Potentially burdensome regulations governing children’s products take effect in less than two months.

Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act, entitled the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (CFP Act), established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In our October 9, 2015 Legal Alert, we informed readers that California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Fair Pay Act, which amended the existing California equal pay statute.

Qualified 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans that are designed with certain minimum matching or nonelective contribution formulas are deemed to pass annual ADP and ACP nondiscrimination

The Advisory provides general principles that FinCEN believes all financial institutions should utilize to improve and strengthen organizational compliance.

The National Credit Union Administration published in the Federal Register a proposed rule to amend the associational common bond provisions of Appendix B.

On April 21, 2004, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its long-awaited final regulations redefining the "white collar" exemptions from the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and minimum wage requirements.

Lelanie Foster, a freelance photographer, sued Lashpia Corporation doing business as JJ Eyelashes; May Lee, Lashpia’s President and CEO; and Ericka Rodriguez, a former Lashpia employee, for copyright infringement.

As widely reported, U.S. patent laws will change on March 16, 2013, and as a result, the U.S. will become a "first-inventor-to-file" jurisdiction – similar to the rest of the world.

A discussion on the recent Supreme Court ruling that a claim directed to a DNA sequence defined solely by its ability to encode a protein is not patent eligible subject matter because it occurs in nature, but a claim directed to a complementary DNA sequence remains patent eligible because such a sequence does not occur in nature.

As noted by our firm earlier this spring, Brazilian authorities have considered delaying the General Personal Data Protection Law's ("Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados" or "LGPD") effective date.

California continues to lead the nation in privacy laws about which the nation has not begun to get excited enough.

On December 10, 2004, the President signed into law the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act.

On June 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Standards Development Organization Advancement Act of 2004 (H.R. 1086) (the "Act"), which provides antitrust safeguards to certain standards development organizations if they follow the notice procedures in the statute and conduct their activities within the scope of that notice.

As reported in our Legal Alert dated December 15, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board's new rules concerning union elections are scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday, April 14.

On July 29, 2014, the NLRB announced that 43 charges of unfair labor practices could proceed as formal complaints against franchisor McDonald’s, USA, LLC.

From June through mid-September of 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") published six settlements of apparent sanctions violations

Class actions present significant risk, because a certified class exposes a class defendant to class-wide liability. Most defendants agree to settle rather than face the risk of a class verdict