In December 2005, the SEC issued the final securities offering reform release. As a result of the reform, some offerings that once required months to complete can be consummated in just a few days—or even hours.

President Barack Obama is expected to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—commonly known as the economic stimulus package—into law on February 17.

"I think that's very unfortunate to have on email." So responded Goldman Sachs' CFO to a message highlighted at an April 27 Senate hearing.

On June 25, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010.

Health care reform requires non-grandfathered group health plans to implement external review processes for benefit claim determinations.

A new law bringing significant changes for limited liability companies incorporated in Germany takes effect on November 1, 2008.

Word is out that Cherie Blair is under investigation for running an office from a rented Mews house near her Connaught Square home. After receiving a complaint from a local resident, planning officers are considering whether the use of the house for business purposes is an unauthorised use.

Proposition 2 in California in November 2008 ushered in new livestock housing requirements, led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

In the first post-Geertson decision dealing with the environmental impact of genetically modified crops and the remedies available to impacted plaintiffs, a federal district judge in the Northern District of California recently vacated the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) decision to deregulate (or approve for planting) genetically modified sugar beet seeds.

In "Serwatka v. Rockwell Automation, Inc.", the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit extended the impact of United States Supreme Court's decision in "Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc.", finding that mixed-motive claims are not viable under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

For months the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been hinting that it is planning to crack down on corporate executives for their roles in corporate wrongdoing.

Limited liability companies and other entities taxed as partnerships are able to create a special type of interest known as a "profits interest."

The New Year marks the trigger for the applicability of two federal regulations governing emissions of greenhouse gases—the Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule (Tailoring Rule) and the Final Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule (GHG Reporting Rule)—to several categories of sources.

There are several options available for providing separation pay consistent with Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. For this purpose, "separation pay" means an amount to which an individual obtains a right to payment only because of his or her separation from service.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently published a technical assistance document addressing waivers of discrimination claims in employee severance agreements.

Many employers already know that it is unlawful to spy on employees who are engaged in union organizing activity.

We are certainly witnessing the most extraordinary of times in the world of finance. Almost every day brings fresh news of further stress in the financial system. The biggest financial institutions in the world appear crippled while the shortcomings of bailout plans by national governments are starting to become clear.

It is mid-May of 2009. One of your employees returns late from her lunch break with bad news. Her work-issued laptop computer was stolen from her car while she was eating at a local restaurant.

The Supreme Court ended months of eager waiting this week by accepting for review the controversial Second Circuit Court of Appeals' climate change opinion in Connecticut v. American Electric Power.

On March 4, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its highly anticipated decision in Wyeth v. Levine, upholding the plaintiff's $7.4 million product liability verdict over a challenge that her claims were preempted by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling regulations.