Minnesota Lawyer

Neither COVID-19, nor facial masks, nor plexiglass could keep Minneapolis attorney Ellen Brinkman from her jury trial. Neither could three continuances of the trial during the court closure.

Cynthia Bremer is among many employment attorneys whose practice is moving away from litigation to counseling, training and investigations — more advice work, coincidentally while people are working in disparate locations and courts are closed because of COVID.

Federal employment law took a sharp turn last year when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bostock v. Clayton County.

The pandemic has made most of us feel that we’re living in a new world, but for Frances Baillon, that’s because it has created new ways in which employers can run afoul of the law and new whistleblower lawsuits by allegedly ill-treated employees.

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