Lewis Brisbois is pleased to present our next webinar of 2022, “OSHA and Workers’ Compensation,” taking place Thursday, November 17 at 9:00 a.m. ET.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Sean Brennecke to its Wilmington office as a partner in the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation, Corporate, and Bankruptcy & Insolvency Practices. With 17 years of experience, Mr. Brennecke represents corporations, alternative entities, and their respective directors, officers, shareholders, members, and managers in complex corporate and commercial matters.

Pittsburgh Partner Sunshine R. Fellows and Associate Shane Miller recently secured a unanimous defense verdict in an assault and battery matter. The plaintiff in the case was a federal law enforcement officer who was seated next to Lewis Brisbois’ client on a flight from Pittsburgh to Atlanta.

Cleveland Partners Ryan K. Rubin and Tera Sherman Edwards secured a significant victory on behalf of a hospital, an individually-named cardiologist, and his employer in a wrongful death action - involving a $15 million jury demand - when a jury in Lorain County, Ohio returned a unanimous defense verdict.

In recent weeks, the U.S. government has taken actions on multiple fronts to step up sanctions pressure against Russia. These new developments affect many types of business dealings, and U.S. companies should be alert to their ever-increasing need for vigilance to avoid potential legal vulnerability and adverse consequences to their reputation and bottom line.

Fort Lauderdale Partner Michael G. Platner will lead a “Going Liquid” workshop on strategic planning and liquidity exclusively for C-Level owners and key executive officers of private companies, hosted at Northern Trust's office in the Chicago area on November 17 at 8:00 a.m. CT.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2022, two U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) and the District of Connecticut – with the support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Task Force KleptoCapture – charged nearly a dozen individuals and two Europe-based corporate entities with multiple violations of U.S. laws, including exporting civil-military, dual-use technology to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions laws. U.S. individuals and corporations should take note of this increased enforcement focus on sanctions violations.

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of lawsuits alleging breach of fiduciary duty against sponsors of 401(k) plans and service providers to those plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA. In a recent case, the Eighth Circuit held that a plan service provider did not violate ERISA despite having the ability to unilaterally set a low interest rate on a proprietary investment it offered to the employer’s 401k plan, and then profited from participants who invested in it.

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Eldar Mayouhas to its New York office as a partner in the firm’s Healthcare, Medical Malpractice, Long-Term Care, and General Liability Practices. With extensive experience handling medical and psychiatric malpractice cases from pre-litigation risk management through appeal, Mr. Mayouhas will help grow the firm’s healthcare capabilities in the region.

Washington, D.C. Partner Karen C. Bennett recently spoke with InsideEPA – a news service that reports on environmental regulation and policy – for an article on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) landmark new guidance on addressing environmental justice considerations in the permitting process.

Wilmington Managing Partner Francis G.X. Pileggi recently authored an article for the September/October 2022 issue of The Bencher, a bi-monthly publication of the American Inns of Court, titled “Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies Standard to Hold Individual in Contempt for Actions of Entity She Controls."

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce that it has achieved Mansfield 5.0 Certification. To achieve the certification, Lewis Brisbois collaborated with Diversity Lab over a 12-month period, which included built-in measurement, transparency, and accountability mechanisms. The firm has now moved on to participating in the Mansfield 6.0 certification process.

On October 7, 2022, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities,” which outlines the actions the United States will take to implement the commitments made under the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework announced in March 2022. This is a welcome change for U.S. companies grappling with compliance requirements under the EU’s far-reaching data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation.

Northwest Indiana Partners Renee J. Mortimer, Scott B. Cockrum and Ami T. Anderson, along with Los Angeles Partner Eric Y. Kizirian, will speak at the upcoming Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana (DTCI) Annual Conference, hosted at the Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City on November 17-18.

On October 7, 2022, the Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department concluded that the statute repealing New York’s Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act (the EDTPA) is to be given prospective application and not retroactive application, as has been hotly contested by plaintiffs’ firms in the midst of a recent glut of nursing home litigation cases.