Work Matters Blog has moved! Beginning on Jan. 20, you will find Work Matters Blog posts as part of Texas Lawyer’s website. Access to your favorite blogs will continue as part of ALM’s digital...

Here are two killer questions: one that a prospective employer should ask, and one for a prospective employee. First, the employer's question:"What have you done recently to improve yourself?" Jobs,...

"Glaxo to Stop Paying Doctors To Boost Drugs" by Katie Thomas was a headline in the December 17, 2013 issue of The New York Times. Interesting but, according to the piece, not the only news. Glaxo is...

The mediation is over. Everyone has agreed on the numbers, and the lawyers are writing up the terms. But the employer wants the employee to agree not to file a charge of discrimination at the EEOC....

In a year-end blockbuster, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit changed the law on what constitutes a sexually hostile work environment and suggested a different way to analyze retaliation...

In a case that’s troubling for Texas employers but exciting for employees, the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio affirmed a big payday judgment for a plaintiff in a retaliation case under the...

In Dewan, et al. v. Walia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a trial court's refusal to set aside an arbitration award because the arbitrator demonstrated a "manifest...

Do our environments affect our honesty? Yes, according to research conducted at MIT's Sloan School of Management and described in an article in the November 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review,...

The best lawyers are empathetic lawyers. How to learn the skill? Read fiction, according to an Oct. 4 article in The New York Times, "For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little...

Quick, what’s the least known challenge for lawyers? It’s our desire to be useful, needed and helpful. We question ourselves, wondering why clients ignore our advice, fail to respond to our...