With the announcement of Judge Barbour’s retirement, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District issued a new order regarding judicial case assignment. Here is the Court’s Internal Rule 1

In Gilmore v. Rotan, a testamentary trust’s beneficiaries sued the trustees in 2015 for making a transfer of trust property in 2003 that was evidenced by a deed filed

Now online is the 1/3 fee petition from Hale  v. State Farm. et al., # 3:12- cv-00660, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.  As explained

In an opinion today, Judge Furman ruled that, under the Due Process Clause, it is the Government that must bear the burden, in immigration proceedings, to justify the continued detention

The U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers announced last week that they have prepared a bill that would establish that a business simply licensing a trademark, such as in the case

In connection with finding that certain defendants aided and abetted the breach of the directors’ fiduciary duties, a recent Court of Chancery opinion provides an exemplary recitation of important fundamental

In a paper titled “Cashing it In: Private-Company Exchanges and Employee Stock Sales Prior to IPO,” authors David F. Larcker, Brian Tayan, and Edward Watts review the practices

Applying North Carolina law, the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina has held that an insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify an insured

Considering the robust global M&A markets of the last few years, it is unsurprising that activist investors have increasingly sought to leverage these transactions for their own gain. To that

This article was originally written for the Business Law Section blog of the State Bar of Wisconsin and appears here with the permission of the State Bar and the article’s

Too old to trick-or-treat, too cool to stay at home with their parents and wanting some Halloween excitement, high school students (presumably 18 years old) Rosemary and Buffy head for Hill

On September 27, 2018, California enacted Senate Bill 970 establishing a minimum threshold for human trafficking awareness training and education in the hospitality industry. Under the law, hotels and motels

The Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network recently evaluated the pay gap by gender in the commercial real estate industry and published a white paper entitled “Achieving Pay Parity in

As detailed previously here, the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act (the “Act”), goes into effect October 29, 2018. In general, the Act allows New Jersey employees to

Earlier this year, HR Legalist posted a blog entry about the New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law.  This new law (full text available here) takes effect on October 29,

On Oct. 19, the IRS and Treasury Department issued proposed regulations and a Revenue Ruling as the first part of its long-anticipated guidance package regarding the Opportunity Zone program. Enacted

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (the “Department”) has issued a mandatory employee notice regarding the NJ Earned Sick Leave Law, which goes into effect on October