As courts continue to be critical of noncompete agreements, employers must remain informed and proactive to make sure their agreements can withstand judicial scrutiny. Around this time last year, we ...

Is Your Entity in Compliance? Financial relationships with an independent contractor in a position to make or influence referrals of federal healthcare program business can implicate the federal ...

Written independent contractor agreements provide you with legal protection. For most types of projects you might hire an independent contractor to do, the law does not require you to put anything in ...

Haynes Boone obtained a summary judgment in a commercial contract dispute representing Catalyst Strategic Advisors and Kondrup Enterprises. The ruling removes a significant liability for the firms, ...

Q: At our host agency, we are trying to formulate a new standard independent contractor (IC) agreement that avoids the most common controversies between hosts and ICs. Can you give us a list of the ...

Plain-English answers to questions about hiring independent contractors -- and the differences between contractors and employees. What is an independent contractor? Independent contractors (ICs) are ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s independent contractor final rule eluded — temporarily, at least — lawsuits seeking to block it ahead of its effective date Monday, giving rise to several compliance ...

Whether a company is a start-up, in growth mode, or looking to hire out-of-state workers, it may face a dilemma about whether to bring on a new worker as an employee or independent contractor. That ...