EEO Update

Three of the country’s most prominent EEO litigators will present the plaintiffs’ and defendants’ perspectives on the past year’s most significant decisions in employment discrimination law, including the latest Supreme Court decisions on arbitration, “me too” evidence, and the requirements for an EEOC charge. 

This program will also address all of the hottest EEO issues including: retaliation; disparate impact; pay equity; sexual harassment; gender identity, age, sex, religious, and disability bias; national origin discrimination; as well as evidentiary and procedural rules. Barbara Berish Brown will present the defense perspective; Rick Seymour will present the plaintiff perspective; and Sheryl Willert will moderate the discussion.

Sheryl Willert (moderator) is managing director of Williams Kastner and a practitioner in the firm’s Seattle office. Ms. Willert concentrates her practice on counseling, investigations, and litigation and has litigated cases involving all aspects of employment law for both unionized and non-unionized employers in the public and private sectors. She is a national speaker on labor and employment topics such as sexual harassment and age and racial discrimination and has frequently defended individuals and corporations in such matters. Ms. Willert is a past president of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and was designated by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the region’s “Women of Influence” in 2007.

Barbara Berish Brown is the office chair and the senior employment lawyer in Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker’s Washington, DC, office.  She represents employers in the entire range of employment law matters, particularly employment discrimination class actions challenging pay, promotion, hiring, and other personnel decisions. Ms. Brown is the chair-elect of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and was previously the management co-chair of the Section’s EEO Committee.  She co-authored seven editions of the Equal Employment Law Update (BNA, 1st through 7th editions, Summer 1996-Fall 1999), a comprehensive treatment of appellate authority across the fields of employment law and litigation, and The Legal Guide to Human Resources (Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 3d Rev. Ed. 1996, Supp. 2007).  She also lectures extensively on a wide range of employment law topics.

Rick Seymour of the Law Office of Richard T. Seymour, P.L.L.C. in Washington, DC, represents individuals and classes in employment litigation; negotiates agreements for individuals; and acts as a neutral mediator or arbitrator. He has spent the vast majority of his career prosecuting plain­tiffs’ class actions challenging racial and sexual discrimination in employment. From 1977 to 2001, he directed the Employment Discrimination Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washing­ton, DC.  He was a partner with Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, a plaintiffs’ class-action firm, from 2001 to 2005. He now practices in his own firm.  He is a former co-chair of the EEO Committee and former member of the Council of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law.  He has served as the chair of the American Association for Justice’s Section and Litigation Group Coordination Committee since 2005. Originally with Barbara Berish Brown and now with John Aslin, he has co-authored fifteen editions of Equal Employment Law Update (BNA, 1996 on). 

$85 Section of Labor and Employment Law Members
$85 Government & Public Interest Lawyers
$75 Young Lawyers Division Members
$150 General Public
$125 ABA Members
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