Boo! February 29, 2020 is leap day. Don’t be scared - it occurs every four years. And we are here to help!
Let’s light the jack-o-lantern and explain: Leap years have 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365 days. This may seem like a bunch of hocus pocus, but this day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure because ...
Julie R. Pugh & Lee P. Geiger
In many settlement and severance agreements, we often ask our clients if they want to include a “no rehire clause.” The provision does not mean that the employee can’t apply, it just says that the company has no obligation to reemploy the person once the two parties have a contractual parting of the ways (hence, we ...
Last week, the United States Supreme Court denied Domino’s petition to review a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that held a blind man could sue the pizza chain under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) if its website and mobile app did not work with common screen-reading software. Domino’s appeal was one of the more than 98 ...
By Brian Thomas and Kitso Matlhape
We should update that old adage about death and taxes. While both are still certain, we can add one more certainty to the list. U.S. politics is predictable in its unpredictability. We’ve heard calls for investigations and impeachment. Legislators debate our collective response to the latest mass ...