Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Wyatt's intellectual property blog, "Finding IP Value," strives to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments in intellectual property law that may have an impact on your business.
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Employers must be aware that broad language in agreements entered into with an employee creates a risk of violating the Act. The dangers of broad language are not limited to severance agreements. Employers should reevaluate pre-employment offer letters and employment contracts. The recent NLRB decisions have indicated that it will take broad measures to ensure employees’ Section 7 rights are protected. We recommend that employers review current and future severance agreements as well as any agreements or communications that could be construed to impede employees’ Section 7 rights. Wyatt’s Labor & Employment team is available to review agreements to ensure compliance with the NLRB’s recent decisions and guidance.
• Employment Litigation
  R. Joseph Stennis, Jr. R. Joseph (“Joe”) Stennis, Jr. is a member of Wyatt’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Service Team. Joe’s primary practice area is employment law, where he defends employers against discrimination claims filed by current or former employees with either an agency (i.e. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, etc.) and/or actions filed in state/federal court. Joe has successfully defended his clients on multiple occasions against various employment claims which include (but are not... Read More
• Non-compete Agreement
• Severance Agreement
  McLaren Macomb, 372 NLRB No. 58. The NLRB determined that employers were prohibited from offering employees severance agreements that required employees to broadly waive their rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“the Act”). Section 7 of the Act guarantees employees “the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection,” as well as the right “to refrain from any or all such activities.” The

Property Law

• Land Use and Zoning

Health Law

• Medical Malpractice
• Dog Bites
  Wyatt created a handbook so that the internal counsel would be prepared to address many common situations when they arose. Among other things, this handbook included information about who can make medical decisions when a patient is incapacitated, how to report patients with certain communicable diseases or dog bites, involuntary treatment of the mentally ill, and numerous other topics.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
• Trusts

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law