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Attorney Jamie Huffman Jones is the recipient of the 2021 Golden Gavel Award given by the Arkansas Bar Association. She is being honored for her valued contributions as the Co-Chair of the group's annual meeting that is being held virtually this week.

Readers of AY Magazine have voted Lynda M. Johnson, Khayyam M. Eddings and Amie K. Wilcox to their 2021 Best Lawyers List. Khay is listed for his work in both education and labor law while Lynda and Amie are named for their work in health care law.

In the latest episode of Employment Matters Podcast, produced by the Employment Law Alliance, Attorney Michael Moore gives a local and national overview of vaccination and masking requirements for employers. He also discusses recent guidance from the EEOC on how employers can incentivize the vaccine for their employees.

Amie K. Wilcox, attorney with Friday, Eldredge & Clark, and Laura Gillenwater, Senior Manager with HORNE, answer pressing questions about EEOC guidance, mandatory vaccine policies and vaccine stimulus funds available for hospitals and health systems.

Erin A. James has joined Friday, Eldredge and Clark's Rogers office where she will be the newest associate in the mergers and acquisitions practice group. Her practice will involve all aspects of business mergers and acquisitions, general business formation and choice of entities, including structuring, due diligence, negotiation and documentation.

Last spring, the Arkansas Supreme Court clarified decades of seemingly conflicting precedent on when Arkansas’ judicial branch should defer to the executive branch on the legal meaning of a statute. No longer would an administrative agency’s view of a statute be given “great deference.” No longer would it be judicially embraced unless it was “clearly wrong.” An agency’s interpretation of a statute would now be reviewed afresh, under a de novo standard of review.1 And when the agency’s view comes into play at all (such as when the statute is ambiguous), it will operate as one of many interpretive tools—a light on the text, but not the sun.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP is pleased to announce 29 attorneys have been recognized as “Leaders in Their Field” in the 2021 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The firm is also ranked highly in five categories: Corporate/Commercial, Labor and Employment, Employee Benefits, Litigation: General Commercial and Real Estate.