Articles, Alerts & Publications Archive

New York Court of Appeals Affirms Separate Entity Rule

FINRA Issues Notice Stating that Confidentiality Provisions Governing FINRA Arbitrations Must Advise Parties They Can Still Initiate Communication with Regulators

New Jersey District Court Employs Rigorous Analysis and Denies Plaintiff's Class Certification Motion

Derailed: Plaintiffs Denied Class Certification Motion

New Jersey District Court Employs Rigorous Analysis and Denies Plaintiff's Class Certification Motion

Identifying and Defending a Claim for Educational Malpractice

The New Jersey Supreme Court Holds that Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code Precludes Non-Customers from Suing Banks for Allegedly Unauthorized Wire Transfers

Foreign Corporation Must Have a New Jersey Certificate of Authority in Order toMaintain its Lawsuit

Foreign Corporation Must Have a New Jersey Certificate of Authority In Order to Maintain Its Lawsuits

The Long Compliance Race: To Prepare for Regulatory Changes, Traders Must Think Like a Marathoner and Not a Sprinter

Contingent Workers: Whose Employees are They Anyway?

Employers Beware - Delivery of FMLA Notices By First Class Main May Not Cut It Anymore

Spill Act Case Law Update: Private Parties May Bring a Spill Act Contribution Claim Prior to NJDEP Approval of Cleanup Plan

New Jersey's Newly Enacted "Ban-the-Box" Law

Correctly Applying the Privilege – An Issue for In-House Counsel

Law360 Dealmakers Q&A: Bressler Amery's Michael Ostrowsky

President Obama Signs Executive Order Prohibiting Federal Contractors from Discriminating Against LGBT Employees and Applicants

Securities and Exchange Commission Approves FINRA Rule 2081 Prohibiting Member Firms and Associated Persons from Conditioning Settlement on Customer's Agreement Not to Oppose Request for Expungement

D.C. Curcuit Invalidates Critical Rule Implementing ACA Tax Credit System

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Issues Pregnancy Discrimination Guidelines

Appellate Division Rules That Employers Can Shorten the Time In Which Workers Can Bring LAD Claims

The Appellate Division Broadly Interprets the Scope of the LAD's Protection on the Basis of "Marital Status"

FINRA Seeks SEC Approval for Proposed Amendments to Customer and Industry Code Definitions of Non-Public Arbitrator and Public Arbitrator

Recent and Potential FINRA Rule Changes

United States Supreme Court Holds that Funds Contained In An Inherited Individual Retirement Account ("IRA") Do Not Qualify As "Retirement Funds" and Therefore Are Not Exempt From A Debtors Bankruptcy Estate

Court Will Revisit Cases Where Employees Steal Documents

The Unpaid Intern: A Benefit or A Risk?

Supreme Court of Florida Holds That The Florida Civil Rights Act Prohibits Discrimination On The Basis of Pregnancy

The Eleventh Curcuit Court of Appeals Declines to Impose a Duty on a Custodian Bank to Protect a Customer From an Adviser's Fraud, and Enforces a Customer's Duty to Timely Object to Statements

Florida Appellate Court Holds that Class Action Claim Covered Under Policy Even Though Claim Filed Outside of Policy Period

Disability Discrimination Under New York Law and the Importance of the Interactive Process

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U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Severance Payments Made to Employees Are Subject to FICA Tax

Recent Supreme Court of Florida Decision May Give Insureds Additional Bad Faith Trap

Insurer's Voluntary Payment Under Automobile Policy Triggers Award of Attorneys' Fees to Insured in Related Litigation

Daughter's Facebook Post Costs Her Father Most of His Settlement Payment

New Year Brings Important Changes to Labor Law in New Jersey and New York

Implementing Best Practices in 2014 and Beyond

2014 Top Twenty Legal Trends for Automobile Dealer

Enterprise Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment - New York Regulation 203

The Federal Insurance Office Releases Its Report on Modernization of Insurance Regulation

Announcing the Revised Florida Arbitration Code

Are Health Insurance Exchanges Effectice Cost Saving Tools?

FINRA's Recent Changes to The Discovery Guide

Proposed Bill to Allow for Extensions of May 7, 2014 Remedial Investigation Deadline

New Third Circuit Case Scrutinizes Return to Work Agreements Imposed On Alcoholics and Addicts

Securities And Exchange Commission Sanctions Three Investment Advisory Firms For Repeatedly Ignoring Problems With Their Compliance Programs

FINRA Issues "Expanded Expungement Guidance" to Arbitrators and Parties

New Jersey Introduces Bill Proposing To Amend The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination To Prohibit Discrimination And Require “Reasonable Accommodation”For Pregnant Employees