Publications
- A Typical Scenario
- Does an Employer Have to Accommodate Employee Proselytizing?
- Accommodating Who Someone Is Versus What Someone Does
- Adoption of New Design Guidelines for Hospitals/Health Care Facilities
- ADR: Have All the Project's Participants Signed-On?
- Affirmative Action Plans And Programs Is Your Company Meeting Requirements?
- After I Provide The Information, What Next?
- AFTER THE TRAGEDY: ANTI-MUSLIM HARASSMENT PRESENTS NEW CHALLENGES FOR EMPLOYERS
- The 2007 AIA Conventional Family Of Documents
- 2007 AIA Conventional Family Of Documents
- The AIA Conventional Family Of Documents -- Continued
- Design Professional's Practice Bulletin Volume 1, Number 3 — October 1997
- ALERT: SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE LAW REGARDING YOUR RIGHT TO DISCIPLINE AN EMPLOYEE
- An Easy, Effective Preventative Law Technique: Complaint Procedures for Discrimination and Harassment Claims
- ANALYSIS AND REVIEW: WHAT DO YOU THINK? - June 2004
- ANALYSIS AND REVIEW: WHAT DO YOU THINK? -- JANUARY 2004
- ANALYSIS AND REVIEW: WHAT DO YOU THINK? -- NOVEMBER 2003
- ANALYSIS AND REVIEW: WHAT DO YOU THINK? – March 2004
- Analysis and Review: What Do You Think?
- ANALYSIS AND REVIEW: WHAT DO YOU THINK? – MAY 2004
- ANALYSIS AND REVIEW: WHAT DO YOU THINK? -- SEPTEMBER 2003
- And That's Not All . . . A New Form of Worker's Compensation?
- ARE YOUR CLAIMS PREVENTION POLICIES REALLY CLAIMS CREATION POLICIES?
- Avoiding Employment Lawsuits: The Employment Interview
- AVOIDING LAWSUITS IS A GAME OF INCHES
- AVOIDING THE "SOFTWARE POLICE"
- BLENDED FAMILIES CAN BENEFIT FROM SPECIAL ESTATE PLANNING
- BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
- Business Law or Business Profits
- But is it legal?
- But What Does the FMLA Mean in the Real World?
- BUYING YOUR PEACE
- CAN "HOW YA' DOIN'?" LEAD TO A LAWSUIT?
- Can You Withhold Wages from an Employee Who Caused You Damage?
- The Consequences Of Failing To Plan, Or Why Everyone Needs Estate Planning
- Corporate Taxation
- Counsel Consulting Group LLC Announces Another Strategic Alliance Partnership
- ALERT: IN A MAJOR VICTORY FOR EMPLOYERS, THE SUPREME COURT HAS LIMITED THE REACH OF THE ADA
- DEALING WITH EMPLOYEES IN THE MILITARY
- Defamation Risk #1
- Defamation Risk #2
- Design/Build: Are You Ready?
- A Paperless Practice Bulletin
- Disability Planning
- Do I Have to Hire Muslims? What if My Employees Object?
- Does an Employer Have to Accommodate Religion-Based Objections to Work Duties?
- Does Religion Require a Belief in God? Can There Be a One-Person Religion?
- Does The Ergonomics Program Standard Apply To Me?
- DOING THE RIGHT THING IS NOT ENOUGH - IN THE EYES OF THE LAW, IF YOU CAN'T PROVE IT, YOU DIDN'T DO IT A CONTINUING SERIES...
- DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE NEWSPAPERS: DOES SENIORITY REALLY TRUMP DISABILITY?
- Durable Powers Of Attorney For Financial Matters
- E-LEARNING UPDATE June 1, 2004
- E-LEARNING UPDATE July 1, 2004
- E-LEARNING UPDATE
- EEOC Papers on Harassment, ADA and Other Employment Liability Issues
- EEOC Policy Guidance on Executive Order 13145 Prohibiting Discrimination in Federal Employment Based on Genetic Information
- E-mail And The Loss Of Plausible Deniability
- EMPLOYEE LAWSUITS ARE NO LAUGHING MATTER, BUT ...
- EMPLOYEE LAWSUITS AND RUNAWAY JURIES - THE SUPREME COURT HELPS EMPLOYERS MANAGE THE RISKS
- Several Employees Are Reservists That Have Been Activated. What Now?
- What Can I Do if My Employees Refuse To Fly?
- The Employment Practices Radar Screen: Intellectual Disability Claims And OFCCP Audits
- Enforcement Guidance: Vicarious Employer Liability for Unlawful Harassment by Supervisors
- Estate Planning—It's Not Just For Millionaires
- How Do You Get Your Managers to Create the Right Kinds of Evaluation Documents?
- EVEN EINSTEIN CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHEN TO PAY OVERTIME
- FAILURE TO TRAIN MANAGEMENT TO PROPERLY ADMINISTER SEXUAL HARASSMENT COMPLAINT PROCEDURE LEADS TO $8 MILLION PUNITIVE DAMAGE AWARD
- Federal Court Offers Broad Interpretation of New Jersey Affidavit of Merit Statute
- It Finally Happened... A Court Rules That An Employer Who Failed To Train Its Managers Made An "Extraordinary Mistake" And Is Liable For $50,000 In Additional Damages
- Firm Ownership and Succession for Design Professionals
- First: Despite the Political Uncertainties, It's Time for An Overtime Audit
- GET READY FOR A MANDATORY, TOP-DOWN “CULTURE OF COMPLIANCE”
- Going It Alone At An Unemployment Compensation Hearing
- Handouts and Presentations from Recent Powell Trachtman Business Seminars
- Harvey, Pennington's Architects and Engineers Group moves to Powell, Trachtman, Logan, Carrle, Bowman & Lombardo
- Health Care Powers Of Attorney And Living Wills
- How Can I Be Responsible for the Conduct of Someone Else’s Employees?
- How Does the Tax Cut Affect My Estate Planning?
- How Does This Apply to Companies Trying To Avoid Employment Lawsuits?
- How Employee Evaluation Forms Prevent Employment Lawsuits
- How It Began
- How It Works In The Real World
- How Much Is An Employer Required To Tolerate In The Name Of Religion?
- HOW "REASONABLE" DO YOU HAVE TO BE WHEN PROVIDING A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION?
- HOW TO GET BLOOD FROM A STONE PRIMER ON UNCONVENTIONAL COLLECTION METHODS
- Do I Need To Design And Implement A Security Plan?
- Inconsistent Enforcement Of HR Policies Will Consistently Cause Employee Lawsuits
- Intellectual Disabilities and the ADA
- Interviewing and Hiring
- IS AN EMPLOYER WHO OBJECTS TO EMPLOYEE DREADLOCKS LIABLE FOR RACIAL OR RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION?
- Is an Employer Obligated to Stop Religious Harassment by Fellow Employees?
- IS EMPLOYEE TESTING LEGAL?
- Is There A Moral To These Stories?
- IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH FAVORING MINORITIES TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY IN YOUR WORKPLACE?
- It Can Get Expensive
- JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE …
- KNOW WHEN TO SAY NO TO EMPLOYEE CLAIMS
- Knowing When Not To Keep Your Mouth Shut
- Knowing When To Keep Your Mouth Shut
- Legislative Alert: Proposal for Limited Liability Companies to be Authorized under Architects Licensure Law
- Limited Liability Companies
- Major Changes Proposed to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Regulations covering Overtime Wages: Addressing the Economic Realities of the 21st Century Workplace
- Make Your Own Battle Plan
- MANAGEMENT TRAINING IS A NECESSITY, NOT AN OPTION: RECENT MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR VERDICTS SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE
- MANDATORY MANAGEMENT TRAINING ALERT OCTOBER 2004
- MANDATORY MANAGEMENT TRAINING ALERT NOVEMBER 2004
- MEMO TO THE BOARD: OUR TOP EXECUTIVES - THE ONES WHO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR BUSINESS - JUST LEFT AND ACCEPTED JOBS WITH OUR PRIMARY COMPETITOR WHAT YOU CAN DO BEFORE IT HAPPENS
- Minimizing Key Employee Defections
- New Jersey's "Carvalho" Statute Addressing Engineer Liability for Personal Injury is Enacted
- New Overtime Regulations Could Be In Place By July 2003
- New Year's Resolutions for a Healthy Employer
- The Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code… It’s Here
- news-bull0404
- The Convergence Of Accessible Design Standards Continues: Access Board Releases New Minimum Guidelines Merging Requirements Under The ABA And ADA
- The New Certificate Of Merit Rules
- news-bull0603
- Coping with Bilt-Rite
- news-bull0702
- Important Changes In The Tax Laws That May Affect You
- news-bull1104
- news-bull1105
- Court Finds That Standard AIA Contractual Limitations Period Waives Governmental Immunity To Statutes of Limitation
- news-bull1202
- The Science Of Compliance
- news-bull1207
- Design Professionals Subject to Federal Civil Rights Prosecution?
- Design Professionals' Liability For Violation of OSHA Construction Standards Expanded
- What is New
- Asset Protection Made Affordable
- Frivolous Litigation: Recovery of Counsel Fees
- WHAT'S MINE IS MINE
- powelltrachtman.com
- Congress Opens the Door to Leave More to Your Heirs and Less to the IRS
- Are You Ready For A Major Project Disaster?
- The New B141
- A Paperless Practice Bulletin
- On The Move... Volume 2, Number 3 — December 1998
- The New B141—Concluded
- Nightmare #1: The Hardworking Executive
- Nightmare #2: The "On-Call" Employee
- Nightmare #3: The Telecommuter
- NOT EVERY SEXUAL ADVANCE CONSTITUTES SEXUAL HARASSMENT
- Only Your “Fair Share”
- OSHA ADVISORS ON OSHA'S WEB SITE
- OVERTIME UPDATE May 1 2004
- PBA Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee Targets Design Professionals
- Pennsylvania Proposal to Expand the Sales Tax to Attorneys’ Services
- Personal Planning Alerts
- Philadelphia Begins New Commerce Case Management System For "Business Litigation"
- Policy Guidance on Executive Order 13145: To Prohibit Discrimination in Federal Employment Based on Genetic Information
- pps_unions
- Professional Service Firms Should Not Overlook Domestic Production Activity Deduction By Dirk Simpson, Esquire
- The Prohibition Against Retaliation: It’s Much More Than You Think It Is
- Protecting Confidential Information in a Digital World
- PROTECTING YOUR ASSETS
- Protecting Your Company and Your Employees from Workplace Violence
- Avoiding Lawsuits -- How Businesses Can Prevent Employment Claims and Liabilities
- DEATH BY E-MAIL
- THE EEOC'S NEW FOCUS ON DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS ... WHAT IT MEANS, AND WHAT YOU NEED TO DO ABOUT IT
- Design Professional's Practice Bulletin
- Questions and Answers
- QUICK TIP: SOME THINGS DO NOT GET BETTER WITH AGE
- Reasonable Accommodation and Undue Hardship Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Regional Chapter of Design-Build Institute of America Continues to Thrive
- Second: It's Time to Review Your Employee Complaint and Exit Interview Procedures, and to Train Your Managers on Their Proper Use
- SECRET WEAPONS: HOW TO USE YOUR EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION FORM TO AVOID LIABILITIES
- SHOULD YOU MONITOR YOUR EMPLOYEES' E-MAIL?
- Avoiding Lawsuits Through "Skunk Factors"
- Small Employers and Reasonable Accommodation
- Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory
- So Much for the Problem. What’s the Fix?
- So What Do You Do?
- So What Do You Do?
- So What So You Do?
- So What’s The Problem?
- So What's The Problem?
- Some Licensing News For Architects Licensed In Florida
- SPRING FEVER . . . IS IT LOVE OR LIABILITY THAT'S IN THE AIR?
- Stacking the Deck in Your Favor
- The 1997 AIA Documents and Their Impact on the Economics and Procedures of Your Design Practice
- THE ACCIDENTAL CONTRACT: AVOIDING THE E-MAIL DEALS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU MADE
- The Action Plan May 1, 2001
- The "Action Trigger"
- THE ADA AND THE INCOMPETENT EMPLOYEE: ANOTHER HIDDEN (AND EXPENSIVE) PITFALL FOR EMPLOYERS
- THE ADA: YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS AN EMPLOYER
- THE ADR REVOLUTION - WILL IT WORK FOR YOU?
- The 2007 AIA Conventional Family Of Documents -- Continued
- The Arbitration Alternative
- The Circuit City Case
- The Conflict Between Maintaining Work Standards And Maintaining Legal Compliance
- The Current State of the Law
- The Design Professional and the Vacuum Cleaner Salesman – We see the difference, but the courts might not
- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE: THE REAL WORLD OF EMPLOYEE - EMPLOYER LAWSUITS
- The FMLA Basics
- The Hidden Dangers in the Evolving Law of Sexual Harassment
- The Lecture Circuit
- Congress Opens the Door to Leave More to Your Heirs and Less to the IRS
- Are You Ready For A Major Project Disaster?
- The New B141
- The New B141—Concluded
- THE LEGAL "TUNEUP"
- THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY DON'T STAY THE SAME
- THE "MY WORD AGAINST YOUR WORD" PROBLEM
- THE NEXT BIG THING: BIPOLAR EMPLOYEES AND THE ADA
- The Only Solution
- THE POWER OF DOCUMENTS - If You Can't Prove It, It Doesn't Exist
- The Problem
- THE "REVENGE LAWSUIT" - FIVE TIPS FOR MINIMIZING THE RISK OF LAWSUITS FROM TERMINATED EMPLOYEES
- THE SCIENCE OF COMPLIANCE
- The Solution: Five Ways To Minimize The Risks
- The Supreme Court Speaks, And Everything Changes
- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Employer Liability for Harassment by Supervisors
- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- The Worm Turns - Punishing Plaintiffs
- Then How Do You Increase Diversity?
- Think You Don’t Need an Affirmative Action Plan? Think Again.
- Third: Turn Your Subjective Employment Decisions into Objective Employment Decisions
- Three Clear Messages From Washington:employers Must Deal With Overtime Issues, The Suders Case And The Wal-Mart Case Now... Or Pay Later
- THREE OVERTIME NIGHTMARES
- A Paperless Practice Bulletin
- TIS THE SEASON ... FOR YEAR END EMPLOYEE EVALUATIONS
- Training Managers To Avoid Employee Lawsuits Make Sure They Know When To Say "Whoa!"
- TRANSFERRING A FAMILY BUSINESS TO FAMILY
- TRAPPED BY THE INTERNET: A CONTINUING SERIES
- TWENTY THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FMLA
- Unreasonable, Unreliable and Unpredictable? Or Bipolar?
- Very Bad News For Employers-The Supreme Court Lays Out The Red Carpet For Employee Discrimination Lawsuits
- We Are Bigger and Better
- What About Job Applicants?
- What About Reading Personal Mail Left On An Office Computer?
- What Do The Guidelines Require A Company To Do?
- What Do You Do When the Terminated Employee Harasses and Defames You?
- WHAT DO YOU THINK? Jan 1, 2004
- WHAT DO YOU THINK?
- What Do You Think?
- WHAT DO YOU THINK?
- WHAT DO YOU THINK?
- WHAT DO YOU THINK?
- What Do You Think?
- WHAT DO YOU THINK?
- What Does It All Mean For You?
- What does it all mean, and what should you be doing now?
- What Does The Employer Have To Do When The Employee Returns?
- What Does The Employer Have To Do While The Employee Is Gone?
- WHAT EMPLOYERS IN THE POST-SEPTEMBER 11 WORLD NEED TO KNOW
- What Every Employer Better Know About the Law
- What Every Employer Better Know About the Law
- What If Your Business Really Needs Minority Workers?
- What the Statute Says is Just the Beginning
- What to do Once the Will is Signed -- The Importance of Coordinating Life Insurance and Retirement Plan Beneficiary Designations with Your Will
- What's Going to Happen to Employment Practices Liabilities?
- What's It All About, and What Do I Have To Do Now?
- What’s The Solution?
- WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS... PROTECT YOUR ASSETS
- When is a Deal Not a Deal?
- WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE THE ONE ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT?
- Why Compliance with the ECPA Is Not Enough
- WHY YOU NEED A "WEB SITE AUDIT," AND THE SOONER THE BETTER
- YOU CAN BE LIABLE FOR EMPLOYEE VIOLENCE IN YOUR WORKPLACE - BUT MAKE SURE THAT THE CURE IS NOT WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
- You Can’t Just Tell Them; You Must Show Them
- You Have Observed A Dangerous Situation On Site.
