Corporate Counsel Insight

EEOC Data Shows Jump in Harassment Claims

With sexual harassment in the workplace becoming a national issue for the past year and a half, employers have been wondering how the #MeToo...

DOL Proposes ‘Other’ Rules After Overtime

While employers are reviewing their pay practices for the overtime overhaul that the U.S. Department of Labor recently revealed, the DOL has followed up...

Supreme Court: Messengers of False Statements Still Liable for Securities Fraud

When the Securities and Exchange Commission or private investors go after corporate figures for making false statements to investors, the disseminators of those statements...

California’s New Data Privacy Law Looms Large

California’s new data privacy law will implicate a large population of Colorado companies. But if a new survey is any indicator, a lot of...

Employers Await EEOC Guidance on Pay Data Reporting

For many large employers, it’s time once again to submit their workers’ demographic data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But what’s yet unclear...

DOL Proposes Milder Overtime Rule

The U.S. Department of Labor is again attempting to make more white-collar workers eligible for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Most employees...
U.S. Supreme Court

Plaintiffs Must Wait to Sue Over Copyrights, High Court Rules

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major decision over the timing of copyright infringement lawsuits. On March 4, the Supreme Court settled a...

Colorado Lawmakers Try Again on Local Wage Option

As the gulf widens between the cost of living along Colorado’s Front Range and in the state’s rural communities, lawmakers are considering allowing cities...

Trump Administration Builds on ‘Buy American’ Order

A new executive order from President Donald Trump is reinforcing his administration’s preference for contractors that source their materials and goods from the U.S. On...

FCA Whistleblower Gets Favorable Supreme Court Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that whistleblowers have as much time to bring False Claim Act suits as the government would if...