Legal News

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Labor Relations Board, and the Department of Labor will all issue regulations governing joint employment, according to the federal government’s Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and...By: Littler

Several recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have analyzed the balance between employer property rights and union organization rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). These decisions appear to shift the balance...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

On October 17, 2019, the Florida First District Court of Appeal addressed whether the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) erred in denying Mr. Blanco’s Petitions for Benefits seeking workers’ compensation benefits, after he was exposed daily— for a...By: Chartwell Law

The US Department of Labor recently issued a proposed rule to supplement the Department’s existing electronic disclosure regulations and ease the burden of compliance with many of ERISA’s retirement plan disclosure obligations. While the proposal is...By: Morgan Lewis

In a unanimous Opinion and Final Order issued on November 1, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) upheld an administrative law judge’s determination that the acquisition by one leading US supplier of lower-limb prosthetics of another in 2017...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On November 8, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) proposed changes to the premerger notification rules (“Rules”) relating to how U.S. and foreign entities are defined for...By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Following Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings and other Delaware cases that have reinforced the standards that stockholder suits must meet to survive dismissal, would-be litigants have increasingly invoked Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporate...By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

More than a bit of drama in the auto world yesterday, with General Motors suing rival Fiat Chrysler, accusing it of “bribing United Auto Workers officials to gain competitive advantages in contract negotiations.”  The UAW’s president resigned within...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

Fenwick’s eighth annual Digital Health Investor Summit took place against the backdrop of strong and increasingly diverse investment markets, a focus on clinical validation of digital health tools, and a healthcare system that is shifting to...By: Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Agreeing with a trial court that the arbitration agreements at issue were both procedurally and substantively unconscionable, a California appellate panel denied the employer’s motion to compel arbitration....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP