"Complicated array of new federal workplace laws" inspires latest M. Lee Smith launch.

Tennesse-based M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC, publisher of more than 135 state-specific law newsletters, recently launched one national in scope--Federal Employment Law Insider, "An Update on New Federal Law and Regulation Affecting Your Workplace."

M. Lee Smith, chairman and publisher of his eponymous company, told NL/NL, "We're launching this newsletter because never before have U.S. businesses been forced to cope with such a complicated array of new federal workplace laws and regulations.

"In such a challenging legal and regulatory environment, employers need clear, authoritative information and guidance regarding how best to manage their workplaces while remaining legally compliant with federal law."

Smith said the most valuable and distinctive asset of the eight-page monthly ($157/year) will be its editor, Hal Coxson, a highly respected attorney with the Washington, D.C.-based national law firm of Ogletree Deakins.

"Hal Coxson is a genuine insider in the area of federal workplace law and regulation," Smith said. "He knows everybody who's anybody, both in the U.S. Congress and in the federal agencies involved in national workplace law."

The hiring of a noted attorney as editor follows Smith's pattern of engaging leading law firms in each state to edit state-specific newsletters on employment, environmental, health, and real estate law, as well as about 20 other law letters and directories.

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