Dec 20, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group When it comes to COVID-19, things change quickly, and it can be difficult to predict what will happen next. I reported last week here that all of the federal vaccine mandates were in...
Dec 9, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group It can be confusing to track the many different governmental vaccine mandates floating around right now, especially given the flurry of challenges asserted in the courts. With or without a...
Dec 2, 2021 | 2021, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group Let’s face it. Noncompetition agreements have a reputation for being unenforceable. While it’s true that a court won’t go out of its way to enforce a bad agreement, noncompetition...
Nov 4, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS, Worker's Compensation
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group After a lengthy wait, U.S. OSHA issued emergency regulations today that answer many of the questions we have had regarding the upcoming mandate on larger employers to require vaccinations...
Oct 8, 2021 | 2021, Banking, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Financial Services, Lawyers, Litigation
By Financial Services Industry Group In an opinion issued on September 2, 2021, the Washington Supreme Court held that the filed rate doctrine may be applied to lenders or mortgage servicers implementing forced place insurance when there is a direct attack on agency...
Sep 21, 2021 | 2021, Estate Planning, Estate Planning & Probate, Events, Lawyers
By Jeffrey G. Moore, Attorney in the Estate Planning & Probate Practice Group This last week, House Democrats released details of a new tax proposal to support the $3.5 trillion spending plan. Although we stress that these are indeed proposals at this point,...
Sep 3, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, RPS, Worker's Compensation
Randall Sutton, an employment law and litigation attorney here at Saalfeld Griggs PC, spoke about employer vaccine mandates at the Salem Chamber’s most recent Public Policy meeting. Click here to watch the meeting from September 2nd, and navigate to minute...
Aug 20, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Financial Services, News
By Financial Services Industry Group On August 16, 2021, Governor Kate Brown signed Executive Order 21-30, which extended the mortgage foreclosure moratorium emergency period of House Bill 2009 (2021) to 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2021. The Oregon State Legislative...
Aug 19, 2021 | Awards, Business & Taxation, Construction, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Employment Law, Estate Planning & Probate, Litigation
Salem, OR, United States, August 19, 2021 — Saalfeld Griggs Business Lawyers is pleased to announce that seven of its lawyers have been recognized in the 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review using...
Aug 17, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Employers, Employment Law, Health Law, Lawyers, Litigation, Worker's Compensation
By Randall Sutton, Partner – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group As the Delta Variant continues to keep COVID-19 on the forefront of employers’ minds, I’ve received a lot of calls about the legality of vaccine mandates and issues for employers to...
