Historically low interest rates in the United States have helped to fuel tremendous growth in leveraged loans. Leveraged loan volume in 2013 surpassed record levels set just prior to the global financial crisis, as banks and other institutional...
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell may not have violated any Virginia statutes, yet he and his wife both face criminal prosecution under the federal “Honest Services” statute On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, former Virginia Governor Robert F....
In a recent post, we blogged about an owner who had engaged in inappropriate and abusive behaviour. In another recently-reported case, Wentworth Condo Corp. No. 34 v. Brendan Taylor and Samantha Jones, we see another condominium resident engaging...
Yesterday, in Sandifer v. U.S. Steel Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fair Labor Standards Act does not require unionized employers to compensate employees for time spent putting on and taking off certain protective clothing if they have a...
On January 24, 2014, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Policy Memorandum clarifying the “reason to believe” standard for denying I-601A provisional unlawful presence waiver applications involving certain criminal offenses....
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new guidance document on Dear Health Care Provider (DHCP) letters, titled “Dear Health Care Provider Letters: Improving Communication of Important Safety Information.” DHCP letters are correspondence...
Although reasonable people may disagree about whether Bitcoin is that ideal payment system, Bitcoin is worth studying for its privacy and security lessons and its potential to emerge as an important additional payment system....
On January 27, 2014, in Sandifer v. U.S. Steel Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling interpreting the meaning of "changing clothes" under Section 203(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) with respect to certain unionized...
Recently, the Tennessee Court of Appeals issued an opinion involving the interpretation of an exclusionary clause in an automobile casualty insurance company. In the case of Weed v. First Acceptance Insurance Company of Tennessee, Inc. No....
Lawyers don’t like to think of themselves as assembly line workers. It isn’t that legal work is necessarily more complicated than assembly line work. Rather, the reason is that lawyers are trained to be generalists, and as a result they find...
