Pursuant to the subcontract, Duncan was to supply labor and material for the Project’s water distribution system.

On May 12, 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal rendered its highly anticipated decision in the appeal of Taylor v Hanley Hospitality Inc. The lower court had considered the interaction...

Does your workplace have a naloxone kit? Are you legally required to have one?

On April 2, 2024, the Ontario Divisional Court released its decision in Metrolinx v. Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1587, which was a judicial review of an arbitration decision rendered...

On July 15, 2020, the Italian Government issued Legislative Decree no. 75 (the "Decree"), implementing Directive (EU) 2017/1371 (known as the "PIF Directive") aimed at ensuring the...

On March 23, 2020, the French Parliament adopted an emergency law declaring a "state of health emergency" for an initial period from March 24, 2020 to May 24, 2020...

The Chief of the IRS’s Employment Tax Policy section, John Tuzynski, told lawyers on May 10, 2013 at an American Bar Association’s meeting of tax lawyers in Washington, D.C. that the IRS will soon be pursuing more cases involving independent contractor misclassification through its Questionable Employment Tax Practices program.

The Superior Court of New Jersey ruled that an employee is bound by his agreement to a six-month limitation period to file any suit against his employer.

A discussion on a recent case, where the bankruptcy court held that a totally underwater junior lien on a residential property could be "stripped off" in a Chapter 7 case, thus choosing to follow a Second Circuit case that addressed the issue in a Chapter 13 case.

After substantially all of the debtors’ assets were sold in a bankruptcy sale, a secured lender and a state tax authority made competing claims for turnover of sale proceeds.

In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed an Oregon district court judgment in Hedlund v. Educational Resources Institute, No. 12-35258, D.C. No. 6:11- cv-6281-AA, finding that court's de novo review of a Section 523(a)(8) proceeding to be improper and holding that the bankruptcy court's good-faith finding should be reviewed solely for clear error.

A&O Shearman advises Aegon on the approximately GBP2bn sale of its UK business to Standard Life, creating the UK's largest retirement savings and income business serving 16 million customers. The transaction includes GBP750 million in cash and a 15% equity stake in the combined entity, marking a strategic milestone in Aegon's transformation into a leading U.S. life insurance and retirement group.

On March 22, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a letter to the West Indies Petroleum Limited and Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation LLLP, the new owners of the St. Croix refinery (Refinery).

On the eve of the Summer Solstice, Prime Minister Harper announced a few changes in the senior ranks of the federal bureaucracy.

The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Professor Amy Coney Barrett of the Notre Dame University Law School to the vacant Indiana seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

In the hit musical "Hamilton", there is a song called Cabinet Battle #1. In this song the first Secretary of State (and future President)

On June 14, 2022, the federal government announced that as of June 20, 2022, it will suspend vaccination requirements for domestic and outbound travel, federally regulated transportation sectors and federal government employees.

In Croke v. VuPoint Systems Ltd., the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a motion judge's decision that an employee's failure to comply with his employer's vaccination requirements...

On July 23, 2024, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released its decision in Arora v ICICI Bank of Canada, a wrongful dismissal claim filed by a former employee of ICICI Bank of Canada (Bank)...

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (Commission) recently released a policy position addressing the issue of caste-based discrimination...