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		<title>SEVEN OBSERVATIONS ON LEADERSHIP, VICE PRESIDENT WALTER MONDALE</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/leadership/mondale-interview-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers:  Set forth below is the fifth article in my Leadership Series, this one by Vice President of the United States, Walter Mondale.  More than any person I’ve ever met, Mr. Mondale is perfectly positioned to opine on leadership.  His lengthy public service includes roles as Minnesota Attorney General, U.S. Senator, Vice President of the United States and U.S. Ambassador to Japan.  In these positions, he has been a remarkable leader himself and has had the opportunity to interact with leaders from the U.S. and around the world. At the end of the article is a video of an interview I had <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/leadership/mondale-interview-2/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Resignation for Good Reason, Quirky Question # 156</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/resignation-for-good-reason/resignation-for-good-reason-quirky-question-156/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resignation for Good Reason]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of our key executives recently resigned. Under the terms of his contract, he had the right to resign for “good reason.” He claimed that due to certain financial restructuring our company underwent, his job was going to change significantly. Even if his supposition was correct, didn’t he have to wait until these events played out? We checked his contract and the “good reason” provision is pretty employee friendly. The agreement states that his conclusion regarding “good reason” is entitled to deference from the company. Does that mean we have to accept any justification he advances? As you likely suspect, <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/resignation-for-good-reason/resignation-for-good-reason-quirky-question-156/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Roy&#8217;s Analysis of Quirky Question # 155, Privilege Issues</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/recent-decisions/roys-analysis-of-quirky-question-155-privilege-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attorney-Client Privilege]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quirky Question # 155: A class action discrimination lawsuit was filed against our company. The proposed class included all African American employees who were employed during a specified time period. This group includes our former Vice President of Human Resources. We learned recently that the plaintiffs’ lawyers have met on several occasions with our former VP of HR. This troubles us since he was involved in numerous attorney-client privileged communications, both with in-house and outside counsel. Moreover, the early discovery that plaintiffs’ counsel served suggests that they have seen any number of documents that we generated to help us evaluate <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/recent-decisions/roys-analysis-of-quirky-question-155-privilege-issues/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Re-Launch</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/uncategorized/blog-re-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers: Welcome to the new version of my Quirky Employment Questions Blog! It took us a bit longer than we had anticipated to make the move to this new format but I am hopeful the wait will prove worth it. I now have been given the green light to start posting again. As you will see, we retained the best features from the previous Blog platform. You still will be able to see multiple postings on the main page. You still will be able to search by topic the approximately 200 prior posts. You still will be able to participate <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/uncategorized/blog-re-launch/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Employment Trivia Game</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/trivia-game-question/employment-trivia-game-3/</link>
		<comments>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/trivia-game-question/employment-trivia-game-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia Game Question]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This movie depicted the craft of the writer, and his many sources of inspiration. Years later, Disney created an animated version of the author’s play, which virtually every American child has seen at one time or another. Identify the movie, its three lead actors, and the real person portrayed in the film. And, now for the hardest inquiry, what was trapped? Provide the correct answers and you will win one of our prizes. Best, Roy]]></description>
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		<title>Employment Trivia Game</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/trivia-game/employment-trivia-game-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia Game]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers: After a somewhat surprising delay, and my provision of some obvious clues (such as, Angry Hombre), we have a winner to the last Employment Trivia contest. The question asked about the person who is currently selling Mercedes Benz automobiles, pointing out that this role paralleled his role in a television show. As our winner, Andrew Hunstad of Marshall, Minnesota, revealed, the person doing the voice-over on the current Mercedes commercials is Jon Hamm, the star of the popular television series about a Madison Avenue advertising agency, Mad Men. As Andrew related, Hamm plays Don Draper in the show. Draper, <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/trivia-game/employment-trivia-game-4/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quirky Question # 155; Privilege Issues</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/attorney-client-privilege/quirky-question-155-privilege-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attorney-Client Privilege]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A class action discrimination lawsuit was filed against our company. The proposed class included all African American employees who were employed during a specified time period. This group includes our former Vice President of Human Resources. We learned recently that the plaintiffs’ lawyers have met on several occasions with our former VP of HR. This troubles us since he was involved in numerous attorney-client privileged communications, both with in-house and outside counsel. Moreover, the early discovery that plaintiffs’ counsel served suggests that they have seen any number of documents that we generated to help us evaluate our workforce, our staff <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/attorney-client-privilege/quirky-question-155-privilege-issues/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reasonable Accommodation for Absent Employee?  Quirky Question # 154</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/disability-discrimination/reasonable-accommodation-for-absent-employee-quirky-question-154/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reasonable Accommodations of Disabilities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Readers: It's the first Wednesday of the month so it's time for one of our West Coast Quirky Questions. Tune in next Wednesday for the analysis from one of our colleagues in our Southern California office. Regards, Roy] One of our manufacturing employees, call him Jim, was fairly seriously injured in an accident on the production floor. Jim applied for workers’ compensation and was examined by a doctor. The doctor let us know that in his opinion, Jim would no longer be able to perform his job, since it required a significant amount of lifting and bending that he was <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/disability-discrimination/reasonable-accommodation-for-absent-employee-quirky-question-154/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chambers USA Client&#8217;s Guide: 2010 Results Are In!</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/uncategorized/chambers-usa-clients-guide-2010-results-are-in/</link>
		<comments>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/uncategorized/chambers-usa-clients-guide-2010-results-are-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, Chambers USA (America’s Leading Lawyers for Business) began publishing its “Client’s Guide,” which includes a state-by-state analysis of law firms, divided into multiple practice areas. In the category of “Employment Law” in Minnesota, Dorsey was listed as one of three “Band 1” firms (Chambers’ highest ranking category), with four of our ten Minnesota partners (Christensen, Ginsburg, Hobbins and Reinhart) receiving individual recognition. As Chambers pointed out, one interviewee observed that “there are no weaknesses in the Department.” The 2005 edition of Chambers’ text echoed many of the 2004 comments. In 2005, however, Dorsey was listed as the only <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/uncategorized/chambers-usa-clients-guide-2010-results-are-in/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forcing Employees to Litigate in One State, Quirky Question # 153</title>
		<link>http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/recent-decisions/forcing-employees-to-litigate-in-one-state-quirky-question-153/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Ginsburg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Choice of Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Contractors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recent Decisions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our company has independent-contractor consultants in many states. Our headquarters is in Minnesota. We know that we could be sued in any of the states where we have independent contractors, and that many of those states apply their own legal tests to determine whether an individual is an independent contractor or employee. To get a little predictability, and hopefully, minimize our liability, we’d like to include a choice of law provision in our independent contractor agreements designating Minnesota as the controlling law. Will that provision be enforceable if we get sued in a state other than Minnesota? [Readers: Set forth <a href="http://quirkyemploymentquestions.com/recent-decisions/forcing-employees-to-litigate-in-one-state-quirky-question-153/">Read More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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