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Do your clients do business with Australian entities? What you need to know about the Personal Property Securities Act

Contact: Matt Couper & William Keating, Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) Introduction The introduction of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (PPSA) represents a fundamental change in respect of laws ...

Second Circuit Rulings Provide Hope For Companies’ Use of Unpaid Interns

Contact: Steve Schneider and Amr Shabaik Internships have traditionally been used by companies in various industries to allow students to gain experience and potential entry into competitive fields. Recently, a surge ...

Slow Down the Train: Be Sure to Carefully Examine Your Termination Decisions Before Showing Employees the Door

Contact: Michael J. Neary, Lerch, Early & Brewer (Maryland, USA) When employers call to discuss impending terminations, I sometimes sense my questions are viewed by clients like routine maintenance on a car: you kno ...

Employers Get a Surprise in the Department of Labor’s Proposed Expanded Overtime Regulations

Contact: Joshua C. Schmand and Richard G. Vernon; Lerch, Early & Brewer (Maryland, USA) The long-awaited proposed revisions to the “white collar” exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside sale ...

In-house counsel update: Legal professional privilege – independence declines and the purpose dominates

Contact: Andrew Shute and Matthew Payten, Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) Legal professional privilege, also known as client legal privilege, is an important tool to facilitate frank legal advice between lawyer ...

Australian Shareholders left in the lurch: unacceptable circumstances?

Contact: Tony Stumm, Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) This newsletter reviews the recent decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia on the court’s adjudication as to whether ‘unacceptable co ...

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