Incorporating green elements in a tenant-landlord relationship is a relatively new phenomena; here are some tips for getting the most out of the deal.

This article is one in a series of articles discussing fee and fee disclosure issues with respect to pension and welfare plans subject to ERISA, including the requirements of new Schedule C to Form 5500 applicable to large pension and welfare plans starting with the 2009 plan year.

On January 30, 2009, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13496. The Order stated that the government would require federal contractors to post notices in the workplace notifying employees of their "rights" under the National Labor Relations Act (the Act).

The doctrine of inevitable disclosure, which has its source in trade secret law, holds that in rare circumstances an individual possesses such critical knowledge of a company's trade secrets he can be temporarily or even permanently banned from working in a specific job, because doing so would inevitably lead to disclosure of his former employer's trade secrets.

The Iowa Supreme Court handed down its decision in KFC Corporation vs. Iowa Department of Revenue on December 30, 2010, upholding the state's ability to tax out-of-state franchisors that do not have a physical presence in the state.

Internal Revenue Code section 409A ("409A") casts a tangled web that traps many types of compensation arrangements (which may include bonus, severance, or deferred payment or commission arrangements, supplemental plans, employment agreements and equity arrangements) under complex rules regarding "deferred compensation" arrangements.

Not to be outdone by the Federal Reserve, which in December proposed incentive pay restrictions for financial institutions under its supervision, the FDIC recently waded into waters increasingly crowded by rulemakers in the United States and abroad proposing to regulate employee compensation.

On November 9, 2010 the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a Final Rule implementing Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA).

New rules regarding the nutrition and health claims made in the advertising, labeling and presentation of foodstuffs took effect in the European Union on July 1, 2007.

Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—commonly known as the economic stimulus package—recipients of relief under the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) will face new restrictions on their executive pay programs and must comply with new corporate governance standards.

So-called "finders" of capital play an important role in capital markets. They are critical to many small businesses raising early-stage funding in amounts too small to attract venture capital or licensed broker-dealers.

If you are a lender or guarantor of a commercial real estate loan, it's time to think about your guaranty. With commercial real estate values suffering along with the deteriorating economy, more and more lenders will look to guaranties.

We have not witnessed anything like it in living memory—not Suez or the Russian invasion of Hungary, the Vietnam war or the 1970s oil crises or property slump, the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the Falklands War, the stock market crash of 1987, the property slump of the early 1990s or the dot-com bust of the early 2000s.

Whether documents are privileged, and therefore shielded from disclosure to investigators or opposing parties in litigation, can be a complex question, with the answer having a significant impact on the outcome of a case.

Recent guidance proposed by the Federal Reserve Board is designed to ensure that incentive compensation practices do not threaten the soundness of financial institutions subject to its supervision.