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A new state law setting minimum standards for staffing and capping profits at nursing homes has been suspended due to health care worker shortages, even as the nursing home industry sues to block the measure. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an order on New Year’s Eve putting off implementation of the new law until after Jan. 30 due to "severe understaffing in hospitals and other healthcare facilitie...

The Belarusian Official Gazette Jan. 4 published Law No. 141-3, to overhaul the tax code. The law includes measures: 1) introducing the obligation to establish beneficial owners for commercial organizations; 2) providing the calculation procedure for VAT on electronic services by foreign companies; 3) determining the tax deduction for petroleum producers; 4) setting the tax rate under the sim...

New York State Capitol building in Albany, N.Y. A New York law firm can operate under two names to differentiate between separate practice areas without violating ethics rules as long as the names aren’t misleading, the state bar said. The opinion is the latest aiming to clarify the 2020 changes to New York’s firm name rule. “In our view, there is nothing inherently false, deceptive or mislea...

University of South Florida interim President Rhea Law is encouraging anyone who will be on campus for the spring semester to be fully vaccinated — including boosters — and to wear a mask. The university's president called for people on-campus to wear masks and to be fully vaccinated, while USF faculty recommended holding the first few weeks of the spring semester online. University of Sout...

The following article includes mentions of rape. "Law & Order: SVU" has been exciting viewers with its crime investigations for over 20 years now. The drama series was NBC's first "Law & Order" spin-off and introduced viewers to detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) when it premiered in 1999. Ever since then, "Law & Order" fans have be...

As of January 4, 2022, short-term rental properties (defined as 30 days or less) listed for rent on third-party websites must be registered with the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation. This follows the Rhode Island General Assembly's vote to override the governor’s earlier veto yesterday. The legislation, which originally passed the General Assembly on July 1, 2021, will require o...

President Donald Trump signed one of the most sweeping criminal justice reform laws, The First Step Act (FSA), into law on December 21, 2018. Since then, its interpretation has been debated and argued, mostly behind closed doors in Washington, on how to fully implement it. One lesser defined part of FSA is whether or not those in custody within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), could earn ...

Greta Williams, with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2019. What You Need to Know Greta Williams has been elevated to co-partner-in-charge of Gibson Dunn's Washington, D.C., office. Williams succeeds Cynthia Richman and will co-manage alongside Thomas Dupree.

Litigation is, on one analysis, all about telling stories to impartial decision makers. Complex commercial litigation means that those stories are more detailed, more involved and more intricate. That means that telling the best story, in the most effective fashion, requires an incredible amount of preparation, research and skill. But telling the best story is only part of the battle: every g...

On November 15th, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“the Law”) into law. The historic infrastructure plan includes the single largest investment to address climate change in U.S. history.[1] The Law allocates billions of dollars to priority areas, including significant funding for the development of carbon capture infrastructure, alternative energy sources and...