Friday, April 8, 2016 Is Big Brother Really Watching? Good morning! Today started bright and early with a presentation on schools' use of surveillance cameras. A two-fold inquiry: can schools make audio and video recordings of school activities, and should they? The...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 Early Bird Session: Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Workshop This is an opportunity for Council of School Attorneys (COSA) members to discuss recent experiences with OCR investigations. (Unofficial title: "The Airing of Grievances") Comments...
Apr 4, 2016 
Mollie G. Mohan
Missouri employers are currently facing conflicting guidance on how to confront LGBT discrimination issues in the workplace. In October of 2015, a Missouri Court of Appeals held that the Missouri Human Rights Act ("MHRA")"”the state law that governs employment...
Mar 31, 2016 
Celynda L. Brasher
Celynda L. Brasher gave a presentation entitled "The Top Ten Things Effective Administrators Do" at the MASA/MOASPA Spring Conference on March 31, 2016. She also attended the MASA Awards Dinner on March 30, 2016. Tueth Keeney is pleased to serve as a sponsor for...
Mar 15, 2016 
Melanie Gurley Keeney
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its final regulations on STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) Employment Authorization (EAD) Extension. The new regulations will go into effect on May 10, 2016 and allow certain foreign students...
Mar 9, 2016 Melanie Gurley Keeney
Today, Wednesday, March 9, 2016, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released the much anticipated Optional Practical Training STEM Employment Authorization final rule. The rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Friday, March 11, 2016. As a...
Mar 5, 2016 Melanie Gurley Keeney
Melanie Gurley Keeney has been named a recipient of the 2016 Litigation Practitioner Award as part of the Missouri Lawyers Weekly Women's Justice Awards. The Women's Justice Awards have been presented annually by the Missouri Lawyers Weekly for the past 17 years....
Kameron Murphy and Mollie Hennessee facilitated roundtable discussions at the Annual Legal Update for the Human Resource Management Association of Greater St. Louis on February 17, 2016. Kameron led a discussion on the delayed implementation of the Affordable Care...
After years of discussion and much opposition from employer interests, the so-called "ambush" union election rules of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have been in effect since April 2015. The NLRB's view, as expressed in the rulemaking process, is that the...
Dec 16, 2015 
Ian P. Cooper
Kate L. Nash
Margaret A. HesseMelanie Gurley Keeney
Melanie Gurley Keeney, Ian Cooper, Margaret Hesse, Kate Nash and Kameron Murphy presented a CLE program to the members of the St. Louis Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel on November 19, 2015 at Westborough Country Club. Their presentations covered 1)...
In a widely anticipated decision announced on August 17, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unanimously voted to dismiss a petition seeking union representation for Northwestern University football players on scholarship. The decision, issued more than a year...
Kameron Murphy published an article, "Ambushed: The NLRB's New Election Rules Make Life More Difficult for Employers," in the December 2015 newsletter of the St. Louis Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). In the article, Kameron summarized the...
