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The owner and contractors on a construction project usually anticipate that all parties will be properly paid for work performed. In reality, however, it is not uncommon for issues to arise related to the payment of a contractor and its...

In One Place Condominium, LLC v. Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33974 (N.D. Ill. March 17, 2014), plaintiffs One Place Condominium LLC, The South Loop Shops LLC, Southblock Development LLC, C&K Partnership, and...

I was speaking at a Meritas conference a little while ago, which was timed to coincide with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) annual conference. We’d designed Meritas’s new booth, so we went to see it in action....

From the recent reports of retaliatory acts against whistleblowers, some wonder if the protections under the Dodd-Frank Act proscribing retribution against tipsters are known to companies and government offices. Regardless of whether a company...

The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released two final rules implementing annual information reporting requirements for insurers and employers pursuant to the individual and employer mandate provisions of the...

This is the first in a series of alerts exploring how this new law will affect your business. Look for more information regarding this law in the coming weeks. The bill has passed out of conference but it must be enrolled and signed by the governor...

The CFPB appears to have reacted to the American Banker’s recent article revealing that CFPB staff evaluations showed a pattern of racial disparities by releasing the internal report that was the basis for the article. According to an article by Wall...

Did you ever have an employee tell you that he has medical condition "x," which will require time off at some point in the future? Normally, you tactfully tell him to come back when he actually needs time off, correct?...

In the latest chapter of the Georgia courts' attempts to interpret Georgia's foreclosure notice statute, O.C.G.A § 44-14-162.2, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued an opinion on February 25, 2014 granting the...

On March 19, 2014, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued General License G pertaining to certain academic exchanges and the exportation or importation of certain educational services to Iran. The General License covers educational...

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