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Daniel Burnick
Phone: 205.930.5100
2311 Highland Avenue South
Birmingham
Alabama
35205
United States
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About
Daniel J. Burnick is an attorney in the Birmingham office of Sirote & Permutt. His practice focuses mainly on employment law, from counseling through the litigation process. Mr. Burnick is a frequent speaker at seminars including Cumberland School of Law, ABI-CLE, Sterling Educational System, Lorman Continuing Education and at regularly scheduled seminars for Sirote & Permutt.
Practice Areas
- Labor and Employment Law
- Workers’ Compensation
- Employment Contracts (non-competition, non-disclosure, trade secrets, etc.)
- Intellectual Property
- General Litigation
Professional Associations
- The American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section)
- Alabama State Bar (Labor and Employment Section and Workers’ Compensation Section)
- Birmingham Bar Association
Education
- Cumberland School of Law, 1983
- College of William and Mary, Double Major in Government and Philosophy, 1980
Bar Admissions
- Alabama State Bar
- All Federal Courts in the State of Alabama
- The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Recent Articles
CONGRESS APPROVES $23 MILLION TO EEOC TO HELP RESOLVE BACKLOG OF CASES
Congress recently approved funding the EEOC with $23 million to help reduce the backlog of cases currently pending with the agency, some for as long as 3 years. According to Ethisphere, staff levels at the EEOC have dropped by approximately 25% over the last several years. Last year, the EEOC...
U.S. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR APPEAL ON PRIVACY OF TEXT MESSAGES
On Monday, December 14, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in a case from the 9th Circuit (which includes California) to address whether employees of a governmental agency have a constitutional right to privacy in their text messages, sent and received on text pagers provided by the...
RANDOM THOUGHTS ON EMPLOYMENT LAW ON A COLD FRIDAY MORNING
A number of issues continue to arise in the employment context. I expect you will be seeing more of these in 2010. They include the following: Overtime. A California court preliminarily approved a $12.8 million settlement involving 650 potential class members claiming...
IRS LOWERS STANDARD MILEAGE RATES
On December 3, the IRS announced that it was lowering the standard mileage rates for 2010. Citing lower transportation costs, the new rates, effective January 1, 2010 are as follows: 50 cents per mile for business-related use (down from 55 cents per mile in 2009) 16.5 cents per mile for...
WAL-MART SETTLES OVERTIME CLASS ACTION FOR $40 MILLION
Wal-Mart agreed to settle a class action suit by as many as 87,000 current and former associates in Massachusetts for $40 million. The suit, filed in 2001, alleged that Wal-Mart refused to pay overtime, denied rest and meal breaks, and changed time cards. Each class member will receive...