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The printed word in a periodical may never be as visually appealing or engrossing as the online and mobile interfaces that have become the increasingly predominant way most of us interact with the larger world.

Recently, Google suspended a software engineer, who claimed that its artificial intelligence program is sentient.

Recently, in Groff v.

Jennifer Sey, a top executive at Levi Strauss & Company with more than 20 years at the company and a leading candidate to be its next CEO, claims that she was forced out because of her tweets advocating school reopenings during COVID, questioning the efficacy of masks for young children and accusing

Employees became eligible for benefits pursuant to the Connecticut Paid Leave Act on January 1, 2022.  In addition, changes that were made to the Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act went into effect on January 1. Effective July 1, 2022 employers are required to provide “written notice” to each

COVID is abating, restrictions are being lifted, but the issues surrounding an employer’s obligation to accommodate an employee’s objection to vaccinations remain.

On December 31, 2021, the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (“Act”), was signed into law in New York. This Act amended CPLR § 3101(f) by placing new broad disclosure requirements on defendants and defense counsel in New York.

On July 14, 2021, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed P.L. Ch.

If an employer grants an accommodation to an employee, can the employer rescind the accommodation as circumstances change?  This was the issue raised recently by the Fourth Circuit in its decision in Holmes v.

Courts and legislatures are increasingly taking a more skeptical look at non-compete agreements.  Agreements that likely would have been routinely enforced in the past are coming under close scrutiny.  As a result, employers are well advised to review their non-compete agreements to see if they are

Early Attention May Improve the Bottom Line Posts emphasizing the need for companies to take unclaimed property laws seriously are increasingly common. Most of these articles, however, focus on the potential ills arising from lax unclaimed property law compliance. And justifiably so. The potential

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On April 20, North Dakota enacted a version of the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (2016), effective as of July 1, 2021.  The new law does not overhaul the state's general three year dormancy period (and therefore should not dramatically disrupt fall reporting), but does provide useful clarit

Recently, a Connecticut Superior Court refused to enforce a non-compete agreement because the court concluded that the non-compete agreement was designed to prevent at-will employees from leaving for higher paying jobs with more opportunities with the employer’s competitor.  Seeking to prevent a com