Recently, St. Louis, Missouri joined this group, while California and Hawaii expanded their existing prohibitions on criminal history inquiries.

In its 2008 landmark decision Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP (2008) 44 Cal. 4th 937, the California Supreme Court set forth a broad prohibition against non-compete provisions, but it left open whether or to what extent employee non-solicit provisions were enforceable.

The COVID-19 pandemic has foisted ten years of technological advances on the legal sector in a period of ten months. In June of 2020, when the novel Coronavirus was truly novel...

On January 14, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden released his $1.9 trillion emergency stimulus plan, designed primarily to guide the country...

The New York City Commission on Human Rights (the "Commission") recently proposed new rules ("Proposed Rules") ...

This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Minister by notice published in the Gazette, may appoint and the Minister may cause different provisions of this Act to come into operation on different days by notice or notices published in the Gazette.

On October 1, 2020, numerous laws in Maryland providing expanded protections for both existing employees and job applicants addressing race and sex discrimination, pay equity, and wage...

The rising number of COVID-19 cases in New Jersey has prompted Governor Phil Murphy to issue two new Executive Orders aimed at tightening restrictions on businesses and activities, with a goal of slowing the spread of the virus:

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the nation, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia all recently have implemented additional mitigation

In most wage and hour cases, each workweek gives rise to a separate claim, at least for statute of limitations purposes. Thus, an employee seeking payment for alleged off-the-clock work or an

The first COVID-19 vaccines have started being shipped across the U.S. with the expectation that millions of doses will be administered over the next few weeks,...

The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has released Notice 2018-94

On August 10, 2018, the Governor of Massachusetts signed "An Act relative to the judicial enforcement of noncompetition agreements."

On October 30, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) adopted the Final Rule amending the Investment Duties DOL Regulation, §2550.404a-1, which governs the obligations of ERISA fiduciaries when...

On October 21, 2020, President Trump signed into law the "Due Process Protections Act" ("DPPA"), P.L. No. 116-182, 134 Stat. Ann. 894

Because the attorney-client privilege depends on the involvement of a lawyer and the work product doctrine protection depends on the anticipation of litigation, the availability of both protections depends on the factual context.

Following up on our recent post about a business interruption insurance decision by a Washington D.C. court, a federal judge in Missouri ruled last month, in Studio 417, Inc., et al. v. The Cincinnati

The Executive Orders were set to expire on September 9, 2020, if they were not terminated earlier.

The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana issued an opinion on November 24, 2020 in Titan Oil & Gas Consultants LLC v. David W. Willis and RIGUP, Inc., ...

The New York City Commission on Human Rights ("Commission") recently issued a 146-page guide titled "Legal Enforcement Guidance on Discrimination on the Basis of Disability" ("Guidance") to educate...