Insights

New York – November 2, 2020: The National Law Journal named Crowell & Moring counsel Jared Levine to its 2020 list of Immigration Law Trailblazers. The list honors 25 lawyers from around the country who have made impacts within the immigration law field.

Washington – December 9, 2019: Crowell & Moring has launched a special multi-disciplinary team to advise clients reacting and responding to the Department of Justice’s new Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) – a multiagency initiative to detect and punish antitrust crimes in the government procurement, grant, and program funding arenas.

Washington – October 23, 2019: A federal judge halted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing its controversial “public charge” rule, a policy change that advocacy groups assert would have disproportionately blocked immigrants of color from obtaining permanent resident status and inhibited immigrant workers and foreign students from extending or changing their visa status.

The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey adopted a new local rule, starting on June 21, 2021, requiring disclosure by litigants regarding the use of litigation funding. While several federal courts have implemented rules requiring disclosure of the existence and identity of litigation funders, New Jersey’s rule goes much further, requiring all parties to further disclose:

On June 11, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held in China Agritech, Inc. v. Resh that the filing of a putative class action equitably tolls the limitations period for putative class members to file individual claims, but does not toll the limitations period for filing new class actions.

The U.S. Department of Labor ("DoL") recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("Notice") that, among other things, would implement legislation that extended military caregiver leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA" or "the Act").  The proposed rule change also provides guidance as to a 2009 amendment to the FMLA that addressed FMLA coverage for airline flight crew employees.  Additionally, the proposed rule change addresses calculation of FMLA leave time under certain circumstances, defines key terms and phrases that were previously undefined, and provides substantial guidance to employers in the implementation of their leave policies.  Once the Notice is published in the Federal Register, interested parties will have sixty days in which to submit comments.

Crowell & Moring New York attorneys Ed Baum, Jared Levine, Paul Pollock, and Ilana Lubin join Robert K. Smits, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Global Brands Group, in presenting The Art of Contracting, a panel discussion exclusively for members of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s New York City Chapter and other in-house counsel.