Legal News

The Chamber of Commerce and employer organizations convinced a federal court judge in California to halt enforcement of Assembly Bill 51, which was set to take effect January 1, 2020, and invalidate all agreements requiring the waiver of any right to...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) upended public company compensation structures nationwide. Prior to the TCJA, Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, generally provided for a $1 million annual deduction limit for...By: Holland & Knight LLP

The Employee Benefits Practice is pleased to present the Employee Benefits Developments Newsletter for the month of February 2020. Click on the links below for more information on each specific development or case....By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Paul Singer and the Elliott Mgmt crew have a new target in their sights: Twitter’s founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey. Singer’s Elliott fund has amassed a “significant stake” in the company—perhaps as much as a billion—and is looking to throw its weight...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had a busy start to 2020, with new Chair Janet Dhillon sharing her priorities for the coming year and the release of the statistics for fiscal year 2019, while a Maryland federal court handed the...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

While we hope that COVID-19 (coronavirus) will be contained to a very few isolated cases in the United States, health care employers should be prepared to deal with a number of employment law issues unique to being on the front line of this emerging...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Last Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board issued final regulations substantially curtailing circumstances under which two employers can be deemed co- or joint employers under federal labor law. The final rule follows years of employer...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) doesn’t cover an employee’s leave to care for the healthy children of an ill sibling, according to a new decision from an Ohio federal court....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Joining the other federal appellate panels to consider the issue, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA) did not alter or erode the understanding that the inability to perform...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Tell us about your practice in the middle-market private equity space?  I represent private equity funds and their portfolio companies in numerous equity transactions — mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, complex investments (including growth...By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP