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New York takes additional step to protect the rights of working mothers

Update aims to ensure stronger protections for workers in New York by increasing employee awareness

New York has enacted a new law, NY Executive Law Section 135-c, which authorizes notaries to perform electronic notarial acts.

Court orders Wal-Mart to pay $4.4 million in case of racial profiling

If hackers breach your business, will you be able to weather the storm?

Attorney Les Greenbaum has been covering the trademark issue surrounding Bills Mafia since 2020, and offers his latest update on where things stand.

If signed into law by Governor Hochul, the new wage transparency law is expected to level the playing field for employees.

One of the core philosophies of our law firm is that we are here and ready to vigorously fight for our clients when trouble arises, but we work equally hard to help them avoid trouble before it starts.

Many issues, especially in the area of employment law, arise simply because the rules are complex and ever-changing, and employers may inadvertently run afoul of any number of regulations. 

Beginning July 1, millions of consumers saddled with medical debt impacting their credit scores will get some much-needed relief.

It might seem common sense that an employer has the right to monitor/review communications sent and received by its employees on work-owned electronic devices, but as the saying goes, ‘common sense isn’t so common.’

With that in mind, New York State implemented a new law that took effect May 7, 2022 related to employees’ right of privacy.

On April 1, 2022 legislation known as the "Sleep Act" became effective which will send reverberations through the motorcycle industry while purporting to quiet the reverberations from motorcycles and automobiles (Senate Bill 784B).

One positive to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic has been an explosion in the number of entrepreneurs starting their own small businesses. Many did it out of necessity after losing their job, but many others saw the pandemic as a wake-up call to follow their dreams. Whatever the motivation, a record 5.4 million new business applications were filed in the United States in 2021.

Much ado was made earlier this year when the NCAA announced that for the first time, student athletes would be allowed to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness.