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August 29, 2013
Arlington, VA. (August 29, 2013) - Although nearly all employers will
give Labor Day as a paid holiday, about four in 10 organizations will
require at least some workers to toil on the holiday that honors
workers, according to the
Holiday Practices Survey released today by Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information.
August 26, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Bloomberg BNA, a leading source of legal, tax, and regulatory
information for professionals, today launched a major expansion of its
state tax product offerings
.
August 20, 2013
Private sector wage gains are expected to remain
in a holding pattern in the coming months, according to the preliminary
third-quarter Wage Trend Indicator™ (WTI) released
today by Bloomberg...
August 16, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2013 Edition of Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations, offering a complete directory of private- and public-sector unions and union leaders. The Directory provides coverage of union membership, including total national membership, state-by-state membership, work stoppages, and union representation elections.
August 12, 2013
Bloomberg BNA will host a complimentary 90-minute webinar on August 14th that will showcase the impact of increased usage of electronic devices on federal and state law and the implications for the...
August 1, 2013
The Bloomberg BNA book division announced that six of its leading titles are now also available as eBooks.
July 29, 2013
Bloomberg BNA announces the publication of Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure, Eighth Edition , which addresses significant changes in patent law brought by the passage of the...
July 22, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
June 2013 Edition to Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws, which contains all the changes enacted into law through May 1, 2013, and fully integrates the provisions of the Act into the U.S. Code sections of this book, providing helpful visual guides that will aid practitioners in understanding the law and when provisions will go into effect.
July 16, 2013
Workers in the private sector should expect wages to increase in the coming months at about the same rate as they have in recent years, according to the final second quarter Wage Trend Indicator™...
July 15, 2013
Bloomberg BNA today unveiled new, direct access to additional labor and employment research tools on the Labor & Employment Law Resource Center™. These tools bring additional depth and clarity to practitioners and specialists as they look for fast answers to complex issues.
July 12, 2013
Bloomberg BNA is pleased to announce publication of the 2013 Cumulative Supplements to Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets in Employment Law: An International Survey,
Volume I and
Volume II. This two-volume set is a guide for companies and attorneys dealing with trade secrets or covenants in employment agreements, providing country-specific information, as well as useful regional overviews on trade secret laws and international restrictive covenants.
July 12, 2013
Bloomberg BNA announces publication of the supplement to
Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Regulations, a resource that responds to rapidly changing requirements of intellectual property laws. The April 2013 Supplement discusses final rules and examiner guidelines for the new “first-inventor-to-file” procedures, as well as new United States Patent and Trademark Office rules and fee-setting authority.
July 9, 2013
Economy Expected to Strengthen in 2014 as Housing, Consumer Sectors Brighten Arlington, Va. (July 9, 2013) - After slowing in the middle of the year, U.S. economic growth will...
June 25, 2013
Bloomberg BNA and the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) will host a 90-minute webinar on June 27 that reviews the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International...
June 19, 2013
Bloomberg BNA announces the publication of the
2013 Edition of Preventing Sexual Harassment and Other Workplace Harassment: A Fact Sheet for Employees, a tool to help employers and employees understand the complex issues involved in sexual harassment and other workplace harassment.
June 18, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Annual wage growth for private sector workers should continue to maintain its recent pace in the coming months, according to the revised second quarter Wage...
June 17, 2013
Bloomberg BNA will host a 90-minute webinar on June 19 focused on the complexities of monitoring and the selection of investments and fees for Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans....
June 13, 2013
Bloomberg BNA announces the publication of the
2013–2014 Books Catalog, which presents its entire line of industry-leading legal treatises that cover crucial topics in labor and employment law, intellectual property law, health law, employee benefits law, litigation, and much more.
June 10, 2013
(Arlington, Va.) - Bloomberg BNA announces a joint initiative with Tax Materials, Inc., the producers of TheTaxBook, the leading fast-answer tax reference book series in America,...
June 7, 2013
Bloomberg BNA will host a 90-minute webinar on June 11 geared towards helping attendees comply with the newly issued dotcom disclosures. The webinar, The Fine Print: Analyzing the FTC's Updated...
June 3, 2013
Arlington, Va. (June 3, 2013) — Bloomberg BNA announced the launch of the Canadian EHS Legislative & Regulatory Alert™. This new online subscription-based service provides Canadian regulatory and legislative tracking at every stage in the legal process — including actions of the federal government and every province and territory in Canada — so US-based businesses can track the progress of environmental, health & safety (EHS) laws and regulations impacting their operations in Canada.
May 23, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2013 Edition of the Social Security and Medicare Fact Sheet, the easy-to-use resource designed to be disseminated company-wide by human resources and benefits practitioners to inform employees of changes to their Social Security and Medicare benefits.
May 22, 2013
Arlington, Va. (May 22, 2013) — Bloomberg BNA announced the launch of the International Payroll Decision Support Network during the American Payroll Association (APA) Annual Congress in Grapevine, Texas, May 7-11, 2013. This new membership-based service combines Bloomberg BNA's custom research offerings with a collection of new global payroll products and resources accessible to subscribers online.
May 15, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Private sector workers are likely to see little or no improvement in the overall pace of annual wage increases in the coming months, according to the preliminary second quarter Wage Trend Indicator™ (WTI) released today by Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information.
May 13, 2013
Bloomberg BNA will host a 90-minute webinar May 14 exploring whether the legalization of marijuana will affect an employer’s right to discipline employees for medicinal or recreational uses of the...
April 19, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Bloomberg BNA authors have won thirteen 2013 Burton Awards for exceptional legal writing for articles published in BNA Insights, the thought leadership platform for Bloomberg BNA publications. The authors of these articles are lawyers from the nation's largest law firms. The awards recognize work published in 2012.
April 19, 2013
(Arlington, Va.) - With companies investing more than 35 trillion dollars in cross-border portfolios, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), multinational companies must constantly plan for the future and adjust to a changing tax law environment. The 3rd
Bloomberg BNA and Baker & McKenzie North American Transfer Pricing Conference, to be held on June 5-6 in Washington, D.C., will provide a comprehensive industry update for business professionals looking to obtain the latest insights from government, corporate, and private practitioners.
April 17, 2013
Arlington, Va. (April 17, 2013) – Bloomberg BNA will host a complimentary, 90-minute webinar April 23, 2013, on the latest developments impacting the ability of companies to include...
April 16, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Annual wage increases for private sector workers likely will remain close to their recent pace in the months ahead, according to the final first quarter
Wage Trend Indicator™ (WTI) released today by
Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information.
April 15, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2013 Edition of ERISA Regulations, containing the full text of all proposed and final regulations through June 30, 2012 from the Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Treasury Department, as well as other agencies whose policies affect benefit plans.
April 15, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
Seventh Edition of Drafting Patent License Agreements , a handbook that tracks and discusses all the critical components of a patent licensing agreement.
April 12, 2013
Bloomberg BNA will host a 90-minute webinar April 16 on the first substantial updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Titled
Get Ready to Comply with the FTC’s Updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule, the webinar is designed to prepare practitioners involved with the privacy and security of data, in-house counsel, website managers, e-commerce advisors, and anyone who is concerned about the privacy of children while online. It will be led by experts in the legal implications of privacy with respect to children’s online internet use and will offer participants all the information they need to comply with the changes and prepare for the July 1 compliance deadline.
April 10, 2013
Bloomberg BNA today announced the publication of
Responding to Corporate Criminal Investigations, a new treatise that provides defense counsel and corporate executives with proven strategies and techniques for effectively defending against criminal prosecution.
April 1, 2013
The Bloomberg BNA Insights App has been voted the 2013 Best Legal News iPad App by the National Law Journal reader community. The app delivers hundreds of highly regarded BNA Insights articles and videos, providing practical advice and sound guidance in a range of legal practice areas. The second annual Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings are based on nearly 5,000 responses from readers, who chose their favorite vendors and products in 70 categories.
March 29, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
Eighth Edition of Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey, delivering the information practitioners need to analyze, draft, and confidently litigate covenants not to compete and other restrictive covenants in the employment, partnership, franchise, license, and sale-of-business contexts.
March 29, 2013
Bloomberg BNA, in cooperation with the ABA Health Law Section, has published the
2012 Cumulative Supplement to Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Practical Perspectives, Second Edition, outlining in detail the existing fraud and abuse laws and regulations and offering the practical guidance practitioners need to protect their clients.
March 29, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2013 Edition of Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws, adding all changes enacted into law by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act from May 1, 2012, to November 13, 2012. Most significantly, the 2013 Edition also includes the many important changes to U.S. patent law that went into effect on March 16, 2013.
March 29, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2013 Supplement to The Railway Labor Act, Third Edition, which assists practitioners in characterizing the nature of a union-management dispute and identifying how to pursue party interests.
March 26, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2012 Edition of ERISA: The Law and the Code, Annotated, a desktop reference that provides updated text of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and relevant portions of the Internal Revenue Code (Tax Code) and Public Health Service Act (PHSA).
March 25, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2012 Cumulative Supplement to the Copyright Law Deskbook, providing interpretation and a thorough treatment of the relevant law with a particular emphasis on, and analyses of, recent copyright case law developments.
March 25, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has announced significant enhancements to its award-winning
Labor & Employment Law Resource Center. The addition of new content — including thirty-six expertly authored treatises and a 50 state statute primary source collection — strengthens this already industry-leading product’s reputation as the go-to resource for labor and employment professionals tackling complex issues from FMLA to FLSA and beyond.
March 20, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2012 Cumulative Supplement to Trademark Litigation Practice, providing important updates on case law related to trademark litigation and the Lanham Act.
March 19, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has announced the publication of the
December 2012 Supplement to Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Regulations, the latest update to a resource that responds to the requirements of rapidly changing intellectual property laws and fills the gap in current reporting of relevant administrative regulations.
March 19, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Private sector workers in the coming months are likely to see little or no change in annual wage gains from their recent pace, according to the revised first quarter
Wage Trend Indicator™ (WTI) report released today by
Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information.
March 18, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2012 Supplement to Wage and Hour Laws: A State-by-State Survey, Second Edition, offering an updated in-depth survey of the wage and hour laws specific to each state.
March 18, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
Thirteenth Edition of Grievance Guide, a resource offering detailed summaries of thousands of real-life arbitration awards to illustrate the factors arbitrators consider when ruling on grievances, and provides a complete picture, topic by topic, of the precedents and guidelines labor arbitrators use to address grievance issues today.
March 13, 2013
Arlington, Va. - A Bloomberg BNA quarterly survey of employers released this week reveals that employee turnover was remarkably flat in the second half of 2012, and separation rates for the full year suggest little or no overall change in worker departures. Job absence surged in late 2012, reversing a decline observed during the summer.
March 11, 2013
Arlington, Va. - With sequestration looming after Congress and the president stepped back from the fiscal cliff, job prospects remain in a holding pattern, according to 265 employers responding to Bloomberg BNA's latest survey on the employment outlook. Office/clerical candidates could see some improvement in job opportunities during the second quarter, but prospects for most other nonmanagement employees appear unlikely to break free of the sluggishness observed over the past two years. For the currently employed, the threat of job loss remains fairly low, with little appreciable change in reports of layoffs or imminent reductions in force.
March 7, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
Second Edition of Trademark Infringement Remedies, a treatise that gives practitioners authoritative analysis of all aspects of trademark rights, liabilities, and remedies to protect the value of trademarks in both traditional and digital platforms, including social media.
March 6, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the Third Edition of Employee Benefits Law, written by members of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Labor and Employment Law.
March 6, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
Second Edition of Trademark Dilution: Federal, State, and International Law, Second Edition, to help practitioners sort through the controversy and confusion surrounding and following the Trademark Dilution Revision Act (TDRA) of 2006, the ways in which the Act sets the standard for analyzing federal dilution claims, and the complications that may arise under state law.
March 1, 2013
Bloomberg BNA as published the
Sixth Edition of False Claims Act: Whistleblower Litigation, providing guidance and analysis of the False Claims Act (FCA) and the many different legislative developments and judicial opinions surrounding it, including qui tam cases in which a private citizen assists in a government prosecution and is paid a percentage of the recovery. Written by the trial lawyer called to testify before Congress on ways to modernize, update, and streamline the FCA, this treatise offers authoritative insights from one of the country’s most experienced FCA lawyers.
February 21, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the 2012 Cumulative Supplement to Employee Duty of Loyalty: A State-by-State Survey, Fourth Edition, offering updated guidance on the application of the employee duty of loyalty.
February 20, 2013
The rate of annual wage growth for private sector workers is expected to show little, if any, change in the coming months, according to the preliminary first quarter Wage Trend Indicator™ (WTI)...
February 15, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Bloomberg BNA has launched the
Water Law & Policy Monitor™ with up-to-date news, guidance, and primary source materials to help water law practitioners, industrial water users, and regulators keep up with emerging water allocation and management issues across all 50 states and abroad.
February 12, 2013
New York, N.Y. and Arlington, Va. - Bloomberg BNA and Bloomberg Law today announced Law Reports apps for the iPhone® and iPad®. Bloomberg BNA and Bloomberg Law subscribers can now get the authoritative BNA news they have come to depend on, whenever and wherever they need it. The apps are available at no additional charge from the App Store.
February 8, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published Fiber Optic Telecommunications Networks: Lit Fiber Services Agreements, a new publication that offers step-by-step guidance through the process of drafting strong and enforceable “lit fiber” services agreements — agreements between a provider of telecommunications services and its customers.
January 31, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
Fifth Edition of Employment Discrimination Law, offering a balanced presentation of the labor and employment issues surrounding discrimination in the workplace provided by legal specialists from the management, plaintiff, union, and public practice perspective.
January 28, 2013
London - More than 50 transfer pricing speakers from international organisations, government, private practice, and industry will meet at the Bloomberg BNA and Baker & McKenzie
Global Transfer Pricing Conference in Paris March 11-12 - just days after the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Global Forum on Transfer Pricing in Paris - to provide the earliest possible insight into the new policy and law implications to emerge from the OECD meetings.
January 25, 2013
Legal and business publisher Bloomberg BNA and global intellectual property law firm Sughrue Mion PLLC have announced an exclusive partnership by which Bloomberg BNA will be the sole distributor of
on demand videos and training by the firm's leading patent law and intellectual property practitioners.
January 23, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Bloomberg BNA announced that Darren McKewen has been named President of Bloomberg BNA, succeeding Greg McCaffery, who was named the Chief Executive Officer of Bloomberg Law in September.
January 23, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Major shifts in federal fiscal policy will bring about continued uncertainty and a temporary slowdown in economic growth in the first half of 2013, but a strengthening private sector is expected to boost growth in the second half of the year, according to Bloomberg BNA's annual Economic Outlook released today.
January 22, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published
Director and Officer Liability in Financial Institutions: A Deskbook, offering practitioners a guide to defend directors and officers against civil
, criminal, and administrative proceedings by either governmental or private parties.
January 15, 2013
The editorial team at Bloomberg BNA’s Health Law Resource Center has released a complimentary report, Meaningful Use: Stage 2 vs. Stage 1, providing guidance on the Medicare and Medicaid Meaningful Use electronic health records requirements and the differences between the first and second Stages of the rule.
January 15, 2013
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2013 Edition of Spill Reporting Procedures Guide, the essential reference for control and treatment of accidental spills, ensuring full compliance with federal and state requirements.
January 9, 2013
Arlington, Va. - This year, almost 30 years after President Reagan signed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day into law, slightly more than three in ten employers (32 percent) will give the civil rights leader's birthday (January 21) as a paid holiday to most or all of their workers. In addition, 11 percent reported that they will sponsor programs or events to acknowledge Dr. King's life and achievements, regardless of whether they will give the day off.
January 9, 2013
Arlington, Va. - Bloomberg BNA
, a leading publisher of specialized news and information, today announced the 2013 release schedule for its
Wage Trend Indicator™ report.
December 27, 2012
Bloomberg BNA has published the
2013 Edition of The Law Officer’s Pocket Manual, giving law enforcement quick, reliable guidance based on the latest Supreme Court rulings and other legal developments. The handy 4" x 6" Pocket Manual covers arrest, search, surveillance, and other routine and sensitive areas of law enforcement.
December 27, 2012
Bloomberg BNA has published the Second Edition of Anatomy of a Patent Case, a resource that covers both the steps required to bring a patent case to trial and the key elements that make such litigation unique. Anatomy of a Patent Case probes the complex technical, procedural, and legal issues inherent in a patent lawsuit—issues that are not usually found in any other type of civil litigation. This handbook is focused on the unique characteristics of patent litigation and has been added to the Federal Judicial Center’s resource library for district court judges and their law clerks. It provides concise coverage of the fundamentals, effective lessons from the most significant cases, and essential insights from leading experts and judges.
December 27, 2012
Bloomberg BNA has published the Seventh Edition to Elkouri & Elkouri: How Arbitration Works. Long considered by labor law and dispute resolution professionals to be the definitive treatise on labor arbitration, the treatise has been utilized and cited by advocates, arbitrators, and judges more than any other arbitration book published.
December 18, 2012
Arlington, Va. - Workers in the private sector likely will see the overall rate of wage growth remain at or close to its recent pace in the coming months, according to the revised fourth quarter
Wage Trend Indicator™ (WTI) released today by
Bloomberg BNA, a leading publisher of specialized news and information.
December 10, 2012
London - Convening immediately after the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Global Forum on Transfer Pricing in March 2013, the Bloomberg BNA and Baker & McKenzie
Global Transfer Pricing Conference will bring together officials from the OECD and key OECD countries and emerging economies - along with leading transfer pricing experts from practice and industry - to offer transfer pricing professionals, CFOs, CEOs, and other senior executives the most up-to-date guidance on the challenges and risks posed by new transfer pricing developments.
December 7, 2012
Arlington, Va. -Marilyn A. Wethekam, a partner with Horwood Marcus & Berk Chtd. in Chicago, has received the Bloomberg BNA 2012 Franklin C. Latcham Award for Distinguished Service in State and Local Taxation.
December 7, 2012
Arlington, Va. - Hiring projections for early 2013 signal no dramatic change in employment prospects, with some indication of declining job opportunities for production and service employees, according to 291 employers responding to Bloomberg BNA's latest survey on the employment outlook.
December 5, 2012
“Criminal Tax, Money Laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act Litigation, with 2012 Cumulative Supplement” offers an expert analysis of federal criminal cases handled by the IRS and DOJ