In an extraordinary, perhaps unprecedented, action, parties to a proposed deal that had been under investigation for about nine months closed the transaction almost immediately upon expiration of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) waiting period—which had been extended four times by mutual agreement o

Of the more than 2,300 COVID-19-related employment lawsuits we have been tracking, many have at least one thing in common: they relate to employees who had (or suspect they had) the virus in late 2019 or early 2020 – before, for example, states even issued their initial shelter-in-place orders.

I read this story about Citibank's mistaken transfer—which cost it about half a billion dollars—a while back, and the sheer improbability of the mistake struck me. How could a banking giant make a blunder of such staggering magnitude despite multiple checks and balances?

Over the last several months, vaccination rates in the United States increased, COVID-19 cases decreased, and guidance from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (the “CDC”) regarding fully vaccinated individuals left employers wondering whether loosened COVID-19 face mask requirements