By: Laurie E. Leader EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BENDER'S LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT BULLETIN The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is aggressively prosecuting employers who enter into no-poach agreements 1 under the antitrust laws. Until 2021, DOJ enforcement was...
This checklist provides guidance on pay disclosure laws cropping up around the country. One of the goals of these laws is to provide workers with more information regarding an employer’s pay practices so they have greater leverage to discuss and negotiate...
By: Timothy Murray MURRAY, HOGUE & LANNIS A mid-level executive at a client’s company routinely included a smiley face on everything the executive wrote. It didn’t matter what it was—a letter, a greeting card, and presumably even his grocery...
By: Matthias Geurts SCHALAST LAW, Oded Ofek M. FIRON & CO, Stephen Rutenberg POLSINELLI, and Jill Wong formerly of HOWSE WILLIAMS The collapse of FTX in early November 2022, and subsequent fallout in the cryptocurrency services industry, while disastrous...
By: Celeste Mitchell-Byars , PRACTICAL GUIDANCE This article examines the recent U.S. bank failures and the risk of cryptocurrency assets at insured depository institutions. IN EARLY MARCH 2023, THREE U.S. BANKING INSTITUTIONS failed, resulting in increased...
By: Stephen Del Percio , AECOM National governments globally are struggling to enact legislation that will bind them to the world’s carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, and unfortunately in some cases even reach consensus...
By: Steve Gockley , MOYE WHITE LLP Colorado is nationally recognized as one of the leading states in the battle against climate change. As more states and localities consider climate change legislation, it can be helpful to look to Colorado as a possible bellwether...
By: John Erskine , NOSSAMAN LLP This article discusses the legal and policy framework for addressing sea level rise (SLR) in the 21st century in the United States, with an emphasis on the California Coastal Act (the Coastal Act), its administrative regulations...
By: Evandro C. Gigante , PROSKAUER ROSE LLP This podcast episode discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , as decided by the Court on June 24, 2022. 1 IN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA, ABORTION IS NOW A CRIME...
By: Eric W. Gregory , DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC This article addresses privacy issues faced by employers following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization . 1 AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING IN DOBBS overruling...
By: Claire Marblestone , FOLEY & LARDNER LLP The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization 1 has impacted access to abortion in the United States. In light of the Court’s decision, which returned...
By: Trevor Norwitz, Sabastian V. Niles, and Jenny Lin THE CALIFORNIA STATUTE, CA S.B. 826, REQUIRES “a domestic general corporation or foreign corporation that is a publicly held corporation, as defined, whose principal executive offices, according to the...
By: Belinda J. Scrimenti , Pattishall, Mcauliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP Digital technology has led to innovative advertising and marketing. Brand owners are increasingly using the technology to create and protect new forms of trademarks, consisting...
By: Annemargaret Connolly and Thomas D. Goslin , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Climate change is arguably the most high-profile and rapidly evolving environmental issue facing the global business community today. Governments of nearly every nation have acknowledged...
By: Sunil Shenoi , Erica Williams , Brian Kavanaugh , Gianni Cutri , and Lauren Casazza , Kirkland & Ellis LLP This article provides companies with key issues to consider before, during, and after a ransomware attack. Recently, there have been a number of...