In the time of Coronavirus with many municipalities implementing restrictions on business and individual activity, employers are anxious to return to normal operations with staff onsite as soon as possible. With vaccines becoming available, employers may be wondering, can I require my employees to ...
Podcast: Straddle-Year Tax Debts in Bankruptcy: Does the King Get Paid First?
The Internal Revenue Service is often a significant creditor in a bankruptcy proceeding, frequently taking priority over other creditors. In this episode, Tax attorney Douglas Charnas (Washington, DC) and Financial Services attorney Sarah Edwards (New Orleans) discuss the case of Affirmative ...
Podcast: What Does UCRERA Mean For Creditors?
Nine states, including Florida, have passed the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act, what's called the UCRERA. Members of our Business and Real Estate practice groups Manuel Farach (Fort Lauderdale) and Marshall Grodner (Baton Rouge) discuss what this means for creditors, especially in a ...
Podcast: Personal Jurisdiction Part 3 – Oral Arguments in the Ford Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments on two potentially groundbreaking personal jurisdiction cases known as “the Ford cases.” In this third episode from our series on Personal Jurisdiction, Rasch Brown, Gary Hebert, and Brian LeCompte (New Orleans) discuss their take on what they ...
Podcast: Political and Controversial Activity in the Workplace
Almost all the states have regulations with regard to protections for voting and political activity. They range, though, in the protections that they give. And there are certain ones that have specific protections with regard to speech. Election season is in full swing and the climate is ...
Podcast: A Leadership Perspective on Firm Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
Diverse people have different mindsets and thought processes and bring different talents to solve a problem. And we're in the business of solving problems for our clients. Diversity and inclusion have been trending topics in the legal world for many years. The recent focus on social justice has ...
Podcast: Covid on the Job: Construction Sites and Employment Law
Construction has been deemed an essential industry during this pandemic, but what do employers do when the Coronavirus hits their job site? In this episode of More with McGlinchey, Mag Bickford and Zelma Frederick chat about the interesting intersection of employment law ...
Podcast: Personal Jurisdiction Part 2 – The Ford Cases
In the second installment of our "More with McGlinchey" series on personal jurisdiction, Rasch Brown, Gary Hebert, and Brian LeCompte (New Orleans) discuss the potentially groundbreaking Ford cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Given recent Court precedent, is personal jurisdiction forever ...
Podcast: The ABCs of Employee Theft
“If what’s being stolen is office supplies, you’re probably not going to make a federal crime out of this, right? But if what’s being stolen are trade secrets, you need to respond in a very different manner. Workplace theft can run the gamut from office supplies to petty cash to trade secrets. In ...
Podcast: Search Warrant Protocol – Stop a Bad Day from Getting Worse
“This is one of those situations where… if you’re a baseball fan, you’re in the field. You can’t score any runs. You can’t defend your case… all you can do is prevent the government from scoring.” Whether they’re federal, state, or local, when agents knock on your door with a search warrant, ...