BALTIMORE – December 03, 2024 – Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that it will open an office in Baltimore, Maryland on January 2, 2025. The Baltimore office will be Ogletree Deakins’ 58th office and fourth new office since […]

Fiona Ong was quoted in a November 18, 2024 Bloomberg News article by Patrick Dorrian, “Worker Assistance Program as Adverse Job Act Probed by 10th Cir.” Fiona offered some thoughts on whether mandatory referrals to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) may be an adverse employment action under the new standard […]

Darryl McCallum won summary judgment for a public school system on an employee’s claim of retaliation for his complaint of age discrimination. The federal district court held that the employee could not show that his non-selection for promotion was based on anything other than his lesser qualifications for the role, […]

On October 16, 2024, Fiona Ong co-led a discussion panel on “Complicated C-Suite and High-Level Management Issues” at the annual conference of the American Employment Law Council, a global, invite-only group of top labor and employment attorneys, both in-house and outside counsel, practicing on the management side.

Michael McGuire and Veronica Yu Welsh presented “Critical Updates to Employee Handbooks at the Federal and State Level” to the Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Baltimore on October 15, 2024.

Fiona Ong has once again been recognized by Lexology as its “Legal Influencer” for Employment & Immigration – US, most recently for Q3 2024. Lexology publishes in excess of 450 legal articles daily from more than 1,100 leading law firms and service providers worldwide. Lexology’s quarterly “Lexology Content Marketing Awards” […]

Mark Swerdlin successfully defended a professional services firm in a Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Division investigation into a former high-level official’s claim that the company terminated her employment in retaliation for raising safety concerns. After a thorough investigation, MOSH determined that there was no merit to the allegations and […]

Eric Hemmendinger won a motion to dismiss for a heating and cooling contractor on an employee’s claims under the D.C. Wage Payment and Collection Law that he was not paid the prevailing wage as required under the Davis-Bacon Act. The D.C. Superior Court agreed that the Act does not give […]

Chambers’ Employment 2024 Global Practice Guide, for which Shawe Rosenthal authored the Maryland Chapter, has been released. Our chapter provides a comprehensive overview of labor and employment law in the state. Chambers & Partners is a prominent London-based research and publishing organization that ranks law firms and lawyers based upon their reputation […]

J. Michael McGuire successfully settled a new 4-year collective bargaining agreement for a leading specialty chemical manufacturer with the Teamsters Union, after the agreement was initially rejected by the union members.