11/21/2025 8:00:59 PM IRS Rolls Out Expanded Guidance on the Big, Beautiful Tax Break on Tips and Overtime By Debra Leder The new IRS guidance (Notice 2025-69) clarifies how workers can claim the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's recently enacted federal tax...
11/18/2025 8:10:43 PM Who's the Boss? Preemption Laws Complicate LGBTQ+ Workplace Protections for Employers By Debra Leder The accelerating trend of state preemption laws targeting local nondiscrimination ordinances—especially those protecting LGBTQ+...
11/18/2025 3:36:53 PM International Students Start to Sail for Other Shores. Will the U.S. Signal Them to Return? By Adam Mocciolo A study released by the Institute of International Education has found that foreign student enrollment in the United States has fallen...
11/14/2025 4:33:43 PM No Investigation, More Litigation: The New EEOC Disparate Impact Dilemma for Employers By Debra Leder From the employer’s perspective, the EEOC’s policy of closing charges that allege only disparate impact discrimination—without...
11/13/2025 3:46:09 PM New York City Council Approves the Long Island City Neighborhood Plan By Vivien Krieger On November 12, 2025, the New York City Council approved the city-led Long Island City Neighborhood Plan known as OneLIC. OneLIC is...
11/12/2025 4:02:38 PM Legal Boundaries of Workplace Expression: Lessons from the BLM Display Decision By Ryan Krone Amy Moor Gaylord Tom Mandler The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated and remanded a 2024 NLRB decision that found a hardware giant violated federal...
11/11/2025 5:43:53 PM Regulatory Relief for Community Banks: OCC's Strategic Shift Toward Tailored Supervision By Kimberly Lopez The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently unveiled a series of regulatory reforms designed to reduce compliance...
11/10/2025 8:09:45 PM Marriage Equality Holds Steady: Keep Your Workplace Ready By Debra Leder With the Supreme Court choosing not to revisit the legality of same-sex marriage, employers and employees alike can count on continued...
11/7/2025 6:53:52 PM What Happens When an Arbitration Agreement Is Illegible? By Damien DeLaney The California Supreme Court heard arguments earlier this week on whether an arbitration agreement that is illegible is enforceable. The...
11/7/2025 5:28:00 PM From Biologics to Bandages, Skin Substitutes Are No Longer the Biologics You Think They Are... By Noam Fischman CMS has a skin substitute problem. Skin substitutes are wound coverings that are used for burns, trauma, or chronic conditions like...
11/7/2025 2:50:39 PM Restaurant Brand Licensing: A Scalable Path To Growth By Marc Lieberstein Restaurant brands—especially franchises—already possess a critical ingredient for licensing success: consumer recognition for quality...
11/6/2025 6:17:19 PM Attempted Hockey Puck Theft Foiled by Referees By Benjamin Joelson Last night, Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals scored his 900th NHL goal. He is the leading goal scorer in NHL history —...
11/6/2025 3:44:20 PM UK Court Draws a Narrow Line on AI Training and Copyright By Sam Kilb In a landmark decision issued this week, the High Court of England and Wales offered the first significant judicial look at how UK...
11/5/2025 10:30:41 PM I Want My Patent, ASAP! How AI Is Turbocharging USPTO Exams By Trevor Coddington The USPTO’s new Artificial Intelligence Search Automated Pilot Program (ASAP!) is transforming the patent examination process by...
11/4/2025 9:04:49 PM Misleading email subject lines can lead to substantial liability By Ellen Robbins In Brown v. Old Navy, LLC, 567 P.3d 38 (Wash. 2025), the Washington Supreme Court recently interpreted the state’s Commercial Electronic...
11/4/2025 3:05:01 PM Whose bat is it anyway? By Benjamin Joelson The Los Angeles Dodgers recently won an unbelievably entertaining and memorable World Series Championship over the Toronto Blue Jays. The...