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On June 19, 2019, the New York Legislature voted to reform New York discrimination law. See NYS Assembly Bill No. A8421.  Although Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to sign the bill, as of August 7, 2019, it still has not been delivered to him....By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

For my first year of law school, I had a renowned criminal law professor. He had a penchant for ties and an odd love for Melrose Place (I was a Dallas guy myself). For his final law exam, the fact pattern for the final exam was based on Melrose...By: Ary Rosenbaum

If your employee sues you for discrimination, they don’t get to look at how the decision-makers treated everyone else, do they? Well, in Cruz vs. US Homeland Security, the D.C. Court of Appeals says yes they do. Although the district court granted...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Hiring a Contract Attorney for your law firm to assist with substantive matters may ease concerns in ways you never thought in ways you never thought were possible. In working with Law Firms, here are the most common concerns and how to address them...By: Major, Lindsey & Africa

Recent merger enforcement activities by the Egyptian Competition Authority ("ECA") raise warning signs for businesses operating in Egypt. The ECA has been turning to allegations of anticompetitive conduct to intervene in transactions it deems to have...By: White & Case LLP

As of 2019, employers are receiving letters from the Social Security Administration entitled “Employer Correction Requests.” These letters, also known as “mismatch” letters, are sent when the names or social security numbers listed on an employer’s...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

For US employers with 100 or more employees, extensive new information relating to their prior EEO-1 filings must be submitted by September 30, 2019. Specifically, in addition to categorizing employees by race/ethnicity, gender and job type,...By: Dentons

Coating, Painting and Sandblasting Company Fired Employee Due to Hearing Loss, Federal Agency Says - NEW ORLEANS, La. - Tamco Professional Coating Services, Inc. (Tamco) has agreed to pay a foreperson $90,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S....By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Like many other states, Washington recently adopted legislation seemingly preventing the arbitration of harassment and discrimination claims in direct response to the #MeToo movement. As we previously reported, on March 21, 2018 Washington State...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The Colorado Court of Appeals recently decided an issue of first impression regarding noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements. The decision in 23 LTD v. Herman highlights an important consideration for Colorado restrictive covenants: it is the...By: Littler