Beginning July 1, 2025, Virginia will provide even more protection to workers against the enforcement of noncompete agreements. Since 2020, Virginia law has prohibited employers from entering into, enforcing, or threatening to enforce a covenant not to compete against a “low-wage employee” (currently any employee earning less than $76,081 per year). However, an amendment to the existing law expands the definition of “low-wage employee” to also include any worker who is classified as nonexempt […]

From 1984 until June 2024, a reviewing court had to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutes, even if the court would have interpreted the statute differently. In June 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned what the court referred to as the “ancien régime” of Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. For those of us who are not French history buffs, “ancien régime” was the political system overturned by the French Revolution; […]