Chris Martin and Jon O’Brien of the Building PA Podcast recently spoke with Willig, Williams & Davidson partner Irwin Aronson regarding the benefits of joining the building trades. Aronson, who focuses his practice on labor and employment law, employee benefits matters, governmental affairs ...
NBC 10 Reports on Willig, William and Davidson Partner Michael Dryden’s Fight for Cancer Treatment for Firefighters
NBC10 investigative reporter Mitch Blacher reports that local firefighters are fighting with the city over rejected cancer claims despite a state law intended to force cities into covering cancer care as a work-related injury. Michael Dryden who represents Scott Sladek and ...
Hazardous Conditions at the Philadelphia School District Prompt Deborah R. Willig on Behalf of Philadelphia Federation of Teachers to File a Lawsuit
Deborah Willig, Managing Partner, was quoted in a report by NPR on the ongoing asbestos and lead contamination in the Philadelphia School District that prompted the firm’s client, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers to file a lawsuit on behalf of the Federation. The teachers union demands ...
Deborah R. Willig Files Suit on Behalf of Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Against Philadelphia School District Over Handling of Asbestos
The team at Willig, Williams & Davidson, including Managing Partner Deborah R. Willig, and partner John Bielski filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, after years of the Philadelphia School District struggling to remediate the hazardous conditions and temporarily ...
Willig, Williams & Davidson Labor Lawyer Richard Poulson Represents San Antonio Firefighters in Arbitration Proceedings
Labor attorney Richard G. Poulson, a partner at Willig, Williams & Davidson, represents San Antonio, Texas firefighters in a legal battle with the city over wages and health care coverage. The disagreement has received much media attention, as the arbitration case moves forward. The ...
Winning Streak for Unions Continues as Pennsylvania Federal Courts Reject Attempts to Expand the Reach of Janus
Pennsylvania’s federal courts are bustling with litigation filed against public-sector unions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 27, 2018, decision in Janus v. AFSCME. Since the decision, approximately 16 lawsuits have been filed in federal courts in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third ...
Labor Attorney Ryan Hancock Talks to WHYY About Workers’ Rights in Today’s Gig Economy
Willig, Williams & Davidson labor attorney Ryan A. Hancock recently spoke with WHYY’s PlanPhilly reporter Darryl C. Murphy for a podcast report on the rights of gig economy workers such as Uber drivers. Prompted by a recent high-profile strike by Uber and Lyft drivers in ...
Medical Marijuana, Controlled-Substance Use and the Drug-Free Workplace
The prevalence of the so-called drug-free workplace in America is in juxtaposition with the ever-growing use of prescription drugs by employees. The result is that many of us work in drug-free workplaces, but we are not a drug-free workforce. Yet, this seeming contradiction is in action every ...
CBS/KYW Interviews Partner Michael Dryden Regarding Precedent-Setting Case on Firefighters’ Cancer
CBS reporter Cherri Gregg interviewed Philadelphia firefighter Scott Sladek about a recent decision in a case that set precedent for firefighters across Pennsylvania. After being diagnosed with malignant melanoma, Sladek first had difficulty proving a workers’ compensation case to the City of the ...
Workers’ Compensation Article Published in The Legal Intelligencer on Unreasonable Contest Attorney Fees
A Workers’ Compensation article by Willig, Williams & Davidson appeared in The Legal Intelligencer’s recent Workers’ Compensation supplement that focused on pursuing unreasonable contest attorney fees in workers’ compensation cases. The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act provides that an ...