Sixteen years ago, we began this legal blog – the first one that focused on independent contractor compliance and misclassification law. Today, 380 blog posts and well over half a million views later, it remains the only legal blog exclusively dedicated to publishing original content in this area of the law. As the publisher and managing editor, we are pleased to inform subscribers and readers that we have moved our IC compliance and misclassification practice as well as this blog to a new law firm, Littler Mendelson P.C. Littler is the largest labor and employment law firm dedicated to representing management exclusively. Littler’s announcement that we joined the firm can be found here.
We will continue to report on important legal developments involving independent contractors on a same-day basis whenever feasible, affording readers our views on the legal and practical significance of such key legal developments. We also will continue to summarize on a monthly basis the prior month’s judicial, administrative, and legislative developments, with an introduction affording readers a useful takeaway.
Our next blog post will cover legal developments over the past two months – June and July 2026 – as we needed a bit of extra time to reformat the blog and coordinate with Littler’s publication standards. (Click on title to read full blog post.)
We have arranged for our blog posts to continue to be republished on JD Supra, where last year and in prior years our publisher was named as a Readers’ Choice Top Author on Class Actions and Employer Liability / Labor & Employment matters.
With the depth and breadth of Littler’s practice capabilities in labor and employment law, we will have access to greater resources in preparing our blog posts. We currently have a tab at the top of this home page describing our IC Diagnostics® process to enhance compliance with applicable independent contractor laws, and another tab with a host of additional Resources, which we plan to augment at Littler.
We would be remiss if we did not extend our sincere appreciation to our prior law firm, Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, and its publications team for its support of this blog over the past 16 years.
Written by Richard Reibstein
Edited by Janet Barsky