By Joseph A. White In 2013, the pendulum swung in favor of employers seeking to enforce class action waivers in arbitration agreements. A...

– Developing Law Around Social Media and the Workplace By David S. Fried Over the last year, we have written, blogged and linked many of...

By David S. Fried My law partner, Joe White, and I recently “attended” a video seminar discussing legal disputes surrounding commission...

In previous posts, we’ve contemplated whether obesity might qualify as an ADA-covered disability under the more relaxed standards ushered...

Since Congress enacted Title VII in 1964, federal courts have almost uniformly declined to recognize a statutory claim based on sexual...

Surprise! A medical malpractice plaintiff won a significant victory this month when the Court of Appeals held that a trial court should...

Cessna recently paid six figures to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

By Joseph A. White Georgia employers who fail to follow their own background check procedures do so that at their peril. That is one of...

Title VII prevents workplace harassment based on an employee’s race, sex, or other protected status. But the law draws a distinction...

E-mail, texts, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest, blogs and other social media sites are no longer...

In a 10-6 en banc decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently upheld a jury verdict in favor of a male...

On Thursday, November 7, 2013, the United States Senate passed a bill that aims to prevent discrimination against gay and transgender...

By David S. Fried In Ballard v. Chicago Park District, No. 13-1445 (7th Cir. January 28, 2014), the Seventh Circuit said yes. Beverly...

By Joseph A. White The Georgia Court of Appeals recently issued a decision that illustrates how difficult it is for personal injury...

By Joseph A. White The Fourth Circuit recently joined a number of other federal circuit courts (including our 11th Circuit) in holding...

By David S. Fried Various federal laws prohibit the United States’ roughly 5,000 publicly traded companies from retaliating against...

By Joseph A. White Our firm screens hundreds of potential discrimination claims each year. Often, we end up turning away cases because...

By Joseph A. White The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) is a federal law that protects “disabled” workers from employment...

In Georgia, a law firm’s in-house counsel is now entitled to the same attorney client-privilege and work product protections as its...

In June 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially recognized obesity as a disease. What are the implications of that...