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What Every Employment Lawyer Needs to Know About ERISA Many lawyers are afraid of ERISA (the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974), but you don't have to be. This panel will provide an overview of key ERISA issues that employment lawyers should be aware of including which types of...
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to petitions for attorneys’ fees, unpersuasive self-reported evidence of disability, and a dilatory attempt to augment the administrative record. The Saul Ewing Employee Benefits/ERISA Litigation Team Western District of Wisconsin Slashes “Eye-Popping”...
On November 1, 2023, Candice Kline will speak during the Financial Poise Webinar RESTRUCTURING, INSOLVENCY & TROUBLED COMPANIES 2023. The topic which she will speak on is "Bad Debtor Owes Me Money."
On October 11, the Department of Justice released a settlement agreement it entered into with a large, Florida-based automotive management company for False Claims Act violations based on an allegedly improper forgiveness of a Paycheck Protection Program loan. Up to now, the DOJ has primarily...
Paige Topper will participate in the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) 2023 NextGen Program. Each year, the NCBJ NextGen program selects up to 50 "up-and-coming" bankruptcy practitioners who "demonstrate legal excellence in the practice of bankruptcy law" to participate in a four-day...
This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions that range from the effect on disability benefits when medical records are not provided after two appeals, to a case that examines how an award of death benefits is determined, to a finding that an insurer’s decision to terminate benefits was not...
Crypto and Bankruptcy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going This panel discussed the current state of crypto and digital asset bankruptcies. The panelists also revisited hot topics from last year, covered major decisions made, issues still to be decided, and how the law is adapting with this...
Hedge funds and other distressed debt traders buy and sell millions of dollars of distressed securities and bankruptcy claims every day. A number of private equity funds focus exclusively on buying distressed businesses, fixing, and selling them. And fortunes are made when real estate crashes by...
A perennial debate exists in the white-collar space: do the benefits of self-disclosure outweigh the risks associated with providing the government with a road map to the company’s purported violation? Consistently, the Department of Justice, among other government agencies, has answered that...