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Florida Law Prohibits Vaccination Mandate Without Five Specific Individual Exemptions [Alert]

November 23, 2021

Publication - Labor & Employment

John Ho and Jim Sullivan discuss Florida Governor DeSantis’s recent legislation banning employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations unless several exemptions are offered to employees.


Completing Form I-9 for EAD Automatic Extensions for Nonimmigrant Dependent Spouses [Alert]

November 22, 2021

Publication - Immigration Policy & Strategy

Fran Rayer and Beth Olivera discuss USCIS's new policy that automatically extends employment authorization for dependent spouses in L-2 and E-1/E-2/E-3 status and also automatically extends employment authorization for certain H-4 spouses.


Lawdragon Names six Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Among the Top 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers

November 19, 2021

Press Release - Labor & Employment

Lawdragon has named six members of Cozen O’Connor’s Labor & Employment Department to its 2021 list of the Top 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers.


Star-Studded NY AG’s Race | Barriers Against Robocallers | Challenges Against Vaccine Mandate

November 18, 2021

Publication - State Attorneys General

The State AG Report – 11.18.2021 Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US.


What Employers Need to Know as the US Welcomes Back International Travelers [Daily Business Review]

November 18, 2021

Publication - Immigration Policy & Strategy

Scott Bettridge authored an article about the United States reopening its border to international travelers from 33 countries including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the U.K. and the European Schengen area (EU) and with this new proclamation has implemented a global vaccination requirement for all adult foreign national air travelers pursuant to CDC-specific regulations.


'You're on Mute!' and Other Pandemic Practice Lessons [The Bencher]

November 18, 2021

Publication - Legal Profession Services

Thomas Wilkinson co-authored an article discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the practice of law.


Better on Zoom: Attorneys Are Creating Strategies to Aid Videoconferencing in Mediation

November 18, 2021

News - Labor & Employment

Susan Eisenberg was quoted in the Daily Business Review discussing using zoom for mediation.


Broad Street Brief: “Mixed Income Neighborhoods Overlay” Bill Passes Out of Committee

November 18, 2021

Publication - Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies

A plan intended to protect the ability of low and moderate-income Philadelphians to live in their neighborhoods despite increases in property values took one step forward this week.


What’s at Stake When the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Takes on Smart Meters? Issues and Impacts [Alert]

November 18, 2021

Publication - Utility & Energy

Jonathan Nase discusses three consolidated cases that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for in December that may impact utilities in the commonwealth.


Web Scrapers And Their Targets Beware. Regulators Are Zeroing In On Privacy Implications [Alert]

November 17, 2021

Publication - State Attorneys General, Technology, Privacy & Data Security

Lori Kalani, Mira Baylson, and Meghan Stoppel provide a primer on web scraping as well as an overview of the legal and regulatory challenges.


Stakeholders Want Specific Guidelines from OSHA Heat Standard

November 16, 2021

News - Labor & Employment

Jim Sullivan was quoted in SHRM discussing the new OSHA standards in place by the Biden administration with heat-related dangers in the workplace.


Employment Authorization Policy for Nonimmigrant Dependent Spouses [Alert]

November 16, 2021

Publication - Immigration Policy & Strategy

Beth Olivera and Fran Rayer discuss USCIS's new policy guidance to address the structural changes for nonimmigrant H-4 and L-2 spouses seeking employment authorization.


Court Affirms Stay of OSHA Vaccinate-or-Test Emergency Temporary Standard [Alert]

November 15, 2021

Publication - Labor & Employment

John Ho and Jim Sullivan discuss the Fifth Circuit's stay of OSHA's ETS and what happens next.


Anti-Forum Shopping Bill Reintroduced: A Q&A with Cozen O’Connor's Thomas J. Francella, Jr., Marla S. Benedek, and Frederick E. Schmidt, Jr. [Law.com]

November 15, 2021

News - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Business

Thomas J. Francella, Jr., Marla S. Benedek, and Frederick E. Schmidt, Jr. discuss the Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2021, also known as the 2021 Act, in a Q&A in the Texas Lawyer. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator John Cornyn reintroduced the Act in September 202l as an effort to restrict where a non-individual debtor is allowed to file for bankruptcy.


California Employers Can Let Cal/OSHA Know Federal OSHA COVID-19 ETS Potential Workplace Impacts [Alert]

November 15, 2021

Publication - Labor & Employment

Ed Langhammer, John Ho, and Jim Sullivan discuss Cal/OSHA agenda item “Proposed Emergency Safety Orders for Adoption,” and how California employers can weigh in on how these regulations will impact them.


Broad Street Brief: City Council Advances Streetery Bill

November 11, 2021

Publication - Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies

A City Council committee advanced legislation to make some “streeteries” a permanent part of the city’s dining and zoning landscape.


TIMES THEY KEEP A CHANGIN’ — Upcoming Changes to DoD CMMC Program and Cybersecurity Requirements

November 11, 2021

Publication - Construction Law, Government Contracts, Maritime Regulatory, Technology, Privacy & Data Security, Transportation & Trade - Maritime

Larry Prosen discusses DoD's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking updating its existing, relatively young, CMMC model certification to a CMMC 2.0 structure.


Is qEEG Evidence Admissible to Show a Brain Injury? A Washington State Court Says No [Alert]

November 11, 2021

Publication - Insurance Coverage

Connor Rowinski & Robert Lee discuss the Washington court's decision in Habenicht v. Medina granting the defendants’ motion to exclude the plaintiff’s qEEG evidence.


Supermarket Divestiture | Instagram Influencer Faces Consumer Complaints | Washington Data Breach Report

November 11, 2021

Publication - State Attorneys General

The State AG Report – 11.11.2021 Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US.


Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Equity: Out of Sync - The Great Email Crisis

November 10, 2021

Publication - Commercial Litigation

Sarah Schlossberg contributed an article to the December issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer, discussing the pandemic's impact on the volume of email traffic.

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