(NEW YORK, N.Y., August 16, 2006) - Now there's a loose-leaf resource that can guide corporate counsel, senior HR professionals and employment law attorneys on the best ways to defend against employment litigation and to keep lawsuits from being filed in the first place. "Defending and Preventing Employment Litigation" from Aspen Publishers, part of the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business group, offers expert insight on avoiding employee lawsuits and keeping their costs to a minimum (www.aspenpublishers.com).
"With monetary awards on the rise, sophisticated baby boomers poised to sue for age discrimination, expansion of the ADA by the courts and a growing trend toward class-action lawsuits, employers may soon be faced with a host of new challenges and risks," said Joanne Cursinella, Aspen developmental editor. "'Defending and Preventing Employment Litigation' is an essential tool for those who need to minimize those risks."
Written by partners at the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Gerald S. Hartman and Gregory W. Homer, "Defending and Preventing Employment Litigation" offers authoritative guidance to help minimize employment lawsuits, manage outside counsel, contain litigation costs and optimize litigation results It helps users better understand and manage every phase of litigation - from the initial employee complaint through the final resolution of the case This includes developing internal procedures that can not only reduce the number of employment disputes but also prevent those that arise from becoming full-blown lawsuits; determining when to retain outside counsel for a specific employment dispute; and optimizing results and containing costs by effectively managing the outside counsel relationship.
This one-volume loose-leaf publication includes extensive citations to key cases, laws, regulations, guidelines and standards. Also, a free companion CD features the full text of federal and state legislation and regulations.
About the Authors
Gerald S. Hartman is a partner in the labor and employment practice group at Drinker Biddle & Reath, where he concentrates on equal employment law and class action litigation, representing management. He has successfully represented many major corporations in class action and governmental pattern and practice discrimination cases, including a major telecommunications company in one of the largest Title VII class actions ever brought.
Before joining Drinker Biddle & Reath, Hartman was a senior trial attorney in the employment law section of the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he had lead responsibility for many pattern-and-practice cases and received a commendation from the U.S. attorney general. Hartman is a former professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and a former adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School.
Gregory W. Homer, also a partner in the labor and employment practice group at Drinker Biddle & Reath, has worked extensively with experts in statistics and labor economics in the preparation and execution of defense strategies and case analyses in complex class action and multi-plaintiff employment litigation, including several nationwide class actions. In addition to defending numerous individual discrimination and employment tort actions in state and federal courts, Homer has both defended and prosecuted breach of contract claims, particularly injunction proceedings and enforcement of covenants not to compete. He also has defended actions brought under ERISA involving denials of welfare benefits and allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is a full-service, national law firm established in 1849, with more than 450 attorneys in 10 offices around the country. For more information, please visit www.drinkerbiddle.com.
Availability and Pricing
For more information or to order, call 1-800-638-8437 or visit aspenpublishers.com. Defending and Preventing Employment Litigation is available as a single loose-leaf volume with annual supplementation. The price for the manual is $229.
About Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
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