A new federal carve-out exempts sexual harassment and sexual assault employment claims from arbitration, even where there’s an arbitration agreement. The few cases that have been decided on the merits since the law’s effective date have reached mixed results, and its true reach remains to be seen.
Global M&A deal volume in the first half of 2023 continued last year’s slide and marked the second-lowest in the last 10 years. Perhaps the third quarter will buck the traditional summer slump in dealmaking, but it seems unlikely.
The 18-month-long (and counting) IPO winter hasn’t ended, but signs of a thaw may be found in the second quarter’s sharp uptick in both deals and average offering size.
As the Covid-19 pandemic becomes an endemic, masks and sanitizing stations aren’t the only things disappearing from law firms and corporations. The flexibility to work from home is also diminishing as return-to-office policies requiring in-office days increase, according to a recent Bloomberg Law survey.
The US Supreme Court’s June 30 decision in Biden v. Nebraska placed the major questions doctrine front and center. It may have raised more questions than it answered, however, with respect to how lower courts are expected to apply the doctrine going forward.
A new federal carve-out exempts sexual harassment and sexual assault employment claims from arbitration, even where there’s an arbitration agreement. The few cases that have been decided on the merits since the law’s effective date have reached mixed results, and its true reach remains to be seen.
The US Supreme Court’s June 30 decision in Biden v. Nebraska placed the major questions doctrine front and center. It may have raised more questions than it answered, however, with respect to how lower courts are expected to apply the doctrine going forward.
Global M&A deal volume in the first half of 2023 continued last year’s slide and marked the second-lowest in the last 10 years. Perhaps the third quarter will buck the traditional summer slump in dealmaking, but it seems unlikely.
The 18-month-long (and counting) IPO winter hasn’t ended, but signs of a thaw may be found in the second quarter’s sharp uptick in both deals and average offering size.
As the Covid-19 pandemic becomes an endemic, masks and sanitizing stations aren’t the only things disappearing from law firms and corporations. The flexibility to work from home is also diminishing as return-to-office policies requiring in-office days increase, according to a recent Bloomberg Law survey.
Three of the top five legal advisers on consumer discretionary activism campaigns met or exceeded their 2022 engagement totals in H1 2023 alone. If activists keep up this pace, top law firms may see a considerable uptick in their workload advising companies on activism in the sector this year.
The Supreme Court next term is poised to abandon or weaken its Chevron deference standard, which would leave federal bank regulators more exposed to court challenges. Regulatory and enforcement activities of the OCC and FRB would face the most scrutiny, but lawsuits against the FDIC could rise as well.
Employers are preparing for the impacts of an FTC rule and the NLRB general counsel’s memorandum on noncompete agreements, but they must not lose sight of existing state laws because they’re enforceable now and can result in legal action against employers.
A nationwide patchwork of gender-affirming care laws has courts grappling with how far states can go to ban certain health-care practices for transgender youth. But a recent ruling striking down Arkansas’s law is shedding light on which types of challenges may find success in blocking the statutes.
The major questions doctrine is increasingly being relied on by litigants to challenge federal agency actions. Following the 2021 explosion of major questions citations in federal complaints, parties are now raising major questions challenges in the rulemaking process before the applicable regulations are even final.
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