Legal News

Recently, several jurisdictions have stated that discriminating against an employee on the basis of the employee’s hairstyle, where the hairstyle is closely associated with race, constitutes race discrimination. The New Jersey Division of Civil...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued another decision benefitting employers by holding that an employer does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it removes from the employer’s parking lot nonemployee union...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

As universally expected, the Fed’s Open Market Committee delivered its third interest rate cut of 2019 yesterday, though it did so while signaling that it’s likely to pause before taking action again and “is now shifting into a more patient mode”....By: Robins Kaplan LLP

As regular readers of our blog will already know, the issue of whether Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on an employee’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been a hot topic in federal litigation for several years. Our blog...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The interview below is part of a new series from McGuireWoods that features interviews with impressive independent sponsors as part of our ongoing commitment to the independent sponsor community....By: McGuireWoods LLP

Revcon Technology Group, Inc. and S&P Electric, Inc. were under common control and were participating employers in a multiemployer pension fund. Revcon withdrew from the Fund in 2003 and S&P withdrew in 2004.  In 2006, the Fund notified the companies...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) have introduced legislation entitled the Workforce Mobility Act (“WMA”). The WMA, like its prior incarnation from last year, seeks to ban non-compete agreements outside of the sale of a business...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

No Good News, but No Bad News Either - On 16 October 2019 the European Commission (EC) adopted a delegated regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 (the Securitisation Regulation) and setting out the final regulatory and technical...By: Dechert LLP

With California’s 2019 legislative session wrapping up, this Best Best & Krieger LLP webinar looks back on the key housing and land use bills from 2019. This webinar discusses which bills passed, which failed and what to look for in 2020....By: Best Best & Krieger LLP

The SEC has issued its final Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI), Form CRS Rule, RIA Interpretation and Solely Incidental Interpretation. I am discussing the SEC’s guidance in a series of articles entitled “Best Interest Standard of Care for Advisors.”...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP