I’ve been blogging for more than seven years, and I’ve never had opposing counsel try to impeach one of my clients with something I’ve written on this site. Overlawyered brings us a story from Abnormal Use of an attorney-blogger whose opposing counsel did attempt to impeach via the blogger’s posts. It did not end well for the impeacher. This is absurd and offensive, and I would not stand for it in a hearing of deposition of mine.
Lawyer readers, have you ever had this happen to you? And, if so, how did you handle it? Let me know in the comments below.
The Manpower Employment Blawg presents this month’s Employment Law Blog Carnival: Halloween Edition. Please click over to read the best of the employment law blogosphere from the past month (including one from yours truly).
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- EEOC Sues FedEx for Discriminating Against Deaf Employees — via In House
- Getting fired for bringing a gun to work probably isn't discrimination — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Good documentation pays off! Not once but TWO times — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Ending Gender Discrimination Requires More than a Training Program — via Harvard Business Review
- Black Supervisor Remarks He Has “Too Many Black” Employees; Employer Loses Motion For Summary Judgment — via The Employment Brief
- Is It Harassment To Tell An Employee To “Pull Her Own Weight”? — via Evil Skippy at Work
- Do “Engaged” Employees File Fewer Charges? — via Employment Discrimination Report
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Four Things To Do Now BEFORE An Employee Data Breach — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Banning Employers from Asking for Social Media Passwords is Stupid — via employeescreenIQ Blog
- Should Your BYOD Policy Ban Third-Party Keyboards? — via Blogging4Jobs
- LinkedIn Sued for Furnishing Reference Reports on Users — via Law.com
- Using Social Media as a Screening Tool for New Hires — via Attorney at Work
HR & Employee Relations
- Ebola and Employer Liability Issues — via Employment Law Lookout
- Staying Calm and Prepared for Potential Workplace Ebola Issues — via TLNT
- EBOLA and Employer Liability Issues — via Environmental & Safety Law Update
- Apple and Facebook are now paying for women employees to freeze their eggs — via The Verge
- Eggs in the workplace — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Should My Business Use an Arbitration Agreement for Employment Disputes? — via Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- 5 Ways to Make Your Employees Love You — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Lessons from the Ryder Cup: don’t blast the boss in front of a world-wide audience — via Employment Law Worldview
Wage & Hour
- DOL Makes It Official: New FLSA Regulations Delayed Until 2015 — via Wage & Hour Insights
- Wage and Hour Division Releases Enforcement Statistics — via Wyatt Employment Law Report
- An Explainer: NFL Cheerleader Lawsuits — via On Labor
Labor Relations
- NLRB Toasts Chicago Bakery On English-Spanish Translation — via The Labor Dish
- NLRB Wins Reversal of Section 10(j) Ruling; Trial Court Denied Bargaining Order Remedy Bloomberg BNA