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“The immunity provision of the Defend Trade Secrets Act creates serious risk for companies: A whistleblower could expose a company to civil and criminal penalties stemming from the company’s alleged misconduct and simultaneously reveal valuable trade...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

It is not uncommon for issues to arise when the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) Proposal is submitted to the owner by a Construction Manager at Risk (CMR) or Design Builder (DB). Usually, such issues can be worked out to the satisfaction of the...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued a Final Rule to update longstanding "joint employer" regulations which will take effect March 16, 2020, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Under the FLSA, an employee may have one or more employers...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Over the past two years, city councils in three of the four largest cities in Texas — Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas — each have passed ordinances requiring local employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave. In each instance, the new...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

In what appears to be a growing trend, state and federal regulators are launching investigations into the sales practices and administration of 403(b) retirement plans for school districts. Two weeks ago, on January 10, 2020, Delaware Attorney...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A new change to California’s Civil Discovery Act has all of the trappings of a burdensome and costly requirement for employer defendants litigating in California state court. In addition to a litany of new California employment laws discussed in...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

- The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 requires parties that meet certain transaction size and other tests to file premerger notification forms with both the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division....By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Recently Lisa Felix, one of the experienced employment based immigration lawyers at Klasko Immigration Law Partners, participated in a virtual roundtable with CorporateLiveWire as an expert panelist alongside other notable immigration attorneys from...By: Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP

The USDOL has finalized its new rule concerning when two entities can be deemed a joint employer and therefore liable for each other’s wage violations. Under the Obama administration, the DOL sought to expand the reach of this doctrine and issued a...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

I. INTRODUCTION - Until fairly recently, non-compete clauses and other employer practices affecting employee mobility and wages were a relatively minor focus of U.S. antitrust enforcement authorities....By: K&L Gates LLP