WEST VIRGINIA RECORD

MORGANTOWN -– Attorneys in the labor and employment practice group of Steptoe & Johnson have launched the latest component to the firm's Web presence – a Labor and Employment blog.

Titled "Employment Essentials," the blog provides news, commentary and analysis for business on the ever-changing labor and employment climate throughout the region, and will give clients and others accurate and informative posts that help clarify the industry's most complicated situations.

"We hope to attract both employers and employees to the blog, which will promote a beneficial exchange of questions and answers, but also much-needed dialogue on the labor and employment field's most pressing concerns," stated C. David Morrison, chairman of Steptoe & Johnson's labor and employment department. "We believe consulting the Employment Essentials blog for insights and information will become a 'best practice' in today's workplace," he said.

The labor and employment blog is designed to provide organizations with valuable labor and employment information, necessary to the development oftheir human resource programs,or toalert management teams to changes in the laws that affect their businesses. Steptoe & Johnson's attorneys will regularly post timely pieces on the blog that appeal to businesses in a variety of industries from small organizations to international conglomerates.

For more information, visit Employment Essentials at this Web site: www.sjlaboremploymentblog.com.

The Labor and Employment Law Practice Group represents employers in all aspects of labor, employment, employee benefits, and occupational injury law. Group lawyers routinely help clients address management issues as well as adversarial matters in industries such as manufacturing, education, health care, construction, and natural resources. Law360 Litigation Almanac ranked Steptoe & Johnson 5th in the nation among full-service firms with the highest concentration of employment lawyers.

Steptoe & Johnson is a business-focused firm with strengths in energy, labor, employment and litigation. It comprises over 180 lawyers resident in eight locations throughout West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. For more information, visit www.steptoe-johnson.com.