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October 18, 2017
Publication - Immigration Policy & Strategy
Frances Rayer and Scott Bettridge discuss a recent update to the 2019 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program along with a change to application deadline dates.
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October 18, 2017
News - Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, Health Care & Life Sciences
Allison Wils, a health policy adviser of Cozen O'Connor's Public Strategies team and Renè Quashie, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Health Care department, spoke with Bloomberg Law in their Medical Devices Law & Industry Report.
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October 17, 2017
News - Immigration Policy & Strategy
Scott Bettridge, chair of Cozen O'Connor's Immigration Strategy & Policy Practice, discussed with Law360 the latest immigration enforcement at workplaces.
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October 17, 2017
Press Release - Business, Corporate
Ira C. Gubernick, vice chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Corporate Practice Group, was selected for the Philadelphia Business Journal’s inaugural “Best of the Bar.”
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October 16, 2017
Publication - Appellate, White Collar Defense & Investigations
Nicole Sprinzen and Thomas Ingalls discuss the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari and a forthcoming decision on the specific question of whether law enforcement authorities can use the SCA to obtain a third party’s foreign-stored electronic information under the SCA’s warrant provision.
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October 13, 2017
Publication - Aviation, Aviation Litigation, Transportation & Trade - Aviation
This edition of the Cozen O’Connor Aviation Regulatory Update discusses DOT’s and CBP’s comprehensive reviews of their regulations, Congress’ FAA reauthorization extension legislation, the FAA’s adoption of new Stage 5 airplane noise standards, GAO reports on airline ancillary service fees and TSA’s aviation security oversight, and the latest DOT and FAA enforcement actions.
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October 12, 2017
Publication - Intellectual Property
Darren Mogil discuses Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal and how it will likely lead to an increase the number of proposed claim amendments allowed by the PTAB.
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October 11, 2017
Publication - Government & Regulatory, Government Relations - Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies
Howard Schweitzer, Mark Alderman, and Blake Rutherford discuss recent developments in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill, including prospects for tax reform in our current legislative landscape.
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October 11, 2017
Publication - Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring, Business
Barry Klayman and Mark Felger, members of Cozen O’Connor’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency, & Restructuring Practice Group, discuss, in the Delaware Business Court Insider, a recent case in which the Delaware Court of Chancery refused to preclude a defendant corporation from offering evidence at trial that contradicted or was otherwise inconsistent with the deposition testimony of its Rule 30(b)(6) witness, although the plaintiffs would be able to rely on the earlier 30(b)(6) testimony and use it for impeachment.
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October 10, 2017
Publication - Commercial Litigation, White Collar Defense & Investigations
Stephen Miller, vice chair of Cozen O'Connor's Criminal Defense & Internal Investigations practice, and William Lesser, an associate in the firm's Commercial Litigation department, co-authored for The Legal Intelligencer, "US Supreme Court Confronts Partisan Gerrymandering."
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October 09, 2017
Publication - Commercial Litigation, Product Regulatory & Compliance, Products Liability
Brenden Coller and Richard Fama, of Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation Department, co-authored, "Defending Made-In-The-USA Claims," for Assembly Magazine.
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October 05, 2017
News - Immigration Policy & Strategy, Labor & Employment
Scott Bettridge, chair of Cozen O'Connor's Immigration Strategy & Policy practice, discusses what employers can do for DACA employees in Refinery29.
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October 04, 2017
Publication - Immigration Policy & Strategy
Frances P. Rayer discusses the USCIS announcement that premium processing has been reinstated for all H-1B petitions and that effective October 3, 2017, employers may request to upgrade pending H-1B petitions to premium processing.
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October 03, 2017
Publication - Tax
Joseph Bright and Heidi Schwartz, members of Cozen O’Connor’s Tax Practice, discuss the Saturday Family L.P. v. Commonwealth case in Bloomberg BNA, in which the Commonwealth Court en banc held that Pennsylvania Realty Transfer Tax could not be imposed on a ground lease that contained an option for renewal at fair rental value that included an appraisal procedure.
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October 03, 2017
Publication - Intellectual Property
Barry Golob, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Intellectual Property department, discusses the Neulasta patent row with Law360.
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October 02, 2017
Publication - Commercial Litigation
David Shimkin, member of Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation Department, authored, "Experts, Hearsay, and the ‘Sanchez’ Case" for California Lawyer.
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October 02, 2017
Publication - Labor & Employment
John Ho, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Labor & Employment Department, discussed with Bloomberg Law whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee is highly fact sensitive.
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September 29, 2017
Publication - Cannabis
In May, Attorney General (AG) Jeff Sessions sent a letter to Congress that zeroed in on the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment, a cornerstone of federal cannabis legislation that has handcuffed the Department of Justice from using its resources to enforce the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in states with marijuana-legalization laws.
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September 29, 2017
News - Insurance Coverage, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, White Collar Defense & Investigations
Cozen O’Connor is proud to announce that six of the firm’s lawyers have been recognized as “Lawyers of the Year” in their respective practices by Best Lawyers in America,
one of the oldest and most highly regarded peer review publications in the legal profession.
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September 28, 2017
News - Institutional Response Group
Gina Maisto Smith, chair of Cozen O'Connor's Institutional Response Group and Leslie Gomez, vice chair, discussed in The New York Times the investigations that have taken place in private schools for sexual abuse.
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