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Combatting the Risks of Departing Employees Part Seven: Employee Probationary Periods: Risk Mitigation Strategy (Authored by Raika N. Casey | Bar Results Pending | Faruki PLL)

Probationary periods can be a useful tool to evaluate employees—both new and existing—but they can also be risky. This post addresses potential risks.. Read More

Combatting the Risks of Departing Employees Part Six: Hiring, Performance Standards, and Documentation Best Practices

Continuing the Faruki PLL blog series relating to the risks of departing employees, this post addresses the best practices in hiring, performance.. Read More

Combatting the Risks of Departing Employees Part Five: Laws Providing Job-Protected Leave

Readers of recent updates to this blog have already been introduced to the employment at-will doctrine, as well as some common exceptions to at-will.. Read More

Combatting the Risks of Departing Employees Part Four:  Tort Claims

In this series on combatting the risks of departing employees, Faruki attorneys have examined how Ohio is an at-will employment state, when.. Read More

Combatting the Risks of Departing Employees Part Three:  Summary of Legal Issues for Involuntary Termination of Employment in Ohio: Retaliation

Continuing the Faruki PLL blog series relating to combatting the risks of departing employees, this post addresses a potential issue for employers.. Read More

Faruki PLL Partners Recognized as 2022 Best Lawyers in America®

Partner Jeffrey Ireland again receives "Lawyer of the Year" award DAYTON and CINCINNATI, Ohio — [August 24, 2021] – Faruki PLL Partners D. Jeffrey.. Read More

Combatting the Risks of Departing Employees Part Two: Top 5 Things to Know Regarding Federal, Ohio, and Local Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and Involuntary Termination

As a continuation of the Faruki PLL series on some of the risks relating to employee departures and highlighting employer's options regarding.. Read More

Combatting the Risks of Departing Employees Part One:  Ohio's Employment-at-Will Doctrine and its Exceptions

Over the next few months, Faruki PLL will feature a series of articles discussing some of the risks relating to employee departures and highlighting.. Read More

Erin Rhinehart Added to Benchmark Litigation's Top 250 Women in Litigation

Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio — Benchmark Litigation has selected Erin Rhinehart, Co-Managing Partner of Faruki PLL to appear in the 10th edition of .. Read More

The Unfairness Doctrine: What Remains of Assignor Estoppel in Patent Cases After Minerva Surgical?

In Minerva Surgical v. Hologic, No. 21-440, slip op. (Fed. Cir. June 29, 2021), the Supreme Court affirmed the existence of the defense of "assignor.. Read More