Restaurants, retailers, grocers, convenience stores, and other businesses that accept cash should prepare for a practical operational shift at the register: as pennies become harder to obtain, exact change may not always be possible. Existing pennies remain legal...
Mayor Bibb’s administration is preparing a transformation plan for the city’s electric utility, Cleveland Public Power (CPP). The plan is expected to address CPP’s aging infrastructure at an estimated cost of $70-100 million to replace and upgrade transformers,...
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently ruled in NC Ents., L.L.C. v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co., Slip Opinion No. 2026-Ohio-1429 (the “NC-Norfolk Case”) that Appellee’s lawn maintenance on Appellant’s parcels was not sufficiently open and notorious to have put appellant on...
On April 23, 2026, Ohio state Senators Beth Liston (D-Dublin) and Louis W. Blessing III (R-Colerain Township) introduced Senate Bill 396 (SB 396), a bipartisan proposal that would, if enacted, establish a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program...
Every company wants to innovate. We have all heard the stories about the engineer who stumbles onto something remarkable in the lab, or the sales team member who devises an ingenious workaround that saves millions. But most companies have no systematic way to capture,...
Artificial intelligence is now embedded across the employment lifecycle, from recruiting and hiring to performance management, compensation and workforce planning. While these tools can drive efficiency and data‑driven decision‑making, they also can create legal risk,...
In one of the largest antitrust cases in recent history, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York delivered a verdict in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general, finding that Live Nation and Ticketmaster unlawfully...
Two months after the Supreme Court struck down the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPA") tariffs in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, the refund process has finally opened. On April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") activated the...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed a significant new rule that could reshape how businesses are held liable for workers they do not directly employ — with major implications for staffing agencies, franchises, and companies that use subcontractors. At the...
Overview The freeze partnership technique (the "technique") has been used for decades to transfer wealth to the next generation while reducing estate, gift, generation-skipping and income taxes. Despite being explicitly authorized under Internal Revenue Code...