When employees are ready to return to work from military service, USERRA requires immediate action to put them back on the employment payrolls. Employers shouldn’t hesitate.

SB 1383 signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 17, 2020, expands the CFRA to private employers of five or more employees and eliminates the requirement that employees work within 75 miles of the worksite.

O’Hagan Meyer represented the Gymboree Group, Inc. and affiliates against claims by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in an Adversary Proceeding in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia, arising from one of the largest retailer Chapter 11 cases filed in recent years. All defendants prevailed on motions for summary judgment, on all claims, resulting in dismissal of the entire case, by memorandum opinion.

The Atlanta Bar Association’s Litigation Section is hosting a joint Zoom breakfast meeting Friday, October 9th at 8am EST with the Employment Law section. According to the section, this discussion will cover the “Emerging Exposures in Employment Litigation from Covid-19.” Jaime Duguay of our Philadelphia office is a panelist alongside Marcus Keegan from Keegan Law Firm, LLC, Kenneth Winkler of Berman Fink Van Horn P.C. and Ariel Zion of Insight Global, LLC.

Today, The Illinois Appellate Court, First District, entered a long anticipated Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) ruling in McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park LLC.

O’Hagan Meyer is pleased to announce the promotion of Paige Canepari to Partner in the Chicago Office.  Ms. Canepari joined O’Hagan Meyer in 2017. She came to O’Hagan Meyer with over ten years of litigation experience.  Her experience will further enhance O’Hagan Meyer’s depth in professional liability, commercial and civil litigation.

We are so thrilled to announce that 10 of our attorneys have been recognized as 2021 Best Lawyers!

Richmond Partner James C. Cosby will be a featured speaker as part of Virginia CLE’s 41st Annual Construction Law and Public Contracts Seminar. On Friday, November 6 at 3:20 PM EST, Cosby and Jesse S. Keene of Cozen O’Connor will co-present Arbitration: Recent Developments and Considerations for the Construction and Public Contract Law Arena. Together they’ll review “significant recent case law developments and how the practice of this ADR mechanism may be changing.”

On July 27, 2020, Virginia became the first state to adopt mandatory COVID-19 OSHA safety regulations. Employers are now required to develop and implement a number of precautions and procedures designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 at work and to protect the health and safety of their employees.

In a 5-4 decision issued June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Trump Administration’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which currently protects approximately 800,000 immigrants from deportation, was improper.