December 06, 2024

Nursing Home Industry’s Push for Repeal of New Staffing Regulation

Nursing Home Industry Pushing for Repeal of Nurse Staffing Mandate With President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House next year, the nursing home industry has been ramping up its efforts to kill the Biden administration’s new nurse staffing...
February 25, 2025

Mitigate reputational, regulatory, financial and strategic risk

Organisations operate against a backdrop of constantly evolving risk, from weathering erratic trade policies and market volatility to navigating an increasingly complex regulatory environment. And the need to manage risk extends to often-opaque networks of third...
December 20, 2024

AI Terms, 'Coffee Badging' Among Top New Words In Law

By Emily Sawicki Law360 (December 12, 2024) -- Burton's Legal Thesaurus recently announced this year's top new words in law, with entries like "coffee badging" and "hot-tubbing" joining the echelons of 2022's "meme stock"...
January 28, 2025

Alabama Legislature Repeals Annual Report Requirement for Corporations

By Eric Geringswald | CSC Corporations are no longer required to file an annual report with Alabama’s Secretary of State. The legislation repealing the requirement went into effect on October 1, 2024. Corporations must still file a business privilege tax...
January 07, 2025

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Amend UCC and Securities Statutes

By Eric Geringswald | CSC Updates to Pennsylvania’s UCC for Digital Assets Pennsylvania lawmakers approved significant changes to the state’s Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) in 2024. These changes establish rules and procedures for transactions involving...
January 28, 2025

Price-Fixing Lawsuit Against GoodRX, PBMs & Wave of Healthcare Investment Legislation

Lawsuit Accuses GoodRX, PBMs of Price-Fixing A proposed class action lawsuit filed in federal court in California alleges online prescription drug price comparison platform GoodRx and several pharmacy benefit managers, including CVS Caremark and Express Scripts...
January 24, 2025

Stay on Top of Judicial Decisions Affecting Business Entity Law in Missouri

By Eric Geringswald | CSC Missouri business attorneys and their staff at small and large law firms need fast and easy access to the judicial decisions interpreting business entity law. CSC’s Missouri Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated includes case...
March 23, 2025

Verbindliche Due Diligence in Bezug auf Menschenrechte

Vor zehn Jahren haben die Vereinten Nationen ihre „Leitprinzipien für Wirtschaft und Menschenrechte“ veröffentlicht. Darin rufen sie Regierungen und Unternehmen auf, sich proaktiv mit tatsächlichen und potenziellen Folgen ihres Handelns...
March 23, 2025

Making Human Rights Due Diligence Mandatory

A decade ago, the United Nations published its “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,” calling for governments and businesses to proactively address actual and potential human rights impacts of their actions. With the adoption of the Supply...
February 27, 2025

Two New Resources to Help you Manage and Track Government Changes

In today’s world of constant news and announcements from the federal government, keeping track of all the details can be challenging! Practical Guidance has added two new resources to help you track of the announcements, and the potential impacts they may...
February 25, 2025

Managing External Counsel With Standardized Benchmarks

Managing external counsel in the legal department comes with various challenges. The primary challenge is rising hourly rates in all practice areas and geographies. Other challenges managing external counsel may arise in performance evaluations and the quality...
March 04, 2025

Proxy Checklist: Key Considerations for the 2025 Proxy Season

As spring approaches, the proxy materials drafting process kicks into high gear. As one of the most critical and investor-facing disclosure documents that public companies are required to file, counsel working on this year’s proxy statement will need to include...
February 04, 2025

Tariffs Abound: Taking Stock of Tariffs in International Trade and Taxation

For tax practitioners, understanding tariffs is one of the keys to unlocking the complexities of international trade. Tariffs not only shape the cost structure of imported goods but also ripple through pricing strategies, supply chain decisions, and overall business...
January 28, 2025

What Is CounselLink

LexisNexis® CounselLink+™ is a feature-rich legal solution for the corporate law department. It unites enterprise legal management software and an extensive contract lifecycle management application in one comprehensive platform. Other applications within...
January 29, 2025

Latest Updates to Indiana’s Business Entity Laws and New Case Law Available Now

By Eric Geringswald | CSC Indiana’s legislature approved changes to more than three dozen sections of the state’s laws governing business entities in 2024, including a new provision regarding notice requirements for health care entity mergers and...
February 04, 2025

Consumer Account Disclosure Regulations: A State-by-State Comparison

Consumer account disclosures are mandated under state law to ensure transparency into product rates, fees, and other charges from financial institutions. Practical Guidance offers a Consumer Account Disclosures topic in the Financial Services Regulation State Law...
January 16, 2025

E-billing Solutions Deliver Data to Manage Legal Spend

The haves and have-nots will always feel the difference when the topic is e-billing solutions in corporate legal operations. This digital transformation in managing outside counsel billing and invoicing provides critical efficiencies for the law department. Those...
January 09, 2025

Attorney Case Management Software In Legal Departments

Efficiency and organization in the legal department and law firms drive the pathway to success. Attorney case management software provides one of the indispensable tools for modern law practices, transforming how legal professionals handle cases, manage documents...
February 11, 2025

Exemptions from the Securities Qualification Requirements under California Law

Unless covered by an exemption, securities offerings and sales in California must be qualified by the state. Apart from the standard exemption for covered securities, state- or federally-guaranteed securities, and interests in a national bank or California trust...
February 11, 2025

It’s Been Such a Long-Time: Addressing Long-term Part-time Employee Issues in Retirement Plans

Beginning in 2024, the SECURE Act rules required employers to allow covered long-term part-time (LTPT) employees to participate in the deferral feature of a 401(k) plan once these employees met applicable age and service thresholds, now requiring just 500 hours...
February 11, 2025

Cure-All Guidance: Drafting Effective California PTO and Sick Leave Policies

Do you need guidance on structuring paid time off and paid sick leave policies covering fundamentals from basic policy elements (like accrual schedules, carryover rules, and usage requirements) to complex compliance issues under California laws? Review our newly...
March 04, 2025

Captivating Practical Guidance: New Captive Audience State Law Survey

Do you need to review state laws prohibiting employers from harming workers who refuse to attend mandatory workplace meetings focused on union organizing or political or religious matters (so-called captive audience laws)? Review and set an alert on our newly published...
February 26, 2025

It’s About Time: New Overtime Variation State Law Survey

Did you know that more than 10 states have overtime rules different than those set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to which employers must also adhere? Review and set an alert on our newly published survey, Overtime Variation State Law Survey . Read...
February 11, 2025

Compliance Programs for Healthcare Providers

Check out this practice note from Practical Guidance – Healthcare to understand the structural elements of a compliance program and plan for a healthcare entity. You will learn about the critical elements of a plan, the substantive legal issues these compliance...
December 06, 2024

Pornographic Deepfake Bills in TX & Data Center Energy Challenges for States

TX Lawmaker Targeting Pornographic Deepfake Tools Accessible by Minors Texas Rep. Mary González (D) has prefiled a package of bills for next year’s session targeting minors’ access to artificial intelligence-generated sexually explicit images...