The 2019 California legislative session was another busy year with numerous employment-related bill signed into law. Notably, the legislature enacted many statutes to combat sexual harassment in both the public and private sectors.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a workshop to examine the antitrust and consumer protection effects of employee non-competes on labor markets. Of particular interest, whether such restrictions inhibit job mobility and, by implication, depress wages and innovation.

This alert provides an update on steps the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken under Executive Orders (EO) promoting President Trump’s deregulatory agenda.

Federal agencies and Congress are taking aggressive new steps to regulate and fund additional research on per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

On November 1, 2019, the Building Owners & Managers Association of Chicago (BOMA) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Chicago challenging the recently passed Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance (the Ordinance).

The State of New Jersey recently passed the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (MAID Act), which allows a physician to assist in the suicide of a terminally ill patient following three requests to do so by the patient, one of which must be written

A Lewis Brisbois New York Trial & Appellate Team recently secured a victory for our client, successfully opposing a plaintiff’s post-trial motion to increase a jury verdict in a case with implications for future “reasonable compensation” challenges.

As an attendee at the 2019 American Health Lawyer’s Association (AHLA) Conference on Fraud and Compliance earlier this year, I had the opportunity to hear directly from Joanne Chiedi, the Acting Inspector General in the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG/HHS).