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For the seventh straight year, Latinvex has listed ArentFox Schiff among the top “international law firms in Latin America.”

Health Care Partner Anne Murphy will present to CCI Inc.’s national health care CFO member group about governance best practices on April 14.

Beth Reuter was terminated from her employment with the City of Methuen. On her termination date, the City failed to pay Ms. Reuter for her accrued, unused vacation time, as required by the Massachusetts Wage Act. Instead, the City waited three weeks after her termination to make the payment.

On March 21, the Member States of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) approved extensive amendments to the Centre’s rules and regulations that will go into effect on July 1, 2022.

To the extent a party believes it is disadvantaged by the Federal Law, the only alternatives are: (i) passage of ameliorating Federal legislation or (ii) modification of industry-standard contracts to address the adverse impacts of the Federal Law.

- CMS estimates its proposal will result in a decrease of $320 million in Medicare Part A payments to skilled nursing facilities.
- CMS is seeking stakeholder input on the effects of direct-care staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

Associate Megan Daily will present as part of the DC Bar Pro Bono Center and the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s online seminar series, “Understanding the Fundamentals of Nonprofit Organizations: An 8-Part Business Law Course For Nonprofit Leaders.”

Partner Rachel Remke will present at Practising Law Institute’s Manufacturing and Consumer Products Law Institute on April 13, 2022.

Buckle up, it’s about to get choppy.

Employers sailing in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) waters have come to expect rough seas. By one estimate, the Board overturned more than 4,500 cumulative years of case law during the eight years of the Obama Administration.

Health Care Partner Anne Murphy gave a presentation about board governance to health system board members and senior executives at The Governance Institute’s April Leadership Conference.

This post explains when minority shareholders may owe fiduciary duties and steps that shareholders can take to eliminate any fiduciary duties they might owe.

We’ve reported on Virginia’s first-in-the-nation, state-wide, permanent COVID-19 workplace standard. Last month, concluding that COVID-19 “no longer poses a ‘grave danger’ to employees,” the state’s Safety and Health Codes Board voted to revoke it. The revocation took effect on March 23d.

Companies often communicate with government agencies directly or through trade associations for a variety of reasons. But what happens when an adverse party tries to use comments made to the government or membership in an advocacy group as evidence in litigation?

Centre Partners, a private equity firm specializing in the healthcare and consumer industries, engaged ArentFox Schiff to represent physician-owners and management in the sale of Vision Innovation Partners.

On Friday, April 8, 2022, the US Government added two more weapons to its artillery of actions against Russia and Belarus.

Before being acquired by American Airlines, US Airways sued Sabre for anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act. The case begins trial later this spring, and the district court’s recent ruling on summary judgment highlights several interesting facets of the statute of limitations.

On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, the U.S. Government, in concert with the G7 and European Union, took significant additional sanctions actions against Russia “to impose severe and immediate economic costs on the Putin regime for its atrocities in Ukraine, including in Bucha.”

Headlines that Matter for Privacy and Data Security

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

OEHHA proposed its second amendment to the content and conditions for use associated with the widely-used short-form warning permitted under Proposition 65.  

The Senate has passed a bill by unanimous consent to extend the heightened debt ceiling for Subchapter V of Chapter 11.

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The US Supreme Court has limited the jurisdiction of federal courts to hear motions to vacate or confirm domestic arbitral awards. In Badgerow v. Walters, the Court considered whether the Federal Arbitration Act creates independent federal jurisdiction over actions seeking these forms of relief.

Over half a decade after the industry developed its own standards in light of a lack of meaningful guidance from regulators, the Department of Justice recently issued a guidance document on compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for website accessibility.

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) implemented the Biden Administration’s newest vehicle-related environmental law intended to curb not only greenhouse gas emissions but also the United States’ reliance on imported oil and fossil fuels.