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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month was no exception. In fact, there were so many significant developments taking place during the past month that we were once again forced to expand our monthly summary we...

The Senate unanimously approved a bill Wednesday aimed at offering new protections for apartment dwellers, named after a young woman who was murdered in her Orange County apartment last September. The Senate gave a 39-0 approval to Democratic Sen. Linda Stewart’s “Miya’s Law” (SB 898). The bill is intended to create new safeguards that might save others from the fate of Miya Marcano, who was ...

Last year witnessed ever more developments regarding FRAND law cases in Germany and Europe that may have more upsides for SEP holders than for implementers of standardized technologies. However, hopes for more clarification concerning remaining questions were squashed when the referral by the Düsseldorf District Court to the CJEU in Nokia v. Daimler was withdrawn altogether with Nokia’s basic...

The District of Columbia’s ban on non-compete agreements is delayed again. As we previously reported, the DC Government enacted The Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act (the “Act”) in January 2021, which creates one of the most comprehensive non-compete bans in the country. The Act generally prohibits all non-competes in the District, subject to very narrow exceptions, including signif...

A bill that would provide stipends for law enforcement officers in the Natural State sailed through the state Senate Wednesday. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - A bill that would provide stipends for law enforcement officers in the Natural State sailed through the State Senate Wednesday. The Arkansas State Senate voted 33-0 to approve SB103, sponsored by House Speaker Matthew Shepherd (R-El Dorado)...

A new law allowing Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost to prosecute unauthorized robocalls is now in effect. The law signed by Governor DeWine last year empowers state authorities to go after illegal robocalls with the intent to defraud, cause harm, and wrongfully obtain anything of value. The legislation targets spoofing numbers that disguise scammers to look like they are calling from a local a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A 3-year old boy abducted by his non-custodial father is influencing change at the state level. Noah Clare was taken by his father last November which sparked a nationwide Amber Alert, crossing multiple state lines stretching from Tennessee to California. It took 11 days for authorities to issue that alert because his case didn’t fit federal criteria. The Amber Alert...

Students protest an appearance by Ilya Shapiro at US Hastings College of Law. (via Instagram.com/ushastingsblsa) ‘Remove him off the f***ing campus!’ one student demanded at an event sponsored by the Federalist Society at UC Hastings College of Law. eorgetown Law’s cancellation campaign against Ilya Shapiro has gone national. The libertarian-conservative constitutional law scholar, who was pl...

China’s Cybersecurity Law (the “Cybersecurity Law”) took effect on June 1, 2017. The Cybersecurity Law consists of 79 articles in total. According to Article 2 thereof, the Cybersecurity Law would apply to the construction, operation, maintenance and use of cyberspace within the territory of China, as well as to the supervision and administration of cybersecurity within the territory of China...

Diving into the recent legal market report, we see an industry that is demonstrating resilience, yet could that be derailed by rising compensation costs? The Thomson Reuters’ depicted a legal industry immersed in an escalating war for talent. Ever since major law firms like Milbank began raising their associate salaries in early 2021, the market has one-upped itself in each ensuing month by r...