Autum Flores to present “Employment Matters”  at the Legal Aid of Northwest Texas Virtual Community Law Conference. The Legal Aid of Northwest Texas is partnering with attorneys and community agencies to help those understand important changes in the law.

Autum primarily focuses her practice on labor and employment counseling, regulatory practice, and litigation. As part of her labor and employment practice, Ms. Flores frequently consults with employers in relation to a wide range of labor and employment-related questions and issues.

Underwood Shareholder Slater C. Elza recently spoke to members of the Association of Michigan Defense Trial Counsel on “Trying Lawsuits with Millennial Jurors and Young Judges”. MDTC is an association of leading lawyers in Michigan dedicated to representing individuals and corporations in civil litigation.

Slater is the current President of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel and also serves as an elected member of the State Bar of Texas’ Litigation Council.

On December 10, 2020, Chris Wrampelmeier, along with the Hon. Karl Hays, Associate District Judge for Hays County, Texas, presented their paper entitled “You Presume Too Much: Overcoming Fit Parent, Visitation, and Child Support Presumptions” at the State Bar of Texas continuing legal education seminar “Advanced Trial Skills for Family Lawyers 2020.” In addition to a discussion of strategies for overcoming these family law statutory and case law presumptions, the presentation included a detailed discussion of the potential ramifications of the June 2020 Texas Supreme Court opinion in In re C.J.C., in which the Court recognized a fit parent presumption for suits affecting the parent-child relationship in which a nonparent seeks conservatorship or visitation rights. The fit parent presumption will make it much harder for courts to award nonparents those rights. Gabrielle Bechyne, a third-year law student at Texas Tech University and future Underwood Associate, helped research the paper.