Whenever a celebrity dies, everyone glorifies their accomplishments. So the eulogies for Koko the talking gorilla aren’t surprising in the least. But those eulogies tend to overlook that Koko’s many
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#MeToo Hasn’t Led to More Harassment Litigation … Yet
It’s been five months since the #MeToo movement burst onto the scene. Since then, the headlines have been dominated with accusations of grossly inappropriate behavior by prominent politicians, entertainers, business
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Does Your Harassment Policy Meet These 12 Requirements
When an employer gets sued for sexual harassment, the focus is not on what the alleged harasser did. It’s on what the employer did to provide its employees a harassment-free
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Challenges of Investigating Harassment Claims in the #MeToo Era
I don’t know Aziz Ansari and I can’t purport to know what happened in his apartment on the night of the first date that has headlined the news this week.
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Make Your Next Sexual Harassment Prevention Training a “Wow”
More than ever before, the topic of sexual harassment is dominating the news (and this blog). It’s time to make sure that your company’s sexual harassment prevention training is
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California Updates Its Harassment Prevention Training Requirement (SB 396)
What a year it has been for harassment claims. The biggest year in the 22 years I have been practicing law. It seems that every day there is a big
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5 Steps to Prevent Third-Party Harassment Claims
Koko the Gorilla, who turned 46 last month, has quite a following. Much of that has to do with the fact that she purportedly has a vocabulary of over
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New Harassment Checklists from the EEOC
A year ago, I wrote about a report from an EEOC Task Force on risk factors for workplace harassment. Well the Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in
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Wrongful Termination, Harassment and Discrimination Law Seminar in San Francisco
Bridgeport Continuing Education will be hosting a seminar titled: “Wrongful Termination, Harassment and Discrimination Claims” on July 29, 2016 in San Francisco. I will be speaking about Litigating and Defending
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EEOC Identifies Risk Factors for Workplace Harassment
Last month, the Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace issued a report. Among other things, it identified risk factors that can lead to harassment.
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