While she is out of jail after posting her $1.5M bond, the 66-year-old woman is required to wear a tether, cannot drive or drink alcohol, and had to hand over her passport.

On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced its anticipated final rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for exemption to ...

The Federal Trade Commission issued new rules that will affect many workers in Oklahoma. One of the rules has to do with salaried employees who work overtime.

The Valparaiso City Council passed the final reading of a resolution at the April 8 meeting allowing a sum of up to $40,000 for “billable hours” for the council to secure additional legal ...

Tennessee’s hike in rates for attorneys representing indigent defendants or families is “a good start,” but unlikely to draw new people into an inadequate pool of lawyers, a local defense attorney who ...

It's a part of a larger push to keep attorneys in the state as the Tennessee Bar Association says TN attorneys are some of the lowest paid in the country.

The bill will almost definitely become law once it reaches Republican Governor Bill Lee, who has yet to veto a piece of legislation that reaches his desk. The measure will allow teachers and staff to ...

Many low-wage workers cannot afford to pay a lawyer by the hour, so attorneys typically take on these cases based on a contingency fee — taking a percentage of the damages won through a court award or ...

The Biden administration has adopted a final rule extending overtime pay protections to millions of salaried workers, effective July 1. Those workers will make more money for working over 40 hours a ...

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide.

More than 33,000 Providence employees filed a class-action complaint against the health system in 2021, alleging that it had been withholding their wages by denying them breaks and rounding down their ...

Within hours of the vote, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced it would sue to block the ban. Dallas employment attorney Rogge Dunn predicts employees will ultimately win this battle.