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Cozen Cities - March 10, 2023

March 10, 2023

Publication - Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies

Concessions workers at the United Center staged a one-day walkout Sunday that affected food and beverage service during the afternoon’s Chicago Bulls game.


AGs Make Spirited Objection to Airline Merger | FTC to BetterHelp: Do Better | AGs Prove TikTok Investigation is No Lark

March 09, 2023

Publication - State Attorneys General

The State AG Report – 3.9.2023 Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US.


Bankruptcy Ruling Affirms High 9th Circ. Evidentiary Standard

March 08, 2023

Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring

Brian Shaw discusses how the use of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in recent high-profile cases has resulted in debtors raising protection concerns in a Law360 article.


Cozen O’Connor’s State Attorneys General Group Continues its Buildout, Landing Former Virginia Deputy Attorney General Stephen Cobb

March 08, 2023

Press Release - Commercial Litigation, Government & Regulatory, State Attorneys General

A highly accomplished first-chair litigator, Cobb joins the firm as a member and will work out of its Washington, D.C., office.


Court Issues Reminder of Potentially Harsh Consequences for Failure to Preserve Evidence in Anticipation of Litigation

March 08, 2023

Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring

Mark Felger and Simon Fraser discuss a Delaware Superior Court opinion that demonstrates the importance of preserving evidence leading up to litigation in a Delaware Business Court Insider article.


Cozen O'Connor Adds Former Va. Deputy AG To DC Office

March 08, 2023

Publication - State Attorneys General

Cozen O'Connor has added an attorney to its state attorneys general group who spent two years as Virginia's deputy attorney general under Mark Herring and has a range of professional experience in public service and private practice, the firm said in a Wednesday news release.


New York Note: Welcome NYC, Mental Health Plan, Budget Director

March 07, 2023

Publication - Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies

City Council announced a new public/private partnership in support of asylum seekers, “Welcome NYC.” The $2.2 million initiative includes $1 million in funding from the city and $1 million from large philanthropic organizations, including the Robin Hood Foundation and the New York Community Trust. The funding will go toward legal services, workforce development, literacy programs, youth services, faith-based services, and food assistance at several organizations across the city.


Cozen Currents: The GOP's Political Awokening

March 07, 2023

Publication - Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies

“There are many things Republicans don’t agree on, from entitlement reform to aid to Ukraine to who should be the party’s next standard-bearer. But they are virtually unanimous in their view that the politics of ‘woke capitalism’ are the new cornerstone of the GOP.” — Howard Schweitzer, CEO, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies


Top DOJ Changes to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs [Alert]

March 07, 2023

Publication - White Collar Defense & Investigations

As part of a sweeping revamp of its white collar criminal enforcement policies that began last year, the DOJ announced two significant changes last week.


Wendy Venoit Elected to American College of Construction Lawyers Board of Governors

March 07, 2023

Press Release - Construction Law

Wendy Venoit, member of the firm’s Construction Law Group, has been elected to the American College of Construction Lawyers (ACCL) Board of Governors.


Jennifer Brandt Discusses the Michael Keetley Retrial, Alex Murgaugh, and the Ashley Benefield Case on Court TV’s Think Tank

March 06, 2023

News - Family Law

Jennifer Brandt, chair of the firm's Family Law Group, was a guest on Court TV's Think Tank.


Cozen O’Connor Adds Two of the Country’s Leading Data Privacy Litigators to its Commercial Litigation Practice Group

March 06, 2023

Press Release - Class Actions, Commercial Litigation, Privacy Litigation – Emerging Trends, Technology, Privacy & Data Security

Melissa A. Siebert and Erin Bolan Hines — data privacy litigators with renowned track records of successfully defending employers and technology enterprises entangled in major data privacy class actions and appellate cases — to its award-winning Commercial Litigation Practice Group.


Employers Can No Longer Mute Departing Workers

March 06, 2023

News - Labor & Employment, Labor Relations & Disputes

Michael Schmidt was quoted in Inc. discussing the National Labor Relations Board overturning a 2020 ruling that allowed employers to make confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses a binding part of severance agreements.


Longshore Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act Payments Not Assignable [Alert]

March 06, 2023

Publication - Life Insurance & Annuities

The Arkansas Court of Appeals held that the LHWCA bars the transfer of LHWCA structured settlement annuity payment rights, a rebuke to factoring companies.


State AG Pulse | Attorneys General as State Policymakers: The NY Model

March 06, 2023

Publication - State Attorneys General

Cozen Public Strategies Managing Director Katie Schwab joins Jerry Kilgore, former VA AG, and Meghan Stoppel, former NE Consumer Chief, to debate the role of state AG as policymaker, and whether the NY model holds for the rest of the country.


Joe Hill Speaks with Fox 29 about the Role of Gun Violence in the Primary Election for Philadelphia’s Next Mayor

March 04, 2023

News - Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies

With less than 80 days until the primary election, Joe Hill – Senior Principal in Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies’ Philadelphia office, joined his fellow community members and activists at the March 3, 2023 public forum titled “Race for Philadelphia's Next Mayor” and sponsored by Fox 29 – Philadelphia.


Noelle Engle-Hardy Recognized by International Trademark Association

March 03, 2023

Press Release - Intellectual Property, Trademark & Copyright

Noelle Engle-Hardy, a member of Cozen O'Connor’s Intellectual Property Department, has been recognized by the International Trademark Association (INTA) as a High-Performing Committee Member.


Robert Kaplan Named Vice Chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association

March 03, 2023

Press Release - Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Labor & Employment

Robert Kaplan, a member of Cozen O'Connor’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice, has been named the vice chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.


Possession, Custody, and Control in the Era of eDiscovery [The Legal Intelligencer]

March 03, 2023

Publication - Electronic Discovery & Practice Advisory Services

Joseph Tate and Nicole Gill published an article to The Legal Intelligencer discussing the question of whether specific ESI is in the "possession, custody or control" of a party, a topic that remains unsettled and subject to debate.


Michael Heller Discusses Firm’s Revenue Growth, Investment in Niche Practice Areas with American Lawyer

March 03, 2023

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The firm's revenue grew by 5.9%, and profits per equity partner grew by 1.8 percent.

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