Alex Meier leveraged years of experience and savvy representing clients of one of the leading management-side employment law firms in the United States to form an employee-rights firm and advocate for plaintiffs — your workers. Bold move! So I convinced Alex to share with readers why he made such a…
I want you to meet Alex Meier. For many years, Alex represented clients of one of the leading management-side employment law firms in the United States. Alex’s clients looked to him to resolve their most complex and nuanced employment cases. However, This year, things changed when Alex joined another management-side…
This one is a bit of a total stretch. It’s about an employment law-adjacent lawsuit. The owner of a limited liability company filed suit under 42 U.S.C. §1981, claiming that another company discriminated on account of race by evicting the LLC for failure to pay rent. The district court dismissed…
A recent federal appellate court decision is an important reminder to confirm early—not later—whether the employee suing your business signed an arbitration agreement. The plaintiff had signed an agreement with an arbitration provision that covered his subsequent claims for disability discrimination, which he filed in federal court. But the employer…
Spoiler alert: it often doesn’t end well for the plaintiff or their lawyer. For example, let’s discuss this Second Circuit decision in which a plaintiff had sued her employer and two of its employees, asserting claims of sexual harassment during and retaliatory discharge from her employment. For a time, it…
A multi-year dispute over unpaid wages went from bad to a whole lot worse for a Midwest business owner when he decided to appeal a trial court ruling that he owed over $300k in wages, damages, and attorney’s fees by representing himself and hiring an “online consultant” who used artificial…
As an employment law mediator, my resume includes many years of private practice and service to some federal courts. But I cut my chops at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and have remained a volunteer mediator with the EEOC for over a decade. If anyone asked me what I…
Freepik, Vital Gorbachev, Smashicons edited by Bruce The Deus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons If your company makes its employees sign arbitration agreements, then this post is for you. The rest of you can get an early start on happy hour find something else to read while sipping your…
Ibrahim.ID, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons It depends. (Sorry). But, for added context, I love this quote from a recent Maryland federal court opinion: [There are] complexities in relying on a party’s social media postings as an unvarnished chronicle of their lives or a contemporaneous journal of their true…
Image Credit: Photfunia.com Last Friday, I had a great time with special guest Abigail Morrow on The Employee Handbook Zoom Office Hour. (If you missed it, check out the replay here on The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel.) So let’s run it back this Friday at Noon ET on Zoom. This…