Harlee P. Havens
Harlee Havens is a member of the Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group in the firm's Lexington, Kentucky office.
Western Kentucky University Young Alumni Council, Member (2024-present)
summa cum laude
University of Kentucky College of Law
-
Order of the Coif
-
Kentucky Law Journal, Managing Editor, Vol. 110; Staff Editor, Vol. 109; Best Second Year Staff Member, Vol. 109; Best Source & Cite, Fain Note, Book Two; Best Source & Cite, VanMeter Article, Book Three
-
CALI Award in Secured Transactions, and Law & Religion
-
Election Law Society, Class Representative (2019-22)
-
Publication: Note, A Reprieve From the Crushing Cost of an Education: Why the Sixth Circuit Should Interpret the Bankruptcy Code to Allow Discharge of Private Student Loans, 110 KY. L.J. 203 (2021)
summa cum laude
Western Kentucky University
-
Honors College Graduate
-
Thesis/Capstone: The Effect of Knowledge on Attitudes Towards the U.S. Supreme Court
-
President's Scholar (2015-19)
-
Regents Scholarship; Faculty-Undergraduate Student Engagement Research Grant; Carl P. Chelf Political Science Scholarship Fund
-
Southern Political Science Association, Annual Meeting Panelist: Courts & Their Publics
-
Greek Hall of Fame
-
Greek Academic Hall of Fame
-
Panhellenic Council, 1st Vice President
-
Omega Phi Alpha Sorority, Secretary
-
Mahurin Honors College, HonorsTopper Student Ambassador
-
Greek Jeopardy, Co-Chair
Harlee comes to the firm after serving as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Gregory N. Stivers, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (2022-23). During law school, she was a summer associate in the Lexington office (2020 and 2021).
EEOC Issues Final Rule Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) was enacted last year with the purpose of protecting pregnant workers from discrimination and providing them with a right to reasonable accommodations in the workplace. On April 15, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published its Final Rule setting forth expansive regulations implementing the law. The Final Rule becomes effective June 18, 2024. Robin McGuffin and Harlee Havens take a look at what this means in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.
Sixth Circuit Identifies “Dilemma,” but Not Solution for Calculating Workers’ Vehicle Expenses Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
In an opinion that raises as many questions as it answers, the Sixth Circuit foreclosed two methods of calculating how delivery drivers paid the minimum wage should be reimbursed for the costs associated with using their vehicles for work under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Rejecting both the drivers’ assertion that they should be reimbursed using the mileage rate published by the IRS, and the employers’ argument that drivers should receive a “reasonable approximation” of their costs, the Sixth Circuit held in two consolidated appeals in Parker v. Battle Creek Pizza, Inc., Nos. 22-2119, 22-3561, 2024 WL 1068871 (6th Cir. Mar. 12, 2024), that drivers’ actual costs must be reimbursed to avoid a minimum wage violation and remanded both cases to their respective district courts with little guidance as to how to calculate those costs. Robin McGuffin and Harlee Havens take a close look at the ruling in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.
Stites & Harbison Welcomes Seven Attorneys to Multiple Offices
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC announces the addition of seven attorneys to the firm. Four attorneys join the Lexington, Ky., office: Harlee Havens, Brandon Lira, John Paul Stilz and Conner Wehrle. Alexandra Dunn, Lucy McIntire and Haley Duncan join the firm in Jeffersonville, Ind., Louisville, Ky. and Nashville, Tenn., respectively.