"Colorado Labor & Employment Attorney of the Year" Dan Friesen has been selected by Corporate INTL Magazine as the Colorado Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year. Congratulations to Dan for this high honor in recognition of his outstanding results and dedication to client service.  

Friesen Lamb is pleased to announce that it has been named as a 2011 Go-To Law Firms® for the nation's top 500 companies.  This distinction is awarded annually through gathering information from general counsel at Fortune 500® companies and data collected from public records, leading publications, and other databases. Each general counsel is asked to list which outside law firm is relied upon most heavily to assist in the practice areas of litigation, corporate transactions, mergers & acquisitions, securities, labor & employment and intellectual property.   Each year, the reference guide lists approximately 1,000 Go-To Law Firms

Beginning on March 15, 2011, the Department of Justice’s new regulations implementing Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act “ADA” (public accommodations) will take effect, and drastically curtail the current use of service animals by disabled individuals. By way of background, the 1991 enactment of the ADA required that places of public accommodation (restaurants, hotels, retail stores etc…) permit the use of a service animal by an individual with a disability. In a nutshell, any establishment that ordinarily would not permit pets or other animals is required by the ADA to permit service animals accompanying disabled individuals to enter. At the time, this provision contemplated commonplace, highly trained service animals such as “seeing-eye” dogs assisting sight-impaired individuals. Over time, however, a variety of species…

To all employers that utilize the services of minimum wage employees, take note that the new Colorado Minimum Wage increased to $7.36 per hour effective January 1, 2011 -- an increase of $0.12 from the last change to Colorado’s Minimum Wage and, most importantly, $0.11 more than the Federal Minimum Wage ($7.25).   This increase also marks a change in which law -- the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or Colorado’s Minimum Wage Order 27 -- must be observed by Colorado employers.Although both the Federal FLSA and Colorado law apply to protect employees, it is the law that imposes a higher minimum wage standard that must be observed.Thus, Colorado employers must ensure all non-exempt, hourly employees are making at least $7.36 per hour as…