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Alan Lescht and Associates, P.C., is pleased to welcome Associate Attorney Caroline Perris. Prior to joining the firm, Caroline served as a Law Clerk to...

In normal circumstances, your employer can charge you as absent without leave (AWOL) and discipline or fire you for not coming to work.  But what...

If you are a federal employee who received a bad performance review, you may feel lost with nowhere to go for help. Performance reviews are...

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...

Continuing in our exploration of employees’ First Amendment rights, we now turn to government contractors.  Can government contractors be fired for exercising free speech?  Of...

Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there were numerous media reports about employers firing or taking other disciplinary action against employees for making political comments...

Shareholder Courtney J. Mickman recently served as a panelist at the American Bar Association’s 19th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference.  Leading professionals gathered at...

Following the federal government’s lead, many private sector employers have conducted mass layoffs.  A big question for many private-sector employees is: Does my employer have...