A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled Monday that the National Labor Relations Board’s ("NLRB" or "Board") controversial rule aimed at streamlining union elections is invalid because it was enacted without the required three-member quorum.

On March 8, 2013, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services released a new version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.

The recent settlement of two overtime class actions against Pennsylvania healthcare providers highlights an important issue for all employers - the need to comply with both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") and state wage and hour laws.

Many employers have implemented workplace safety incentive programs in an effort to reduce time lost to injuries or illness. The programs generally reward workers for reporting near-misses or hazards

In January 2010, the New Jersey State Legislature amended New Jersey's "Statute of Frauds" and for the first time, requires that all agreements for support between nonmarried partners be in writing

A recent decision of the Delaware bankruptcy court serves as a reminder of a key risk for lenders who finance leveraged transactions—namely, that a bankruptcy court may "collapse" the components of a leveraged transaction in order to avoid the lender’s liens and the debtor’s loan obligations as fraudulent transfers.

Lenders, servicers, and developers should continue to consider whether their policies and procedures result in unintended discrimination that may subject them to disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act

If a contractor's policies and agreements do not carve out whistleblower reporting, the contractor could find itself facing a default termination, a bid protest, or even a False Claims Act suit.

Action Item: Employers and investors should identify how their business and workforce may benefit from the wide range of business immigration changes that will follow President Obama's announcement.

On April 29, 2014, the Supreme Court issued two opinions that will make it easier to obtain sanctions for frivolous patent suits.

In a 4-3 split, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that claims under Sections 15(b) and 15(d) of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act accrue each time a private entity scans a person's biometric identifier and/or submits such scan to a third party—rather than only upon first collection.

A number of inquiries and initiatives instigated by the IRS in 2008 focused on the amount of resources charities are expending to further their exempt activities.

On March 28, 2011 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected an appeal by the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association ("PMSA"), a mutual benefit corporation comprised of owners and operators of U.S. and foreign-flag vessels, in which it sought to prevent the state of California from expanding its enforcement of vessel fuel standards to 24 miles, well beyond the state's traditional 3-mile territorial limit.

Over the past few months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ("NOAA") has issued several Notices of Violation and Assessment ("NOVAs") to commercial vessels for violating the U.S. East Coast seasonal 10-knot speed limit established to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale, which is protected under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Although the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is not new, as commercial usage explodes over the next several years, unique insurance issues will arise.

The powerful earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011, which crippled nuclear power plants on Japan's east coast, have caused a growing concern over the potential radioactive contamination of vessels sailing in the vicinity of Japan.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently approved a Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2012 through 2016.

On September 1, 2014, Blank Rome implemented its most significant change to the Firm's Pro Bono Policy since first passing a formal policy in 2001: pro bono service at Blank Rome became mandatory.

Do you own a Shopping Center, Industrial Building, Parking Lot, unimproved parcel or any Commercial, Industrial, Institutional or Multi-Family Residential property in the City of Philadelphia?

Patent trolls—those who seek to enforce patent rights, but do not actually manufacture or supply services based on the patents—are a problem for almost all companies, large and small.