Andrea Gosfield

May 11, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

A recent federal court decision involving Chili's and its tipping practices points to courts' willingness to allow employee challenges to employer tip pool practices to proceed past motions to dismiss.

By Andrea Gosfield

6 minute read

February 21, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Activist shareholders are looking to have a greater say about the composition of the boards of U.S. public companies. The ultimate goal of these shareholders is to reshape how public company directors are traditionally selected. This movement has been caused, in part, by widely publicized corporate governance and senior management failures. Such scandals, including the recent Wells Fargo fraud scheme, have prompted a higher level of scrutiny not only on the oversight role of directors, but also, more fundamentally, on how qualified directors are nominated. This movement has created what is becoming a new "norm" regarding shareholder proxy access that many public companies have adopted.

By Andrea Gosfield

17 minute read

September 29, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

As students settle in to their physical and virtual seats for the semester, administrators at public and private institutions of higher education are already scurrying to prepare for the next academic year. This is true from both a course planning as well as internal compliance perspective. An area currently meriting extra attention is digital and web access for students with disabilities.

By Andrea Gosfield 
and Christine E. Weller

14 minute read

June 06, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the 19th century, service of process took some doing in the United States. Pleadings were required to be served in-person and was effected, not through a cadre of bicycle messengers, but more likely by a team on horseback. In order to ease this burden, in 1862, New York enacted a law requiring any attorney wishing to litigate in New York to maintain a physical in-state address, primarily for the purpose of receiving process.

By Ellen C. Brotman 
and Andrea Gosfield

6 minute read