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A new Illinois law that takes effect next year will affect how employers in the state handle job candidates’ criminal records in the hiring process. The law prohibits employers from inquiring about a job candidate’s criminal convictions until after...

Whilst project bonds have for some time been a popular source of financing for projects in the US, they have historically been slow to gain momentum in other parts of the world, including the Middle East....

Although many suspected that the Supreme Court would invalidate all actions taken by the National Labor Relations Board in Noel Canning v. NLRB, the question remained just how many of the NLRB’s actions would stand. To this day, the NLRB’s decisions...

As is increasingly reported, there is a battle raging in today’s marketplace between companies with new technology platforms and content creators from the entertainment community. On the one hand, are computer science engineers and programmers...

An energy company, its CEO and the firm’s public relations adviser and its president were named in a fraud action by the SEC centered on false representations concerning oil reserves for a property in Columbia. The representations were used to sell...

The Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) unit of USCIS has begun inspecting L-1 visa holders as planned. FDNS has inspected (and likely is continuing to inspect) H-1B holders for several years. L-1s are the latest target....

U.S. and EU Release New Export Restrictions on Exports of Equipment and Technology to Russia Exploration Projects - In a sweeping expansion of export restrictions against Russia in response to their finding that Russia’s recent actions and...

An Arizona judge has reluctantly granted a request by convicted murderer Jodi Arias to represent herself during a new sentencing hearing. Judge Sherry Stephens said Arias’ current defense lawyers will remain as advisory counsel when the hearing begins on Sept.

We hear this a lot. It’s a completely legitimate and understandable question. An old McGraw-Hill ad answered it beautifully, and we’ve updated it to apply to lawyers and law firms (as well as accountants and accounting firms) below. The ad was...

An immigrant in Michigan who forced four children from Togo to do household chores with beatings didn’t violate the federal law banning forced labor, a federal appeals court has ruled. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S.

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