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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…

Just as I had finished raiding my kids’ hauls for all the Butterfingers and 100 Grands, it was at that moment that I remembered that the sweetest part of Halloween, the real HR nerd candy, was that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had announced the opening of 2022 EEO-1…

I am so stoked for today’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour. I’ll tell you why. I’ve convinced my friends, Meyling “Mey” Ly Ortiz and Edward Fronczkiewicz, to share their in-house counsel perspectives on employee relations. In her role as Managing Counsel of Employment & Labor at…

This may come as a surprise to some of you, but the in-house company lawyers don’t always see eye-to-eye with the HR professionals, supervisors, and employees whom they counsel. And vice versa. I’d swap stories with you, but the attorney-client privilege (and my better judgment) cautions against doing so. So,…