From contentious U.S. Department of Labor rules to a big change to the federal multiple award schedules, as well as the usual swath of acquisition tweaks in the annual defense policy bill, there have been a range of significant legislative and regulatory changes for federal contractors in Continue Reading
Trump on Boeing’s Air Force One Contract: ‘Cancel Order!’
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump urged the government on Tuesday to cancel an order with Boeing Co for a revamped Air Force One - one of the most prominent symbols of the U.S. presidency - saying costs were out of control. It was the latest example of Trump using his podium, often via brief Continue Reading
Windfall Recipients May Need Lawyers to Help Protect Them From Themselves
You could say Laura Kelly is in the big-money end of the legal profession. But for Kelly, a partner practicing wealth preservation and estate planning at McCarter & English in Newark, New Jersey, much of that money belongs to her often newly wealthy clients. Kelly advises lottery winners, Continue Reading
Banking on Change: This Much is Certain — A New Administration Will Have New Priorities. But what will they be?
No one can talk about banking without offering speculation as to what the industry may look like under President-elect Donald Trump. Let Mike Horn, a former New Jersey banking commissioner who now represents community banks at McCarter & English, be the first to tell you: “There’s no doubt Continue Reading
Carrier Gets State Incentives, Trump Pledge for Keeping U.S. Jobs
United Technologies Corp's (UTX.N) Carrier unit said on Wednesday it got financial incentives from Indiana and a pledge from President-elect Donald Trump to improve the climate for business in the United States in exchange for keeping more than 1,000 jobs in the state rather than moving them Continue Reading
State-of-the-Industry Report: Key Trends, Issues and a Conversation with NJDEP Commissioner Bob Martin
NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (NJDEP) Commissioner Bob Martin has been a driving force for change in how the NJDEP and the business community work together. “This year we are completing our second round of customer service training to build on the success of the first round,” Continue Reading
Rainmaker Q&A
Erik Paul Belt is a partner at McCarter & English LLP in Boston. President of the Boston Patent Law Association, Belt is a trial attorney specializing in patent, trademark and licensing disputes in federal and state courts, arbitrations and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He represents Continue Reading
Who Deserves Overtime? And Who Doesn’t? Questions and Answers
A judge's surprise ruling throws overtime pay rules into chaos for millions of workers—and for your business Managers may have to start working some serious overtime themselves in order to understand how to pay overtime to their employees. A major change in the way employers calculate overtime Continue Reading
Alex Major joins Nuix Chief Information Security Officer Chris Pogue to discuss the legal landscape for US companies that have suffered a security breach
McCarter & English Partner Alex Major joins Nuix Chief Information Security Officer Chris Pogue to discuss the legal landscape for US companies that have suffered a security breach, including what constitutes injury in fact and the threat of lawsuits by customers. Continue Reading
Overtime Rule Injunction Complicates Employers’ Plans
A federal judge’s decision to block the Department of Labor’s new overtime regulation from going into effect Dec. 1 adds a new headache for employers already grappling with how to comply with the rule: Should they roll back changes that have already been put in place, such as awarding raises or Continue Reading