| Growth Industry: GC of Behavioral Health Company Says Seeing Kids Flourish Is Best Part of His Job: While Congress continues to debate health-care reform, Lowell A. Keig, the general counsel for a company that provides behavioral health-care services for children and adolescents, says it's business as usual for his company.
In-Housers Discuss Risks of Landing in the Hot Seat: In-house lawyers at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) annual meeting in Boston recently conferred on ways to combat the rising number of suits and government investigations faced by their ranks.
New Deals: Quanta Services Inc. acquires Price Gregory Services Inc. and Service Corp. International to acquire Keystone North America Inc.
ADA Amendments Mean Seismic Shift for Employers: What's the next wave of employment law that general counsel need to surf? It's reasonable accommodation under the Americans With Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA). The act kicked in Jan. 1, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has just issued proposed regulations for it.
Companies Need to Take Control of Firms' Fee Arrangements: The practice of law still is a profession, but it is so much more business-like today, says Roderick B. Dorman. Law partnerships, with lockstep compensation arrangements assuring each partner was paid according to seniority, gave way to the commercial meritocracy of the late 1990s and the new millennium. Once upon a time, law partners seldom left established large firms.
Time Running Out to Comment on Proposed ADA Regulations: In-house lawyers are busier than ever, but they must take note of the impending Nov. 23 deadline for comments on theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission's proposed revisions to its Americans With Disabilities Act regulations. Key changes broaden the interpretation of the definition of disability.
OMG — He TXTD What? The Pitfalls of Investigating Harassment By Text Messages: Imagine a supervisor making an inappropriate remark to one of his direct reports in an after-hours conversation. If he made the comment verbally, and the employee then reported it to the supervisor's employer, any resulting litigation would have involved the usual "he said, she said" situation, in which lawyers would have challenged the employee's credibility.
Employers Ask: Can We Require Swine Flu Shots for Workers?: Employment lawyers are hearing from a lot of employers with visions of a potential swine flu pandemic hitting, say, 25 percent of their work force. Their latest question: Can we mandate swine flu shots for our workers?
