Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Kansas City – Seigfreid Bingham is proud to announce two new shareholders of the firm. Jamie Maggard and Julie Parisi joined the firm in 2016 as associate attorneys and were promoted to shareholder October 1, 2019. Maggard is a 2011 graduate of the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. His practice encompasses […]
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Kansas City – Seigfreid Bingham is pleased to announce that Emily Crane has joined the firm as a corporate associate. Emily is a 2019 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law and a 2016 graduate of the University of Kansas where she studied Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies. She will be […]
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
By John VeringSeptember 24, 2019 Below is a link to the U.S. Department of Labor announcement of the Final Rule increasing the minimum salary level for exempt employees to $684 per week ($35,568 annualized) from the current level of $455 per week ($23,660 annualized). This new regulation was issued September 24, 2019 and is effective […]
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
By Rachel Baker and Maggie Young Employers in Kansas City, Mo., should be aware of a city ordinance recently passed by the City Council that is commonly known as a “Salary History Ban.” The ordinance prohibits any employer located in Kansas City, Mo., with six or more employees from inquiring about a prospective employee’s salary […]
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
September 5, 2019Kansas City – Rachel Baker presented on a webinar hosted by Transport Topics titled “Improve Safety for Your Entire Fleet with Video Technology.” She spoke about misclassification cases in the trucking industry and how to balance that risk with increasing technology for fleet safety. Baker is a shareholder and member of the firm’s […]
Thursday, August 15, 2019
August 15, 2019Kansas City – Seigfreid Bingham is proud to announce that ten of its lawyers were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020 edition. Gordon Gee: Commercial Litigation, Litigation-SecuritiesGreg Gerstner: Construction Law, Litigation-ConstructionMark Gilgus: Corporate Law, Tax Law, Trusts and EstatesBrenda Hamilton: Commercial LitigationJoe Hiersteiner: Corporate Law, […]
Monday, July 1, 2019
By John Vering and Curry SextonJuly 1, 2019 Historically, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has collected information from employers regarding the number of employees by job category, race, ethnicity, and sex – known as Component 1 data. Employers covered by this requirement are still required to regularly submit the Component 1 data to the […]
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Kansas City – Brenda Hamilton and Shannon Cohorst Johnson, shareholders, presented a CLE program on June 11, 2019 at the Annual Business Litigation Seminar sponsored by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association Business Litigation Committee. Their portion of the program focused on business litigation involving breach of non-competition agreements, tortious interference with contracts, and trade […]
Friday, April 5, 2019
By John Vering and Curry SextonApril 5, 2019 Following more than two years of regulatory inaction, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has now issued three proposed rule changes under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) within the past month. First, on March 22, the DOL published a proposed rule that would increase the minimum […]
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
By Lori Beam I can’t help thinking of opening a can of spam when I see the acronym CAN SPAM, referring to the lengthy-worded Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act. But, of course, we all know it as the U.S. law regulating the transmission of all commercial email messages, and requiring senders […]