This week, on our Spilling Secrets podcast series, our panelists delve into the implications for employers following the recent blockage of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) non-compete ban.
On August 20, 2024, the U.S…
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/ Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment Law
Over the past several years, the number of states with comprehensive consumer data privacy laws has increased exponentially from just a handful—California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, and Utah—to up to twenty by some…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy
On August 28, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the National Labor Relations Board…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
On September 9, 2024, the three federal departments responsible for regulating the health care benefits for more than 175 million Americans with private health insurance issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) implementing…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Health, Insurance
Workplace violence in health care settings is on the rise, capturing the attention of both state and federal lawmakers.
As awareness grows, so too does legal scrutiny and the push for new regulations and enforcement. In these…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Health
The Tenth Circuit recently reaffirmed that employers may lawfully enforce a policy against surreptitious recordings.
In Spagnolia v. Charter Communications, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
This week, we’re highlighting a few state-level employment issues, including the legal challenges faced by Staples Inc. regarding the Massachusetts lie detector ban; New Jersey’s implementation of a gender-neutral dress code for…
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/ Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law
In our ongoing series of blog posts, we have examined key negotiating points for tenants in triple net health care leases.
We also have offered suggestions for certain lease provisions designed to protect tenants from…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Real Estate - Commercial
Last summer, as discussed in this blog, the Georgia Court of Appeals issued a decision in N. Amer. Senior Benefits, LLC v. Wimmer that presented potential challenges for employers seeking to enforce employee non-solicitation…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the latest of many jurisdictions—including neighboring Vermont as well as Minnesota—to adopt new laws promoting pay equity…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Business Torts
The game has changed—are you positioned to adapt? Over the past 12 months, the federal government has been heavily regulating private investment in health care entities.
Simultaneously, multiple states have enacted or…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Health, Securities Law
The Connecticut Supreme Court recently held that continued employment may constitute sufficient consideration for noncompete agreements under Connecticut law, but left unclear the parameters of that holding…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
This week, we’re examining the repercussions for employers of a recent court decision that set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) nationwide non-compete ban:
On August 20, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the…
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/ Administrative Law, Conflict of Laws, Labor & Employment Law, Intellectual Property
Since the pandemic, COVID-19-related fraud has been a consistent target of the Department of Justice…
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/ Criminal Law, Government Contracting, Health
This month, I explore just how old medical devices are as measured by the date they were cleared or approved by the FDA, using the Global Unique Device Identification Database…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Products Liability, Science, Computers, & Technology
