A team of McCarter lawyers recently achieved a significant pro bono victory in which a federal jury awarded $500,000 in punitive damages to an inmate who accused a Delaware prison guard of sexually assaulting him during a pat down in 2014. After a two day trial, the jury found the guard had violated Continue Reading
Get Back: DOD Retreats While Revealing Plans for CMMC 2.0
Higher Law: Q&A with McCarter & English’s Guillermo Artiles
McCarter partner and head of the firm’s Cannabis Group and chair of the Government Affairs practice spoke with Law.com for an in-depth Q&A regarding cannabis regulations and New Jersey’s move to a regulated adult-use market. Continue Reading
Contract Campaign Looms Large after Starbucks Union Vote
McCarter partner Hugh Murray commented to Law360 Employment Authority regarding what the future could look like for Starbucks now that employees in certain stores are starting to have an interest in unionizing. Continue Reading
New Jersey to Regulate Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies
McCarter partner and chair of the Government Affairs practice, Guillermo Artiles, commented to New Jersey Tech Weekly regarding the state taking its first steps toward regulating blockchain and cryptocurrency, a move that Guillermo says is a sign of progress for the digital currency community in New Continue Reading
McCarter Partners Recognized by Irish Legal 100
McCarter partners Ed Fanning, Mike Kelly, and Cathy Mohan have been named among the Irish Legal 100 for 2021. Founded in 2008 by the Irish Voice newspaper, the Irish Legal 100 is an annual compilation of the most distinguished legal professionals of Irish descent from across the United States. Continue Reading
Moving Targets
McCarter partner and head of our Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain Management practice, Ron Leibman, was quoted in NJBIZ in regard to lean logistics and lack of resiliency that has been a part of the global supply chain for years, and how the global COVID-19 pandemic happened to set off Continue Reading
Should Employers Provide Pandemic-Related Leave Though FFCRA Tax Credit Has Expired?
McCarter partner Hugh Murray comments to Society for Human Resource Management regarding the end of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act federal tax credit and how the COVID-19 pandemic may cause employers to rethink the policies that more generally apply to employee illness. Continue Reading
Time to Revisit Trial Strategy as Florida Supreme Court Changes Final Authority on Jury Instructions
Ira Gonzalez is quoted in this Daily Business Review article about the Florida Supreme Court's changes to the way it operates jury instructions in civil cases. Continue Reading
Defiant Bannon Promises a Fight
In this Bloomberg Law podcast, former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the highly unusual decision by the Department of Justice to indict former Trump advisor Steve Bannon on contempt of Congress charges for failing to comply with a subpoena from the Continue Reading