Missouri In House Counsel Legal news, updates and analysis

Well-known attorney Marvin E. “Bunky” Wright died on July 14, 2023, in Columbia, according to his obituary. He was 86 years old.

Our honorees are in-house attorneys whose work is integral to the businesses they serve. They navigate complicated contract negotiations, represent their companies in high-stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.

For Missouri law schools, there is time to review where current policies may no longer work after the Supreme Court's decision and how new policies may encourage diversity without factoring in race.

The vast majority of private and many nonprofit entities will be swept into the Corporate Transparency Act compliance net. If you or your clients are an investor or have investors, you need to pay attention. Not only is reporting important, so is ongoing compliance.

The ruling threatens to expand the use and scope of administrative subpoenas that over 300 federal agencies have the authority to use.

A reversal of course by the National Labor Relations Board has management-side lawyers and their clients scrambling to reassess work rules for whether they may now be deemed unlawfully to chill employee rights to engage in concerted activity.

Attorneys see the newly proposed rule to implement the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act as painting the employee’s right to a reasonable accommodation with a broad brush while maintaining a firm standard for the employer’s burden of showing that a particular request would constitute an undue hardship.

BigLaw attorneys cite unreasonable or excessive demands from clients as a primary reason for their stress and anxiety, according to a survey by the American Lawyer on mental health in the legal profession.

Companies starting to incorporate generative AI into their business operations – or whose employees may be using it – should evaluate those exposures and their existing insurance programs to identify and address any gaps in coverage.

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis dealt with the creation of wedding websites, not employment issues. But employers are wondering if the case could impact their anti-discrimination policies and employment actions.