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July 31, 2015
News - Insurance Coverage - Insurance
Matthew Criscuolo and John David Dickenson write an article in The Risk Retention Reporter titled "Leveling the Playing Field: Representing Risk Retention Groups in Coverage Disputes."
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July 21, 2015
News - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt was a guest on Good Day Philadelphia to discuss the hacking scandal affecting the website Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses
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July 20, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt discusses the DOL’s overtime rule and how establishing email curfews can help newly nonexempt employees understand the types of work that now are off-limits.
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July 20, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
David Barron discusses the privacy protections employees have regarding personal information, such as HIPAA, which requires health plans, health providers and health care clearinghouses to keep an individual’s protected health information confidential.
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July 20, 2015
News - Insurance Coverage, Real Estate, Subrogation & Recovery
– Cozen O’Connor promoted six members to shareholder of the firm: Philip Carroll (Chicago), William Davis (New York), John B. Galligan (New York), Kendall Hayden (Dallas), Andrew Kay (D.C.) and Vincent Pozzuto (New York).
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July 14, 2015
News - Sports
John Johnson was interviewed by Capital New York about his representation of U.S. Women’s National team star and captain Carli Lloyd. John, who has represented Carli since 2006, discusses her passion and dedication to the sport, her goals, her work with trainer James Galanis and how her recent fame (after scoring the first hat-trick in Women’s World Cup Final) compares to other notable moments in her career.
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July 14, 2015
News - Real Estate
In an article titled “Supreme Court Ruling Puts NYC Affordable Housing Plan in Peril,” Cozen O’Connor attorney, and former New York City Council member, Kenneth Fisher, discusses the implications of the June 25, 2015, ruling. The new decision requires anyone challenging an affordable housing policy as a violation of the Fair Housing Act to prove only that the policy itself is discriminatory.
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July 11, 2015
News - Appellate
Tom Wilkinson discusses protracted civil cases and how they are the exception to the rule today in Pennsylvania’s civil courts.
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July 10, 2015
News - Public & Project Finance
Suzanne Mayes, a member of Cozen O’Connor and president of the Forum for Executive Women, is quoted in an article addressing the shortage of women leadership and the need for a cultural change in order to create equal opportunities for women. Suzanne discusses the need for organizations to rethink how work gets done in order to provide women with a work-life balance and prevent the career interruption phenomenon.
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July 07, 2015
News - Labor & Employment
Cozen O’Connor attorneys Mark J. Foley, Joseph E. Tilson and A. Martin Wickliff, Jr. have been recognized among Human Resource Executive magazine’s 8th annual edition of “The Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys – Top 100.”
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July 03, 2015
News - Public & Project Finance
Suzanne Mayes talks about barriers that have prevented more women from being appointed to senior leadership roles in corporations and the opportunity for Philadelphia to be a thought leader on the issue. This article in the Philadelphia Business Journal also explores challenges women executives have faced, the opportunities presented by corporations and the tricks of advancement.
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July 02, 2015
News - Real Estate
Ken Fisher comments on the potential legal challenges related to the 421-a tax exemption program in a Crain’s New York Business article. The article discusses developers’ concerns over the re-vamped 421-a tax exemption program for housing, particularly a provision allowing the Real Estate Board of New York and the building trades to negotiate the program’s wage mandate for construction workers.
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June 30, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
David Barron discusses the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposal to more than double the salary threshold under which employees must be paid for overtime even if they’ve been classified exempt because they have management responsibilities or meet other exceptions.
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June 19, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment, Technology, Privacy & Data Security
Michael Schmidt discusses a potential rule by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor that will focus on the use of technology, including portable electronic devices, by employees away from work and outside of scheduled work hours.
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June 18, 2015
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Jillian Thornton Flax has been named to Billy Penn’s “Who’s Next in the Law,” a list of 18 young leaders making a difference in Philadelphia’s legal community.
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June 17, 2015
News - Real Estate
Ken Fisher was quoted in a Real Estate Weekly article that discusses the 421-a tax abatement program and rent regulations in New York State that expired on June 15, 2015, leaving the State Legislature at an impasse on numerous points. The deadlock will make a last minute deal more unlikely, with the last day of the legislative session for the year quickly approaching.
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June 13, 2015
News - Condominiums & Cooperatives, Real Estate
Leni Morrison Cummins discusses a co-op board responsibility in responding to harassment allegations and the potential breach of warranty of habitability in the Ask Real Estate column of The New York Times.
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June 08, 2015
News - Health Care & Life Sciences - Health Care & Life Sciences
Christopher Raphaely discusses the challenges faced when moving from an in-house position to private practice with The Legal Intelligencer.
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June 05, 2015
News - Real Estate, Zoning, Land Use & Development
Ken Fisher was quoted in The New York Times in an article addressing the redevelopment of Midtown Manhattan’s historic architectural buildings, and how the designation of being a preserved landmark building is made. The article explores how New York City’s expanding real estate landscape is creating challenges for preservation societies, who work to protect historical buildings throughout the city.
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June 04, 2015
News - Government & Regulatory, State Attorneys General
Lori Kalani and JB Kelly discuss the lag in Pennsylvania-related attorney general work and possible causes for the decline.
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