Legal News

In 2011, in Specialty Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center of Mobile, an Obama-era majority of the National Labor Relations Board modified the traditional “community of interest” standard for deciding appropriate bargaining units and created a two-part...By: Cozen O'Connor

Consumer Protection- Tennessee Attorney General Settles with Cigarette Manufacturer Over Alleged Sales of Contraband Cigarettes- Tennessee AG Herbert Slatery III reached a settlement with cigarette manufacturer Xcaliber International Ltd., LLC...By: Cozen O'Connor

Jaswinder Singh filed a putative class action against Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) in New Jersey Superior Court, arguing that the Uber employment contract improperly classified plaintiff and other drivers as independent contractors rather than...By: Cozen O'Connor

The California Supreme Court recently handed down an increasingly rare win for employers and the defense bar with its September 12 decision in Z.B., N.A. and Zions Bancorporation v. Supreme Court (Lawson) holding that private litigants cannot recover...By: Cozen O'Connor

Prior to the advent of social media and especially the #MeToo movement, employers were generally comfortable drawing a bright line between what employees did on their own time and workplace misconduct....By: Cozen O'Connor

Host Michael Schmidt is joined by Rebecca Nathanson, the Director of the Anti-Retaliation Unit and Counsel to Labor Standards at the New York Department of Labor to discuss issues ranging from the Department’s investigation process and retaliation,...By: Cozen O'Connor

Antitrust- FTC Settles with Investment Advisor and Funds Over Alleged Violation of Premerger Notification and Waiting Period Requirements- The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) settled with investment advisor Third Point LLC and three funds it...By: Cozen O'Connor

In today's episode, Debbie Friedman (partner at Cozen O'Connor) joins the podcast to talk about the issues that employers should consider with their employee handbooks....By: Cozen O'Connor

Texas has largely avoided the wave of marijuana legalization sweeping the country and the accompanying legal complications that have come along for the ride. Those days may be numbered as the Texas Legislature recently passed a significant expansion...By: Cozen O'Connor

Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board announced that it intended to conduct administrative rule-making concerning standards for access to an employer’s private property. Shortly thereafter, in University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,...By: Cozen O'Connor