Different fiduciary standards apply regarding the investment of assets in different circumstances.

On December 7, 2012 the FCC announced that all four major cellular carriers

Open Meetings Act Training

A recent revision to the Open Meetings Act (OMA) requires all elected and appointed public officials to complete an electronic training.

Under the requirements of Section 1.05(b) of the Open Meetings Act you must complete the training, if you have not done so already. You can complete the training online via the Illinois Attorney General

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires certain workers

The FMLA was enacted in 1993 as a way to allow eligible employees to take off work to care for themselves or a loved one for up to 12 weeks without worrying about getting fired or losing benefits.

The Illinois

On June 28, 2012 in National Federation of Independent Businesses et al. v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. ____ (2012), the Supreme Court of the United States (

A new Rule in Illinois lets jurors submit written questions to witnesses in civil trials at the discretion of the Judge.

In the current era of very low interest rates and reduced capital market returns, many retirement and institutional plans are revising their target rate of returns used for matching purposes with their liability streams.

The latest fund to consider revisions is CALPERS, with assets of approximately $233 billion. It is the largest public pension fund in the U.S, and administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million California State and local government employees. On March 14, 2012, CALPERS lowered its investment target from 7.75% to 7.5%. This discount rate is calculated by adding an assumed rate of price inflation and real rate of return.

The new election procedures adopted by National Labor Relations Board (