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In an effort to ensure that Connecticut continues taking the most equitable and efficient approach to quickly administering the COVID-19 vaccine to as many people as possible, Governor...

A number of Connecticut communities implemented town-wide real estate revaluations as of October 1, 2020; this assessment date will be the basis for taxes due July 1, 2021. See a full...

On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order entitled “On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”  The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has hobbled Connecticut’s economy, forcing an estimated 36% of small businesses to close their doors as of December, according to a recent Harvard University analysis. Amid that turmoil, one might expect bankruptcy filings to be skyrocketing. However, defying predictions from seasoned area attorneys, that hasn’t been the case. In fact, the exact opposite has happened and it’s got nothing to do with any federal courthouse closures related to the pandemic. Image Robert...

Governor Lamont has issued a new Executive Order that requires local and regional boards of education to continue providing eligible employees with certain paid leave under the Families...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As discussed in a prior post, OCR under the former President went to great lengths to interpret Bostock v. Clayton (which established that discrimination against someone for being transgender or homosexual was sex discrimination under Title VII’s prohibition against workplace sex discrimination) as actually requiring school districts to discriminate against transgender students in schools under Title IX by prohibiting them from usi...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Although most everyone on planet Earth was jumping for joy as 2020 came to an end, many employers had another reason to celebrate. With the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA”) on December 27, 2020, employers with 500 or fewer employees (“Covered Employers”) are no longer required by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “FFCRA”) to provide paid leave to employees for certain COVID-19...

In an ethics opinion issued on January 13, 2021, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility  has provided guidance to practitioners on...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more widely available, employers are increasingly struggling to determine whether they should implement a vaccine policy and, if so, whether they will require or strongly recommend that their employees receive it.  In two of our recent blog posts, we addressed the ability of an employer to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for its staff and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) “tech...

On January 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a memorandum containing its interpretation of Bostock v. Clayton and its lack of effect on OCR’s...