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As AI continues to revolutionize industries worldwide, from healthcare to defense, the rapid advancement of AI technologies has sparked a flurry of legal and regulatory challenges.

On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024) ruling that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by requiring employees under threat of discipline or discharge to attend “captive audience meetings” in which the employer expresses its views on unionization.

Missouri is now part of the growing list of states that have introduced commercial finance disclosure requirements.

Note: This is sponsored content By: Donald R. Hageman, III, Sandberg Phoenix In 2023, publicly traded FinTech’s represented a market capitalization of $614 billion, a two-times increase versus 2019.[1] In addition, as of the same period, there were more than ...

Employers received a significant win on March 8, 2024, when a federal court in Texas struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s expansive new “joint employer” rule and upheld the existing (and more employer- friendly) 2020 rule.

This spring, it was widely reported by multiple national news outlets that the U.S. government is investigating alleged collusion by some companies to “increase the chances that their prospective foreign hires will win a coveted H-1B visa for skilled foreign workers in this year’s [visa] lottery,” as the Wall Street Journal put it.

When many companies consider protecting a new product line (or a newly acquired one), they automatically start (and stop) thinking of intellectual property (IP) protection by thinking “get a patent”. 

In thinking of the current corporate compliance landscape, I am reminded of the warning found on the side-view mirrors of automobiles: “Objects may be closer than they appear.”

By Andrew J. Williams, Attorney at Law While the COVID-19 pandemic has obviously resulted in far-reaching and fundamental impacts to the commercial real estate market, one phenomenon I have noticed in my leasing practice is the increased interest and focus ...

Though news of businesses reorganizing under Chapter 11 is fairly common, many of the practical realities for small businesses are not as well known: the rules are complicated, challenging, and not traditionally well-designed for their needs. Small businesses entering Chapter ...