Kristie Rearick

November 14, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

President Donald Trump's appointee to lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was confirmed by the Senate and was sworn in as director on Oct. 8. Within his first two weeks in office, the agency issued its first official policy memo under his leadership.

By William A. Stock

5 minute read

November 14, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

relevance and power since the 1980s—a decline made more precipitous by right-to-work (RTW) legislation and laws throughout various states—28 at last count.

By Sarah C. Yerger

11 minute read

November 14, 2017 | Daily Business Review

On Sept. 27, the Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress released a long anticipated framework intended to guide legislative efforts on comprehensive tax reform.

By Commentary by Richard A. Bruner, Jr. and Carl T. Berry

5 minute read

November 14, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

The reasons for the gender pay gap in the United States, and globally, are varied and complex.

By James F. Glunt

9 minute read

November 14, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Employers increasingly rely on independent contractors, "temps" and other nontraditional workers to solve their business needs. These nontraditional work…

By Nina K. Markey

7 minute read

November 13, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

If you have had the pleasure of orally arguing an appeal recently in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania or before the en banc (full court) Superior Court of Pennsylvania or Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, then you probably noticed that those oral arguments are videotaped for later broadcast on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN).

By Howard J. Bashman

6 minute read

November 13, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), better known as Superfund, provides private parties with two types of claims to recover costs associated with investigating and remediating contaminated sites—a cost recovery claim under CERCLA Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. Section 9607(a), and a contribution claim under Section 113(f), 42 U.S.C. Section 9613(f). A party can have either a CERCLA Section 107 cost recovery claim, or a Section 113 contribution claim, but not both, as each section of CERCLA provides mutually exclusive remedies.

By Diana A. Silva

9 minute read

November 13, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia unveils statue of Octavius V. Catto—the city's first public monument to an individual African-American.

By Michael H. Reed, Richard W. Foltz, Jr. and Joseph J. Serritella

6 minute read

November 13, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Harvey Weinstein may actually have caused more people to talk about sexual harassment in the workplace than Anita Hill did. While the topics of discussion may range greatly, in corporate America one common question keeps rising to the top: What should a company do when presented with an allegation of sexual harassment or a sexual relationship between co-workers?

By April Boyer and Mallory Cooney

6 minute read

November 13, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Earlier this summer in Matal v. Tam (formerly Lee v. Tam), the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) struck down the restriction on the registration of marks that “disparage” under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1052(a).

By Angela D. Giampolo

6 minute read