As the pandemic forces our lives and livelihoods online, expect 2021 to be a hotbed of data privacy litigation and legislation. California expands legislation (CCPA and CPRA) to strengthen protections against the exposure and sale of personal information online. Other states are likely to follow suit in the decade to come.

On November 13, 2020, Governor Northam signed Executive Order 63 and Executive Order 67, updating the business operating guidelines issued earlier this year in response to Covid-19. Each order contains modifications to specific industry guidelines as well as general public restrictions and new enforcement measures.

Companies are putting pressure on their human resources departments and recruitment programs to ramp up the diversity of their workforce.  Before charging forward, it is best to pause to review the permissibility and effectiveness of recruiting programs, employment tests, and selection procedures. 

This month, Richmond partner Bob Yates is the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys spotlighted member.

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.

On Wednesday Oct. 21, the CDC updated its guidelines for tracking transmission of COVID-19. The CDC maintains that contact tracing be conducted for close contacts of laboratory confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients.

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.