Kirk Huth is proud to announce that four of the firm's attorneys have been named to the prestigious Super Lawyers list for 2023. The publication recognized Robert Kirk in the Land Use & Zoning category; Robert S. Huth, Jr. for his recognition in the State, Local & Municipal Law category; Elizabeth P. Roberts Morris for…
Four attorneys at Kirk, Huth, Lange & Badalamenti have been named to the 2022 Super Lawyers list, an annual rating of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement: Patrick McKay, Elizabeth P. Roberts, Robert T. Carollo, Jr., and Ryan Fantuzzi. The objective of Thomson Reuter’s Super Lawyers is to…
The Paid Medical Leave Act takes effect March 29, 2019. If you have not reviewed the impact to you, now is the time to take action. In a historic lame duck session in December 2018, Michigan lawmakers voted on over 300 bills in approximately 13 days. Several of these legislative changes impact our clients and…
Employers wondering whether a person working for them is an employee or an independent contractor recently received helpful guidance from the Department of Labor. The Department of Labor issued a new opinion letter concerning the test it uses when determining worker classification. Minimum wage and overtime laws apply only to employees and not independent contractors.…
On April 12, 2018 the Department of Labor released three new opinion letters on the Wage and Hour Division’s website. The three opinions were the first letters the Department has released in nearly a decade.1 Two of the letters concern the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Specifically, the two FLSA letters address: (1)…
Imagine that as a 1L, you aced Civil Procedure because you mastered the minimum contacts analysis from International Shoe. In your second and third years, you coasted through classes the likes of Harvard’s Feminisms and Pornography, c. 1975–1995 and Cornell’s Harry Potter and the Law. Now, a few years later, you find that the practice…
Garrity v. New Jersey holds that when a police department orders its employee to answer questions, under the threat of termination, the Fifth Amendment prohibits the employee’s statement from being used against him or her in a subsequent criminal prosecution. 385 U.S. 493 (1967). Garrity statements can be oral or written, and often occur during…
