Murshid & Johnson Elected to Labor & Employment Law State Bar Section
May 09, 2013
Attorney Summer Murshid has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin. This is Murshid’s second consecutive three-year term. Attorney Larry Johnson, a current Board member for the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, has been elected to the position of Secretary/Treasurer. This three year leadership ... more->>
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Medrano and Murshid to Present on Wage Theft at the Monthly Milwaukee Chapter LCLAA Meeting
May 08, 2013
On May 11, 2013, Attorneys Summer Murshid and Lyris Medrano will present on wage and hour violations at the monthly meeting of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, LCLAA. The presentation will be made bilingually and will cover basic information that all workers and union representatives should know about the state and federal wage protections in place for ... more->>
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Quindel Appointed to Wisconsin Federal Nominating Commission
April 18, 2013
Senator Tammy Baldwin has appointed Attorney Barbara Zack Quindel as one of her three appointments on a six-member Federal Nominating Commission established by agreement with Senator Ron Johnson to advise the Senators on filling vacant federal judgeships in Wisconsin. You can read the press release here.... more->>
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Halstead Named 2013 Worker’s Compensation Lawyer of Year in Madison, Wisconsin
April 05, 2013
Best Lawyers in America has named Attorney Aaron Halstead the 2013 Lawyer of the Year for Worker’s Compensation-Claimants. In bestowing this award, Best Lawyers stated the following: "Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the Lawyer of the Year, making this accolade particularly significant. Lawyers being honored as Lawyer of the Year are ... more->>
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Johnson and Murshid File Class Action Suit to Recover Wages on Behalf of La Fuente Servers
April 03, 2013
Attorney Larry Johnson speaks to Fox 6 Milwaukee about the federal class action lawsuit filed April 2, 2013 against local Mexican restaurant La Fuente. La Fuente servers have charged La Fuente with illegally docking workers' pay and failing to pay servers for certain pre-shift work at the restaurant. For more information about the case contact us at 800-236-3348. Restaurant workers who feel ... more->>
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Johnson Joins Hawks Quindel
April 03, 2013
Attorney Larry Johnson has joined Hawks Quindel's Milwaukee office. Larry represents employees in both individual and multi-plaintiff wage and hour claims to recover unpaid wages from their employers. He has extensive experience in litigating federal class and collective actions and has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of his clients. Larry has also successfully argued novel issues under ... more->>
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ATTORNEY MURSHID TO SPEAK AT WISCONSIN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COUNCIL (WERC) CONFERENCE
March 07, 2013
On May 2, 2013, Attorney Summer Murshid will participate in a panel discussion at the WERC's annual Wisconsin Public Sector Employment Relations Conference. She will be on a panel entitled "These Hypos Won’t Hurt a Bit" with Attorney Jina Jonen, In House Counsel for the Oregon School District. The discussion, moderated by Dan Nielson, will provide the basis for discussions regarding the ... more->>
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ATTORNEY MURSHID TO PRESENT AT AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ATTORNEY CONFERENCE
March 05, 2013
Attorney Summer Murshid will present at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Attorney Conference on April 25, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her presentation will focus on Constitutional privacy and First Amendment rights of public employees with an emphasis on the intersection of those rights and social media. Specifically, she will address the question of whether public employees’ social ... more->>
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HALSTEAD AND HAWKS SECURE COURT VICTORY FOR EMPLOYEES OF MONONA LIBRARY BOARD
March 04, 2013
Attorneys Aaron Halstead and Timothy Hawks have won another significant victory for organized labor, this time in Dane County Circuit Court. In December 2011, the City of Monona’s Library Board informed library employees, represented by AFSCME Local 60, that the Board would not honor the parties’ 2012-2013 collective bargaining agreement. The parties had signed that agreement in 2010, but the ... more->>
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CHARLTON TO MODERATE 2013 EQUAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE ON MARCH 8, 2013
March 01, 2013
Katherine Charlton will be a host and moderator for the 2013 Equal Justice Conference in Madison on March 8, 2013, in her role as Chair of the Legal Assistance Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin. She will join Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Judge Shirley Abrahamson and UW Madison Law School Dean Margaret Raymond in welcoming participants. More than 100 participants from around the state will ... more->>
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