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Essential Employees Who Contract COVID-19 May Be Entitled to Workers’ Compensation Benefits: What New Jersey Employers Need to Know

Published Date: October 20, 2020

New Jersey employers make note: A recently enacted amendment to the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Act entitles “essential employees”—including construction and many other types of private sector workers—who contract COVID-19 to the presumption that their illness is work-related. Significantly, this amendment is retroactive to March 9, 2020, the date of the initial pandemic state of emergency declaration in New Jersey. [...] Read More

How Will Today’s Pandemic Impact Tomorrow’s Construction Contracts?

Published Date: October 20, 2020

This article was written for the ConsensusDocs newsletter and first appeared here. The emergence of COVID-19 has created a new set of challenges in the already complex world of negotiating construction contracts.  In the pre-COVID-19 era, general contractors, construction managers and those negotiating on their behalf, needed to balance a variety of fairly well-established legal risks and exposures and commercial [...] Read More

Is It Live…Or Is It Virtual?

Published Date: September 25, 2020

Attorneys Adrian L. Bastianelli, III, Paulo Flores, Kevin O'Connor, and Robert S. Peckar have written "Is It Live...Or Is It Virtual?," an article for the summer edition of Best Lawyers Magazine. They discuss in detail how best to make virtual mediation work and offer some thoughts on whether it's here to stay. Read the full article here. Read More

Lessons Learned From One of Miami’s First Zoom Bench Trials

Published Date: September 25, 2020

Attorneys Anne-Solenne Rolland and Freddy X. Muñoz, and Paralegal Katherine Gonzalez have written the article, "Lessons Learned From One of Miami’s First Zoom Bench Trials," for Daily Business Review/Law.com.  They discuss their experience after undertaking one of the first virtual week-long bench trials in Miami-Dade County in June and the valuable lessons they learned in providing effective and efficient representation. [...] Read More

Grappling With Viruses on Multiple Fronts: Ongoing Cyber Risk Management in the Age of COVID-19

Published Date: September 19, 2020

Richard R. Volack, Chair of Peckar & Abramson's Cyber Security & Data Privacy Practice, has written "Grappling With Viruses on Multiple Fronts: Ongoing Cyber Risk Management in the Age of COVID-19," an article for Construction Executive. Richard discusses the preventative measures that construction executives should take to keep the company and its computer systems safe from being “infected” with a [...] Read More