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Employment and Labor

EEOC Updates GINA Act

Background Information for EEOC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking On Title II of the Genetic Information...

Toxic Torts

Federal Preemption after Wyeth v. Levine

Originally published in DRI In-House Defense Quarterly, Summer 2009 View article

Commercial Litigation

Debt Collectors Beware – Are You Seeking to Collect A Time Barred Debt?

Debt collectors can be liable for actual and statutory damages under the Fair Debt Collection...

Professional Liability

Are Sales People Responsible for Their Customers’ Injuries?

Published in Sales & Marketing Management Magazine, June 3, 2009 If a customer is injured...

Casualty Litigation

"Corporate Clients in Explaining Excusable Neglect"

Pubished in Lawyer Magazine, May 2009 Courts have a liberal policy of setting aside clerk’s defaults...

Employment and Labor

Employee Free Choice Act : Employers Need to Act Now

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has come back to life with the full support...

Casualty Litigation

Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP): What Is It? and What Impact Will It Have?

Introduction Beginning January 1, 2010, 1 insurers and self-insured entities will be required to report claims...

Employment and Labor

Department of Labor Considers New Regulations for Military Leave Under FMLA

Most people are aware that the Family & Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) allows eligible employees...

Employment and Labor

Revamping the ADA

On September 25, 2008, the President signed the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008...

Casualty Litigation

Proposals for Settlement: A Valuable Tool in a Litigant's Arsenal

Proposals for Settlement have become valuable tools in a litigant’s arsenal. When they are accepted, they...