By now you may have seen the video of college students on Spring Break, cramming together on Florida’s beaches while drinking and partying under the mantra “If I get corona, I get corona.” Aside from this attitude having potentially disastrous consequences for...
Content By Melissa Yasinow
What Title IX and Coronavirus Have to Do With Each Other
By Susan Stone, Kristina Supler & Melissa Yasinow As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the country, colleges and universities are shutting down campuses and moving to online classes, possibly for the rest of the academic year. Given these events, students may...
Helping Students With Disabilities Transition to College: Part 1
Students With ASD and Other Disabilities Need College-Level Accommodations and High School Transition Planning to Succeed College is one of life’s most important gateways to independence, success and economic security, and young adults with disabilities, such as...
Winning the War, but the Battle Never Ends: Keeping Services Once You Get Your Individual Options Waiver
Securing and keeping your Individual Options Waiver (or IO Waiver, for short) can be a grueling campaign. But even when you win the war to obtain an IO Waiver, you can still end up fighting to keep necessary services. This process can be both disheartening and...
The Crippling Effects of Depression When Students Face Misconduct Allegations
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Many of our clients who seek legal representation from the Student & Athlete Defense Practice Group face crippling mental health issues, which isn’t surprising given a 2018 report from the American College Health...
Yasinow Selected for the 2017 Mandel Symposium
KJK's Associate Melissa A. Yasinow was selected for the 2017 Mandel Symposium. "The Mandel Symposium, an “issues based” leadership course, seeks to engage, educate, and empower our community’s emerging leaders. The Mandel Symposium is geared for individuals who are at...
Minimum Salary Threshold For Overtime Exemptions Under the Fair Labor Standards Act will Increase in Fourth Quarter 2016.
On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced the imminent publication of a Final Rule to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The Final Rule will increase the minimum salary levels required to satisfy exemptions under the FLSA, and thereby...
Creating Signed, Written Contracts Over the Telephone: An Update
In our July 2012 article in Connections Magazine,[1] we wrote about two relatively new sets of laws that companies could use to create what we believe would be legally binding signed and written contracts over the telephone: (i) the Electronic Signatures in Global and...