40 Years at the Bar

I can’t honestly say what I anticipated 40 years ago today when I came to Austin to be sworn in as a member of the Texas state bar. But it i...

Lessons from Just One Day's Daily Labor Report

One of the venerable sources of information for labor and employment lawyer's has been BNA's Daily Labor Report. I can't remembe...

Domestic Violence: A Possible Solution

One of the humbling aspects of keeping an online journal for any period of time, particularly when you are so unwise as to make predictions ...

Getting Rid of the Annual Review

All too often, I have seen the annual performance evaluation show up in a trial as a Plaintiff's exhibit, rather than what you would thi...

Birthdays: Mine and Jottings

If on my 18th birthday, I had been given the following list of what I thought I would be doing on my 65th birthday, I am not sure what my an...

Death On the Job: Not Quite as Bad as it Sounds

I was shocked this morning on one of the business news summaries I get to see a report that 150 Americans die from hazardous working conditi...

The Evolution of Employment Law

When I started practicing, 40 years ago, the law of employment was still covered in the legal treatises under the law of Master and Servant....