The Obama administration is pushing for the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act — a law that is designed to make wage differences between men and women in the workforce more transparent. The proposal comes approximately 50 years after President...
The deadline to enroll in coverage for January 1 was officially extended by a week, but the new December 23 deadline is fast approaching, and premium payments are required to be paid by the last day of 2013 for January 2014 coverage. Last week, both...
Ist der Veräußerungserlös steuerfrei, erfolgt nach höchst umstrittener Ansicht des BMF eine Besteuerung der Dividenden. Mit Schreiben vom 26. Juli 2013 hat sich das BMF zu den ertragsteuerlichen Folgen der Veräußerung von Dividendenansprüchen...
I don’t want to keep harping on the investment adviser custody rule. Look, I mean, SEC CustodyFest was fun, but we’re not going back in that depth. Someday maybe, but not today. But I’m going to harp a little bit. Because last week the SEC sued...
Certain employee policies adopted by the clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch have been prominent in the news over the last several months. While the company has stood fast on these policies publicly, its track record in the courtroom has been less...
As the Justice Department has stepped up its pursuit of financial institutions, there has been a surge of civil fraud lawsuits brought by the government under FIRREA — the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 — a law...
On Monday, December 16, 2013, the EEOC announced that it had obtained $372.1 million in relief from private companies during the 2013 fiscal year, which is a record in monetary benefits collected through enforcement actions....
As the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal unfolded at Penn State University, the school’s general counsel went from being a close adviser to school officials tasked with managing the unfolding crisis to being a key witness against them.
It is Monday morning at your law office, and you get a telephone call from one of your smaller business clients. He is frantic to say the least. Over the weekend, his employee payroll checks bounced at the bank as well as several checks to suppliers....
First JPMorgan Chase agrees to accept fault for manipulating the market, then SAC Capital Advisors makes financial history the wrong way — by accepting a record $1 billion fine and agreeing to admit to insider trading charges. In July, the...
