I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking in an upcoming Strafford live webinar, “Conducting Internal Investigations of Executives for Workplace Misconduct: Legal and Ethical Considerations” scheduled for Thursday, July 13, 2017, 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT. The webinar will provide guidance … Continue reading
Nearly three years after a former junior-partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufied & Byers LLC filed her lawsuit alleging gender discrimination and retaliation, the jury trial appears set to begin next week. As a general matter, jury trials … Continue reading
Kentucky attorney Thomas Clay, who represents the two women who claim former Kentucky state representative John Arnold sexually harassed them, says that Mr. Arnold’s resignation does not end the matter. Mr. Clay is not satisfied with the internal investigation conducted by … Continue reading
In President Obama’s remarks about the Zimmerman case and race relations in America, he advocated for a national discussion about race. He felt this national discussion should not be convened by politicians, but at the local level and within religious congregations, … Continue reading
At first blush, implementing an employee hotline and following-up on complaints might seem a simple endeavor. The recent $3.5 million federal jury award to an employee terminated after he reported illegal conduct by a supervisor demonstrates that employers must not … Continue reading
How do lawyers who represent employees decide which of the employees who contact them to represent? According to Nina Pirrotti, an attorney with Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Richardson, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti, P.C., one of her “first lines of inquiry in evaluating a … Continue reading
I spoke this week at the HR Star Conference here in Atlanta and at the conference had a great discussion with some HR professionals on the importance of conducting fair, unbiased and professional workplace investigations. One of the HR managers … Continue reading
In an Order issued earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States invited the Solicitor General “to file a brief … expressing the views of the United States” in a case testing the scope of the Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX) retaliation prohibition … Continue reading
The $3.5 million jury verdict last week in favor of a former lifeguard at a swimming pool in Washington D.C. is a striking example of why organizations need to consider procedural fairness in how they respond to complaints in the … Continue reading
It seems that at least some offices of the EEOC may be adopting the position that employers are in violation of Title VII if they have policies that warn employees who participate in an internal investigation that they could be … Continue reading