Minnesota Lawyer

In an effort to root out employee abuse of Family and Medical Leave Act violations, employers are increasingly relying on the “honest suspicion” defense — and winning.

Pressure has been building for Employers in Minnesota and across the country to scrutinize and reform their criminal background check policies.

Sometimes employment litigation is complicated, so much so that the parties and judges cannot even agree on which court has jurisdiction to hear an appeal.

A new survey from HBR Consulting has some good news for in-house lawyers: There is a good chance your pay went up in the past year.

Read the September 2012 edition of our quarterly In-House Counsel special section.

This article identifies several scenarios in which in-house counsel may find himself in a conflict situation and offers practical tips on how to see potential conflicts coming and how to deal with them.

Responding to the economic meltdown, Congress in 2010 passed the Dodd Frank Act to regulate a wide range of securities law practices and asked the SEC to enforce most of them. Since Dodd Frank, the winds have blown back and forth, sometimes in favor of regulation and sometimes back into the faces of the regulators.

Some questions seem to recur in the workplace even as law and business concerns evolve. Aa few of the more frequent questions that employers face, along with strategies for legal compliance are discussed.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued a formal “enforcement guidance” addressing the applicability of the chief federal employment discrimination statute, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to the use of criminal conviction and arrest records in employment decisions.

According to a recent study, more than half of all employees admit to stealing employers’ confidential data.