
What Happened To The Obama DOL’s New Overtime Rules?
Employers, take note -- and start your planning now, because new rules are coming.
Employers, take note -- and start your planning now, because new rules are coming.
Some practical takeaways for employers and employees, from employment-law columnist Beth Robinson.
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Footnote. Of. The week!
Footnote. Of. The week!
* In honor of the upcoming Labor Day holiday, FLSA compliance and the American worker. [ADP] * What lawyers can learn from Judge Richard Posner, according to William Domnarski's new biography (affiliate link). [ABA Journal] * Should law reviews be worried? [Chronicle of Higher Education] * One law school's enrollment is down 26%. [TaxProf Blog] * Transparency report from the most recent Supreme Court Term. [Fix the Court] * A look at FCPA enforcement actions concerning charitable foundations. [FCPA Professors]
The Department of Labor will soon issue new rules that expand the number of employees entitled to overtime; do lawyers deserve to benefit?
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* Has the dearth of law school applicants finally pinched Harvard Law? [Bloomberg Business] * Meanwhile, New York Law School is doing just fine... thanks to its savvy real estate moves. [Crain's New York Business] * Amal Clooney sighting in D.C. [Washington Post] * For those keeping score, only Scalia, Thomas, and Alito skipped the State of the Union last night, which was not really surprising. [CBS News] * Former Cravath attorney Robert Miranne talks about the movie "Joy," chronicling the life and times of his mother, Joy Mangano. [The Am Law Daily] * In July, China arrested Wang Yu, a top women's rights lawyer for creating a disturbance. They got around to notifying her mother of this... on Monday. In fairness, they've really been swamped over there with the sabotaging the global economy thing. [Reuters] * FLSA class actions expected to hit record high this year. "I keep waiting -- because I’ve been studying it for 15 years -- for the number of wage-and-hour lawsuits to crest or go down" said Seyfarth's Gerald Maatman Jr. And I keep waiting for companies to dutifully pay employees the money they actually owe them, yet here we are. [Law 360]
Let's fast forward to Justice Alito rolling his eyes.
Two big rulings strike a blow for the rights of interns.
Should private law firms be able to use unpaid interns to staff their pro bono cases? The ABA thinks so.
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