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August 24, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt offers his opinion on how the DOL could resolve the issue of determining when employees must be paid for connecting with their jobs during hours they aren't scheduled to work.
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August 21, 2015
Publication - Subrogation & Recovery
A good investigation into how cargo thieves breached a facility may allow a subrogated carrier to circumvent a Waiver of Subrogation defense.
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August 21, 2015
Publication - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt discusses the important questions a prospective client should ask before hiring a divorce lawyer.
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August 18, 2015
News - Insurance Coverage, Labor & Employment, Subrogation & Recovery
Five Cozen O'Connor attorneys from the firm's Chicago office have been recognized as a 2015 Illinois ''Emerging Lawyer,'' by Leading Lawyers, a division of Law Bulletin Publishing Company.
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August 18, 2015
Publication - Labor & Employment - Sports
In dismissing the petition for election, the Board overturned a 2014 decision by Chicago’s Regional Director, Peter Ohr, finding that the scholarship football student-athletes were employees under the Act and entitled to vote in a union election.
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August 18, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt discusses how employers handle an employee's last day of work at the office.
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August 18, 2015
News - Labor & Employment - Sports
Cozen O'Connor's Labor & Employment attorneys were successful in thwarting the Northwestern University’s Football Team’s attempt to unionize, when the NLRB declined to assert jurisdiction.
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August 17, 2015
Press Release - Subrogation & Recovery
The current edition is based on more than five million detailed evaluations by the top lawyers of the country. This list will be included in dozens of city and regional publications in the United States including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
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August 17, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Joseph Tilson discusses the meaningfulness of being an employment attorney and the ability for young attorneys to get involved.
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August 17, 2015
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Thomas Wilkinson discusses the appearance of impropriety doctrine for assessing attorney conflicts of interest.
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August 17, 2015
Publication - Products Liability
John Sullivan discusses Amarin’s successful motion for a preliminary injunction in its First Amendment challenge to the FDA’s regulation of off-label marketing and discusses what this means for the FDA.
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August 14, 2015
News - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt discusses the increasing need for employers to be aware of potential overtime liability stemming from off-site, off-duty work enabled by smartphones and other technologies.
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August 13, 2015
News - White Collar Defense & Investigations
Hayes Hunt was recently recognized by Corporate LiveWire’s 2015 Global Awards for his work in Government Investigations.
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August 12, 2015
News - Subrogation & Recovery - Insurance
Sean Carter discusses leads tying Saudi officials to some of the Saudi hijackers of 9/11 explaining investigators felt they documented a direct link between the Saudi government and the 9/11 terror plot.
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August 12, 2015
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Barry M. Klayman and Mark E. Felger published an article in the Delaware Business Court Insider discussing the case of Interdigital v. Wistron, which answers the question of whether a forum selection clause in an agreement constitutes a waiver of a party’s right to remove the case to federal court if the other party files suit in a Delaware state court.
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August 12, 2015
Publication - Commercial Litigation, Products Liability
Shelby Riney, of Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation department, published, "Strategies for in-house counsel to maximize coordination of multidisciplinary products liability litigation."
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August 12, 2015
News - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt was a guest on Good Day Philadelphia to discuss actress Kelly Rutherford's ongoing custody battle and a recent New York Supreme Court ruling that ordered her children to return to Monaco.
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August 10, 2015
Publication - Products Liability
John Sullivan discusses Becker v. Smith & Nephew, a hip implant case pending in federal court in New Jersey.
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August 07, 2015
Publication - Public & Project Finance
Mark Vacha, Public & Project Finance, summarizes and highlights some of the significant points of the City of San Bernardino's proposed plan for the adjustment of its debts (as proposed and filed on May 29, 2015 in bankruptcy court). Mark also discusses the public finance concern of how different types of bondholders, creditors and other stakeholders are treated and the take-aways from this case for general governmental credits.
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August 05, 2015
Publication - Family Law
Jennifer Brandt discusses the difficult task of reaching a divorce settlement and offers guidance on how to make things move more smoothly.
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