Royal Oak, Michigan-based Howard & Howard has donated to both the Merit School of Music and the Foundation for Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation (FHSR) as part of a year-long charitable campaign involving all the Firm’s offices and their respective communities. The gift was announced at a reception held at Howard & Howard’s Chicago location on August 28. Each organization received $12,500.
Connolly Gallagher LLP added attorney Stephanie Smiertka Riley to its commercial and intellectual property litigation practice as an associate. Her complex commercial litigation experience extends to both plaintiffs and defendants in business disputes, consumer protection claims, and pharmaceutical and medical device multi-district litigations.
A number of years ago – 20 perhaps – someone shared with me a study that was conducted by a major university where participants were asked which professions they most distrust.
New York is known for having many protections for its employees in the workplace, but a long-standing legal doctrine can furnish a remedy to employers with regard to employees who engage in repeated acts of disloyalty during their employment. The “faithless servant doctrine” permits an employer to “claw back” an employee’s compensation when an employee is found to be disloyal to the employer. While the doctrine may seem antiquated, it continues to have vitality. For example, in March 2018, a New York appellate court confirmed an arbitration award that directed, based on the faithless servant doctrine, a former employee to pay Major, Lindsey & Africa, LLC nearly $2 million as disgorgement of her past salary and commissions on claims that she had stolen and divulged confidential information to competitors.
On August 28th, 2019 the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi approved proposal for review of the Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) policy. The proposed changes in the policy will result in easing the FDI rules for various sectors such as coal mining, contract manufacturing, single brand retail trading and media etc. Further, it is expected that the changes in the FDI policy will result in making India a more lucrative investment destination and accelerate the economic development and progress of Indian economy.
As summer winds down, the challenges impacting health care employers in 2019 continue to heat up. These challenges include ongoing developments regarding marijuana legalization, employee resistance to vaccination mandates, workplace violence prevention, state health insurance mandates, and more. In this issue of Take 5, we address these key developments and provide recommendations for action.
Lewis Rice is pleased to announce that 58 attorneys have been named to the 2020 Best Lawyers in America® annual list. We would also like to recognize John M. Hessel, Matthew J. Madsen, Barry A. Short, and Richard B. Walsh, Jr. for being honored as Best Lawyers’“Lawyer of the Year” for 2020.
Howard & Howard is pleased to welcome Kory Steen to the firm. He will practice out of the Royal Oak office.
On August 22, 2019, in Trina Ray et al. v. County of Los Angeles and Trina Ray et al. v. Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, Case Numbers 17-56581 and 18-55276, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that home care workers may sue Los Angeles County for unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”).
RSS is pleased to announce that Béatrice D’Anjou, who just finished her articling period, is joining our Insurance Law Practice Group as a lawyer.
Welcome to ILN-terviews, a series of profiles of ILN member firm attorneys, designed to give a unique insight into the lawyers who make up our Network. For our latest interview, we chose ILN member, Arthur Li of our member firm Lee and Li in Taiwan, China. In one sentence, how would you describe your practice?...… Continue Reading
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