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On August 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities. The DOJ Fact Sheet is at Fact Sheet: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on...
Jim Goodrich will moderate a panel called “Following the Money in a Construction Project” during the 2023 HEREL Annual Conference at University of Minnesota. This session will address several money-related topics that arise over the course of a project such as allowances, contingencies, savings, and...
Trending Risk Management Topics in Athletics Tuesday, September 12 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm EDT ABOUT Athletics at colleges and universities offer students the ability to build skills including physical fitness, teamwork, and perseverance. Athletics also create risk, and with athletic risks evolving and...
Throughout 2023, OSHA has implemented multiple policy changes meant to enhance its enforcement mechanisms, including increased funding and inspector hirings, revisions to the "instance-by-instance" violation policy, modifications to the Severe Violator Enforcement Program, and the new electronic...
In an effort to combat discrimination and harassment based on caste, numerous colleges and universities have amended their nondiscrimination policies to explicitly prohibit misconduct based on caste. Institutions of higher education are joined in this effort by some states and municipalities...
The work of subcontractors is largely guided by the written contracts to which they agree, making those contracts important to their company’s success. Ideally, contracts should be balanced, and they should allocate risk to the party able to control the risk, but that is often not the case. Though...
On May 25, 2023, the Illinois legislature passed HB 2878, a colossal 195-page bill, that impacts numerous public procurement laws, including curbing the percentage of retainage that local governments may withhold from contractors on public construction projects in Illinois. On June 22, 2023, the...
Saul Ewing attorneys Josh Richards and Carolyn Pellegrini will be attending the 2023 NACUA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. During the conference, these attorneys will also be speaking on various panels. See below for more information. 01C. Bias Incident Response Landscape: Publics and Privates...
Contractors could start seeing six-figure fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the next few months thanks to sweeping policy changes implemented earlier this year. In a press release and two internal memoranda issued January 26, 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL)...
Institutions of higher education have increasingly become the targets of the plaintiffs' class action bar, but many institutions named as defendants in those class actions are finding themselves in that position for the first time. This seminar reviewed the types of class claims being asserted...
The deal reached between the President and House Speaker McCarthy on the debt limit bill includes provisions approving a natural gas pipeline project (Mountain Valley Pipeline) and eliminating any judicial review of its existing and future permits, and also includes some limited reform of the...