Archive: October 2010

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been writing these wrap-ups for 150 weeks. When I started this feature on October 12, 2007 , I never imagined...

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In a 2006 episode of The Office , Dwight goes undercover to spy on co-worker Oscar when he suspects sick day abuse. He discovers that Oscar...

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I’ve seldom, if ever, negotiated a separation or settled an employment dispute for an employer without insisting that a non-disparagement cl...

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Six months ago, I wrote about the Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division’s launch of a one-stop web portal, We Can Help . Its state...

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As I’ve recently discussed ( Discovey of Social Networks in Employment Disputes and More on the Lack of Privacy in Social Media ), social n...

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October is National Work & Family Month . In it’s honor, I bring you three posts I read this week celebrating this cause: Euro...

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Yesterday, the EEOC held a public hearing on the use of credit histories as selection criteria in employment. It heard testimony from repres...

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Seen yesterday at AT&T Park, as photographed by The700Level.com : Better sign these kids up now for the anti-harassment power cour...

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I believe that litigation is the worst possible way to settle disputes. This may come as a shock, considering that I am a litigator and tria...

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Law firm Fulbright & Jaworski has released its 6th annual Litigation Trends survey (you can also read my thoughts on the  2009 survey ...

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Three stories caught my eye this week: Lawsuit of the Day: Pass the Wooden Dildo, Please (via Abovethelaw.com), Gay Skydiving Instructor ...

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics ( transcript available from Supreme Cou...

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I was defending a contentious age discrimination case. At trial, the plaintiff called as her first witness the president of the small non-pr...

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The purpose of a litigation hold is to stop the destruction of potentially relevant or discoverable documents and information pursuant to a ...

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When I took the dog out for her morning walk, I noticed a newspaper in my driveway. You might not think that is all that remarkable, but wh...

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Last Friday, I had the privilege of participating in a roundtable discussion on disability discrimination , hosted by Stephanie Thomas as p...

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This week marked the beginning of the Supreme Court’s October 2010 term, which has three important employment cases on its docket. ...

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Joyce Gaskins sued The Mentor Network-REM following her termination. REM’s cardinal sin that led to the filing of this lawsuit was that it ...

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It only took the U.S. Ryder Cup team a few holes in the pouring rain Friday to realize that their rain suits were not as water-tight as the...

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The EEOC has sued a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit, claiming that its termination of a severely obese employee violated the ADA . Traditionall...

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Today, I am traveling to Columbus for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce’s Employment Law Committee meeting. For the uninitiated, the Ohio Chambe...

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True confession time. I never really considered myself hip. In fact, if you knew me in high school (the bastion of all things hip), you woul...

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