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Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP will host its Tax Update Seminar on Wednesday, October 25 at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers and on Thursday, November 9 at UALR Bowen School of Law. Each is a one-day comprehensive program that highlights the most important and up-to-date information on tax law. The program will take place from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m and will include breakfast and lunch for attendees.

The Arkansas Health Information Management Association hosted a half-day workshop focused on legal issues in the industry. Attorneys Lynda Johnsonand Tonya Gierke presented at the event. Topics discussed included an overview of legal health records, responding to subpoenas, the retention and destruction of health records, HIPAA security rule and audits and amendments to electronic health records.

Attorney Wayne Young wrote an article about white-collar exemptions in this month's (September) issue of HR Professionals Magazine. In the article, Wayne provides details on this HR legal hot topic and answers some of the most common questions surrounding the 2016 Final Rule changes.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP welcomes three new attorneys to the firm: Joshua C. Ashley, Kyle D. Kennedy and Taylor A. Stockemer.

The firm has had the pleasure of working with legal intern Johanna Stenberg of Finland for the past month. Johanna, who is a third-year law student at Tallinn University in Estonia, originally became acquainted with our state in 2012 when she was an exchange student at Morrilton High School (where she later graduated.) “I knew I wanted to come back to Arkansas,” she said. “And I wanted the chance to experience the practice of law and I was able to do that here.”

Good news for employers. The new EEO-1 report, which would have been very onerous on employers, has been suspended. The Office of Information Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) decided that the new EEO-1 component 2 report is suspended indefinitely.

Wayne Young spoke to Arkansas Business's Mark Friedman about the legal ramifications of terminating an employee who participates in rallies involving hate groups.