Legal.io Newsletter - September 9, 2022

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BigTech's $95M Lobbying Against Antitrust Bill - Congress is trying to pass an antitrust bill that would significantly change the tech landscape, but companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta have spent upwards of $95M to lobby against these efforts. More here.

Meta Fined $402M - The fine comes from the European Union after allegations the social network has mishandled children's private data on Instagram, offering business accounts to users as young as 13. More here.

Law Firms Brace for Fiscal Changes - The AMLaw 100 associate recruiting war is slowing down as firms are recognizing the demand for associates no longer exceeds supply. More here.

Juul Agrees to Pay $438.5M Settlement - The vaping company settled with 33 states that alleged the company marketed its product to underage users. In addition to the financial terms, Juul will be forced to change its marketing and sales practices. More here.

MLB Baseball Players Union to Join AFL-CIO Ranks - The Major League Baseball Players Association has joined the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest federation of unions. The move comes a month after the union announced a campaign to organize minor league players. More here.

Lawyers Weigh In On Their Employers' Response to Russia - In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine early this year, US Law firms and corporations have closed offices and ended business operations within Russia. Bloomberg Law's State of Practice survey gave attorneys the chance to respond to these changes. More here.

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The Welsh novelist and political theorist Raymond Williams wrote that “Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language”. Indeed, the word has many different meanings, which are subtly different yet interconnected. So what, exactly, is a “company culture”? Well, company culture is the subject of a fascinating 2018 study by four academics writing in the Harvard Business Review, entitled ‘The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture’. In their work, Groysberg, Lee, Price and Cheng draw on a century or more of academic literature on cultural studies as they struggle to pin down what a ‘company culture’ is. They propose that a culture is something that is shared, pervasive, enduring, and implicit. In other words, a culture is a group phenomenon (it cannot exist in one person alone), which permeates the whole group, exists over the long term, and shapes people’s behavior without necessarily being aware of it. It guides the way the people of an organization behave through a set of “shared assumptions and group norms”.

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