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Email: bpenick@fredlaw.com
Office: 515.242.8902
Assistant: Sarah McCray, 515.242.8941
Bridget is a leading litigator whose practice focuses on employment law. Bridget regularly drafts and litigates restrictive covenants, including noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements.
Bridget represents employers of all sizes in various state and federal courts and administrative agencies. She drafts and counsels employers in human resources policies and procedures, employment discrimination, FMLA, ADA, wage & hour, NLRA issues and union avoidance. She also assists employers with employment-related immigration issues.
June 21, 2018
Fredrikson & Byron’s Des Moines-based attorneys Philip S. Bubb, Bret A. Dublinske, Bridget R. Penick, Emily S. Pontius, Brandon R. Underwood and J. Marc Ward hold various roles within the Iowa State Bar Association.
September 7, 2017
By Bridget R. Penick and Kendra D. Simmons
At this time last year, employers were deciding how to comply with the Department of Labor’s new rule that more than doubled the salary threshold for exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
July 24, 2017
Fredrikson & Byron’s Des Moines-based attorneys Philip S. Bubb, Bridget R. Penick, Emily S. Pontius, J. Marc Ward and Brandon R. Underwood hold various roles within the Iowa State Bar Association.
December 15, 2016
Iowa Polk County Bar Association President, Bridget Penick, provides some highlights regarding developments and activities of the bar association.
October 27, 2016
With the November 8 general election looming, employers should be reminded of Iowa’s voting right statute, Iowa Code § 49-109.
August 4, 2016
Fredrikson & Byron attorney Emily S. Pontius was named chair of the Labor and Employment Section Council of the Iowa State Bar Association and Bridget R. Penick was recently named a council member of the Labor and Employment Section Council. J. Marc Ward was recently named a council member of the Iowa State Bar Association’s Business Law Section.
June 23, 2015
The Iowa State Bar has appointed shareholder Bridget R. Penick to serve on the Labor & Employment Law Section Council, shareholder Steven J. Dickinson to serve on the International Law Section Council and officer Philip S. Bubb to serve on the Construction Law Section Council. They will serve during the 2015-2016 fiscal year.
March 30, 2015
By Krista A.P. Hatcher, Bridget R. Penick, Richard A. Ross & Karen G. Schanfield
On March 18, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel issued a 30-page memorandum (GC Memorandum) offering guidance on several common employer policies and handbook rules. In recent years, the NLRB has aggressively scrutinized and challenged employers’ rules covering a variety of topics. The GC Memorandum provides useful information for nearly all employers, whether unionized or not.
August 18, 2014
Fifty-nine Fredrikson & Byron attorneys were included in The Best Lawyers in America 2015© (Copyright 2014 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).
April 9, 2014
By Karen G. Schanfield, Richard A. Ross, Bridget R. Penick & Krista A.P. Hatcher
College administrators, coaches, and many of the rest of us were surprised to learn that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are “employees” for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act and thus may vote on representation by the College Athletes Players Association, affiliated with the United Steelworkers.
March 3, 2014
By Krista A.P. Hatcher, Bridget R. Penick, Richard A. Ross and Karen G. Schanfield
For the first time in nearly a decade, the National Labor Relations Board has its full complement: five members who have been confirmed by the Senate.
February 24, 2014
Fredrikson & Byron P.A. has continued its growth in the Midwest by expanding its Des Moines, Iowa office with three attorneys. Joining the firm are J. Marc Ward, a corporate, finance and M&A attorney, and Bridget R. Penick, an employment and labor, litigation and immigration attorney. Brant M. Leonard joins the firm as an associate.
