In the December 2012 AHRMA Podcast, Mike Coffey visits with Connie Cornell about terminating employees. Connie is a founding partner of Cornell Smith & Mierl, LLP, an Austin based labor and employment law firm representing employers. Ms. Cornell is Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is also certified as a Professional in Human Resources by the national Society for Human Resource Management. She has been selected annually as a “Texas Super Lawyer” in the field of Labor and Employment Law by Texas Monthly since 2003, and is included in the 2010 and 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law. On December 11th, Connie will be facilitating a roundtable at AHRMA’s monthly meeting entitled “Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: Legal considerations when firing employees: Documentation, Communication and Unemployment claims.”