Heather Leonard, P.C.

07/12/2025

Honored to have represented Polly Trantham along with Jason Odom in this almost decade-long case.

ANNISTON — A federal jury has awarded more than $3.6 million to a former employee of Long Leaf Lodge in a wrongful discharge case stemming from allegations of racial and sexual harassment by the hotel’s former owner, the late Jim Coxwell. The verdict, handed down just before 4 p.m. Wednesday in ...

01/17/2025

I am excited to speak at the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Employment Rights & Responsibilities Midwinter Meeting in sunny Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It is such a beautiful location, the CLE is phenomenal, and I get to reconnect with friends and colleagues in a warm tropical locale. If you practice employment and labor law – whether employee-side, management-side, in-house, union, or as a neutral or government attorney – it’s not to be missed!
Let me know in the comments below if you are planning to attend.
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gJuP3hhu

11/08/2023

I had a wonderful time chatting with Max Barack and Amit Bindra about jury trials for the Employee to Lawyer Podcast. Check it out!

Employee to Lawyer Podcast

03/30/2023

Excited to announce that my co-counsel Leslie Palmer and I obtained an $811,264 jury verdict in a retaliation case for our client, Davita Key against Dynamic Security in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Davita is an amazing woman who showed tremendous strength and courage in standing up against injustice.

02/24/2023

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing bans on restrictive covenants, including non-compete agreements.

An estimated 30 million U.S. employees today are bound by non-compete agreements that place limits on their freedom to pursue competitive..

02/22/2023

The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that clauses in severance agreements requiring an employee not to disparage the company and/or keep confidential the severance terms may not be enforceable.

This is a compelling reason to contact a lawyer to review the terms of a severance agreement before you sign it.

The board reverses two previous decisions that held that such severance agreements were lawful. Limits on free speech have become increasingly common aspect of many severance agreements.

03/31/2021

Care-giver discrimination has been on a steady rise and is a real problem.

Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that denying women jobs on the basis of motherhood violated their civil rights, systemic bias still exists against working mothers, writes Jean Lee, president and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. The situation has worsened in the Covid...

03/05/2021

Keep an eye on this important legislation to protect pregnant workers.

After eight years of stops and starts, a new ‘common sense’ bill will provide pregnant women with clear protections at work.

03/04/2021

Sound advice

03/03/2021

Can your employer require you to get the COVID-19 vaccine? It is a hotly debated topic. This article from the Society of Human Resources Management is helpful, but when in doubt, call an employment attorney with your questions.

As COVID-19 vaccines become available, many employers will have a strong case for requiring employee vaccinations, so long as their vaccination policies have certain exceptions, are job-related and consistent with business necessity, legal experts say.

06/01/2020

Thank you to Bernard Nomberg for this opportunity to discuss employment issues during the pandemic.

Employment Issues to Consider During the Pandemic. Bernard and Birmingham attorney Heather Newsom Leonard discussed how employment for so many are being affe...