News & Insights

On May 18, 2016, President Obama and Secretary of Labor Perez announced the publication of the Department of Labor’s final rule updating the overtime regulations. The Department of Labor states that this will automatically

The Fifth Circuit recently handed down an important lesson to building owners: if you ask contractors to point out potential design errors, make sure you are prepared to resolve them.  In reversing the district court’s

In a unanimous decision delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court recently recognized the “implied false certification theory of liability” under the False Claims Act (FCA).  The FCA imposes civil liability

In April, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a proposal amending the city’s building codes to require the installation of solar panels on new commercial and residential buildings.[1] This is the

  On May 19, 2016, the Illinois Supreme Court handed a victory to developers and builder-vendors of new residential construction.  In Fattah v. Bim,  2016 IL 119365,  the court held that the implied warranty of