By: Mark Stephenson, Esq. The Third Circuit Rejected Lawyer’s Challenge to Pennsylvania’s Anti-bias Ethical Rule based on First Amendment Rights On August ...
The Ward is Law
NLRB Returns to a Restrictive Employee Handbook Standard Established in 2004
By: Christopher Curci, Esq. On August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an important decision in Stericycle, Inc (Stericycle), ...
Fast Food Franchise to Pay $50,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
By: Jeremy Rogers, Esq. Houcorp, Inc., a fast-food restaurant franchise operating seven restaurants in Indian River and Brevard Counties in Florida has ...
The Risk of Using AI-Generated Work and the Potential Liabilities of Lawyers
By: Ross G. Currie, Esq. In the past few months, the use of AI has rapidly spread from education to the legal profession. From a user perspective, the ...
Supreme Court Clarifies the “Undue Hardship” Test for Employer Defense in Religious Accommodation Cases
By: Mark Stephenson, Esq. The Supreme Court rules that defense standard set forth in Hardison has been erroneously interpreted by lower courts for nearly 50 ...
Florida’s New Law Mandates the Use of the E-Verify System
By: Jeremy Rogers, Esq. On May 10, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1718 into law. This statute will require private employers with at least 25 ...
Changing the Negligence Game
By: Jeremy Rogers, Esq. On March 24th, 2023, Florida passed into law HB 837 that significantly overhauls several areas of negligence and bad faith law ...
Non-Compete Agreements: May not be worth the paper they’re written on.
By: Mark Stephenson, Esq. On January 5th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a monumental rule proposal that would ban a large swath of ...
A Banner Year for Fair Workweeks in Philadelphia
By: Christopher Curci, Esq. Employers paid a record penalty for violating the city’s ordinance twice in 2022. Last month, Ruth’s Chris Steak House was ...
Employers Who Discipline Racism are NOT Racist
By Barry Brownstein, Esq. This should probably go without saying, but here we are... You’ll likely remember the 2020 incident when Amy Cooper, a white ...