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  • Fourth Circuit Upholds Dismissals in Title IX Cases, Leaves Threshold Constitutional Question Unresolved

    This year, the Fourth Circuit dealt with two Title IX cases involving allegations of due process violations. In these cases, the Court assumed, but did not decide, that university students have a constitutionally protected interest in their continued enrollment in higher education.

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  • Department of Labor Proposes Significant Increase in Wage Threshold for Exempt Employees

    On March 7th the Department of Labor issued a long expected proposed rule change on the salary-level threshold for exempt or “salaried” employees.

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  • Attorney Courtney H. Cox Joins Sands Anderson

    Sands Anderson PC is pleased to announce that Courtney H. Cox has joined the firm’s Williamsburg office as an associate. Cox provides comprehensive legal guidance to clients on estate planning and trust and estate disputes.

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Labor & Employment

Published 08.02.2023 @ 9:50 am

NLRB’s McLaren Macomb Decision and the Future of Employee Severance Agreements

Severance agreements have long been utilized as a valuable tool for providing employers with protections from the post-employment conduct or claims of former employees. Severance agreements often include a wide range of protections, including non-disparagement, confidentiality, non-compete, no poaching, and no solicitation clauses; broad releases of claims; and covenants not to sue, among other things. The National Labor Relations Board’s recent decision in McLaren Macomb, however, calls these sorts of provisions and others into question when it comes to non-management employees, drastically altering the landscape of severance agreements and significantly impairing employers’ abilities to protect themselves.

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Published 08.25.2023 @ 9:20 am

Sands Anderson Adds A. Moshe Sherman to Litigation Group

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Published 08.17.2023 @ 10:39 am

Attorney Jessica J. Berdichevsky Joins Sands Anderson’s Growing Government Group

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