Amazon.com description: Product Description: Employment Law 2012 discusses the key upcoming trends in employment law for 2012, highlighting the major milestones over the past year and providing overall thought leadership for the year ahead. Featuring partners from some of the nation's leading law firms, these experts discuss recent changes in laws, decisions, and policies that have affected the practice of employment law, as well as recent case decisions that will impact the future scope of this ever-changing area of law. These authors identify the major hurdles their clients will face in 2012 and the most significant changes they are looking to employ in their strategy over the upcoming year.

Chapters Include:

1. William A. Nolan, Office Managing Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP - "Key Issues for 2012 as Highlighted by 2011 US Supreme Court Cases"
2. Michael J. McNamara, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP - "Occupying the Boardroom: Increasing Government Regulation and Growing Public Anger"
3. Brian S. Arbetter and Andrew J. Boling, Partners, Baker & McKenzie LLP - "Emerging Labor and Employment Issues: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Employers"
4. Peter J. Ennis, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC - "Creating Strategies Within a Quickly Changing Area of Employment Law"
5. Scott A. Freedman, Partner, Morris Polich & Purdy LLP - "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Pending and Current Decisions Impacting Employers and Employment Law Attorneys"
6. Walter M. Stella, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP - "Employment Class Actions, Arbitration, and Employee Classification Issues: New Considerations for Employer Clients"
7. Michael T. Frank, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP - "Public Focus on Executive Compensation Affects Executive Employment Arrangements"
8. Jennifer L. Parent, Director and Partner, McLane Graf Raulerson & Middleton, Professional Association - "Adapting to a Broadening Scope of Retaliation"
9. Bruno W. Katz, Partner, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP - "Reducing Employment Litigation and Issues Through Preventative Actions in the Workplace"
10. Cheryl Wilke, Partner, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP - "New Frontier for Employers"
11. Robert H. Bernstein, Partner, Constangy Brooks & Smith LLP - "Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: What Employers and Lawyers Need to Know"