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Leases, Bankruptcy, and Coronavirus: Force Majeure Edition

Written By Lance P. Martin

Many businesses in bankruptcy or heading that way – particularly retail establishments – face an uncertain future as states and cities impose closures and phased re-openings.  If you lease your office, st…

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Seeing Through the Fog: Obtaining a Grower’s License in Uncertain Times

Written By Tyler J. Russell and Allen N. Trask, III

If all of the recent upheavals in the law and regulations for hemp have left you confused about how to get a hemp grower's license, you are not alone.  Law and regulation have been moving at a rapid pace in this area…

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Can a Debtor Choose Salvation Over Creditors?

Written By Lance P. Martin

In a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, debtors propose a plan to re-pay all or a portion of their debts. The amount to be repaid depends on how much the debtors earn, the amount and types of debt owed, and how much property they own…

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COVID Quarantine + Surge in eCommerce = … ADA Discrimination Claims?!

Written By Angela P. Doughty, CIPP/US, AIGP

While much about COVID-19 and its long-term impact on businesses and the economy is unknown, its effect of a worldwide increase in a reliance on digital means to engage in business transactions is undeniable and unlikely t…

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Liability Waivers and Questionnaires in the Time of COVID-19

Written By Will Oden

As businesses begin to re-open and re-engage their workforce, and in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is worth exploring requiring your employees (and in certain circumstances, customers) to execute a liability w…

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An Employee Cannot be Fired, or Otherwise Discriminated Against, for Being Gay or Transgender

Written By X. Lightfoot and Hayley R. Wells

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") decided in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia that the protections of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act ("Title VII") extend to individuals who are discriminate…

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