Legal News

Real estate developers and construction professionals have until mid-September to supply the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection with comments on a proposed permit for stormwater discharges....By: Barley Snyder

What You Should Know - The National Labor Relations Board has proposed three policy changes to its election procedure for union representation, which would give employees greater rights to choose union representation....By: Barley Snyder

Employers in Pennsylvania that require licenses as a condition of employment may have to revisit their hiring policies thanks to a new state law. Gov. Tom Wolf this month signed into law a new policy that allows licensed workers from other states to...By: Barley Snyder

Maryland has become the latest state to take on noncompete agreements, banning them for employees under a certain salary threshold. The state’s legislature recently passed a law declaring noncompete agreements void and unenforceable for employees...By: Barley Snyder

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently reconsidered and overruled forty-year precedent permitting union representatives to access public areas of an employer’s premises and ruled that a hospital legally kicked nonemployee union organizers...By: Barley Snyder

Pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, the Federal Trade Commission has released new reporting thresholds for M&A deals valued above a certain threshold....By: Barley Snyder

As a real estate agent, you’re already running your own business. But have you incorporated to enjoy any of the legal or tax benefits?...By: Barley Snyder