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Health Care Partner Hillary Stemple presented to eye and vision care providers about co-management compliance at the Kentucky Optometric Association’s Annual Meeting on April 21.

ArentFox Schiff LLP is pleased to welcome former US Senator Doug Jones back to the firm after serving as President Joe Biden’s Nomination Advisor for Legislative Affairs during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation process to become the first Black woman to serve on the US Supreme Court.

Environmental justice has been at the forefront of the Biden Administration’s priorities for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In this inaugural episode of ArentFox Schiff’s Consumer Product Industry Group’s podcast series, the Group’s co-leaders Michelle Mancino Marsh and Lynn Fiorentino discuss the potential implications of California’s latest proposed changes to the Proposition 65 short-form warnings currently used on al

ArentFox Schiff Chairman Anthony V. Lupo and Energy & Cleantech Industry Group Co-Leader Daniel Deeb spoke to Legaltech News about helping clients navigate the blockchain technology powering the Metaverse, while still meeting their sustainability goals.

Last week, Maryland’s General Assembly overroad Governor Larry Hogan’s veto to enact the Time to Care Act of 2022 (TCA). With that, Maryland joined the growing list of jurisdictions — including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island.

ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce the firm has been shortlisted for the Chambers USA Awards 2022 Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year.

ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce the firm has been recognized by Managing IP as the top firm for Trademark Prosecution in the Northeast regional category in the US.

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For the seventh straight year, Latinvex has listed ArentFox Schiff among the top “international law firms in Latin America.”

Health Care Partner Anne Murphy will present to CCI Inc.’s national health care CFO member group about governance best practices on April 14.

Beth Reuter was terminated from her employment with the City of Methuen. On her termination date, the City failed to pay Ms. Reuter for her accrued, unused vacation time, as required by the Massachusetts Wage Act. Instead, the City waited three weeks after her termination to make the payment.

On March 21, the Member States of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) approved extensive amendments to the Centre’s rules and regulations that will go into effect on July 1, 2022.

To the extent a party believes it is disadvantaged by the Federal Law, the only alternatives are: (i) passage of ameliorating Federal legislation or (ii) modification of industry-standard contracts to address the adverse impacts of the Federal Law.

- CMS estimates its proposal will result in a decrease of $320 million in Medicare Part A payments to skilled nursing facilities.
- CMS is seeking stakeholder input on the effects of direct-care staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

Associate Megan Daily will present as part of the DC Bar Pro Bono Center and the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s online seminar series, “Understanding the Fundamentals of Nonprofit Organizations: An 8-Part Business Law Course For Nonprofit Leaders.”

Partner Rachel Remke will present at Practising Law Institute’s Manufacturing and Consumer Products Law Institute on April 13, 2022.

Buckle up, it’s about to get choppy.

Employers sailing in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) waters have come to expect rough seas. By one estimate, the Board overturned more than 4,500 cumulative years of case law during the eight years of the Obama Administration.

Health Care Partner Anne Murphy gave a presentation about board governance to health system board members and senior executives at The Governance Institute’s April Leadership Conference.

This post explains when minority shareholders may owe fiduciary duties and steps that shareholders can take to eliminate any fiduciary duties they might owe.

We’ve reported on Virginia’s first-in-the-nation, state-wide, permanent COVID-19 workplace standard. Last month, concluding that COVID-19 “no longer poses a ‘grave danger’ to employees,” the state’s Safety and Health Codes Board voted to revoke it. The revocation took effect on March 23d.

Companies often communicate with government agencies directly or through trade associations for a variety of reasons. But what happens when an adverse party tries to use comments made to the government or membership in an advocacy group as evidence in litigation?

Centre Partners, a private equity firm specializing in the healthcare and consumer industries, engaged ArentFox Schiff to represent physician-owners and management in the sale of Vision Innovation Partners.

On Friday, April 8, 2022, the US Government added two more weapons to its artillery of actions against Russia and Belarus.

Before being acquired by American Airlines, US Airways sued Sabre for anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act. The case begins trial later this spring, and the district court’s recent ruling on summary judgment highlights several interesting facets of the statute of limitations.