Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker recently signed legislation requiring employers to provide COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave ("COVID-19 EPSL") to employees who are unable to.
On May 28, 2021 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its What You Should Know about COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.
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On May 26, SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman began a
series of hearings on the Hill that will continue through May 28.
On May 26, she testified before the House Committee on Small
Business in a hearing titled An Examination of the
SBA s COVID-19 Programs and the Senate Committee on Small
Business & Entrepreneurship in a hearing titled The Pandemic Response and
the Small Business Economy: An Update from the U.S. Small Business
Administration. On May 28, Administrator Guzman will testify
before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services
and General Government in a hearing regarding Small Business
Administration Oversight. The hearings are focused on the
Nidhi Rani (l), Priyanka Kumar become TTA partners
Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A) has elected counsel
Nidhi Rani and
Priyanka Kumar to become partners in the firm.
Rani had joined TT&A in 2010 directly after graduating from NLSIU Bangalore. She specialises in banking and finance, working in the practice alongside partners Sonali Mahapatra and Rituparno Bhattacharya.
She primarily advises lenders and borrowers on financings, as well as acquisition finance, structured finance and syndicated lending.
Kumar, a 2008 NLU Jodhpur graduate, had worked at TT&A since joining from Trilegal in 2014.
Kumar specialises in debt capital markets practice, including in international high yield and project bonds issuances. She has worked for lead managers on international debt offerings by Indian renewable energy companies and has also worked on financing and hedging deals.
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The students of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata have again secured record placements across all National Law Universities (NLUs) in the country for the graduating Batch of 2020. A total of 119 job offers were made to the Batch with many students receiving multiple job offers. A total of 78 students accepted job offers excluding the students who had standing job offers but decided to opt for alternative career options.
The average annual packages offered by foreign law firms ranged from INR 42-46 lakhs and by top domestic law firms ranged from INR 15-18 lakhs. Students joining companies in the role of in-house counsels received packages ranging from INR 12-14 lakhs. Keeping in line with the diversity exhibited by previous batches, students in the Batch of 2020 have also opted for a range of diverse career paths. These range from students opting for a career in the civil and judicial services, engaging in ground-leve