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Legal Research Needed to Show Good Faith

By Diane Murley

An in-house lawyer?s failure to adequately research whether an employee was covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) cost his company more than $80,000 in the case of Brown v. Nutrition Management Services Co. The trial judge found that without evidence the company or its attorney had researched the requirements of the FMLA the employer could not prove that it acted in good faith. Therefore, the employee was granted liquidated damages of $80,655.82.

Judge: In-House Attorney’s Failure to Research FMLA Shows Lack of Good Faith, The Legal Intelligencer, January 30, 2009

The January 30, 2009 order in Brown v. Nutrition Management Services Co. is available on the Court?s website.

Full post as published by Ross-Blakley Law Library Blog on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).