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Workplace Communication Risks: Avoiding Defamation and Liability in the COVID-Era Workplace

As workplaces shifted to remote and hybrid environments during COVID-19, everyday employee communications—emails, chats, and social media posts—began carrying greater legal risk. A Bloomberg Law insight authored by Bean, Kinney & Korman attorney R. Douglas Taylor Jr. highlights how casual or unverified statements about coworkers’ health, behavior, or workplace conduct can trigger claims for defamation, invasion of privacy, or violations of employment laws. For example, falsely stating that a…

June 15, 2020

Business and Financial Services

INSIGHT: Don’t Say This in the New Workplace

Joe Meadows and Doug Taylor offer advice on how to avoid injuring reputations and violating employment or labor laws as people enter the new workplace.

June 15, 2020

Business and Financial Services

Virginia Enacts New, Far-Reaching Employment Laws

Virginia Enacts New, Far-Reaching Employment Laws

June 3, 2020

Business and Financial Services

Small Business Reorganization Under the Cares Act and SBRA, and What that Means for Creditors

Refer to page 10 for article - The CARES Act and SBRA attempt to remedy the burden of Chapter 11 reorganization by expanding the small business debt ceiling and by contracting various procedural and administrative roadblocks to confirming plans of reorganization. These legislative efforts, however, come at a cost to some creditors.

June 2, 2020

Business and Financial Services

Federal assistance may prolong bankruptcy filings

Andrea Davison quoted, providing insight into timing for increase in bankruptcy filings.

June 1, 2020

Timothy Dugan Elected 2020--2021 Chair of the Real Property Section Council of the Maryland State Bar Association

Bean, Kinney & Korman shareholder Timothy Dugan was elected Chair of the Maryland State Bar Association's Real Property Section Council, overseeing attorneys specializing in land use, zoning, real estate finance, and related law.

May 21, 2020

Divorce and Family Law

Business Valuation in the Time of the Plague

Business Valuation in the Time of the Plague

May 11, 2020

2020 Super Lawyers

Bean, Kinney & Korman congratulates eight attorneys named 2020 Virginia and Washington D.C. Super Lawyers and five attorneys recognized as Rising Stars across litigation, family law, land use, employment, and bankruptcy.

May 7, 2020

Business and Financial Services

Force Majeure and the Doctrine of Impossibility

Force Majeure and the Doctrine of Impossibility

April 20, 2020

Business and Financial Services

Wages & Benefits Questions During the Coronavirus Business Downturn

Wages & Benefits Questions During the Coronavirus Business Downturn

April 1, 2020