Labor & Employment Law

Employment Contracts
General Contract Law Principles

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Temporary Work Visas
Differences Between H-1B, J-1, E-1, E-2, L-1, and R-1 Work Visas

Work Visas
Types of work permits

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

Employment
Employee rights including labor law, harassment, safety, unpaid overtime, discrimination and union disputes.

Unsafe Work Site
Employee awarded $2.5 million personal injury settlement after suffering burns to his lower body.

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.

Arkansas Nucor Plant Guilty of a Racially Hostile Work Environment
Nucor Guilty Of Racially Hostile Work Environment Must Pay $1.2 Million Settlement

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

State Farm Class Actions
Policy Holders Settle