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July 23, 2015
Publication - Family Law, Technology, Privacy & Data Security
Jennifer Brandt discusses the Ashley Madison hacking scandal and explains how before using a website, posting on social media, or sending an email, consider the ramifications, and consider whether the private information you are providing is really secure.
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July 23, 2015
Publication - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Michael Schmidt offers tips to employers to avoid violating the Department of Labor’s recently proposed rule of changing overtime regulations.
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July 23, 2015
Publication - Tax
The court agreed with the trial court that the taxpayer had not established that it donated or rendered gratuitously a substantial portion of its services. The evidence was that the taxpayer received charitable contributions that varied around one percent of its annual expenditures, but the contributions, at least in substantial part, were a return from its parent of fees charged for management services
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July 22, 2015
Publication - Business, Public & Project Finance
In a summary analysis of the Illinois Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating Public Act 98-599, Mark Vacha (Public & Project Finance) summarizes and highlights some of the significant points of the Supreme Court of Illinois' decision filed on May 8, 2015 which struck down pension reform legislation for certain state level plans in Illinois.
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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 15, 2015
Publication - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
Debra Friedman discusses the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission’s (EEOC) recently issued notice of proposed rulemaking with respect to employer-sponsored wellness programs, focusing on the interplay between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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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 14, 2015
Press Release - Public & Project Finance
The Forum of Executive Women, a membership organization of more than 450 influential women representing diverse businesses in the Greater Philadelphia region, announced that Suzanne S. Mayes has been elected President for a two-year term, beginning July 2015.
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July 13, 2015
Publication - Products Liability
John Sullivan discusses the second Risperdal trial, Cirba v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in which the trial judge denied the plaintiff’s post-trial motion for a new trial.
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July 13, 2015
Publication - Employment Litigation, Labor & Employment
David Barron and Jeremy Glenn authored an article concerning the Department of Labor’s proposed changes to the federal overtime rules.
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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 09, 2015
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The IRS has now indicated that it intends to proceed without legislation by announcing new regulations, expected this summer or early fall. These regulations would seek to significantly curtail or eliminate the availability of valuation discounts by prohibiting valuation firms from considering certain restrictions applicable to interests in family-controlled entities.
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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 07, 2015
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring
Barry M. Klayman and Mark E. Felger, members in the firm's Wilmington office, published an article in the Delaware Business Court Insider discussing the case of In re Optim Energy LLC (Walnut Creek Mining v. Cascade Investment LLC) and why the opinion in this case is noteworthy.
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July 06, 2015
Publication - Products Liability
John Sullivan discusses the completed briefing on Amarin's motion for preliminary injunction and the courts preparation to hear oral arguments from the FDA and Amarin.
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