By: S.H. Spencer Compton , COMMONWEALTH LAND TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY Interested in access to private market intelligence? Private Market Data offers attorneys private information about highly negotiated agreements not otherwise available or provided in...
By: Ellen M. Taylor , SLOAN, SAKAI, YEUNG, & WONG LLP Introduction Today, a variety of artificial intelligence (AI) employment-assessment tools are available to assist employers with nearly every stage of the hiring cycle, from recruiting and assessing...
By: The Practical Guidance Energy & Utilities Team On January 27, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden signed Executive Order 14008, 1 calling for the country to become net zero on carbon emissions by the year 2050. This order also called for the country’s...
By: Amanda Zablocki and Mikela T. Sutrina , SHEPPARD MULLIN WILLIAMS MULLEN On August 5, 2022, Indiana joined 19 states whose laws criminalize abortion prior to viability in the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...
By: Timothy Murray MURRAY , HOGUE & LANNIS I was asked by a company to revise its standard boilerplate legal terms found on the back of its purchase order form so that its terms would prevail in a battle of the forms contest—where contracts are formed...
By: David L. Kornblau and Gerald W. Hodgkins Overview The enforcement and regulatory priorities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have begun to come into focus now that SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has been in office for nearly a year and a half....
The case of President Trump and Stormy Daniels actually raises some interesting federal civil procedure. In the following video, noted expert Jim Wagstaffe of The Wagstaffe Group speaks about the high profile case and contends that the lawyers for both President...
THE CONDUCTOR CANNOT HOPE TO KNOW EVERYTHING about each section of the orchestra, (e.g., what strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion must do in order to play their part). However, each section (and subsection) has its own chair who can determine that with the...
By: Jason Brocks , Lexis Practice Advisor This article discusses provisions for agreements between health plans and doctors, dentists, and other healthcare professionals who provide healthcare services to plan members. It is intended as a guide for attorneys...
By: Chad Perlov - LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE OHIO DATA PROTECTION Act’s (ODPA) new legal safe harbor against data breach claims and how to comply with the requirements set out in the statute. Effective November 2, 2018, businesses...
By: Jim Wagstaffe and The Wagstaffe Group FOURTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT IN DENYING A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION, ALL FOUR TRADITIONAL FACTORS REQUIRED FOR SUCH RELIEF NEED NOT BE CONSIDERED WHEN ONE FACTOR IS CLEARLY NOT SATISFIED THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD...
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis BUSINESSES OFTEN CONDUCT THEIR TRADES BY UTILIZING documents that don’t appear to be contractual in nature but that contain contractual provisions—the information brochure accompanying a smartphone might...
This is a high-level checklist for examining issues involving the Stored Communications Act (SCA), 18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., which comprises one of the major components of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA). The other major component of the ECPA...
By: Michael S. Kun , Jeffrey H. Ruzal , and Kevin Sullivan , Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. This checklist identifies the main risk categories for wage and hour self-audits. To avoid potentially significant liability for wage and hour violations, employers...
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis THERE IS A STAGGERING AMOUNT OF LITIGATION involving disputes over whether a binding contract was formed during contract negotiations. In a typical case of this kind, the parties agree on many issues while negotiating...