On August 11, 2014, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law the Opportunity to Compete Act which prohibits private and public employers that employ 15 or more employees from inquiring about an applicant’s criminal history until after the employer has conducted a first interview.

The National Labor Relations Board has increased its focus on social media and employer/employee communications, regardless of whether the employee is represented by a union.

Federal contractors must invite job applicants and employees to voluntarily self-identify as individuals with disabilities using a form that was recently released by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences recently held the second of two workshops in Washington, D.C. dealing with the risks associated with shale gas development and the growing debate over how to regulate the industry.

The U.S. Department of Commerce will issue antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of the subject wind towers from China and an antidumping duty order on imports of these products from Vietnam.

The JOBS Act and the regulations thereunder applies to private issuers that want to make general solicitations within the context of their "private offerings."

As explained in our January 24, 2014 Client Alert, "‘Heightened Standards’ for Large Banks: OCC Proposed Guidelines," the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released a proposal seeking comment on guidelines establishing minimum standards of governance, risk management and board independence for insured national banks, Federal savings associations, and Federal branches with assets of at least $50 billion (Guidelines).

As previously reported in our September 10, 2012 Client Alert, "Pepper Victory: Sixth Circuit Holds that Supplemental Unemployment Compensation Benefits Are Not ‘Wages’ Subject to FICA Taxation," in an important recent decision, United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., et al., Case No. 01-1563, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 18820 (6th Cir. Sept. 7, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that supplemental unemployment compensation benefits (SUB payments) paid by a bankrupt company to it

The Supreme Court in WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp. held that patent owners can include lost foreign profits in their recovery of lost profits for United States patent infringement in the case before it.

Late in the evening of August 1, 2019, President Trump signed an executive order re-delegating implementation of certain sanctions under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 ...

On August 5, 2019, the U.S. Administration imposed blocking sanctions on the Government of Venezuela ("GOV") under a new executive order ("EO 13884").

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed a victory to employers in "D.R. Horton, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board".

The 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report was released on April 22, providing a deep empirical analysis of cybersecurity incidents.

In Notice 2012-73, the IRS announced that its regulations will be amended to delay the effective date of the 2011 temporary tangible property regulations (T.D. 9564) (the 2011 Regulations), which were to apply to tax years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2012.

In dramatic fashion, Congress adopted its New Year’s tax resolutions just in time to save us from falling off the cliff.

In Heegsma v. City of Hamilton, 2024 ONSC 7154, the Ontario Superior Court delivered a significant ruling on the responsibilities and limits of municipal governments in managing public spaces...

When IP lawyers in Africa want to know where IP is headed, our gaze often turns to Europe. And for many of us, there is only one place to go - the IPKat blog.

The panel was moderated by Paul Washington, Executive Director, ESG Center, The Conference Board.

On December 2, 2019, The Conference Board and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP hosted a panel discussion on key corporate governance considerations for the 2020 proxy season.

Newspapers around the world recently reported that a sophisticated and well-coordinated cyber-attack resulted in the theft of $45 million from thousands of ATMs worldwide.