The Paley Rothman Blog
Paley Rothman shares this library of resources with clients and friends of the firm to help them stay ahead of legal and business developments and trends. Here, you will find helpful tips and tools written by our attorneys. The information in the blogs and articles is not a substitute for legal advice and should not be relied on as such. Should you have any questions or want legal advice, please contact the attorney who wrote the blog or article.
August 24, 2015
By
Roy Niedermayer on August 24, 2015
Your tenant is delinquent in rent payments and in default, possibly due to financial trouble. As landlord, you want to declare him in default, terminate the lease and seek payment of accrued past and recovery of future rent for the remainder of the term. Your lease remedies for default terms provide for a cumulative and disjunctive shopping list of lessor’s rights allowing recovery of the premises by re-entry, re-letting, termination of the defaulting lessee’s lease AND recovery of past due rent and future rent for the balance of the lease term.
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August 20, 2015
Employer Summary: Under a new law, employers hiring in D.C. may not test applicants for marijuana usage until after the applicant receives a conditional offer of employment for the position. Along with D.C.’s recent “ban the box” law on criminal background checks, this new enactment may require employers to adjust their application and hiring processes.
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July 20, 2015
By
Hope Eastman on July 20, 2015
On July 16, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage & Hour Division Administrator issued “Administrator’s Interpretation 2015-1” (AI) on the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for identification of workers who are misclassified as independent contractors.
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July 9, 2015
By on July 9, 2015
Data privacy used to be back burner due diligence. That has changed. The Snowden leak made personal privacy Topic One for months. Since then, the OPM hack, the iCloud hack, and other well publicized data breaches have raised data privacy awareness both in M&A and investor due diligence.
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July 2, 2015
Overview: The current changes proposed by the DOL are significant and can have an extensive financial impact. Supporters of the change argue that increasing the thresholds will raise salaries for millions of workers now considered exempt by mandating overtime pay for them.
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