Weston Hurd is pleased to welcome new partners Brian Kampman and Joseph Kampman who bring a wealth of experience in estate planning, probate and estate litigation, trust and estate administration, commercial litigation, and general corporate law. Brian Kampman represents individuals, fiduciaries and non-profit organizations in matters such as will and trust contests, misappropriation of funds […]
On June 5, 2025, in Ames v. Ohio Dep’t of Youth Servs., 221 L. Ed. 2d 929 (2025), the United States Supreme Court rejected the Sixth Circuit’s rule that a majority group plaintiff in a “reverse discrimination” Title VII case must present evidence of “background circumstances” that the plaintiff’s employer is the “unusual” employer that […]
On November 15, 2024, a Texas federal district court set aside and vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule that substantially increased the minimum salary threshold for employees who are classified as exempt under the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions. As discussed in a prior alert, the DOL issued the rule in April 2024, […]
Congratulations to the Weston Hurd team of Sam Lauricia, Scott Lucas, and Matthew Miller. In a recent order issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Court awarded Weston Hurd client Mann Construction legal fees plus costs incurred during a five-year litigation with the Internal Revenue Service and the United States Department […]
Weston Hurd is pleased to announce that 21 attorneys are recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2025 including Joseph A. Gerling attaining “Lawyer of the Year” recognition. Best Lawyers® uses a methodology “…designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same […]
Weston Hurd is pleased to welcome Partners Matthew K. Seeley (Cleveland office), and Theresa N. Turk (Cleveland office). Matthew is a business, commercial, and employment attorney with 30 years of accumulated legal education and experience. Theresa concentrates her practice in estate planning, estate administration, trust planning, elder law, social security disability, guardianships, and probate litigation […]
On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule updating the salary threshold for employees classified as exempt. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employees fall into classifications of either exempt or non-exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements. Non-exempt employees must be paid overtime wages of 1.5 times their regular […]
On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced its long-awaited final rule regarding noncompete agreements. The FTC had issued a proposed rule in January 2023 and received more than 26,000 comments from the public in response. The final rule effectively bans employers from entering into noncompetes with workers and bans enforcement of most […]
