Are your employees entitled to paid sick leave? Learn everything you need to know about paid sick leave law updates in Maryland. In recent years, many social and political activists have demanded that lawmakers make paid sick leave available to all employees. In light of the rapidly changing state and local laws governing paid sick leave, many employers are unaware of their legal obligations and, accordingly, maintain sick leave policies that...

Learn everything you need to know about paid leave laws in Washington and how they will affect your organization. Sometimes it seems like paid sick leave obligations are changing by the month, the week or even the day. Just when you come up with a proposal and an agreed-upon solution that works for one location, another law in a nearby city gets passed. Surely there must be a compliance solution that works across the board? This topic will dev...

Know the unanticipated issues you may face when submitting bids for contracts. Many contractors and vendors who submit bids for contracts with the City of New York, and those who go on to obtain contract awards, may well face unanticipated issues in connection with the City's VENDEX system and questionnaires for reviewing "responsibility" as part of the process of awarding the contract; and, subsequently, in presenting claims under the City's...

Learn how to run an effective parking system in your community that considers revenue and customer service tradeoffs. An improperly run parking system, perhaps more than any other public asset, has a very real impact on the life of citizens and the success, or not, of a business district. Many public officials do not completely understand the cost of parking, and thus the revenues needed to maintain a healthy, vibrant, and revenue positive pro...

Understand the applicable disclosure regulations and standards that apply to recipients of federal relief funds. Over the past several years, the federal government has required contractors and grant recipients to disclose various noncompliance to the awarding agency or face stiff consequences. These requirements have caused significant unease and tension between the contractor/grant recipient community and the federal government. For this top...

Understand the current Clean Air Act landscape and other current regulatory and enforcement efforts at USEPA. Clean Air Act regulations and possible rule changes affect business and commerce all over the country. They also affect the quality of life. Clients want timely and pertinent information to guide their decision making. Lawyers, engineers and consultants need to understand company specific detail, but they also need to know the "big pic...

Understand the requirements and exceptions when submitting bids for contracts in Ohio. Many professionals are called upon to quickly analyze and provide advice on public bidding issues in Ohio. This topic will explain the methods for analyzing the public bidding requirements, including home rule and statutory requirements, when public bidding is actually required, the variations and exceptions to public bidding, and the fundamentals of contrac...

Are you up-to-date with the new regulations of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Right-of-Way? The new Bureau of Indian Affairs' Right-of-Way regulations have a considerable impact throughout Indian country, for both tribes and businesses involved in negotiations and economic opportunities on tribal lands. This topic will provide you with an overview of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' New Right-of-Way requirements. The new regulations will be compar...

Learn about key issues including keeping trespassers off utility or other easements. This topic will include legal and practical advice on identifying the priorities in land rights and responsibilities regarding easements and rights of way as the dominant estate and as to competing interests with respect thereto. Whether the servient estate holders, other easement holders or other third parties, determining what can, may and can't be done on...

Get practical advice to avoid common mistakes so that you can prepare useful and legally compliant NEPA documents. Since 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act has been the cornerstone for environmental protection in the United States. To implement NEPA, federal agencies must prepare environmental impact statements or environmental assessments to study the impacts of their proposed actions. Unfortunately, some federal agencies, their cons...