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Bob Alfton accepted the invitation to speak about best practices for local government attorneys at the annual conference of the International Municipal Lawyers Association, which will be held in San Francisco on September 29, 2013

Minnesota Lawyer interviewed Justin Cummins for an article, published on August 26, 2013, about the scope and likely impact of the Minnesota Legislature's amendments to Minnesota's whistleblower law

Justin Cummins analyzed with counsel for Best Buy, Inc. the law governing social-media usage by employees during a State-wide conference held in Minneapolis on August 21, 2013

Jonathan Reiner has joined Cummins & Cummins, LLP; Jonathan was Editor-in-Chief of the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law as well as Student Director of the Workers’ Rights Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School, and he also served as a Peggy Browning Fellow at the AFL-CIO General Counsel’s Office in Washington, DC

Justin Cummins accepted the invitation to present to the Minnesota Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, on September 10, 2013 in Minneapolis, regarding legal strategies and litigation tactics in response to recent changes in employment law

Brendan Cummins accepted the invitation to teach a course in January 2014 about the intersection of workplace rights and social media through the University of Minnesota's Labor Education Service

Minnesota Lawyer interviewed Justin Cummins for an article, published on August 12, 2013, about the legal and practical significance of a recent retaliation case in which the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld $300,000 in emotional distress damages based solely on plaintiff testimony

Brendan Cummins accepted the invitation to speak about the legal and practical dimensions of handling medical data in labor and employment matters at the annual Labor & Employment Law Institute, which will be held in Minneapolis on November 22, 2013

Justin Cummins accepted the invitation to present regarding developments in anti-retaliation law, especially given the recent trends in employee social-media usage, at the 2014 conference of the South Dakota Society for Human Resource Management to be held in Sioux Falls

Justin Cummins co-authored an article about effectively handling scorched-earth defense tactics in employment and civil rights cases, which was published by the law journal of the Minnesota Association for Justice