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January 19, 2021
Publication - Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment
Christopher Hennessy and Jeremy Glenn contributed an article to Law360 discussing how on January 8th, a bill was introduced in the Illinois Legislature that, if made into law, would rewrite significant aspects of the law of restrictive covenants entered into after the effective date of its adoption into law, including barring some altogether.
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January 19, 2021
Publication - Labor & Employment
Adam C. Gutmann and David L. Barron discuss the landmark ruling in Swales v. KLLM Transport Servs., LLC, wherein the court did away with the two-step Lusardi framework that most FLSA collective actions have followed for the last 33 years.
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January 15, 2021
News - Labor & Employment
Arielle Eisenberg was quoted in SHRM discussing how employers should handle political discussions in the workplace.
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January 15, 2021
Publication - Aviation - Aviation
Rachel Welford and Kathryn Sobotta discuss the CDC's new notice and order requiring pre-departure negative COVID-19 tests from all U.S.-bound passengers traveling by aircraft from any foreign country.
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January 15, 2021
Publication - Capital Markets & Securities, Corporate Governance & Securities, Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement
Joe Dever, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement practice groups, co-authored Chapter 16: “SEC Market Manipulation Investigations” of the 2021 edition of SEC Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book, published by Practicing Law Institute and edited by Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
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January 14, 2021
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Commercial Litigation
Barry Klayman & Mark Felger, writing in the Delaware Business Court Insider, discuss a recent decision from the Court of Chancery in Delaware that serves as a primer on increasingly common defenses to stockholder books and records inspection demands and a cautionary tale for defendants in Section 220 proceedings who opt to pursue overly aggressive defense strategies that seek to place obstacles to the use of Section 220 as a quick and easy pre-filing discovery tool.
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January 13, 2021
News - Labor & Employment - Cannabis
Mariah Passarelli was quoted in SHRM discussing the impact the Biden administration could have on the workplace and marijuana laws.
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January 13, 2021
Publication - Antitrust & Competition, Business, International, Labor & Employment, Technology, Privacy & Data Security, White Collar Defense & Investigations
Stephen Miller and Casey James discuss the DOJ's indictment charging Surgical Care Affiliates LLC of colluding with two companies not to solicit each other’s senior-level employees.
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January 13, 2021
News - Labor & Employment
Walter Stella was quoted in SHRM discussing California businesses classifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees.
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January 12, 2021
News - Class Actions, Corporate, Technology, Privacy & Data Security
The article stated, “... the biggest winner this year was Cozen O'Connor, which had three of the top 10 lateral hires.”
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January 12, 2021
Publication - White Collar Defense & Investigations
A quarterly newsletter reviewing Third Circuit opinions impacting white collar defense lawyers.
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January 12, 2021
Publication - Aviation Litigation, Aviation Regulatory - Aviation
David Heffernan contributed an article to Law360 discussing what the DOT plans to do to prohibit unfair and deceptive airline practices.
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January 11, 2021
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery
Jason Schulze, Stephen Halbeisen, Jake Skaggs Elliott Feldman and Kevin Hughes discuss the status of the litigation arising out of Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Houston on August 25, 2017,
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January 11, 2021
News - State Attorneys General
Former Wisconsin deputy attorney general Paul Connell has joined Cozen O’Connor in Chicago, calling the firm’s state attorneys general practice the “market leader in the space.”
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January 11, 2021
Publication - Casualty & Specialty Lines Coverage, Insurance Coverage
Melissa Brill, Laura Dowgin, and Farrell Miller discuss the decision in American W. Home Ins. Co. v. Gjonaj Realty & Mgt. Co. and what insurers in New York need to do if they want to recover its defense fees when there is ultimately no duty to indemnify.
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January 08, 2021
News - Labor & Employment
David Barron spoke with AmpGoo about the potential consequences employees face if they attended the Capitol Hill riot.
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January 08, 2021
News - Labor & Employment
Aaron Holt spoke with U.S. News and World Report about the repercussions employees who attended the riots at the Capitol will face at work.
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January 08, 2021
Publication - Corporate
Steve Dickinson, James Van Orden, and Bob Magovern discuss the Paycheck Protection Program startup and highlights key provisions of the two new implementing rules.
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January 07, 2021
Publication - Commercial Litigation, White Collar Defense & Investigations
Stephen Miller and Leigh Ann Benson contributed an article to The Legal Intelligencer discussing how earlier this year, only two states still permitted nonunanimous jury convictions—Louisiana and Oregon.
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January 06, 2021
News - Labor & Employment
Aaron Holt was quoted in Yahoo! Finance discussing the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule to define whether workers are employees or independent contractors.
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