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Luper Neidenthal & Logan Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers In America®
Frederick M. Luper, William B. Logan, Jr., Roger T. Whitaker and Jeffrey R. Jinkens of Luper Neidenthal & Logan have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 21st Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Luper and Logan were named for Bankruptcy and...
FMLA Tips:
Run FMLA time concurrently with sick leave. Although an employee may not want to use FMLA time if he/she has sick time or other paid leave time available, it is up to the employer to designate leave as FMLA-qualifying. This will minimize the amount of time off in any...
New EEOC Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination And Related Issues
On July 14, 2014 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published a document entitled: “Enforcement Guidance: Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues. مركز كريم بنزيما ” This document supersedes an EEOC Compliance Manual dating back to 1991. It provides...
Fraud Is Alive and Well In 2014
When authorities entered Bernie Madoff’s private offices after his fraud was revealed, they found a silver sculpture in the shape of a screw on his window sill. The name of his yacht was “The Bull Ship.” Madoff was laughing in the faces of the thousands of investors...
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals: Individual Chapter 11 Debtors Cannot Retain Pre-Petition Property Pursuant to a Nonconsensual Chapter 11 Plan if Creditors are not Paid in Full
In a recent decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a bankruptcy court decision from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee which held that the absolute-priority rule, codified at 11 U.S.C. §...
Broken Bench
No matter how frustrated a lender may be with his debtor, that automatic stay of Section 362 of the bankruptcy code is still a stay. In the recent case of in re Stellato, decided by the Colorado Bankruptcy Court on May 9, 2014, Mr. Stellato had a grocery and deli. He...
Family and Medical Leave Act Musings
Intermittent Leave While FMLA leave may be taken in small increments to allow an employee to attend a doctor's appointment or care for a sick child, employers should be aware of employees who seek to apply FMLA leave to such things as random work breaks and late...
Ohio Supreme Court Reverses Itself on Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements Post-Merger
On May 24, 2012, the Ohio Supreme Court issued a decision holding that the language of a non-compete agreement that failed to specify that it would extend to an employer’s “successors or assigns” would not allow a post-merger surviving company to enforce the...