A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas entered a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rules from taking effect on December 1, 2016. As
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As we head into the Thanksgiving weekend, it is a good time to look ahead to the changes in the Illinois Student Residency Law that take effect on January 1, 2017. While the ways to establish residency and a number of other...
Internet and Intellectual Property Alert
Nov 1, 2016
Manhattan Jury Hits Costco With $8.25 Million in Punitive Damages In September, a jury awarded Tiffany & Co. $5.5 million in compensatory damages as a result of Costco’s sale of counterfeit engagement rings using...
Is Your Organization’s Retirement Plan A Money Pit?
Oct 18, 2016
In the 1986 comedy “The Money Pit” starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, a couple purchases a country estate outside New York City for a suspiciously low price. As the doors fall of their hinges, staircases come tumbling
Authored by: John M. O’Driscoll. Partner While many public agencies already have written or unwritten practices in place regarding travel reimbursements, recent newspaper investigations have illustrated examples of excesses
On July 19, 2016, Governor Bruce Rauner signed House Bill 4715, which imposes two new requirements upon public bodies responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or the Act), 5 ILCS 140/1 et seq. requests. The law will go