By Narcisa Przulj and Zach Merkle, Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C.
As with most Supreme Court terms, the high court has handed down opinions with which all employment-law practitioners should be familiar. October Term 2018 has been a big one for arbitration provisions, which directly affect many employment contracts.
By Raffaela Lödl-Klein and Mario Kapp, KAPP & PARTNER Rechtsanwälte GmbH
When a company is in serious financial distress, managing directors must fulfil a considerable variety of duties and responsibilities towards the company itself, towards its shareholders and towards third parties (i.e. creditors). As long as directors fulfil their general duties of care, they are not threatened with personal liability, especially not simply because the company has become insolvent. Nevertheless, a company’s crisis bears liability risks.
By Jonathan Wachs, Offit Kurman
Effective 03 August 2019, companies and individuals outside the United States that are submitting trademark filings to the United States Patent and Trademark Offce (USPTO) will be required to designate a US-licensed attorney as a contact person for the filing.
By Tijana Kondic, Law Firm Sajic
The laws on concessions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at both the entity and the state level, regulate the tendering procedure and the manner of investing private capital in cases of insuffcient budgetary funds for the projects of general interest, especially in the fields of transport, energy, communication, water resource management, etc.
By Sven Dierking, Gehrke econ Group
One of the biggest institutes for research on retail issues in Germany predicted a significant sales decrease for over-the-counter retail in Germany. Current reports of the distributors already show declining visitor numbers in more than half of the stores. This development results mainly from an increase of e-commerce and demographic changes and will lead to a more rigorous selection process.
By Ognjen Bogdanic, Law Firm Sajic
Trademarks are protected by intellectual property rights and therefore have an important position in the global market economy, as well as in the daily turnover of goods and services. The financial value of trademarks in the modern business world is immeasurable.
By Anette Sophie Klapproth, FACT GmbH
While the search for the Brexit compromise is running at full speed, the question is raised as to the possible consequences under labour law for British employees in Germany.
By Karina Reizner, Hategan Attorneys
Romania has undergone one of the most promising economic growths among the EU states in the last few years. The height of the economic boom saw a 7% GDP growth in 2017, slowing down to a forecasted 3.8% GDP growth in 2019: still one of the highest growths in the European Union. This economic success is due partially to the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Romania which might break the EUR 5 billion milestone in 2019, a height which has not been experienced in more than a decade.
By Lars Berg Dueholm and Kasper Bjerre Hendrup Andersen, LOU Advokatfirma
The increasingly intensive European regulation of the data-protection area prompts the question of how the trustee-in-bankruptcy must act, partly with regard to his/her processing of personal data, which the debtor has collected and processed about employees, customers, suppliers before the bankruptcy, and partly with regard to the data processing that the bankruptcy estates inevitably will perform in their own right.
By Clint Pinyan, Brooks Pierce
Today, Senators Brent Jackson (R-Sampson), Norman Sanderson (R-Pamlico) and Todd Johnson (R-Union) introduced S.B. 315 (the “North Carolina Farm Act of 2019”), a bill to create the North Carolina Hemp Commission. The Commission would implement new federal law contained in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (colloquially, the “2018 Farm Bill”) in order to permit and regulate a broad statewide industry in hemp (a variety of the cannabis plant with low THC concentrations).
