McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP offers the entire range of legal services and business counseling needed in today's evolving economic, technological and political climate. Our commitment to clients is the continual enhancement of our capacity to deliver effective service. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, growth companies, manufacturing companies, defense contractors, regulated utilities, financial institutions, consumer products, leisure and hospitality, transportation, communications, chemical, insurance companies, and a variety of bioscience ventures. The firm serves a number of governmental and nonprofit organizations as well.

CPSC Clarifies Application of Phthalates Ban to Existing Product Inventories
Michael Boucher, Ann G. Grimaldi, March 12, 2009
In a February 6, 2009 press release, the CPSC has announced that it will abide by a February 5, 2009 court decision ruling that the prohibition on certain phthalates contained in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) applies to products in inventory when the prohibition goes...

Employers Required to Front COBRA Costs Beginning March 1, 2009
March 12, 2009
Yesterday, the President signed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Stimulus Act") into law.

President Obama Signs Executive Order Allowing Agencies to Require Project Labor Agreements (PLA's) on Large Construction Projects
Richard B. Hankins, Seth H. Borden, Alston D. Correll, March 12, 2009
A week after issuing his first three Executive Orders affecting government contractors' labor and employment practices, President Obama issued another on Friday, February 6, 2009.