By: Glenn Gordon , THE PRACTICAL GUIDANCE ATTORNEY TEAM This article discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal profession, including how AI can assist attorneys in accomplishing various legal tasks, as well as concerns about such usage. Also...
By: The Practical Guidance Finance Team This article discusses the energy security and climate change initiatives included in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 1 (IRA) and brings together a collection of related resources that include additional guidance. ...
By: The Lexis Practical Guidance Healthcare Team A flurry of new laws and trigger laws went into effect following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , 2022 U.S. LEXIS 3057 (S. Ct. June 24, 2022). IN...
By: Eric B. Levine, LINDABURY, MCCORMICK, ESTABROOK & COOPER, P.C. This article discusses several key considerations for evaluating cybersecurity and data privacy practices when counseling owners of commercial real estate (CRE). THE ARTICLE ALSO DETAILS...
AMENDMENTS TO NEWLY PASSED CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT SIGNED INTO LAW By: Lexis Practice Advisor Attorney Team GOVERNOR EDMUND G. BROWN SIGNED A BILL AMENDING the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) just weeks after its hasty enactment in June (SB 1121...
By: Ellen MacDonald Farrell and Rachel P. Raphael Crowell & Moring Today, billions of different devices are connected to the internet, and the internet-capability of everyday objects is expected to grow exponentially in the years to come. The Internet of...
Checklist provided by Stephen R. Martin , partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP This checklist includes key themes from the compliance program expectations of government regulators around the world and best practices broken into five essential elements...
These guidelines will assist you in implementing a wellness program that complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), the Americans with Disabilities Act of...
By: Michael Furrow , DLA Piper, and Whitney Meier , Venable LLP The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) provides an abbreviated pathway for companies to bring biologic drugs to market that are biosimilar to previously approved branded reference...
By: Jim Wagstaffe and The Wagstaffe Group CLASS CERTIFICATION PROCEDURES ARE GOVERNED BY Rule 23(c)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Rule 23): “At an early practicable time after a person sues or is sued as a class representative, the court...
Although federal law does not require employers to provide leave, either paid or unpaid, to make it easier for employees time to vote during their work day, the majority of the states have laws addressing some type of voting leave. Legislation in states that...
By: Michael E. Lackey and Oral D. Pottinger , Myer Brown LLP The Stored Communications Act (SCA), 18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., governs the disclosure of electronic communications stored with technology providers. Passed in 1986 as part of the Electronic Communications...
By: Hannah DeLuca , W. Andrew Douglass , and Elizabeth Bray , Polsinelli P.C. This article addresses the steps that plan sponsors and fiduciaries must take to locate and notify missing participants in qualified defined contribution and qualified defined benefit...
What Are Payroll Cards? Payroll cards—also known as payroll debit cards or paycards—are similar to bank debit cards. They are an increasingly popular method for employers to pay wages because they reduce the administrative costs associated with the...
SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION UNDER TITLE VII REMAINS HOT-BUTTON ISSUE By: Bender’s Labor & Employment Bulletin, Volume 17, Issue 7 RECENTLY, THREE OF THE U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL addressed the issue of whether discrimination on account of...