On June 10, 2021, OSHA issued its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) tailored to workplaces where employees provide healthcare services or healthcare support services, with certain exceptions...

Partner Matthew Deffebach and Associate Mini Kapoor talked with HR Magazine about navigating conflicting state and local laws for vaccine passport requirements and how those laws affect OSHA ...

On June 10, 2021, OSHA updated its COVID-19 guidance from January 29, 2021, which we discussed here.

Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Matthew Thomas Deffebach talked with HR Magazine about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standards that protect frontline w...

Counsel Raquel Alvarenga spoke with HR Magazine about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidance on handling COVID-19-related accommodation request from fully vaccinated work...

At long last, and after more than a decade of litigation, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in the multi-billion dollar copyright dispute between Google LLC and Oracle America, Inc.

On May 13, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that persons in non-healthcare settings and who are fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine, can go without masks and...

Partner Jason Habinsky talked with HR Magazine about employers’ best practices for COVID-19 precautions in light of the CDC’s updated safety guidelines for employees who are fully vaccinated.

Associate David L. Staab, who works in the firm's Restructuring Practice Group, was interviewed by the Texas Bar Journal on returning to the racetrack for the 2021 Mazda MX-5 Cup after a long...

A prolific global crisis, originating overseas, causes supply chain disruptions limiting corporate activity for a period initially thought to be weeks, which stretches into more than a year. This is n...

Partner Leslie Thorne talked with Insurance Coverage Law Center about the potential outcome concerning the first appellate court case on business interruption and COVID-19 insurance coverage and the i...

Partner Matthew Deffebach talked with HR Magazine about how an employer could retaliate against an employee who raises COVID-19 concerns, what employees can do in such situations, and what ma...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Matthew Deffebach talked with HR Magazine about legal issues for employers to consider if a staff nurse refuses, for religious reasons, to administer a COVID-19 ...

Law360 quoted Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Adrian Azer in an article about the courtroom battlegrounds for pandemic-related insurance litigation.

Associate Neil Issar authored an article in the Dallas Bar Association’s Headnotes publication about risks and liabilities for healthcar...

At the American Bar Association’s OSHA Midwinter Meeting, held virtually March 23-26, 2021, OSHA presented updates on expected activities under the Biden Administration, including the COVID-19 Nationa...

On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021”, a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill aimed at curbing the economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a comprehensive ...

Partner Melanie Willems talked with the International Bar Association (IBA) about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the courts and how it has pushed alternative dispute resolution (ADR) into the ...

Corporate policyholders, who have monitored COVID-19 business interruption litigation over the past year, will know that reported decisions favoring insurers currently outnumber those granting relief ...

Partner Emma Russell authored an opinion piece in The Lawyer about having a baby during COVID-19 and how it changed her perspective on the challenges that working moms face.

Haynes and Boone, LLP Counsel Raquel Alvarenga talked with HR Magazine about what employers need to know about the American Rescue Plan Act, which was signed into law to help struggling busin...

On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order that, among other things, directed the Secretary of Labor to launch a national program to focus on OSHA enforcement efforts related to CO...

Partners David McCombs and Eugene Goryunov, Counsel Dina Blikshteyn, and Summer Associate Roy Falik authored an article in Bloomberg Law about the patentability of a theoretical smartphone-en...

HR Magazine quoted Haynes and Boone Partner Adam Sencenbaugh in an article about a proposed Congressional bill that would create a permanent paid family and medical leave program.

Partners Ralph Gabric and Eugene Goryunov and Associate Judy He write in Life Science Leader about how the development of biological products and vaccines in response to COVID-19 may result i...

Partners Joseph Matal and David Bell authored an article in IP Magazine about the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020, which they say represents the most significant reshaping of U.S. tradema...

Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Adam Sencenbaugh talked with HR Magazine about how employers reopening their workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic can ease the transition for their workers th...

HR Magazine quoted Haynes and Boone, LLP Associate Brent Beckert in an article about how businesses that received loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) may be eligible for a sec...

Partner Adrian Azer and Associate Wes Dutton authored an article in Law360 about how the shift in control of the federal government, amid COVID-19, will have substantial implications for the insurance...

Partner Bill Morrison and Associate Neil Issar authored an article in PLI Chronicle about the trends in telehealth fraud enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic.