As businesses open throughout central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley, legal and human resources experts are urging businesses to avoid liability issues by understanding the ever-evolving rules, especially as regions open in various phases without liability protections in place.

Numerous liability concerns will surround businesses that re-open over the next few weeks, but businesses also should be aware of issues for those who continue to work from home, including wage-and-hour rules.

Websites are just as susceptible to a lawsuit as an entrance to a business without a ramp for a wheelchair-bound customer. A site can be coded in a manner that confuses audiation software that reads the elements of a site to a blind user or has elements that make it difficult for someone to zoom in on a page.

Now, as 2020 begins those involved in business law say the work environment is a very different place and the reverberations of #MeToo are still being felt by employers and employees.

Investment Real Estate LLC of York recruited Rick Hansberry as its director of acquisitions, a position in which the intellectual and business law expert will work with the firm’s leadership team to craft strategic planning and organizational goals.

The cost of a restaurant liquor license in York and Lancaster counties may fall from the heights they reached in recent years, partially because fewer grocers stores are looking to buy them.

An October report released by the American Investment Council and EY, a global business advisory organization, showed the private equity industry -- private equity firms or companies backed by private equity -- supports 26 million jobs nationwide. That includes 1.1 million jobs in Pennsylvania, according to the report.

The former York County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Stephen Linebaugh has joined Barley Snyder law firm as an attorney.