The United States’ two largest labor and employment law firms expanded their respective footprints last week, with Jackson Lewis picking up a six-lawyer team in Milwaukee and Littler Mendelson adding 16 attorneys via a merger with a Memphis firm. Both firms have grown steadily in recent years.

Four experts discussed recent developments in employment law at a Recorder Roundtable on Nov. 9 in San Francisco.

Big defense firms have been hiring young employment law associates in response to an increase in wage-and-hour, discrimination and other types of cases, and hiring partners say that even the Supreme Court’s decision to disband the huge Wal-Mart discrimination class action doesn’t throw a wrench in their plans.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views

U.K. employment law boutique Sacker & Partners has launched a stand-alone business offering project management, secretarial support and corporate governance advice to companies and pension plan trustees. Sackers Support Services was established Wednesday as a wholly owned subsidiary of the law firm, one of the U.K.’s most profitable.Visit International News

Hewlett-Packard’s legal team will have a hard time persuading a judge to stop former CEO Mark Hurd from becoming president of Oracle Corp., employment law experts say. HP sued Hurd on Tuesday, claiming that he violated a confidentiality provision of his severance agreement by accepting the post at Oracle