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The New Jersey Franchise Practices Act is a powerful tool for those businesses that qualify for its protections. Under the NJFPA, a franchisor cannot terminate a franchisee without good cause, even where doing so would be perfectly acceptable under the parties' contract. The NJFPA also prohibits a franchisor from imposing "unreasonable standards of performance" on a franchisee.
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Lawyers are increasingly expected to understand the implications of cybersecurity when providing advice relating to a long list of matters. Legal counsel, as trusted neutral advisors, are uniquely qualified to help navigate risk considerations and bridge customer deliverables and workforce expectations with adequate security and shifting legal requirements. As a result, it is important that lawyers understand the latest trends in cyber intrusions.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the latest entity to release a framework for cybersecurity.
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An application brought by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for a so-called Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) was approved in court in London on Nov. 30, 2015, marking a historic milestone for UK bribery and corruption enforcement as this was the first time that a DPA has been adopted.
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2015 was an eventful year for tax legislation for law firms, their clients and their employees. In addition to the extenders package, that has become an annual tradition in Congress, there were some other significant tax bills that passed over the summer.
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Many companies that have had disputes with developers have been surprised to discover that the agreements signed, often without input from legal, failed to hold developers to measurable standards, give the company ongoing interest in deliverables, or provide meaningful remedies to problems that arise.
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This article briefly summarizes the ACA's employer mandate and highlights the anti-retaliation provisions applicable to complaints of ACA violations. Next, the article summarizes the "Break Time for Nursing Mothers" law added to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by the ACA, and highlights the anti-retaliation provision applicable to this law. Last, the article suggests ways for employers to reduce the risk of employee retaliation claims.
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Many local governments operate live event venues. Unlike dealing with private venues, concert promoters and producers might bring First Amendment free speech claims against government-controlled event facilities over how a local government chooses which promoters/producers with which to work. There's also the issue of whether the governmental authority or a private promoter owns ticket subscriber information that the private promoter generates through its live events work at a government-controlled venue.
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It's easy to see how the Information Age has transformed the world once again. Old ways of doing things are no longer practical, and new guidelines for the way we conduct business are being formed in real-time. Keeping up with this changing landscape is vital in order to survive.
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This past summer, the NLRB reversed over 30 years of precedent and adopted a new, more expansive and ambiguous standard for determining joint employer status. The new standard promises to entangle businesses with only tenuous links to another employer's workforce in a morass of collective-bargaining obligations and unfair labor practice liability for workforces over which they exercise no actual control.