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The legal uncertainties that surround wage advance products continue to boil and bubble. We’ve previously written about legal issues these products raise, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) investigation into a number of...By: Womble Bond Dickinson

H-1B visa petitions have been receiving increased denials from the US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) following the President’s Buy American and Hire American Executive Order of 2017. For example, according to the National Foundation for...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will use its new online registration system in next year’s filing season for H-1B specialty occupation visas, which will allow employers to wait until after the H-1B visa lottery...By: Ulmer & Berne LLP

It’s the time of year when we all gather around with our families and loved ones.  It’s also a good time to remember that your company may have its own family.  Forgetting about that family can spell trouble....By: Foley & Lardner LLP

How long a candidate should get before to think about a job offer? This is a question that many law firms have after they have made an offer to a prospective employee. Let’s say a job offer is made to a lawyer and they want to take a week or a...By: Stange Law Firm, PC

Over the past few years, Germany has strengthened the AWV regime. In parallel, the relevance of Germany's foreign direct investment control investigations for M&A transactions involving non-EU investors has grown. Even investments in German targets...By: Jones Day

Of all the challenges an entrepreneur will face during the life cycle of a venture, one of the most difficult is attracting and retaining talent. Not only do entrepreneurs need to determine how to compensate and incentivize workers, they also have to...By: Cozen O'Connor

On December 6, 2019, a divided Second Circuit panel concluded that settlement proposals in accepted offers of judgment under FRCP 68 are not subject to judicial review and approval. Mei Xing Yu et al. v. Hasaki Restaurant Inc., No. 17-3888 (2d Cir....By: Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

During the past year, we have encountered a number of situations where employers have allowed current and former employees to remain on their group medical insurance plans well past the date that they should have been placed on COBRA. In some...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

In its most recent legislative session, Texas lawmakers took a number of steps designed to protect students from potential harm due to sexual misconduct. The new rules extend to certain obligations and protections to private schools that were...By: Fisher Phillips