Legal News

The dawn of a new year provides a great opportunity to take stock of where EU merger control might go in the next year. In this blog, we outline what we consider to be five key trends to watch out for in EU merger control in 2020....By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Litigators are familiar with the attorney-client privilege as the focus of many discovery disputes, but transactional lawyers increasingly recognize the privilege as an asset that may or may not be part of the bargain in a corporate transaction. The...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Following the ruling of the Supreme Court on 17 July 2019, the Paris Court of Appeal, by a judgment dated 30 October 2019, validated the Macron grid capping damages for unfair dismissal. This policy, which limits the compensation that may be awarded...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

A growing chorus of cities, counties, and states have passed “ban-the-box” laws that restrict when and how employers can consider an applicant’s or employee’s criminal history. Currently, thirteen states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii,...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Our December 2019 update outlines the key UK employment law developments over the last month. It includes cases on covert surveillance, sexual orientation discrimination when there is no identifiable victim, harassment under the Protection from...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Dans la foulée de l’avis rendu par la Cour de cassation le 17 juillet 2019, la cour d’appel de Paris, par un arrêt du 30 octobre 2019, valide à son tour le barème Macron.   Ce dispositif légal, qui plafonne les indemnités pouvant être accordées aux...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

This summer I had the pleasure of traveling to Toronto and meeting Canadian construction lawyers to discuss the introduction of a prompt payment and adjudication regime in Ontario on 1 October 2019. As Matt Malloy outlined in his blog from 2017, the...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Our November update considers recent developments in employment law, including cases on religion and belief discrimination, third party harassment and investigations. We also outline other points of note, including the new EU Whistleblowing Directive...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Sometimes. The CCPA states that a business should disclose any information that it is required to disclose in response to an access request “in writing” and “delivered through the consumer’s account with the business.” The requirement, of course,...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

With its glamorous brand, address, association with and access to an adjoining luxury hotel, a well-designed branded residence project initially appears to offer an “everyone wins” proposal to the participants: the project developer, the hotel...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner