top-paid GCs: Louise Parent American Express Company $3,969,591 Carrie Dwyer The Charles Schwab Corporation $3,200,048 Carol ...

... did not obtain. Ordnance Technologies was also in breach by its insinuation of itself as the main contractor with Raytheon, to the exclusion of Societa Esplosivi . Judgment was thus entered for Societa Esplosivi on that point. * as to the breach of ... enabling articles infringing the protected design to be made. * a director would be treated as personally liable with the company as a joint tortfeasor, where the wrongful acts complained of arose from his participation or involvement in ways which ...

... 2006, Parrish and Fitzgibbons left Flir and started talks with Raytheon about technology for the new company. Flir sued in Santa Barbara County Superior Court to stop ... out their business plan without stealing trade secrets that belonged to Flir. Raytheon pulled out of the business talks after Flir filed suit. So Flir ... Flir erred in arguing from a doctrine called inevitable disclosure. The idea is that an employee knows a company's trade secrets so intimately that he or she would inevitably put ...

On January 16, 2009, the Virginia Supreme Court remanded the case of Hyland vs. Raytheon Technical Services Company for a jury trial in the Fairfax County Circuit Court. A copy of the opinion is here. We previously commented on the ... of opinion that could not be proved true or false. The first statement that the court found actionable was: Cynthia lead [sic] [Raytheon] in the protest of the FAA's evaluation selection process for the TSSC contract and through a difficult procurement for the TSA, ...