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It was early morning at Provost & Umphrey, and like many days, I showed up before 7:00 a.m., hoping to catch our boss, the legendary Walter Umphrey, over coffee before the workday began. That day, he had a client he wanted me to see: Michael Hauck, a deckhand who had been fired for refusing to perform an illegal act. I had just enough time to review the law on at-will employment. In Texas, for over 100 years an employer could fire an employee for good reasons, bad reasons, or

As a mediator who has successfully navigated over 1,015 Zoom mediations, I find that stepping away from the virtual world can offer...

Montreal 2024, video credit: NADN

When Covid hit in March 2020, I was already working with Zoom through Pepperdine Law School. We transitioned seamlessly to Zoom...