Business Law and Corporate Law

In this episode of The Founder's Hour, hosts Laura Cicirelli and Eric Weiner are joined by Julie Levinson Werner, partner and Vice Chair of Lowenstein’s Employment practice, to discuss the legal and practical considerations founders face as they begin building a workforce.

Universities drive innovation across medicine, AI, materials, and clean tech, but academic researchers face a critical challenge: the need to publish conflicts with patent protection requirements for confidentiality. Understanding how to navigate publication deadlines, filing strategies, and IP development can determine whether groundbreaking research becomes a valuable commercial asset or loses protection entirely.

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The DOJ's Fraud Division has issued new guidance centralizing corporate fraud enforcement under its Corporate Enforcement Section and establishing ten key factors prosecutors must weigh when making charging decisions.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three healthcare-related artificial intelligence (AI) bills – Assembly Bill (AB) 1979, Senate Bill (SB) 503 and SB 947 – and vetoed two others, AB 2575 and SB 903.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued an employer for the second time alleging that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it rescinded job offers based on applicants’ use of certain medications.

The Department of Justice has withdrawn a 1987 Business Review Letter issued to proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, signaling potential antitrust scrutiny of an industry that has evolved significantly since its infancy. This action raises questions about market concentration in the proxy advisory sector and whether firms' expansion into corporate consulting services conflicts with their original representations to regulators.

If you are under SEC investigation, one of the most critical, strategic decisions you may face is whether to invoke your Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

The SEC's proposed amendments would fundamentally restructure how public companies determine their filer status, raising the large accelerated filer threshold from $700 million to $2 billion and extending scaled disclosure accommodations to approximately 81% of reporting companies.

The SEC's proposed amendments would fundamentally restructure how public companies determine their filer status, raising the large accelerated filer threshold from $700 million to $2 billion and extending scaled disclosure accommodations to approximately 81% of reporting companies.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently heard oral arguments in a case that could provide important guidance on the enforceability of noncompetition covenants embedded in executive equity agreements and the proper signatory to such covenants.

The SEC has submitted a rule proposal titled "Executive Compensation Disclosure Reform" to the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, signaling imminent changes to executive compensation disclosure requirements. This development follows SEC Chairman Paul Atkins' earlier indication of broader reform plans, including potential simplification of pay-versus-performance disclosure and revisions to perquisite reporting.