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November 14, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

Tough Tactics: Playing Employment Litigation Hardball

When a company executive demands that the general counsel play hardball in employment litigation, the GC's role as a business adviser can conflict with the values of the legal profession. The GC then has three options: Ignore the edict, take the requested action or try to change the executive's mind. While legal hardball tactics can be legal, appropriate and action-oriented, the GC's job is to help executives see that action undertaken solely for action's sake is often counterproductive.
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August 15, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

EEOC May Revise Guidelines for Criminal Background Checks

As employers increasingly use criminal background checks to screen prospective workers, the practice is creating a minefield of employment law issues — and has caught the attention of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "We have to strike a balance between having a safe workplace and giving someone a second chance," says Buena Vista Lyons, a Dallas lawyer who defends businesses in labor and employment matters.
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November 28, 2011 | National Law Journal

Much pain, a lot of gain

A review of decisions by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the past decade shows an uptick in awards for emotional distress.
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May 12, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Two labor and employment firms have big plans

Offering large-firm backgrounds at small-firm rates has become a rallying cry for many new firms formed in the past year or two.Two new labor and employment firms share this mantra-but their ambitions are very different.Hall, Arbery Gilligan is a small local firm started in mid-April by three big-firm partners who see opportunity in doing employment work that isn't high-dollar enough for big firms.
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August 15, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recusal Sought as Federal Judge in Florida Accused of Religious Bias

Fort Lauderdale, Fla., attorney Loring Spolter is accusing U.S. District Judge William Zloch of bias in two employment discrimination cases, citing his deep religious beliefs, and wants the judge removed from the cases.
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August 02, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Old-Style Union Buster a Dying Breed

Some people would call Cliff Nelson a union buster, but he thinks of himself as a gladiator -- and says he's part of a dying breed of lawyers who practice labor law. Today less than 8 percent of private-sector workers are unionized, compared to one-third of private sector workers when the AFL-CIO formed 50 years ago, and the traditional practice of labor law has declined accordingly. Many practitioners have shifted into employment law, an outgrowth of labor law, which over the years has eclipsed its parent.
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October 02, 2006 | New York Law Journal

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October 11, 2006 | Daily Report Online

In The Trenches: Coleman to head Lord Bissell office

LORD BISSELL BROOK'S Atlanta partners have voted former city attorney Michael V. Coleman to head their office, four months after Corliss S. Lawson resigned from the post to start her own firm.Lawson, the first African-American woman to lead a local big firm office, vowed when she was voted Lord Bissell's Atlanta partner-in-charge in 2004 to use her position to attract more women and minorities to the Chicago-based firm.
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November 30, 2011 | Daily Business Review

EEOC awards for pain and suffering have reached an all-time high

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission feels federal workers' pain - and will pay them for it. A review of commission decisions during the past decade shows an uptick in awards for emotional distress.
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February 13, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Balch snags partners from Jones Day, Greenberg

Balch & Bingham has landed two new partners, litigator Dean Calloway from Jones Day and banking and finance lawyer Michael Wing from Greenberg Traurig.
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