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Growing Cannabis Industry Requires a Multi-disciplinary Approach

In today's #ThrowbackThursday Interview from 2019, Keya Denner describes how Norris McLaughlin decided to pull from deep within their bench to address the varying needs of clients in the rapidly growing cannabis industry.

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E-Discovery

Workplace Harassment Is Nothing New, but it's a Different Beast With Social Media

  A recent CCBJ webinar highlighted policies and procedures for preventing workplace harassment – and strategies for controlling e-discovery if litigation does ensue. Workplace harassment can take many forms – from unwanted sexual advances to racial discrimination and other...

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Labor & Employment

Avoiding the Hard and Soft Costs of Harassment Claims

Norris McLaughlin & Marcus’ Annmarie Simeone provides practical advice on limiting the risk of workplace claims.  CCBJ: How are companies handling compliance in terms of sexual harassment, and how should they be handling it?  Annmarie Simeone: I’ve been working with labor...

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Labor & Employment

Severance Agreements Can Ease the Trauma of Executive Departures

Parting ways with an employee, especially an executive employee, is never easy. But having the proper severance agreements in place can help the process go smoothly. In a recent online event hosted by Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Charles Bruder, co-chair of the Executive Compensation and...

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The EEOC’S Attack on Maximum Leave Policies: Sometimes companies fail to consider an employee’s rights under the ADA

United Parcel Service, with over $61 billion in revenue reported in 2016, can afford to be generous with the benefits it provides its employees. One such benefit is the UPS leave policy, which allows employees to take up to 12 months of leave. Most employees would be happy to work for a company...

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Immigration

A Practice Area Takes Center Stage: Lawyers who handle immigration are having their moment and then some

Raymond Lahoud is a young man on the move. The 34-year-old immigration lawyer is leaving Baurkot & Baurkot, the small firm based in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he’s practiced for the past seven years, to 135-lawyer Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey....

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Compensation

Big Changes Loom for Executive Compensation: Employers should not defer action on amendments with major implications for deferred payment plans

Although longstanding guidance under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code governs the use of deferred compensation to incentivize executives, proposed amendments are raising significant issues. Below, Charles A. Bruder, an executive compensation expert, discusses the changes and what they mean...

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