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Texas Lawyer

When A Reasonable Accommodation Is No Longer Reasonable in the COVID-19 Era?

Late last year employers received much needed guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that will assist in analyzing whether an employer must continue to permit employees to work from home.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Quinn Emanuel Hires Away McDermott's Boston Head as Life Sciences Moves Continue

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Sidley Austin; Dechert and Shook, Hardy & Bacon have all made life science hires this month alone.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Health Care Drives More Big Law Lateral Moves

Sidley Austin nabbed a health care real estate group from McDermott, while King & Spalding took a practice head from Proskauer Rose.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

OIG Opinion: Providers Can Share a Portion of Reimbursements With MSP Patients

On Dec. 28, 2020, the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 20-07, approving a proposal whereby certain health care facilities and clinicians could use an online platform to disburse, to patients and the patients' payors, a portion of the reimbursement the facilities and clinicians, receive for claims where Medicare is a secondary payor.
7 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Superior Court: Potential Data Breach Harm Doesn't Hack It as Basis for Standing

Judge Mary M. Johnston wrote that her granting of Brandywine Urology Consultants' motion to dismiss the case marks the first time a Delaware court has ruled on the issue of whether imminent future harm from a data breach is enough of an injury to qualify for standing.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Hire Up: Leaders of Hot Big Law Practices Are Making Moves

Law firms are bulking up in life sciences, fintech, white-collar and regulatory practices.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Insurers, Hospitals Face Audits for Health Care Reform Act Surcharges

In his Health Law column, Francis J. Serbaroli takes another look at the troubles faced by insurers, hospitals and other health care providers when they are subjected to audits of their payments of surcharges required under New York's Health Care Reform Act of 1996. He reviews the history of this law, the services covered and how the surcharges are calculated, and the problems that arise when these audits take place, and offers advice on how to deal with issues raised in the course of these audits.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lawyers Who Save Lives

Karen Gallinari, chair of the Health Law Section, describes how section members seized the opportunity to address the legal and ethical public health issues that COVID-19 brought front and center, by bringing attention to state action that would ease the challenges of public health emergencies.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Yale Law's Abbe Gluck, Former RBG Clerk, Named Special Counsel on Biden COVID-19 Team

The former law clerk to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spoken and written extensively on the signature Obama-era Affordable Care Act.
5 minute read

Pro Mid Market

Mid-Market Recap: Law Firms Are Giving It Their Best Shot

Midsize firms have shown great adaptability in the last year. Will they be able to pivot quickly again as the vaccine is distributed?
5 minute read

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