Bill Nolan

    Bill Nolan has practiced law in Columbus since 1989. Bill Nolan serves as managing partner of Barnes & Thornburg's Ohio office, which he opened in 2009 and has guided through steady and thoughtful growth. Bill works to bring attentiveness and clarity to bear on employment, contract and other disputes, but is most passionate about helping clients build teams, policies and processes to minimize the frequency, cost and severity of disputes.

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    What’s Going On Out There With Noncompetes? Catching Up in 6 Parts

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    How Can You Best Prevent Employee Lawsuits?

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    Making Sense of All Those Employee Classifications

    Exempt/nonexempt. Salaried/hourly. Employee/independent contractor. Full-time/part -time. What do they all mean...

    Ask Your Lawyer to Use “If it Were My Company…” Instead of “It Depends”

    “It depends.”  Classic lawyer answer, right? You don’t want “it depends”...

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    Harassment Training FAQs: What, Why & How Often

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    Employee Severance Agreements: Always Worth Considering a Near Guarantee

    “Why would I give them severance? I didn’t do anything wrong!”And maybe you didn’t do anything wrong. But you should at least consider that paying a...

    Sorting Out the Different Risks in Terminating an Employee

    When you decide it may be best for your business to remove somebody from your team, it is your employment lawyer’s job to help...

    Should You Oppose Unemployment for a Departed Employee?

    You have let an underperforming or even bad acting employee go. Should you oppose their application for unemployment benefits? Of course, it depends on the...

    Few Employers Can Afford to Track Just One Set of Employment Laws

    “All politics is local,” former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill is said to have made famous (even though he did not originate...

    Are You CERTAIN? When it Comes to Legal Issues, No, You’re Not.

    One of the hard things for business people dealing with legal issues is that there seems to be so much uncertainty. Correction – there usually...
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    Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity at Work: Legal Basics

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    I see a lot of emotions working in employment law. Domestic...

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