Blog – Law Offices of Linda S. Klibanow, a PLC Mediator, Arbitrator, Attorney

Schedule F has gone into effect. During the blessedly limited time of his Administration, Trump has feared and repeatedly attacked the federal civil service. Trump’s immediately effective directive of October 21 established the new “Schedule F” within the “excepted” service of the ...

IMPEACH AG BARR NOW – WITHOUT THE RULE OF LAW THERE ARE NO LAWYERS

08 Sep 2020

Linda Klibanow

Chaos, congress, News Article, professional ethics

Really, it is so clear what we need to do. Below is a quick checklist of AG Barr’s impeachable offenses: Deliberate distortion and delay of information/Mueller report to protect Trump Collaboration with Trump re retaliatory terminations to protect Trump Interference with AG...

September 2020 “Check-in” on Labor & Employment Developments: CSB, OSHA, Payroll Tax Deferral Via Executive Order, AI in Employee Selection

03 Sep 2020

Linda Klibanow

administrative agency, discrimination, employee rights, News Article

While the Trump Administration has not missed a beat in appointing federal judges, it has ignored (or worse) filling vacancies in administrative agencies created and maintained by past administrations to safeguard employees against unnecessary workplace risks as well as against discrimination. A...

Covid Conundrums, Fickleness of Agency Deference, Resisting Labor in a Pandemic, and Days of Armendariz-Are They Over?

30 Jul 2020

Linda Klibanow

administrative agency, arbitration, discrimination, due process, employee rights, employment disputes, labor, legislation

From the Covid Desk: The United Mine Workers of American International Union and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers on June 18, 2020 jointly filed a petition seeking court order requiring the Mine Safety...

Kind of what it’s like living in today’s times.

23 Jul 2020

Linda Klibanow

Chaos

Portland & Lubyanka?

23 Jul 2020

Linda Klibanow

arrest, constitution, Dissent, due process, Protestors, Secret Police

As a Russian history and literature major, in 1972 I wrote my college thesis on works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One of these was The First Circle written during the years 1955-1958, in a version redacted by the author himself in 1964to enable...

Pandemic Blog Hitching Post for Law, Labor & Covid News:

17 Jul 2020

Linda Klibanow

Uncategorized

SCOTUS Voter Suppression Decisions: Previously noted in this blog was the April 6, 2020 SCOTUS decision requiring Wisconsin voters to jeopardize their/their families’ health in order to preserve their vote. Since then we’ve seen SCOTUS decline to compel the State of Texas...

“A GOOD CASE WELL-PRESENTED”

15 Apr 2020

lkliba01

Uncategorized

Here are a few “arbitration advocacy” practice tips: Don’t “jerk around” in discovery. . “Meet and confer” efforts should be expeditious; meet and confer is the process, not the end. Generally be forthcoming. Assume that the arbitrator will see through any artifice....

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