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The Washington Post recently published an article about a U.S. district court’s finding that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unlawfully fired senior official Mary...

Bloomberg Law recently published an op-ed written by Shareholder Courtney Mickman and Senior Counsel Jenny Knopinski.  In the piece, “Civil Service Protections Benefit the Public,...

The Tampa Bay Times published an article, “Disabled veterans say St. Petersburg VA is discriminating with back-to-work policy,” about the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’...

On June 3, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reclassifying certain career federal employee positions into Schedule Policy/Career (“Schedule P/C”) of the excepted...

Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order converting approximately 10,000 career federal employee to Schedule Policy/Career (“Schedule P/C”).  As a result, these employees...

More often than not new hires at companies are presented with a non disclosure agreement to sign a few weeks after starting that usually contain...

The rule implementing Schedule Policy/Career (Schedule P/C) will go into effect next week, on March 9, 2026.  Here’s what you need to know: What is...

Politico recently quoted Senior Counsel Katherine Lease in an article about proposed changes to federal employee performance assessments.  The article, titled “Trump admin advances performance...