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Investors Targeting Boomers’ Future Need for Home Health and Hospice Services

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

It’s becoming very clear that the private equity industry and other investors are positioning themselves to take advantage of the United States’ generational tsunami by investing in the home health and hospice sectors....

EPA Audit Program for Upstream Oil & Gas Facility Existing Owners

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

On December 19, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a self-audit program that will be available to existing owners of upstream oil and gas facilities for a limited sign-up period of twelve months. The program is modeled...

2 BigLaw firms agree to merge this spring, making it ‘ideal for our clients’

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

California Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument On Whether A Settling Employee Is An “Aggrieved Employee” For Purposes Of Proceeding With A Claim Under The Private Attorneys General Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

In Kim v. Reins International California, Inc. 18 Cal.App.5th 1052 (2017), the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District held an employee-plaintiff that settled and dismissed his individual claims was no longer an “aggrieved...

[Audio] Key Performance Indicators for the Legal Department

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

How do you measure the success of a corporate legal department? Gant Sowinski, Associate General Counsel with Michelin North America, talks with us about his experience defining Key Performance Indicators for his office and gives some insight into...

Petition Summary: Wood Mouldings And Millwork Products From Brazil And The People’s Republic Of China

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

On January 8, 2020, Petitioner Coalition of American Millwork Producers filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of wood mouldings and millwork products from the People’s Republic of China and...

Commercial Leasing in Canada: A Look Back at 2019

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

As we enter 2020, Blakes offers this look back at 2019 from a commercial lease perspective. It was a busy year deal-wise for the industry and, as a result, easy to fall behind on legal and other developments. This short recap is intended to get...

OFCCP Updates Compliance Manual

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

The Federal Contract Compliance Manual has been tweaked. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs released an updated version of its Federal Contract Compliance Manual. This is the first update to the Manual since 2014, and the revisions...

The Pink Tax: Discrimination or Actual Differentiation?

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

At the end of 2019, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo released the 10th proposal of his 2020 State of the State Agenda, which aims to eliminate the so-called “pink tax,” a gender-based pricing phenomenon that allegedly results in higher prices for good and...

Alert: N.D. Cal. Expands Scope of IPR Estoppel Post-SAS Institute, Provides Rare Guidance for IPRx Estoppel

By EsqSocial Corporation 09/01/20

Inter partes review (IPR) estoppel - Before the Supreme Court's decision in SAS Institute v. Iancu (2018), the Northern District of California was part of a minority of district courts that did not apply 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) IPR estoppel to...

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