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Donnelly + Gross is proud to announce firm leader Paul Donnelly’s recognition as Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” for union law in the Jacksonville Metropolitan Area for 2024. Additionally, firm principals Paul Donnelly and Laura Gross, and partners Jim Brantley and Jung Yoon, have been named among “Best Lawyers®” […]

Conor Flynn, Senior Litigation Attorney, Donnelly + Gross     A recent order from Florida’s Public Employee Relations Commission (PERC) states that public employers commit an unfair labor practice and violate Florida law when they refuse to allow a public employee’s representative to question the employee on the record during […]

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently answered the following question: ‘What information does a disabled employee need to provide her employer to trigger the employer’s duty to accommodate her disability?’ While the case decided the question under the Rehabilitation Act, the Court’s decision is also important to employers covered […]

The U.S. Supreme Court is, once again, widely expected to strike overturn longstanding precedent and do away with race-conscious admissions policies in higher education. In 1978 (UC Regents v. Bakke), 2003 (Grutter v. Bollinger), and 2016 (Fisher v. UT Austin), the Court affirmed universities’ right to consider applicants’ race as […]

The minimum wage for direct care employees of Florida Medicaid providers will increase to $15 per hour on October 1, 2022. Lawmakers appropriated $600 million dollars solely for this purpose to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). AHCA will distribute the funds to providers via enhanced Medicaid reimburse rates […]