“Unlike last year's Nonsmoker Protection Act, there were no major headline grabbers in the employment legislation that was passed by the Tennessee General Assembly this session. However, the legislature did consider several bills affecting Tennessee employers. The following is a summary of the more significant bills enacted into law."

“With all the issues that employers have to worry about these days, whether one heterosexual male called another heterosexual male a derogatory name that rhymes with "Rick" seems of little importance.”

Businesses dislike litigation. There are a number of reasons for this, such as cost, risk of loss, and disruption of normal business operations.

With the U.S. Supreme Court recognition of same-sex marriage back in 2015 and increasing EEOC scrutiny regarding employers' pregnancy accommodation policies and practices as well as gender discrimination.

What is the current business climate in your jurisdiction, including major political, economic, and/or legal activities on the horizon in your country that could have a big impact on businesses?

Employers often wonder whether all employees must be provided with the same health benefits, or even whether employers can offer health benefits to some employees but not to others.

Litigation over misclassification of employees under wage and hour laws is one of the largest growing areas of employment litigation. Much of this activity is class litigation, with representative plaintiffs initiating lawsuits on behalf of hundreds or even thousands of coworkers.

It's Monday morning and you start your day as you have for the past ten years as the attorney for your Georgia county government.

It is quite common for a corporation to be a party to a lawsuit. However, a corporation is considered to be a “legal fiction.” How, then, can a corporation participate in the processes and procedures involved in the defense of a lawsuit?

Depositions of in-house litigation counsel, whether in a products liability, employment, commercial, or any other case, is a more frequent phenomenon, representing "a troubling and real-world discovery problem."

The Application of Conflict of Laws to Evidentiary Privileges A complicated yet important issue that may arise in cases involving corporate evidentiary privileges is the choice of law (also referred to as conflict of laws) that will be applied by courts in resolving a dispute when a privilege claim arises.

Depositions of In-House Counsel'sMaintaining and Protecting Evidentiary Privileges When referring to a party's attempt to depose an opposing lawyer, the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri stated that a party shouldn't be able to use a deposition to sucker-punch the other side's quarterback or listen in on the other side's huddle.