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On March 18, 2014, Go-Biz notified the public that it will only accept California Competes Credit applications for the current fiscal year between March 19, 2014 and April 14, 2014....

Lending support to critics of the pretrial services provided to help keep criminal defendants in the Chicago area out of jail as they await trial, the Illinois Supreme Court on Friday issued an unprecedented report (PDF).

Discussion and Analysis - For the past year or so, we have been discussing various forms of “crowdfunding” on these pages, especially “investment crowdfunding” -- the use of crowdfunding to raise capital for an emerging business or to finance the...

Discussion and Analysis - For the past year or so, we have been discussing various forms of “crowdfunding” on these pages, especially “investment crowdfunding” -- the use of crowdfunding to raise capital for an emerging business or to finance the...

How has Twitter gotten celebrities in trouble? Let us count the ways... Over the years, Twitter has become the unofficial medium for celebrities to air their (bad) news -- and for all of us non-celebrities to gawk, point, and shake our collective heads at the stars' all-too-human predicaments.

A recent November 2013 case from the North Carolina Court of Appeals provides the perfect opportunity to remember when your business or your supervisors can be held liable for workplace injuries....

A recent November 2013 case from the North Carolina Court of Appeals provides the perfect opportunity to remember when your business or your supervisors can be held liable for workplace injuries....

A camel (so the saying goes) is a horse designed by committee. It seems the Supreme Court may think the same of the whistleblower provisions in § 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Section 806 prohibits retaliatory employment action against a...

A camel (so the saying goes) is a horse designed by committee. It seems the Supreme Court may think the same of the whistleblower provisions in § 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Section 806 prohibits retaliatory employment action against a...

The Ninth Circuit (California) held in Escriba v. Foster Poultry Farms, Inc. that an employee can choose to use vacation instead of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) or California Family Rights Act (“CFRA”) for an otherwise FMLA...

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