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Ground Rules: Employment Law Over Your Coffee Break

Documentation Isn’t Optional: Protecting Your Business Before It’s Too Late

April 29, 2026·26 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

In this week's Ground Rules episode, we continue our Law for Leaders Book Club with Chapter Three: Why You Need to Document and What Your Documentation Needs to Say. Here's what we cover: Why a lack of documentation leaves a void, and how that void gets filled by whatever the employee imagines the reason to beWhy "we're an at-will state" doesn't protect you if a claim is filed. You still have to show a legitimate, lawful reasonWhy juries don't trust employer testimony, and why contemporaneous...

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