by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | Oct 28, 2016 | Immigration, News
Alfredo Estrada spoke on the topic of Immigration Matters: Family, Employment, Removal and Humanitarian Visas at the Lake County Bar Association’s 2016 Bench Bar Conference on October 28, 2016. Alfredo Estrada discussed numerous new issues in immigration law,...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | Jul 29, 2016 | Labor and Employment
The EEOC has recently released guidance to inform employers when and how leaves of absence must be granted to accommodate employees’ disabilities, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Equal Access to Leave Under an Employer’s Leave Policy...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | May 18, 2016 | News
BCC’s donations went to the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana For the fifth straight year, Burke Costanza and Carberry LLP won the large firm division of the Indiana Attorney General’s statewide March Against Hunger Competition. This March, attorneys and staff at...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | Apr 27, 2016 | News
For the past two years, BCC has participated in the Lake County Solid Waste Management Districts’ Cap-A-Thon program. BCC attorneys and staff members have collected, sorted, weighed and stored plastic caps from many different products, including: plastic drink bottle...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | Mar 14, 2016 | Business and Personal
The following is an important announcement that was released on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 by the United States Bankruptcy Court – Northern District of Illinois. We’ve recently been given information about a new type of scam directed at both lawyers and...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | Sep 10, 2015 | Labor and Employment
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law 25 years ago, on July 26, 1990. Besides the gratification of promoting equal opportunity, the ADA and other laws offer tangible benefits to employers who hire workers with disabilities. Title I of the ADA...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | May 12, 2015 | News
BCC’s donations went to the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana For the fourth straight year, Burke Costanza and Carberry LLP won the large firm division of the Indiana Attorney General’s statewide March Against Hunger Competition. This March, attorneys and staff...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | Apr 15, 2015 | Labor and Employment
The federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA)[i] expanded the definition of sex discrimination under Title VII to include pregnancy discrimination, requiring that employers treat “women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions…the...
by Burke Costanza & Carberry LLP | Mar 31, 2015 | News
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