Rebekah Mintzer

November 21, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

The Trump administration could halt Obama-era labor rules including Fair Pay executive order; joint employer standard; "quickie" union election rules; DOL overtime rules and arbitration agreements in labor contracts, counsel say.

By Rebekah Mintzer

24 minute read

November 18, 2016 | National Law Journal

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White, who announced this week she will resign at the end of President Barack Obama's second term, warned in a speech Friday the agency must not retreat from tougher regulation and enforcement.

By Rebekah Mintzer

8 minute read

November 14, 2016 | National Law Journal

Victoria Lipnic, one of two Republican commissioners at the EEOC, has been named as a leading contender for chief of the Labor Department in a Trump Administration.

By Rebekah Mintzer

23 minute read

November 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Lackawanna County judge recently rejected attempts by an area hospital and one of its obstetricians to use the federal Affordable Care Act to lower plaintiffs' potential recoveries.

By Rebekah Mintzer

10 minute read

November 11, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

In Republican Donald Trump, voters chose a candidate who has expressed anti-regulatory intentions. But in several states voters approved ballot measures that actually added more protections for workers.

By Rebekah Mintzer

19 minute read

November 11, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

President-elect Donald Trump has named J. Steven Hart, a longtime Washington lobbyist who focuses on tax and employee benefits, as the leader of his labor transition team.

By Rebekah Mintzer

11 minute read

November 10, 2016 | National Law Journal

President-elect Donald Trump has named J. Steven Hart, a longtime Washington lobbyist who focuses on tax and employee benefits, as the leader of his labor transition team.

By Rebekah Mintzer

11 minute read

November 09, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

As Donald Trump's upset victory over Hillary Clinton emerged Tuesday night, stock futures fell sharply. But, in some respect, Trump's victory could be a gift to banks that loathed a continuation of the Obama administration's regulatory and enforcement policies. In a speech in August, Trump said he would call for a moratorium on new financial regulations.

By BY C. RYAN BARBER AND REBEKAH MINTZER, Law.com

18 minute read

November 09, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Lawyers representing companies in securities law say they will take a "wait and see" approach to the Trump administration, though change is possible with a Republican Congress.

By REBEKAH MINTZER

10 minute read

November 09, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

President-elect Donald Trump on the campaign called for the repeal of the Wall Street reform law Dodd-Frank, and he advocated for U.S. Supreme Court justices in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia. We take a snapshot of Trump's transformative regulatory positions as a new day unfolds in the nation's capital.

By C. Ryan Barber and Rebekah Mintzer

23 minute read