Publications

The first session of the 104th Nebraska Legislature is nearly one-quarter complete. Here is an update on the bills we are tracking related to real property, renewable energy, and municipal law. This alert provides an updated list of the bills we are tracking, with their current status. You can find […]

This week the first session of the 104th Nebraska Legislature completed committee referrals for all introduced bills and committee hearings continued in earnest. A few bills moved out of committee, and a few more advanced all the way to the Select File. Baird Holm continues to track those bills related […]

The time employees spend waiting for and undergoing an employer’s security screening is not compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (the “FLSA”). In Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, the U.S. Supreme Court found in favor of Integrity Staffing Solutions (“Integrity”), a company that provided warehouse staffing […]

For the 2015 H-1B visa cap, April 1 is the first day U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) will accept H-1B cap-subject petitions for foreign national professionals in specialty occupations. Cap-subject H-1B visas become available each year on October 1 — and filings with USCIS can be made no sooner […]

The attorney-client privilege gives employers critical protection in the event of a lawsuit, but courts will not hesitate to declare that employers have forfeited those protections if they are not careful. Worse, once an employer has lost the protection of the attorney-client privilege, the documents and conversations over which the […]