Is your bank’s website accessible to the visually impaired? If it is not, now is the time to address this issue as businesses across the country are receiving demand letters and being made parties to legal claims for alleged violations of the ADA.
Whether you are looking to buy a bank or thinking about selling, there are some considerations to keep in mind in order to accomplish your goal—get the best price. This brief guidance is for buyers hoping not to overpay for a bank, as well as for sellers trying to sell their bank for the highest price.
Banks and other employers may need to update their policies, practices and agreements due to recently enacted employment and benefits requirements, including the following:
Clients may wish to consider some actions following the IRS proposed regulations that would eliminate many estate and gift tax valuation discounts currently applicable to family-owned business entities.
The Supreme Court essentially upended the President’s Executive Order that provided limited benefits to parents of U.S. citizens or permanent resident children and an expanded class of “Dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. in unauthorized status as children.
What is old is new again when it comes to willful infringement.
Find out what the recently adopted Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act means for North Dakota business and which changes may surprise those who are used to forming their own LLCs.
Find out what additional steps every registered broker, dealer, investment company and investment adviser must take to demonstrate compliance with the Safeguards Rule.
Some employers may have missed the issuance of another significant rule from the DOL.
Significant changes to Minnesota trust law adopt a number of new concepts and modernize Minnesota’s laws to be similar to the trust laws of other retirement-friendly states.
Recently, a successful company fell victim to a crime that is increasingly targeting companies with a global presence and traveling executives.
On May 27, 2016, the Minneapolis City Council passed the Minneapolis Sick and Safe Time Ordinance. The law is effective July 1, 2017. The mayor approved amendments on September 28, 2016, and further guidance may be forthcoming in the future, but here is what Minneapolis employers need to know now.
Between April 19 and May 3, 2016, Olive Garden, Domino's, Potbelly and Dean & Deluca were each named as a defendant in four separate but similar class action lawsuits.
On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor issued the long-awaited new regulations which provide widespread and significant changes affecting all businesses and employees covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Under the MHRA, an employee has one year to file a legal claim for alleged unlawful employment discrimination. A recent case found that an employer’s internal investigation can suspend the running of that one-year period.
On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) into law, creating a new federal cause of action for trade secret misappropriation.
Employers face ever-increasing threats to the security of their trade secrets. Now, thanks to Congress, employers have a new tool to combat such threats (along with new potential headaches).
The U.S. government has recently announced an expanded program that provides many foreign STEM graduates with an extended employment period.
What is the future of patent protection for biotechnology in light of the Federal Circuit’s latest decision on patentable subject matter?
Important changes in the regulations governing European Union Community Trademarks may affect the scope of your trademark protection for CTM applications filed before June 22, 2012.
On April 6, 2016, the Department of Labor issued its much-anticipated conflicts of interest final rule.
The FTC is investigating the advertising practices of Volkswagen after uncovering it fitted its “clean diesel” automobiles with illegal emission defeat devices.
- Recent Order from Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel Provides Important Lessons on Expert Disclosures
A recent order by Magistrate Judge Noel in Luminara Worldwide, LLC v. Liown Electronics Co. helps to clarify the Federal Rules on expert disclosures.
The F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) program provides foreign students one year of work authorization in their field of academic studies.
LifeLock will pay $100 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle the FTC’s contempt charges. This settlement is the largest award the FTC has obtained in an enforcement action.
Are co-existence agreements no longer a surefire strategy for getting a trademark registration in the face of a likelihood of confusion refusal?
A recent case before Magistrate Judge Bowbeer offered further guidance on how and when courts should reduce the number of asserted claims.
The regulatory compliance obligations of banks continue to grow, and with them come increased expectations from regulators regarding the role of bank directors in overseeing how their banks meet those obligations.
FirstNet issued its long-awaited RFP for the deployment of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network.
Today CMS published a final rule detailing the duty to report and return overpayments with 60 days of their identification.
The EEOC issued proposed revisions to the Employer Information Report (EEO-1) to require covered employers to report aggregate workforce compensation data.
This article is the second part of an overview of the 10 key factors to examine whether information is protectable and has value as a trade secret.
The H-1B deadline to file cap-subject H-1B petitions is again drawing close.
I recently tried googling to see what percentage of parents with minor children have wills. If you don’t have a will, I have some good news and some bad news for you. Good news – you are not alone. More than half of parents with minor children don’t have wills.
The IRS released Notice 2016-4, which extended the deadlines for employer and insurer reporting under the Affordable Care Act.
The recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are aimed at accelerating discovery and focusing on relevancy and proportionality.
With the increased commoditization of information as to what “is market” on M&A transactions, deal lawyers can focus quite a bit of energy on relatively small changes in deal terms.
Pleading patent infringement got a little bit trickier on December 1, 2015.
New LLC laws in Minnesota and North Dakota usher in a significantly different legal landscape relating to the rights and responsibilities of LLC members and management and third parties dealing with LLCs in those states.
Ongoing restrictions placed on the payment of BHC dividends and the redemption of BHC stock after enforcement actions are lifted.
On October 19, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases in which patent owners are challenging the Federal Circuit’s rigid standard for proving willful infringement. In their petitions, both patent owners compared the current test for enhanced damages to the Federal Circuit’s old test for attorney’s fees, which the Supreme Court tossed out last year.
The Internal Revenue Service has announced the 2016 cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for retirement plans.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals struck down the building code mandate requiring installation of fire sprinklers in larger homes.
Patent law permits the award of legal fees to a “prevailing party” only in “exceptional cases.” A recent decision from Magistrate Judge Rau applying the Patent Act’s attorney fees provision reminds litigants that demonstrating a case is “exceptional” in only one part of the equation.
The Department of State and USCIS announced jointly that certain individuals who are stuck in family and employment-based immigrant visa backlogs can start their immigrant visa paperwork or apply for adjustment of status before their priority dates become current.
In a lawsuit that redefined the standard for an exceptional case under 35 U.S.C. § 285, the District Court awarded defendant Octane Fitness $1,778,030 in fees and costs.
A recent federal court decision addressed the discoverability of text messages, instant messages and voicemails.
In May, the District of Minnesota ordered the parties in a patent case to meet and confer to try to reach an agreement regarding the deadline by which the patentee must reduce the number of asserted claims.
The North Dakota Supreme Court issued its decision on July 15, 2015.
The United States Department of Labor issued an Administrator’s Interpretation on July 15, 2015.
