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With a constantly evolving legal landscape, colleges, universities and independent schools encounter a vast spectrum of new topics on any given day. Pepper Hamilton's Higher Education Practice Group has created its "In Brief" webinar series to...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

With a constantly evolving legal landscape, colleges, universities and independent schools encounter a vast spectrum of new topics on any given day. Pepper Hamilton's Higher Education Practice Group has created its "In Brief" webinar series to...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

Westchester County, a Northern suburb of New York City home to IBM and a number of other large employers, has joined the growing list of jurisdictions guaranteeing the vast majority of employees paid sick and safe time leave....By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that online retailers such as Amazon could be held liable for allegedly defective third-party products sold through its website. In a 2-1 panel decision in Oberdorf v. Amazon.com, Inc., — F.3d —, 2019 WL...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

In its May 2019 opinion in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising Int’l, Inc., the Ninth Circuit held that the recent California Supreme Court decision, Dynamex Ops. W. Inc. v. Superior Court, should apply retroactively. On Monday, the Ninth Circuit...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: The temperature may be heating up in the nation’s capital, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is keeping things cool. ICE Acting Director, Matthew Albence, confirmed that almost 33301 Notices of Inspection (NOI) have...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Employers looking for guidance on payroll rounding practices, classification of certain highly compensated paralegals and calculating overtime where employees receive non-discretionary bonuses will be glad to know the Department of Labor has issued...By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Gainesville Mech., Inc. v. Air Data, Inc., No. A19A0518., 2019 BL 229069 (Ga. Ct. App. June 19, 2019) - The First Division of the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed a superior court’s decision to confirm an arbitration award against Appellant...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

Over the past year, State Attorneys General have stepped into what they describe as a void of antitrust enforcement at the federal level.  AGs have commenced investigations and brought antitrust actions across industry segments, including financial...By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed trial and appellate court rulings that found the Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act—first enacted in August 2015—in violation of state law. For the first time since...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP