The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued a final regulation and interpretative guidance to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), taking a broad view of the statutory language.
Read moreNew York Partners Jennifer Oxman and Andrew Harms recently secured dismissal of a personal injury plaintiff’s complaint on summary judgment in Queens County, with a state judge accepting their argument that a porter who allegedly tripped and fell on loose wood in a stairwell had no cause of action against the property owner because it was his job to clean the stairs in the first instance. The porter was not an employee of the property owner, but rather an employee of a property management company. Therefore, the workers compensation bar did not apply to the employee’s claims.
Read moreLas Vegas/Reno Managing Partner Josh Cole Aicklen recently received the National Business Institute’s (NBI) 2023 Outstanding Faculty Award. In determining recipients of this award, NBI considers the quantity and quality of candidates' speaking engagements. In doing so, it examines several factors, including course evaluations.
Read moreAtlanta/Savannah Partner Steven Lee recently spoke with Law360 for an article titled, “Binance Founder's Sentence Shaped By Plea And Apology.” The article addresses how Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao’s cooperation with law enforcement and willingness to accept responsibility resulted in a “relatively short” prison sentence.
Read moreOn April 17, 2024, the U.S. government renewed sanctions on the Venezuelan oil and gas sector, following a determination by the U.S. State Department that the Maduro Government had “not fully met the commitments” of a political agreement with the Unitary Platform. This action follows earlier reimpositions of Venezuela-related sanctions that had been temporarily lifted in October, subject to the success of this agreement (see our previous alerts, U.S. Suspends Select Venezuela Sanctions Following Political Agreement and OFAC Narrows Venezuela-Related Sanctions General License).
Read moreWilmington Managing Partner Francis Pileggi recently spoke with Law360 for an article titled, “Storm Clouds Gather Over Delaware's Business Haven Rep,” which discusses whether Delaware’s status as a haven for companies may be in jeopardy.
Read moreUniversal Music Group (UMG) has reached a new licensing deal with TikTok, allowing the platform's users to once again access content from UMG's vast catalog of recordings and songs. This agreement brings an end to the public, several-month-long dispute between UMG and TikTok over artist royalties and AI issues, and marks a significant development in the relationship between the music industry and social media platforms.
Read moreLewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Doug Morgan and Scott Murray to its Jackson, Mississippi office as partners in the firm’s Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation Practices. Messrs. Morgan and Murray have been practicing in the insurance coverage space for 24 years and 16 years, respectively, and join Lewis Brisbois from a boutique insurance coverage firm.
Read moreNew York Partners Adam Schwartzstein, James Strauss, and Jennifer Harris recently secured a dismissal of a personal injury plaintiff’s complaint on summary judgment, with a New York federal judge agreeing with their argument that the plaintiff had not suffered a “serious injury” as defined by New York Insurance Law §5102(d).
Read moreOrange County Associate Laura Lopez will moderate a panel on recent prohibitions of surprise medical bills at an upcoming Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) Health Care Law Section Meeting, hosted in conjunction with the Orange County Asian American Bar Association on May 9 at 11:00 a.m. PT.
Read moreOn April 24, 2024, President Biden signed into law the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act, Pub. L. 118–50 (H.R.815), to provide military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Enacted as Division H of that law is the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the “Act”), which stipulates that unless the Chinese-owned social-application network TikTok is sold within 270 days (subject to a one-time extension of up to 90 days), TikTok can no longer operate in the U.S. The Act is meant to end years of political debates over whether TikTok should be permitted to operate in the U.S. The Act also gives the President of the United States standing authority going forward to ban on national security grounds other applications with at least one million active users owned by a person or entity in a “foreign adversary country.”
Read moreLos Angeles Partner Tony M. Sain, with Associate Tori Bakken and law and motion Partner Abigail McLaughlin, recently secured a defense jury verdict in a restraint-related wrongful death civil rights case on behalf of a law enforcement agency in Southern California.
Read moreNew Orleans Associates Shiena Marie Burke and Miranda Tucker Morgan will present a session, titled "Motions for Summary Judgment: Valuing a Case" on May 2 at the Honorable Order of the Blue Goose, International meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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