Dewey hires gift trophy client eBay to Weil
13 May 2012, 6:31 pm
Ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf partners Keith flaum and Richard Climan have taken one of their key clients, online auction site eBay, to new employer Weil Gotshal & Manges.

Slifer report optimistic about real estate market
9 May 2012, 6:12 pm
VAIL, Colorado - In the opening letter of the 2011 edition of The Slifer Report, Jim flaum, president and managing broker at Vail Valley-based Slifer Smith and Frampton Real Estate, said that last year when asked about his view Copyright 2012 Vail Daily. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Vail Daily Slifer report optimistic about ...

Dewey’s Losses Rise to One-Day Record of at Least 18
8 May 2012, 1:05 pm
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s partner ranks were depleted by at least 18 more people, the law firms hiring them said. It was the largest one-day total of departures disclosed this year as the firm battles to avoid bankruptcy.

Behind the flaum settlement, a long campaign and a phone call
8 May 2012, 10:53 am
The Orthodox social justice group Uri L’Tzedek leads the way in brokering a deal for workers with a kosher distributor.

Brooklyn kosher food maker settles worker case
8 May 2012, 9:16 am
Twenty former food manufacturing employees who complained about working conditions have reached a $577,000 settlement with a Brooklyn kosher food manufacturer after engaging in a five-year campaign that led more than 120 supermarkets to stop selling the company's products.

Fresh Round of Partner Defections at Dewey
8 May 2012, 9:07 am
Ailing law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP suffered a global round of defections as 25 partners and their teams jumped ship in cities ranging from Palo Alto, Calif., to Moscow.

flaum Appetizing settles with immigrant workers in overtime pay flap
7 May 2012, 2:38 pm
flaum Appetizing, a kosher food distributor in Brooklyn, settled with 16 immigrant workers who claimed that the company did not pay them sufficiently for overtime work.

Kosher Company to Pay $577,000 to Former Workers
7 May 2012, 2:37 pm
Justice served ... on pita. After years of battling and boycotting, flaum Appetizing, makers of Kosher hummus and other foods in Williamsburg, will pay twenty former workers, "most of them Mexican immigrants," the money they are owed in back wages: $577,000. [ NYT ] Read more posts by Alyssa Shelasky Filed Under: lawsuits , hummus

Settlement paves way for end of hummus boycott
7 May 2012, 1:05 pm
The pressure on flaum Appetizing Corp. had been building for years: More than 120 supermarkets stopped selling its hummus, herring and cheeses; the world's largest kosher dairy company severed ties with it; and the National Labor Relations board rejected its argument that workers shouldn't get hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay because they were undocumented. On Monday, the Brooklyn ...

City Room: flaum Appetizing to Pay $577,000 in Settlement
7 May 2012, 9:33 am
Workers at flaum Appetizing in Brooklyn contended that they had not been paid overtime, or even minimum wage, for workweeks that stretched to 80 hours.