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Cozen O'Connor

FTC to Adoption Intermediaries: Don’t Kid Around with Misleading Practices

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The FTC sent warning letters to 31 companies offering adoption intermediary services, warning them that misleading, unfair, or deceptive practices that harm prospective adoptive or birth parents may violate the FTC Act and...more

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Protecting and Empowering LGBTQ+ Iowans in Times of Legal Uncertainty

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Recent years have seen an unprecedented rollback of many hard-won civil rights for LGBTQ+ Iowans at the state and federal levels. There are several ways LGBTQ+ Iowans can protect and empower themselves and their loved ones...more

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Balancing Protected Characteristics - Religious Belief v Sexual Orientation: Ngole v Touchstone Leeds

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This week we focus on a new case looking at the difficulties between balancing protections of religious belief with the rights and protections of LGBTQI+ individuals....more

Dechert LLP

The Employment Edit - Issue 8 - Spring 2024

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New right to take carer’s leave - The Carer's Leave Act 2023 and The Carer’s Leave Regulations 2024 give employees in the UK a new right to take “carer’s leave” with effect from 6 April 2024. An employee who has a...more

Stevens & Lee

Litigator Beware! It’s Different “Over There”

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“Over there” in this context refers to the Orphans’ Court – theoretically a “division” of the Court of Common Pleas (the trial court) in each Pennsylvania county. Orphans’ Court matters include adoptions, name changes, will...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Glover v. Junior and Parentage by Contract in Pennsylvania

On December 11, 2023, the Pennsylvania Superior Court after hearing the matter en banc issued an opinion expanding the definition of “parent” under Pennsylvania law. Prior to this ruling, typically the term “parent” was...more

Legal Internet Solutions Inc.

Behind the Bio | Jen Leonard is excited about Gen A.I.

Hello listeners, welcome back to Behind the Bio, LISI’s podcast where two lawyers talk about turning points in unusual careers. I’m your host, Julie Owsik Ackerman, and my conversation with Jen Leonard left me curious and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

California’s New Reproductive Privacy Laws AB 352 and AB 254 Create Complexities For Health Information Sharing

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In the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the adoption of laws outside California that criminalize most abortions as well as gender affirming care,...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Local and State Employment Law Update: State Leave Law Updates and More

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There have been several recent changes impacting employers in jurisdictions across the nation. Read on to see if any of them apply to you. California- Effective 1/1/2024- Under S.B. 848, employers must allow eligible...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Parental Leave in Sports: Where Does the Club Fit In?

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With the seismic growth of professional women’s sports leagues, specifically soccer, it is crucial for clubs to ensure they remain just as focused on employment laws and human resources as they do winning. This is the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for August 2023

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Conservatorship Gone Wrong: Why Does it Seem to Happen So Often and How Can I Prevent It?

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This week, we heard about yet another conservatorship that may have been improper or involved misconduct: that of Michael Oher, the former NFL player. I take no position on the truth of the matter, that is what the discovery...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Blindsided: Explaining Conservatorship Vs Adoption

The Blind Side is an Oscar award-winning movie based on the life of a young man in Tennessee, Michael Oher, and the unrelated Touhy family he lived with while in high school. A new lawsuit raises several interesting issues....more

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All Eyes on Oher: The Crucial Role of Quality Legal Counsel for Proposed Wards in Guardianship Cases

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Michael Oher, retired NFL star, filed a petition in probate court on Monday asserting that he was tricked into consenting to a conservatorship (in Florida we refer to this as guardianship) which he believed was an adoption by...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Connecting Dots

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This is a story that connects some dots we might well imagine have no connection:  a 19th century murder, a 21st century adoption, Native tribal sovereignty, Supreme Court Justices past and present,  and a law firm where we...more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Ensuring Access to Legal Services for the LGBTQ Community Throughout the U.S.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Angela Giampolo, the owner of Giampolo Law Group, which services the LGBTQ community for all of their legal needs. Angela is the founder of Caravan of Hope, an...more

Perkins Coie

Washington State Issues New Rules for Paid Family and Medical Leave

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The Washington Employment Security Department (ESD) adopted new rules for the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFML) regarding employer reporting requirements, child placement, and self-employment elective coverage...more

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Get to Know CASA of the 2nd Judicial District

CASA of the 2nd Judicial District was chosen as the 2023 Mitchell Williams Take Time To Give charity for the Jonesboro market. We are excited to share the story of CASA and their work in this interview with Executive Director...more

Maynard Nexsen

2023 Legislative Update: Regular Session Week Eight

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Education Trust Fund Budget - The Senate approved the $8.8 billion Education Trust Fund Budget (ETF), the state’s mechanism for education-related funding after being modified by the Senate Ways and Means Education...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Ohio Adoption: What Families Need to Know

There are a lot of ways to make a family in today’s age, so it’s essential that people understand all their options in creating their family. One popular way to grow your family is through adoption. Adoptive parents should...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Adoption Trends in 2023

When considering the right path for your family, many explore adoption in the U.S. and abroad. You can adopt from the foster care (public) system, caring for a child until they are approved for permanency in your home, or...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

SECURE 2.0 Series Part 5: A Little More SECURE-ity – Emergency Savings in Your 401(k)

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Employees, especially those far from retirement, are sometimes hesitant to put money into their employer’s 401(k) plan, knowing that their money won’t be available to them if unexpected expenses arise. Congress and the Biden...more

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Let's Talk About Child Custody & Adoption in Light of the Dobbs Decision

Join Family Law partners Carolyn Mirabile and Skip Persick as they discuss how adoption and child custody could be affected by the Dobbs decision. Skip first looks at who has "standing" to fight for child custody including...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Indian Child Welfare Act Goes Before Supreme Court ‎

On Wednesday, November 9, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held a three-hour oral argument in the Brackeen v. Haaland case. Brackeen involves constitutional challenges to the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) that...more

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[Webinar] LGBTQIA+ Awareness in Family Law in Light of Dobbs - September 20th, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST

Join Weber Gallagher’s Family Law attorneys for an interactive discussion concerning LGBTQIA+ family law issues and important steps you need to take in a post-Dobbs era. Our attorneys, Carolyn Mirabile, Lawrence “Skip”...more

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