With the Delta and Omicron coronavirus variants on the rise, many companies are reconsidering having a holiday office party—from Wall Street to Big Law. On the other hand, it’s been a challenging year for many people, and rewarding employees for sticking it out may be appealing for many businesses. In addition, with the Great Resignation still in full swing, having a positive work […]

In Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court again seems to have given more authority to Texas’ strict new anti-abortion law. The law, Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), is the subject of much recent legal controversy, banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Even more strikingly, the law states that citizens may sue anyone who “aids and abets” an illegal abortion and collect […]

Since the Sherman Antitrust Act, federal law has prohibited price-fixing as a general rule. But under Section 568 of the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994, universities that are “need-blind” (meaning that they don’t factor an applicant’s ability to pay into admissions decisions) are allowed to work with their competitor schools to help determine need-based financial aid given to students. The idea […]

The Supreme Court of Virginia recently upheld the four-year suspension of attorney Richard Robol, who an Ohio federal court says concealed inventories of gold his former client recovered from a shipwreck. (My colleague says lawyers should take it easy with the nerd references, so I’ll do my best not to make any jokes about Tolkien’s dragon, Smaug. Oops, I guess I just did.) […]

The number of ways law firms and other businesses have had to pivot in the last few years has left those of us who write about such topics running out of ways to introduce them. How many times can we say, “Wow, the pandemic sure changed things, huh?” At least once more, as always. Whether due to the continuing battle over […]

Tesla’s founder and CEO Elon Musk is known for his controversial tweets, ranging from criticism to gender pronouns to predicting close to zero new coronavirus cases in the United States by April 2020. Most of his tweets do not generate repercussions beyond heated online debates—but there was one tweet in 2018 that cost him and his company $40 million, and still haunts him […]