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The DOJ's Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Discrimination has been extremely active in suing employers for national origin discrimination and document abuse. And 2012 was a record year for HSI, the agency charged with I-9 enforcement.

Here are the top five actions that companies should take before hiring a competitor's employee.

Recent IRS guidance represents the beginning of what promises to be a long process of agency rule-making in light of the U.S. v. Windsor decision.

Many retail tenants have approached landlords to renegotiate their rent in order to lower their occupancy costs as they struggle to remain open. How should the landlord respond?

To restructure loans experiencing maturity defaults effectively, the business, finance, and legal sectors must collaborate in a field that is as much art as it is science.

When it comes to building provisions, The signed lease should provide both parties with a clear roadmap to achieving a mutually acceptable result. Here's how.

Many employers use publicly available Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and other social media outlets as screening tools for job applicants. And they may also use them as a way to monitor employees. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. A handful of employers, however, have pushed their due diligence even further than standard Internet searches.

Law students are heading back to middle school this year ' to teach kids about Internet privacy.