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Fiona W. Ong was a panelist for the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland’s “Diversity in the Law” Program, on October 21, 2021. As moderated by Indira Sharma, Fiona and her fellow panelists, Judge Jeannie Hong, Magistrate Dilip Paliath, and Assistant State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling, discussed diversity in the legal profession.

Fiona W. Ong has once again been recognized by Lexology as its “Legal Influencer” for U.S. – Employment, most recently for Q3 2021. Lexology publishes in excess of 450 legal articles daily from more than 1,100 leading law firms and service providers worldwide. Lexology instituted its quarterly “Lexology Content Marketing Awards” in 2018 to recognize […]

Chambers’ 2021 Regional Employment Practice Guide, for which Shawe Rosenthal authored the Maryland Chapter, has been released. A pdf of the chapter is available here. Chambers & Partners is a prominent London-based research and publishing organization that ranks law firms and lawyers based upon their reputation among peers and clients. It also publishes global practice guides […]

J. Michael McGuire won an arbitration on behalf of a residential treatment program. The arbitrator agreed that the employer had cause to terminate an employee for sleeping on the job.

Paul D. Burgin was quoted in a September 22, 2021 Baltimore Business Journal article by Amanda Yeager, “Hospitality union calls for boycott of rebranded Columbia hotel,” (subscription required). As the attorney for the Merriweather Lakehouse Hotel, Paul explained that recall rights for previously laid-off employees had expired earlier this year, but that former employees were […]

Fiona W. Ong was the featured guest in the September 2, 2021 episode of “This Week in Legal Blogging with Bob Ambrogi,” a weekly podcast with “the best bloggers in the legal community.” You can listen to Fiona’s interview here.

On behalf of an energy company, J. Michael McGuire and Alex I. Castelli won dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to compel arbitration over a change in retiree benefits, as reported in Law360 and the Labor & Employment Law Daily (subscriptions required). The court found that the current and previous collective bargaining agreements covered only […]

Chambers’ Employment 2021 Global Practice Guide, for which Shawe Rosenthal authored the USA Trends and Developments chapter, has been released. Chambers & Partners is a prominent London-based research and publishing organization that ranks law firms and lawyers based upon their reputation among peers and clients. It also publishes global practice guides providing clients with expert legal […]

Bruce S. Harrison, Eric Hemmendinger, Darryl G. McCallum, J. Michael McGuire, Fiona W. Ong, Stephen D. Shawe, Gary L. Simpler, Mark J. Swerdlin, Teresa D. Teare, Parker E. Thoeni, Elizabeth Torphy-Donzella and Lindsey A. White. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled […]

The presentation addressed what employers can do to keep pace with rapid changes in health and safety when bargaining and administering labor agreements in an organized workplace. The webinar recording may be accessed here.