Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protects public employees who give truthful testimony under subpoena,...

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

By Joseph A. White We’ve written extensively about the interplay between social media and litigation. This spring, the EEOC formed a...

By Joseph A. White It was big news earlier this month when the Huffington Post broke the story that Jimmy John’s required low-wage...

By Joseph A. White What’s the right way for an employer to send an FMLA notice to an employee? Email?Mail?As two recent decisions...

By Joseph A. White The Northern District of Georgia’s recent opinion in Stevenson v. Great American Dream, Inc., occurs at the...

By Joseph A. White Following well-publicized and costly data breaches at big box retailers Target and Neiman Marcus, Congress has begun...

By Joseph A. White We’re written extensively in recent months on the topic of the enforceability of arbitration agreements in employment...

By Scott L. Bonder Score one for the little guy.   In Citrus Tower Boulevard Imaging Center v. David S. Owens MD PC, the Georgia Court of...

By Scott L. Bonder Generally speaking, a lispendens is notice to the world that a property is involved in a civil suit. The property at...

By Scott L. Bonder On December 13, 2013, the Eleventh Circuit awarded a significant victory to online travel companies (OTC’s) in their...

By: Joseph A. White The Eleventh Circuit recently issued two decisions with significant implications for FLSA claimants in this judicial...

By: Joseph White The Eleventh Circuit recently overturned a $1 million dollar verdict in an FMLA interference and retaliation case...

By Scott L. Bonder The Eleventh Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action because the complaint failed to...

For business owners, online reviews are now a fact of life. And a recent Sixth Circuit decision demonstrates the difficulty of attempting...

By David S. Fried Back in September 2013, Fried & Bonder wrote about President Obama’s introduction of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013....

In late September, the Georgia Court of Appeals issued two important decisions which will help employers enforce arbitration agreements...

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development recently published a free “Legal Guide to Social Media in the Workplace,”...

By David S. Fried Last month, my law partner, Joe White, asked whether a Virginia Court “got it wrong” when it ruled in favor of...

By Joseph A. White In an earlier blog post, we noted that the American Medical Association now recognizes obesity as a disease and we...