By: Ross G. Currie, Esq. In the past few months, the use of AI has rapidly spread from education to the legal profession. From a user perspective, the ...
The Ward is Law
Supreme Court Clarifies the “Undue Hardship” Test for Employer Defense in Religious Accommodation Cases
By: Mark Stephenson, Esq. The Supreme Court rules that defense standard set forth in Hardison has been erroneously interpreted by lower courts for nearly 50 ...
Florida’s New Law Mandates the Use of the E-Verify System
By: Jeremy Rogers, Esq. On May 10, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1718 into law. This statute will require private employers with at least 25 ...
Changing the Negligence Game
By: Jeremy Rogers, Esq. On March 24th, 2023, Florida passed into law HB 837 that significantly overhauls several areas of negligence and bad faith law ...
Non-Compete Agreements: May not be worth the paper they’re written on.
By: Mark Stephenson, Esq. On January 5th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a monumental rule proposal that would ban a large swath of ...
A Banner Year for Fair Workweeks in Philadelphia
By: Christopher Curci, Esq. Employers paid a record penalty for violating the city’s ordinance twice in 2022. Last month, Ruth’s Chris Steak House was ...
Employers Who Discipline Racism are NOT Racist
By Barry Brownstein, Esq. This should probably go without saying, but here we are... You’ll likely remember the 2020 incident when Amy Cooper, a white ...
NYC Employers Need to Show Their Range
By Jennifer Ward, Esq. Studies show that women and minorities request (and therefore receive) lower salaries than similarly qualified white men. In an ...
NJ Supreme Court Rejects Old Way of Handling New Business
By: Christopher Curci, Esq. The New Jersey Supreme Court recently rejected a per se ban on lost profits damages claims by new ...
It’s Your Old Friend, EEOC COVID Guidance!
By: Jennifer Ward, Esq. With President Biden declaring “the pandemic is over,” the buzz of COVID-19 may be dropping, but the EEOC just keeps churning out ...