Martin Pringle Elects 2012 Executive Committee

Jeff Kennedy

Stan Smith

Jeff Spahn

Rick Thompson

Scott Tschudy

March, 2012

Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P is proud to announce their 2012 Executive Committee.

Jeff Kennedy was re-elected as Managing Partner to a two-year term and has served in this role since 2002. He will also continue to serve on the 2012 Executive Committee.

Stan Smith, Jeff Spahn, Rick Thompson and Scott Tschudy (Kansas City) will also serve on the 2012 Executive Committee.

March/April 2012 Employment Law Briefing

March, 2012

Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P. is pleased to present the

March/April 2012 issue of Employment Law Briefing. In it we discuss:

• Why the Fifth Circuit allowed an age-discrimination case alleging a hostile work

environment to proceed, even though it had never before held that Title VII could be used

to address a claim of hostile work environment based on age;

• How a college administrator’s comment endangered the school’s defense in an

Americans with Disabilities Act case;

• Why a hospital official’s failure to be completely forthcoming contributed to the

hospital’s losing a hostile work environment and retaliation case; and

• A case in which an employer offered a returning service member a position with less

commission-earning opportunity than his pre-leave position.

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January/February 2012 Employment Law Briefing

January, 2012

Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P. is pleased to present the January/February 2012 issue of Employment Law Briefing. In it we discuss:

• The four conditions employers must meet before they may lawfully request that their employees take a polygraph test;
• Whether a performance improvement plan could be considered an adverse employment action, and the basis for an age discrimination case;
• Whether recent completion of a drug rehab program necessarily qualifies an employee for protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act; and
• Whether someone who is extended a job offer, only to see it withdrawn when it’s discovered she’s commenced a lawsuit against her former employer, is protected as an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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