Next Up For NCBA Membership Events: A March Madness-St. Patrick’s Day Mash-Up
On a chilly night in Durham last November, nearly 200 NCBA members and guests saw a side of President Kearns Davis that, until previously, only a handful of…
MacCord’s List: IP Notices & News From Art MacCord
Art MacCord is a patent attorney with 38 years of experience. He keeps an eye on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office for new…
Legislative Update
and Laura Wetsch This is your weekly update of bills introduced or moving through the legislature. Last week’s blog post listed a variety of bills and their…
Fifth Circuit: Employers Liable for Emotional Distress Damages in FLSA Retaliation Claims
Beyond requiring that employers comply with statutory minimum and overtime wage provisions for nonexempt employees, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29…
Try Snapchat, and Three Other Resolutions For the Rest of 2017
Here we are a mere 60 days into 2017 and my many well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions are dead and buried with a fresh covering of rationalization and…
Happy Blogging
Have you been wanting to write an article on a health law topic but are unsure how and where to publish it? Well, good news! The NCBA Health Law Section and…
Getting Out Of My Comfort Zone
My first attempt at leaping into the unknown was when I switched careers from meeting deadlines for one editor to meeting deadlines for an attorney, a clerk…
Student-Athletes As Employees: Northwestern, Columbia and Unionization
Sports & Entertainment Law Section I. Introduction As an increasingly contested topic since the rise of the Bowl Championship Series in the early-2000s…
Articles Of Interest
Members of the Sports & Entertainment Law Section found the following recent third-party articles to be of potential interest to the section: St. Louis…
Legislative Update
and Faith Herndon We are your legislative co-chairs for this long session. Over the past few weeks, we have seen a number of bills that will potentially…