SPEECHES AND PUBLICATIONS

Author:

• “FMLA Amended to Expand Rights for Military Personnel and Their Families” (April 2008).
• "Texas Supreme Court Changes Stance on Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements in At-Will Employment" (January 2007).
• "Are the Floodgates Open? U.S. Supreme Court's Retaliation Ruling a Major Victory for Employees" (September 2006).
• "Sexual Favoritism: When an Office Romance Can Result in a Hostile Work Environment Claim" (September 2005).
• "EEOC Challenges 'Partner' Status - Argues Partners are Really 'Employees'" (March 2005).
• "New Overtime Rules Are Now The Law" (September 2004).
• "Overtime Pay: The Insurance Industry Continues the Battle Over 'White Collar' Exemptions" (May 2004).
• "Out With the Old, In With the New: Sweeping Changes to Overtime Regulations on the Horizon" (September 2003).
• "Good News, At Last, From the Department of Labor: Insurance Adjusters May Qualify for Administrative Exemption" (June 2003).
• "Show Me the Money: Wage and Hour Lawsuits Soaring in Popularity" (September 2002).
• "Dealing With EEOC and THRC - How to Respond to Requests for Information and Subpoenas: Should You Cooperate, Mediate or Litigate?" (August 2002).
• "Applicants for Re-Hire are 'Employees' Under FMLA's Anti-Retaliation Prohibition" (March 2002).
• "A Warning About 'WARN': WARN Regains Popularity in the Turbulent 2000's" (September 2001).

Speaker:

• Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, "Recent Developments in Employment Law Under the Obama Administration" (May 11, 2010).
• New Realities in Employment Law, Sterling Education Services, Austin, TX, "Wage and Hour Law and Protecting At-Will Employment" (March 26, 2009).
• National Association of Women in Construction, Austin, TX, "Employment Law Developments" (June 5, 2008).
• We Mean Business, Austin, TX, "Employment Law Pitfalls" (April 30, 2008).
• Lorman Education Services, Dallas, TX, "Human Resource Fundamentals in Texas: Wage, Hour and Overtime Issues" (June 20-21, 2002 and June 17, 2004).
• Lorman Education Services, Dallas, TX, "Properly Handling An Employee Complaint in Texas" (June, 10, 2003).
• Lorman Education Services, Austin, TX, "Properly Handling An Employee Complaint in Texas" (February 27, 2003).
• Dallas, TX, "State and Federal Personnel Laws in Texas" (October 17-18, 2002).
• Austin, TX, "Employment Law Update" (August 13, 2002).
• Texas Association of Business' 24th Annual Employment Relations Symposium, San Antonio, TX, "Dealing With EEOC and THRC - How to Respond to Requests for Information and Subpoenas: Should You Cooperate, Mediate or Litigate?" (August 8-9, 2002).
• Austin, TX, "State and Federal Personnel Laws in Texas" (August 8-9, 2002).

PUBLISHED APPELLATE OPINIONS

• Banks, et al. v. Dallas Housing Authority, et al., 2001 WL 1285391 (5th Cir. Oct. 24, 2001)
• The Woodlands Land Development Company, L.P. v. Jenkins, No. 48 S.W.3rd 415 (Tex. App. Beaumont 2001, no writ)
• American Lantern Co. v. Hamilton, NO. 04-95-00517, 1997 WL 667167 (Tex. App. - San Antonio, Oct. 22, 1997) (NO. 04-95-00517-CV)
• Threadgill v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, et al., 912 S.W.2d 264 (Tex. App. - Dallas 1995, no writ)
• Office of Public Ins. Counsel v. Texas Automobile Ins. Plan, 860 S.W.2d 231 (Tex. App. - Austin 1993, writ denied)
• State of Texas v. Flag-Redfern Oil Co., 852 S.W.2d 480 (Tex. 1993)
• Texas Catastrophe Property Ins. Ass'n. v. Morales, 975 F.2d 1178 (5th Cir. (Tex.) 1992), cert. denied, 507 U.S. 1018 (1993)
• State of Texas v. National Council of Allied Employees, et al., F. Supp. 1154 (W.D. Tex. 1992)
• Santa Fe Energy Co. v. Baxter, 783 S.W.2d 643 (Tex. App. - El Paso 1988, no writ)
• PDS&W v. Elcor Corp., 754 S.W.2d 810 (Tex. App. - San Antonio 1988, writ denied)
• Hudspeth v. Hudspeth, et al., 756 S.W.2d 29 (Tex. App. - San Antonio 1988, writ denied)
• Continental Casing Corp. v. Samedan Oil Corp., 751 S.W.2d 499 (Tex. 1988)
• W.E. Myers Drilling Corp. v. Elliott, 695 S.W.2d 809 (Tex. App. - El Paso 1985, writ refused n.r.e)