Confusion over E-Verify widespread
With a legal battle and legislative delays surrounding the so-called E-Verify system, many local business owners and human resources professionals are befuddled about what...
Glass ceiling hard for moms to crack
“Family responsibilities discrimination law,” a new category of employment litigation, has become a hot topic in the world of business law over the past...
Solid business plans attract venture capital
In today’s weakened economy – driven downward by the credit crisis, decreasing demand and the plunging stock market – the outlook for companies seeking...
Detailed fee information needed for benefit plans
Employers that do not take steps to ensure that they have the right kind of benefit-plan fee information in their file – and in...
Top law firms awash in business as crisis deepens
As the financial crisis worsens, top New York and London law firms are experiencing a boom in work advising banking clients in mergers and...
Small-business owners increasing credit card use
As more small-business owners turn to credit cards to make ends amid tightening bank credit, a bill that sought to provide relief through credit...
Bailout stiffens regs for some executive pay
The current crisis on Wall Street has brought to the surface a bubbling populist anger over perceived pay excesses and stirred a debate...
Shell, 46 states agree to curb youth tobacco sales
Shell Oil Products U.S., a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, agreed with the attorneys general of 46 states, including Rhode Island, and the...
Laurie Barron is tapped to head Feinstein
Laurie Barron has been promoted to executive director of the Feinstein Institute for Legal Service. Barron was recently selected to become a member of...
The lunch hour
Do you take fewer and shorter lunches than you have in the past?
• Yes – 85.7%
• No ...
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