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Spoiler alert - this article doesn’t have anything to do with cats. But it is about something you hear all the time from employment attorneys. You have to be consistent when it comes to enforcing your attendance policies and plant rules. You have to...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

In late June, thirty-nine cities and counties advancing claims in the opioid multidistrict litigation moved to certify a “negotiating class” solely for the purpose of reaching a settlement....By: King & Spalding

Pepper Hamilton has launched a three-part webinar series on transaction costs. This series addresses the fundamental issues that arise when a company incurs transaction costs related to the acquisition or disposition of a business, and seeks to...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

Pepper Hamilton has launched a three-part webinar series on transaction costs. This series addresses the fundamental issues that arise when a company incurs transaction costs related to the acquisition or disposition of a business, and seeks to...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

The pay gap – or paying women and other historically marginalized groups less for the same or substantially similar work – has increasingly been in the media spotlight. Politicians have also taken note. While there have been pay discrimination laws...By: Littler

Criminal investigations will target businesses profiting from the importation into the United States of goods made using forced labor. The new criminal enforcement initiative seeks to leverage data about corporate supply chains to investigate...By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Where’s the beef? In Arkansas federal court, where the Tofurky Company challenged a new state law that prohibits the labeling of plant-based meat alternatives as “burgers,” “beef,” “pork” or “sausage” or other meat-related terms....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Fourth Circuit’s recent decision in Evangeline Parker v. Reema Consulting Services, Incorporated, 915 F.3d 297 (4th Cir. 2019) grabbed headlines for its controversial ruling that workplace gossip can support a sex harassment claim under Title...By: Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

We’ve discussed on several occasions the patchwork of paid sick and family leave laws in cities and states across the country. While the federal government has yet to take up the issue, this is one of the few topics that politicians on both sides of...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

Our previous posts have stressed the critical importance of buy-sell agreements for both majority owners and minority investors in private companies. For majority owners, securing a buy-sell agreement avoids the potential of becoming “stuck” in...By: Winstead PC