vxla from Chicago, US, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I fear I have developed a reputation on this blog as a Dallas hater. This is not true. Not really. I have nothing against the city generally. Objectively, however, the professional football team associated with it is putrid. The Dallas…
Ranae Sheppard is lucky to be alive. A wife, mother of four, and integral litigation support provider to law firms like mine, Ranae was among the many North Carolina residents whose lives were turned upside down (or worse) in less than 24 hours by Hurricane Helene’s force and carnage. For…
Apropos of nothing employment-related, I read a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision that compels me to warn you before heading out to your favorite watering hole this weekend and ordering a plate of boneless wings. Eat them at your own risk of swallowing a chicken bone. According to the court,…
Gosh, in all the excitement of switching and starting a new law firm, I totally forgot to post the poll results from “Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie?” 70.6% of you said yes. And the rest of you are wrong. Yippee-Ki-Yay!
I am thrilled to share that I am one of the founding partners of a new, technology-driven, full-service law firm called Pierson Ferdinand, LLP. There’s an extensive article today about Pierson Ferdinand in The American Lawyer. But I want to tell you even more about the firm! Beginning this week, the…
Today is my last day at FisherBroyles. Black Hawk Down; FisherBroyles Up But the story of FisherBroyles, my home (in every sense of the word) for the last six years, began long before I arrived in March 2018. As my friends and FisherBroyles founders, Kevin Broyles and James Fisher, tell…
“You keep reading; I’ll keep writing.” Nine times out of ten, that’s how I close my replies to readers of this blog who email me. I didn’t know that when I started writing this blog in 2011, the enjoyment I get from writing about employment law and engaging with you…
For a minute there, I thought about blogging today about the Supreme Court employment law outlook for 2024. But that can wait. With Santa gearing up to make his special deliveries on Monday, we need human resource professionals and employment letters to settle a holiday debate. Is ‘Die Hard’ a…
Whether adorned with cornbread, sausage, or just the simple traditional version, readers of this blog can’t get enough of that Thanksgiving stuffing, which once again prevailed as the top overall Thanksgiving food in 2023, as voted on by several hundred of you. Here are the other group winners: Turkey Breast…
I didn’t mean to startle some of you yesterday. In yesterday’s post, I teased that we would rank the Thanksgiving foods today. But in doing so, I linked to last year’s survey, which is closed. Sorry about that. For those new to the blog, each year before Thanksgiving, readers get…