Christian & Small is pleased to announce that Connor W. Herfurth has joined the firm as an Associate in the Birmingham office. Connor will focus his practice on Insurance, Professional Liability, Retail and Hospitality, and Transportation. “I could not be more thrilled to be joining Christian & Small whose longstanding reputation as nonstop advocates precedes … Read More
On July 29, 2021, the Department of Labor announced a final rule rescinding the “Joint Employer Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act” final rule (Joint-Employer Rule). [86 FR 40939]. The recission goes into effect on September 28, 2021. The Department of Labor found the prior administration’s Joint-Employer Rule improperly narrowed the test for vertical joint … Read More
Christian & Small is pleased to announce that 17 lawyers are included in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and three associates are recognized as The Best Lawyers in America®: 2022 Ones to Watch. New to the list this year is Mississippi-based associate Shauncey H. Ridgeway in the fields of Bankruptcy and … Read More
Christian & Small is pleased to announce that Partner Sharon D. Stuart has been named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2021 Top 250 Women in Litigation and Partner M. Jansen Voss named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2021 Under 40 Hotlist. Now in its 10th edition, the Top 250 Women in Litigation determines honorees through research of litigators’ professional … Read More
In 2021, the number of COVID-19 cases was dropping and vaccinations were available. Lifted COVID mandates allowed employers to return employees to the workplace. The Delta variant may cause federal, state, and local governments to reverse course. Employers need to prepare for the reversal by reviewing the current guidelines. RETURN TO WORK Currently, an employer … Read More
Alabama’s charging order statute “provides the exclusive remedy by which a judgment creditor of a member [of a limited liability company] … may satisfy a judgment” out of the judgment debtor’s “transferable interest” in the limited liability company, See Ala. Code § 10A-5A-5.03(f), which the statute defines to mean “a member’s right to receive distributions … Read More
