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[Ongoing Program] Session 4: Tackling Areas of High Risk in Your Athletics Department - October 8th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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The 2nd Annual Athletic Department Toolkit Series: Balancing Compliance and Competitive Success in an Era of Change (Higher Education) - New year, new topics. Stay up-to-date on current and forward-looking legal and...more

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[Ongoing Program] Session 3: Play Offense, Not Defense: Complying with Title IX in an Ever-Changing Environment - October 1st,...

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The 2nd Annual Athletic Department Toolkit Series: Balancing Compliance and Competitive Success in an Era of Change (Higher Education) - New year, new topics. Stay up-to-date on current and forward-looking legal and...more

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[Ongoing Program] Session 2: The Current Landscape of Student-Athlete Compensation - September 24th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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The 2nd Annual Athletic Department Toolkit Series: Balancing Compliance and Competitive Success in an Era of Change (Higher Education) - New year, new topics. Stay up-to-date on current and forward-looking legal and...more

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[Ongoing Program] Session 1: The New Department of Labor Overtime Exemption Rule: What Your Athletics Department Needs to Know for...

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The 2nd Annual Athletic Department Toolkit Series: Balancing Compliance and Competitive Success in an Era of Change (Higher Education) - New year, new topics. Stay up-to-date on current and forward-looking legal and...more

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Johnson v. NCAA and Possible College Athlete FLSA Coverage

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Over the past decade, the NCAA and its member schools have been engaged in numerous legal battles regarding college athlete compensation and the employment status of college athletes. Most recently, the Third Circuit in...more

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Play for Pay? Bombshell Ruling Upends Amateurism in College Sports

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Yesterday, a federal appeals court became the first to rule that student-athletes at NCAA Division I schools can bring a lawsuit claiming they are employees and may be entitled to minimum wage and overtime payments under...more

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Beltway Buzz - June 2024 #3

The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more

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Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

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When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

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Teach, Hit the Lab, Grade Some Papers and… Unionize? NLRB Rules That Private University Graduate Students Can Unionize

Are PhD students at a private university who also teach courses and grade papers – tasks that are a part of their development but also certainly assist the university – employees who can unionize? The NLRB said yes for a...more

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What the Third Circuit’s Looming Decision Regarding Whether College Athletes Can Constitute “Employees” Will Mean for Universities...

The Third Circuit is expected to soon make a decision as to whether student-athletes can be considered university “employees” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). But its interpretation of the law might reverberate...more

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Student Athletes No More, NLRB Reinstates Scope of NLRA Section 7 to Include "Players at Academic Institutions"

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On 8 February 2022, the National College Players Association, an advocacy group for college athletes, filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), accusing the National Collegiate...more

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OFCCP Week In Review: October 2021

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more

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June 2021: The Top 19 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Repeat After Me: College Athletes Are Not School Employees Under the FLSA

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“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” This quote (attributed to Brazilian author Paulo Cuelho) comes to mind with last month’s filing of yet another...more

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From The Playing Field To The Courtroom: The State Of Current Legal Challenges Brought By Student-Athletes

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As the U.S. Supreme Court stated in a 1984 decision involving the University of Oklahoma, there exists in this country a “revered tradition of amateurism in college sports.” Despite this tradition, there have been an...more

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Labor Relations Today: 2016 Year In Review

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Introduction - In the final year of his two term tenure, President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor continued their double barrelled efforts to remake labor law to benefit labor...more

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Seventh Circuit Agrees: Student-Athletes Are Not Employees Under the FLSA

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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Gillian Berger, et al. v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al, 16-1558 (7th Cir. 2016) has affirmed a district court's decision that...more

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Seventh Circuit Says Student Athletes Are Not Employees

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Back in August, the National Labor Relations Board threw the higher education community a curve ball ruling that student assistants at Columbia University were employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and were...more

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Another Loss for the Claim That College Athletes Are Employees

Last year the National Labor Relations Board ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to consider a petition by undergraduate football players at Northwestern University for recognition of a union and collective bargaining...more

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Closure For Second Circuit Intern Case, But Risks Persist Nationally

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Spring is around the corner, with summer not far behind, so thoughts naturally turn to the obvious topic: internships. Although the volume of new lawsuits by unpaid interns challenging their status has abated...more

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Court Rules That Student-Athletes Are Not Employees Under the FLSA - The U.S. District Court Decision Is Another Win for the NCAA...

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In another blow to legal arguments that student-athletes should be paid as employees, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana recently concluded that student-athletes at the University of Pennsylvania...more

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NCAA, Colleges Defeat FLSA Lawsuit Claiming Student-Athletes Are Employees

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Last week, an Indianapolis federal court dismissed the NCAA and more than 100 Division I schools from a lawsuit that claimed student-athletes should be entitled to minimum wage and overtime payments for the athletic "work"...more

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