On June 15, 2020, the Federal Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on LGBTQ employee’s rights. In a Tampa Bay Business & Wealth article published on June 23, 2020, Alicia Koepke discusses the clarity this ruling provides employers across Florida, and the rest of the country, in regard to discrimination…
Originally published in the July/August 2020 issue of The Florida Bar Journal. By: Alicia Koepke As a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many businesses have been or will be forced to close operations or reduce or eliminate their workforce. In doing so, covered employers should carefully consider their…
Trenam Law is pleased to announce that seventeen of the firm’s attorneys have been named to Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite™ 2020. The list of publication’s honorees includes attorneys in private practice as well as top government and non-profit attorneys. To compile the Legal Elite list, actively practicing Florida attorneys…
Five Attorneys Listed in Top Categories Trenam Law is pleased to announce that over half of the firm’s attorneys were recognized in the 2020 edition of Florida Super Lawyers. Five attorneys were recognized in the “Top Lists” including Lara R. Fernandez in “Top 100” state-wide for Bankruptcy: Business as well…
Originally published by the Business Observer on April 2, 2020. More than a decade has passed since the mass layoffs of the 2008 financial crisis. In that time, unemployment has fallen to record lows in many parts of the country, especially Florida. But with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic,…
Trenam Law is pleased to announce that twenty of its attorneys have been listed as Top Lawyers 2020 by Tampa Magazine. Earlier in the year, Tampa Magazine mailed close to 11,000 surveys to Florida Bar attorneys in Hillsborough County. During the peer nomination process, attorneys were asked to vote for…
In a Law360 article published on September 25, 2019, Alicia Koepke provides insight on the U.S. Department of Labor’s recently released overtime rule, which updated the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) overtime and minimum wage requirements by raising the salary threshold to $35,568 per year for employees to qualify as…
As many businesses will recall, in 2016 the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule that more than doubled the minimum salary that must be paid to certain employees for them to remain exempt from minimum wage and overtime pay requirements, but a federal court enjoined and declared that…
June 24, 2019 – TAMPA, FL – Trenam Law is pleased to announce that 21 of the firm’s attorneys have been named to Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite™ 2019. The list of 1,126 honorees includes attorneys in private practice as well as top government and non-profit attorneys. To compile the…
TAMPA, FL – Trenam Law is pleased to announce that over half of the firm’s attorneys were recognized in the 2019 edition of Florida Super Lawyers. Three attorneys were recognized in the “Top Lists” including Lara R. Fernandez in “Top 50” state-wide for Bankruptcy: Business as well as “Top 50…
