On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (“Department”) announced its much anticipated Final Rule raising the salary threshold necessary to exempt certain executive, administrative, and professional employees from receiving overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The Final Rule is set to take effect on January 1, 2020. The...
On Thursday, September 26, 2019, Partridge Snow & Hahn Partner Alicia Samolis will participate on a panel as part of the prestigious Professor Anthony J. Santoro Business Law Lecture Series, presented by Roger Williams University School of Law (RWU Law). Samolis, an RWU Law alumna, will be joined by legal and business colleagues from Bank...
Partridge Snow & Hahn is proud to be recognized in Benchmark Litigation’s 2019 Labor & Employment Rankings and Stars. Benchmark Litigation is the definitive guide to America’s leading litigation firms and attorneys. Benchmark focuses exclusively on litigation in the US. Recommendations for the Rankings and Stars are based on interviews with the nation’s leading private practice lawyers and in-house...
On Friday, September 20, Jeff Gladstone will participate in a CLE seminar on Boundary Issues and Easement Law, to be held in Warwick, R.I. Created for attorneys, other professionals who could benefit from the seminar include surveyors, engineers, architects, developers, planners, local government officials and real estate and title insurance professionals. Attendees will learn how...
PSH Counsel Elizabeth O. Manchester spoke as part of the recent OceanPoint Insurance executive workshop series, on the topic of key policies for nonprofits in the era of the #MeToo movement. The workshop features specialists who share business and legal expertise with non-profit executives including CEOs, executive directors, CFOs, Human Resource directors, COOs, and board...
On Tuesday, September 17, Partridge Snow & Hahn attorney Elizabeth Manchester will speak to executives and administrators in the non-profit sector as part of the OceanPoint Insurance executive workshop series. In her presentation, Key Policies for Nonprofits in the #MeToo Era, Liz will discuss institutional policies and practices that address how to handle the changing relationships...
John E. Ottaviani, Partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group, provided some context to World Trademark Review on the issue of some trademark applicants suddenly being asked to show “proof of legal residence in the U.S.” The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is suffering backlash from its examining attorneys, who are now required by...
By Eugene G. Bernardo II and David M. DiSegna House Bill 3967, titled the “Municipal Bond Market Support Act of 2019”, was introduced by Alabama Representative Terri Sewell and New York Representative Tom Reed with the purpose of increasing the amount of tax-exempt bonds that may be issued as bank qualified obligations. According to their...
Tom Brady may be the greatest NFL quarterback of all time. But his efforts to register a TOM TERRIFIC trademark for T-shirts and posters and sporting cards have been thrown for a loss at the hands of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The applications serve as a reminder that U.S. trademark law does...
PS&H employment partner and Chair of the Labor & Employment Group, Alicia Samolis, spoke with RI Lawyers Weekly on the rising incidence of reverse discrimination inquiries and matters that she is seeing. Attributed at least in part to the #MeToo movement and increased focus on diversity and inclusion efforts, Samolis commented that, “What I have seen, at...
