Legal Updates and Firm News

HAGRS LLP Welcomes New Associate Brian S. Abrams

HAGRS LLP is pleased to announce that Brian S. Abrams has joined the firm as an associate in its Atlanta office.  Brian joins the firm following clerkships at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit with the Honorable Frank M. Hull (2016-2017) and at the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, with the Honorable Harold L. Murphy (2014-2016), where he gained invaluable...Read More

U.S. News & World Report ranks HAGRS LLP in 2018 “Best Law Firms”

HAGRS LLP is ranked in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list in two practice area categories.  HAGRS is ranked regionally in Employment Law – Management (Tier 1) and Litigation – Labor and Employment (Tier 1).  According to the selection committee, rankings are “based on a rigorous evaluation process,” and law firms included in the 2018 “Best Law...Read More

Five HGRS LLP Partners Recognized as Georgia Super Lawyers

Five partners at Hall, Arbery, Gilligan, Roberts and Shanlever LLP (Wit Hall, Chris Arbery, Matt Gilligan, Dave Roberts, and Rebecca Shanlever) have been recognized as 2017 “Georgia Super Lawyers” as published by Atlanta Magazine. According to the selection committee, Super Lawyers are those who have “achieved excellence in their practice” and are selected based on peer...Read More

New Counsel Donna Keeton Enhances Firm’s Affirmative Action Compliance Practice and Is Licensed in California

Donna Keeton joined the Firm earlier this month as Of Counsel, bringing more than 17 years of experience in guiding and representing companies with regard to various employment-related issues, including discrimination and harassment, reasonable accommodations and leaves of absence, wage and hour issues, layoffs and terminations, and employment agreements. Donna also brings substantial...Read More

HGRS Selected by Super Lawyers as Georgia’s Top Small Firm in Employment Law

Leading legal industry publication “Super Lawyers” has named Hall, Arbery, Gilligan, Roberts & Shanlever LLP as the 2015 “Top Law Firm” in Georgia in the small firm category for employment law.  We are honored and sincerely grateful to all our clients who have made this possible.   Read More

What is Your Employment Risk Profile?

Are you prepared for a potential lawsuit or government investigation involving your employment practices?  Most employers know they have significant risk in this area, but do not know how to limit their legal exposure.  To properly assess and improve its risk profile, and potentially avoid a legal dispute altogether, an employer should work with legal counsel to focus on the following key...Read More

11th Circuit Rejects “Not Our Fault” Defense

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that an employer is not absolved from liability for unreported overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) if it has actual or constructive knowledge that time records are inaccurate.  The ruling in Bailey v. TitleMax of Georgia (No. 14-11747) reversed a lower court’s decision accepting the defense that an employee could not recover...Read More

Beyond Liability: Get Employees In S.H.A.P.E.

What are you providing employees in exchange for their time and service?  The answer many managers and supervisors probably would give is “a regular paycheck; insurance.”  Unfortunately, most employees probably would give the same answer.  Managers who want more from employees should consider what more they are doing (or should be doing) for employees, every day. Managers and supervisors...Read More

EEOC Issues Guidance on Pregnant Employees

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently issued guidance regarding protections for pregnant employees under federal law.  The guidance, published on the EEOC’s website and linked below, states that some temporary impairments arising out of pregnancy can be considered “disabilities” under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) which employers must reasonably...Read More

Affordable Care Act: Employers Required to Provide Notice of Health Insurance Exchanges

Although the Obama Administration announced last week that it will delay implementation of some employer mandate and penalty provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) until 2015, other requirements remain in place and on schedule. For example, by October 1, 2013, all employers who are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (which applies to virtually all...Read More