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Wage and Hour - 80/20 Rule Still Followed in Some Parts - The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued guidance doing away with the so-called "80/20 rule" in November 2018. District courts have greeted the new guidance with differing reactions....By: Holland & Knight LLP

On April 30, 2018, the California courts rocked the State’s labor and employment landscape with the decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (“Dynamex”). The court’s decision changed the way employers classified...By: Stokes Wagner

On June 26, 2019, Southern District of New York Judge Denise Cote granted a motion to compel arbitration of a plaintiff’s sexual harassment claims finding that the New York State prohibition on mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims is...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A recent legal malpractice decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit provides a stark cautionary tale about the dangers for a law firm when the firm either neglects to send an engagement letter at the outset of...By: Pullman & Comley, LLC

The Trump Administration is using the reauthorization of a pipeline safety statute as an opening to insert new provisions that would give U.S. authorities broader latitude to thwart and criminalize the activities of protestors opposing hydrocarbon...By: Foley Hoag LLP - Corporate Social

A joint Hogan Lovells & GTDT publication on M&A Litigation in Germany. Across common law and code law countries, there are a number of striking similarities and surprising differences with respect to how different jurisdictions address M&A...By: Hogan Lovells

In April 2018, as part of a major reform to combat sexual harassment in the workplace, New York enacted a law rendering pre-dispute agreements to arbitrate sexual harassment claims null and void “[e]xcept where inconsistent with federal law.” CPLR...By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

A joint Hogan Lovells & GTDT publication on M&A Litigation in France. Across common law and code law countries, there are a number of striking similarities and surprising differences with respect to how different jurisdictions address M&A litigation...By: Hogan Lovells

A workers’ compensation arbitration decision was recently filed in what appears to be the first time the Iowa Division of Workers’ Compensation has dealt with how to compensate unscheduled work injuries under the 2017 Amendments, specifically when...By: Davis Brown Law Firm

June was a busy month for state legislators, courts and the President. On May 31, 2019, in Stein v. Blankfein, et al., the Delaware Court of Chancery reaffirmed the Delaware Supreme Court’s holding in In re: Investors Bancorp, Inc. Stockholder...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits