Employment Law Alert – February 2017
View as PDF Articles: An Employer’s Dilemma in Providing a Recommendation for a Former Employee As all employers can attest, it can be difficult to determine what information to provide in a verbal or written recommendation for departing employees. Indeed, some managers…
Basis Reporting Requirements for Property Received From a Decedent
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Three Things New Mexico Employers Should Know for 2017
Deadline Imposed for Compelling Arbitration Do you have arbitration agreements with your employees? If so, you should be aware that New Mexico enacted a new rule specifying the time by which a party must move to compel arbitration after a legal complaint…
Stuart Butzier Awarded New Mexico Mining Association Professionalism Recognition
Stuart Butzier, a Modrall Sperling shareholder, has been awarded the 2017 New Mexico Mining Association’s Doc Weiler/Marvin Watts Award for Professionalism. The award is presented to an individual who…
Appearing in Tribal Court
By Brian Nichols, as published in Litigation: The Journal of the Section of Litigation, published by the American Bar Association, Winter 2017.
Employment Law Alert – January 2017
View as PDF Articles: Guidance for New Mexico Employers: Criminal Background Checks for Job Applicants Many employers in New Mexico want to know if a job applicant has a criminal background. While this can certainly be important information for an employer to…
Deana Bennett Selected Chair of NREEL Section of State Bar of New Mexico
Deana M. Bennett, a Modrall Sperling shareholder, has been confirmed as the Chair of the Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (NREEL) Section of the State Bar of…
EPA Publishes Final Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule
On November 28, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published the final RCRA Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule (“HWGI Rule”). See 81 FR 85732, November 28, 2016. The HWGI Rule is one of the most significant and comprehensive hazardous waste rulemakings that…
Considerations with Renewable Energy Development and Severed Mineral Estates
Renewable energy developments include hundreds of millions of dollars of capital investment and rely on micro-siting of generation equipment to ensure optimal performance. Therefore, these developments are particularly sensitive to any possibility of surface use for mineral exploration and development that could…
EPA’s Final Assessment Regarding the Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources
In December 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its final assessment analyzing the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on drinking water resources.[1. See United States Environmental Protection Agency, Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water…