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Join us on March 12 at 2 ET for “DEI Now: Where to Stop, Proceed With Caution, and Move Ahead”

February 21, 2025 | by Eric B. Meyer

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President Trump’s recent Executive Order, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” has raised pressing questions about the future of workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The order emphasizes enforcing civil rights laws, eliminating race- and sex-based preferences in federal policies, and promoting merit-based opportunities. In response, many employers are wondering: What does this mean for DEI programs in the private sector? Continue reading

Join us today on Zoom at Noon ET to learn the playbook of an employee-rights attorney (who used to represent employers).

October 11, 2024 | by Eric B. Meyer

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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!

Join us on Zoom on Friday, October 11 for “To the Dark Side (or perhaps seeing the light).”

October 7, 2024 | by Eric B. Meyer

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I want you to meet Alex Meier. Continue reading

Don’t use THIS FONT in your legal briefs (or anywhere else probably).

June 7, 2024 | by Eric B. Meyer

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This one is ~~a bit of a~~ total stretch. Continue reading

Court to employers: Don’t wait too long to arbitrate employments claims

April 1, 2024 | by Eric B. Meyer

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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. Continue reading

Here’s what happens when a judge catches a plaintiff fabricating evidence of sexual harassment

March 8, 2024 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Spoiler alert: it often doesn’t end well for the plaintiff or their lawyer.

Instead of hiring a lawyer, a business owner ordered to pay wages used AI to prepare his appeal. It was a giant clusterf**k!

March 1, 2024 | by Eric B. Meyer

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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 intelligence to prepare an appellate brief. Continue reading

Employers are singing the praises for the EEOC’s online mediation program

June 2, 2022 | by Eric B. Meyer

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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 thought of the EEOC’s Mediation Program, I would’ve told employers and employees alike to embrace it as an effective way to resolve employment disputes without the time, cost, and risk associated with litigation.

But no one asked me.

See you in court, err, arbitration! SCOTUS to decide whether litigating an employment dispute first precludes arbitrating it later

November 19, 2021 | by Eric B. Meyer

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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 morning cup of coffee. Continue reading

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