Long-time Barley Snyder employee Dorothy Rund has been promoted to chief operating officer of the firm.

The Wyomissing-based law offices of Leisawitz Heller have merged with Lancaster-based Barley Snyder.

Barley Snyder has put together a group of attorneys with expertise in crisis management to offer businesses one place to look to when tough situations arise.

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.

Before the coronavirus hit, mergers and acquisitions were on an upswing. But now that almost everything in business has changed, has it impacted businesses changing hands?

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.

Barley Snyder, a law firm based in Lancaster, said it would open a new office in Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County.