Insights & News

Meredith Vanderbilt Publishes Article in AHLA Health Law Weekly on FDA Drug Shortage Tracking

Client Alert: Texas Telemarketing Law Expands To Texts - Key Requirements

Effective September 1, 2025, SB 140 expands Texas’ telemarketing law to cover SMS/MMS and image messages. Businesses who send marketing texts from Texas or to persons located in Texas must register with the Texas Secretary of State ($200 filing fee; $10,000 security deposit).

Steve Vieux Authors Article for Law360

Steve Vieux, Senior Counsel at Bartko Pavia LLP, authored an article in Law360, State AGs’ Focus On Single-Firm Conduct Is Gaining Traction, examines the growing trend of state attorneys general pursuing enforcement actions against unilateral conduct by dominant firms.

Welcome Our 2025 Summer Associates!

We’re excited to welcome our 2025 Summer Associates—the first summer class at Bartko Pavia in 12 years!This talented group, joining us from Santa Clara University School of Lawand University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) will spend the summer gaining hands-on experience, building connections, and learning from our team.

New York and DOJ Introduce Stricter Data Privacy Requirements

New York Updates Data Breach Notification Law  

Client Alert: Increase in Salary Threshold for Administrative Exemption for Employees Working in New York City

Starting on January 1, 2025, the minimum salary for New York City employees to meet the salary  threshold for the administrative exemption is $1,237.50 per week or $64,350 per year.  

Labor and Employment Law Updates 2025

As with most legislative years, 2024 was a busy year for California employment law developments.  Several important new laws and regulations were enacted that will affect the operations of California employers of all sizes for years to come.  We have summarized in a client alert some of the more significant laws and regulations that may impact employers’ operations. The full client alert can be found here.

Bartko Bunzel Report: The Line Between Bio and Technology

The question of what the biotechnology industry can patent ripened into a broad industry debate after two landmark Supreme Court decisions – Mayo Collaborative Servs v. Prometheus Labs., Inc. (2012) and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International (2014).  Their collective holding – that under 35 U.S.C. § 101, inherently natural phenomena cannot be patented, even with the addition of previously known secondary technologies – led to the invalidation of numerous patents and likely narrowed the scope of what can be patented in the future. View the PDF article in its entirety.

California Enacts the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024

The California Responsible Textile Recovery Act (SB 707) establishes a producer responsibility program that applies to producers of apparel and textile articles sold in California.

New Legal Requirements for Written Workplace Violence Prevention Policies Applicable to Certain Retail Employers

The recently enacted New York Retail Worker Safety Act requires retail employers with over ten employees to implement written workplace violence prevention policies and trainings that address workplace violence risk factors and prevention methods. These guidelines must be in place no later than March 1, 2025.

FTC Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Invalidated

A federal court has halted the implementation of a Federal Trade Commission rule that would have largely banned the enforcement of non-compete agreements between employers and employees. That rule would have gone into effect on September 4.

How to Comply with the FTC Ban on Non-Compete Agreements

As we indicated in an earlier Client Alert on April 24, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission has issued anew rule that will ban non-compete agreements for all employers in the United States, with certain limited exceptions. The new rule remains on track to take effect on September 4, 2024. There have been legal challenges to the non-compete ban, but they have been unsuccessful in securing an order invalidating the non-compete ban for all employers.