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Today marks an important milestone in the development of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog.  It marks the second major redesign of the blog since it was launched 10 years ago (!) this month in 2007. Back then, the iPhone was just announced and social media was something that a few college kids played around with.  And some of us used a feature called Google Reader to read RSS feeds. (Don’t believe me? I even wrote a blog post about how to read blog posts on an RSS feed here!) And the notion of using blogs or specialized websites to get employment law news was still in its infancy.  I would read “George’s Employment Blawg” — now defunct – and sometimes BNA’s Daily Labor Reports, but there wasn’t much else beyond that. So much as changed in ten years. It was time to design and structure my blog to meet the 2017 world as it stands now. First, because smartphones are a massive part of every day life, the blog needed to have a ...

Update: As noted below, the redesigned blog should be up at some point Tuesday, perhaps late – a new post will follow thereafter.  If it’s Tuesday and you’re seeing this blog post and the old design first, it’s coming later in the day. Promise.   Every good superhero story needs an origin story.  I’m not a superhero but I’ve got a super origin story to tell. Not a Daredevil You may have heard it before, but humor me. I’m turning 10. You see it was ten years ago, in a hotel conference room in where my life changed. Of course, like lots of such “a-ha” moments that people have, I didn’t realize it at the time. (Pause here to acknowledge that there are plenty of moments you know are going to be big: kids, marriages, your first iPhone). I was at the Spring Conference for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division in, of all places, Canada.  Montreal, to be specific. But I woke up early, on a fe...