Allen Wolff
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Cassie Steele
Stephen Barth
You are the General Counsel or the outside counsel to a hotel or restaurant brand. Your client informs you that the company intends to purchase multiple units of additional properties in several different states. Your...
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Elizabeth DeConti
Defending Cases In High Crime Areas
Depending on where you do business, crime and its associated consequences may simply be a cost of doing business. Unfortunately, savvy Plaintiff’s lawyers have carved out a niche practice by targeting businesses in high...
Tips for Last-Minute Travel
Prior to traveling internationally, it is best practice for individuals to visit a travel medicine specialist at least four to six weeks before their departure date to ensure that there is enough time to develop...
World Aware
Business Use of E-Scooters Presents New Challenges for Employers
Eric Lazzari needed to get across downtown for a meeting and decided to use an electric scooter, according to The Denver Post. He knew the law, and was properly operating the e-scooter on the sidewalk. While stopped at...
Susan Schaecher
Hotel Attack Statistics
The mass murderer who used the MGM Mandalay Bay as a gunner’s perch to kill 59 people and wound 452 on 1 October 2017 shocked the hotel industry. Cries of, “we’ve never seen hotel violence like this,” and...
Jeff MooreLATEST IN HOSPITALITY:
Fisher & PhillipsU.S. Companies Still Grappling With GDPR
Several months after the European Union’s (EU’s) new sweeping privacy law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018, U.S. companies are still struggling to understand the...
Anjali Das
Hayley HospitalityLawyer.com®EEOC Lawsuit Push Takes Aim At Hospitality Employers
In the first half of August 2018 alone, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed 16 lawsuits against employers—and hospitality employers should be especially wary about this surge of litigation, as...
Andria Ryan
Brian CafritzRisk Management: Attendee Health Issues/Illness
In order to have the most comprehensive risk management plan, you have to cover a wide array of situations that can impact your meeting. It is easy to think of the big things, like storms, terrorist attacks and other...
Cassie GrenemeierLATEST IN SAFETY, SECURITY, & RISK MANAGEMENT:
Winter Is Coming…So What Should Employers Do To Prepare?
As readers of epic fantasy novels and viewers of a certain cable TV-show know all too well, winter is most definitely coming. Your radio is already playing holiday music, the shiny decorations are already out in malls...
Maxwell LeitschuhRisk Management: Attendee Health Issues/Illness
In order to have the most comprehensive risk management plan, you have to cover a wide array of situations that can impact your meeting. It is easy to think of the big things, like storms, terrorist attacks and other...
Eckert Seamans
Daniel DeaconLATEST IN LEGAL & HUMAN RESOURCES:
Would You Like Fries And A Political Opinion With That? Regulating Employee Buttons, Pins, And Insignia In The Workplace
Burgers and buttons are making headlines again. Employees at Burgerville—a fast-food restaurant chain in the Pacific Northwest—recently took to wearing buttons to work and were sent home for the day. These buttons were...
Tips, Service Charges, and Automatic Gratuities Continue to Cause Problems for Employers
Hospitality employers nationwide continue to be hit with class action lawsuits alleging failure to properly pay/distribute tips, as well as failure to correctly characterize service charges and automatic gratuities. ...
Jordan Schwartz
Lasting Effects of the #MeToo Movement
It has been about a year since the #MeToo movement went viral, spreading greater awareness about sexual misconduct and harassment, and, more generally, the role of women, in the workplace. So, where are we now, and has...
Beeta LashkariLATEST IN INSURANCE & LOSS PREVENTION
Knowing Water Freezes Does NOT Mean Defendant Should Foresee that Water Will Freeze at a Certain Location
Businesses can control many factors on their property, but they cannot control the weather or alter the laws of physics. Water freezes at 32°F. Ice is slippery. Everybody knows the basic facts of the physical properties...
David BarronThe Most Aggressive Privacy Law in the U.S.: Tracking the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
Signed into law on June 28, 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act provides the most comprehensive and aggressive privacy law in the United States — despite being pushed through the legislative process in one week...
Faegre Baker Daniels
Disease Threats: How to Secure the Corporate Workplace
A proactive approach to local and international disease threats is an essential and often overlooked safeguard to business productivity and duty of care. Human capital is arguably worth more to a business than tangible...
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EEOC Lawsuit Push Takes Aim At Hospitality Employers
In the first half of August 2018 alone, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed 16 lawsuits against employers—and hospitality employers should be especially wary about this surge of litigation, as...
Do You Need Event Security and How to Handle It
Preparing Hospitality Event Security Meetings and events are crucial to the growth of the US economy contributing $446 billion to GDP in 2016. Business services and the insurance company contributed the most to this...
Clint SchumacherThe Not-So-Happy Hour: Preparing for Investigations & Subpoenas in Light of #metoo & More
Since the last Presidential election campaign began approximately two years ago, there has been a significant public focus on sexual harassment, income inequality, crimes against women, public corruption, and the income...
Matthew Feinberg
Mark Gomsak
