As in other sectors of the economy, there is a labor shortage in the funeral industry. However, unlike other fields in which the demand for workers is outpacing supply...

Georgina Espinoza, an employee of Warehouse Demo Services ("Warehouse"), worked in a Costco and performed demonstrations of products. Warehouse did not lease the space...

The Better Business Bureau recently released data from 2014 regarding the number of complaints received pertaining to registered debt collection agencies.

The Senate Appropriations Committee recently approved their 302(b) allocations for the fiscal year 2014 budget.

On August 16, 2013, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) will hold its first ever oral hearing for an inter partes review proceeding.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued a memorandum to patent examiners clarifying the written description requirement of 35 USC § 112(a) for claims drawn to antibodies.

The U.S. DOS’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls confirmed that they have suspended the issuance of licenses for controlled exports destined for Russia.

When someone is injured or property is destroyed because a manufacturer did not warn about known dangers you may think your case is a slam dunk.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently removed from its oral argument calendar a pending securities fraud case, due to a tentative pending settlement by the litigants.

The KDOR has revised the Streamlined Sales Tax Taxability Matrix effective August 1, 2015.

Reed Smith associates Mike Shaikh and Erin Mariano recently presented proposals for a needed change in California law at the Third Annual Sacramento Delegation.

On July 29, 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation published the final rule to amend its rules implementing section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

On March 15, 2010, Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut), Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the U.S. Senate (the "Senate Banking Committee"), released a draft of a financial reform bill to be entitled the "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010" (the "Dodd Bill").

The term of a closed-ended private market fund has historically been and continues to typically be 10 years.

The EU VAT directive exempts supplies of aircraft and parts used by commercial airlines chiefly on international routes.

The LLC Transparency Act (NYTA) will become effective on an undetermined date in 2024 upon passage of a "chapter amendment" by the New York Legislature.

On October 14, 2022, the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in Ultra Petroleum, granting favorable outcomes to "unimpaired" creditors that challenged the company's plan of reorganization...

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA) became law on December 27, 2020, and many of its provisions took effect in December 2021. A few remaining provisions became effective...

Is the exemplary damages cap a matter constituting an avoidance or affirmative defense so that it must be pleaded or it is waived?

On January 26, 2026, the Supreme Court granted the petition in Salazar v. Paramount Global (Case No. 25-459) to address "[w]hether the phrase 'goods or services from a video tape service...