Legal News

Federal contractors already subject to a myriad of reporting requirements should be prepared for yet another. Effective December 23, 2019, a new Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) provision entitled “Reporting of Nonconforming Items to the...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

This newsletter is our take on the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Mark Friend, partner based in London, is our editor for this final edition of 2019....By: Allen & Overy LLP

On December 4, 2019, Judge Ellen L. Hollander of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed with prejudice a stockholder class action suit against Gramercy Property Trust (“Gramercy” or the “Company”), a real estate...By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

In light of a critical U.S. Supreme Court decision affecting an employer’s ability to enforce employment arbitration agreements, careful drafting is critical. Arbitration agreements may be useful when an employee raises employment-related disputes...By: Thompson Coburn LLP

As peer-to-peer payment applications proliferate and on-demand technologies reach new facets of people’s lives, it is only natural that these programs now offer services geared particularly for employees. On-demand, daily pay apps, also known as...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Earlier this month, Governor Pritzker signed into law SB 1557, revising the Recreational Cannabis Law to expand permissible marijuana testing and related adverse action....By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On December 18, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board’s (Board or NLRB) published a final rule—effective on April 16, 2020—which modifies the 2015 so-called “ambush election” rules. The final rule will lengthen the election process and allow more...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

Effective on September 1, 2019, the 86th Texas Legislature’s amendments to the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act, Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code Chapter 27 (“TCPA”) essentially removed the vast majority trade secret claims from the TCPA’s...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On December 17, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an important decision holding that employers do not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when they prohibit employees from discussing confidential workplace...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Ride-hailing company Uber has resolved EEOC charges related to its alleged “culture of sexual harassment” and will “start a $4.4 million class fund to compensate victims of sexual harassment or retaliation from as early as Jan. 1, 2014”....By: Robins Kaplan LLP