Winning Strategies for Navigating Hostile Work Environment Cases: From Intake to Resolution

This course will teach strategies for effectively pursuing hostile work environment claims, ensuring that evidence is preserved, and setting oneself up for success in advocating for clients.

Participants will learn how to identify strong cases during the intake process, provide comprehensive client support, and become more effective advocates at both pre-litigation and litigation stages. The course will cover best practices for intake, strategies for charge filing and demand letters, and approaches to litigation and discovery. While the program will not delve deeply into expert discovery, it will address the role of experts throughout the process.

This course is ideal for employment law practitioners or attorneys with a foundational understanding of employment law who want to refine their skills and become more effective advocates in hostile work environment cases.

Attorneys should attend this program if they want to improve their understanding of litigating hostile work environment cases. Attorneys with any experience or interest in employment law are encouraged to attend.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize potential hostile work environment claims
• Develop practical intake questions
• Evaluate the sufficiency of the evidence at the outset
• Prepare clients for the litigation process ahead
• Understand best practices for document preservation
• Explore using pleading and discovery tools to strengthen a case, including best practices for drafting complaints, managing discovery requests, and responding to defense tactics
• Gain insights into settlement strategies before and after filing a case, including maximizing recovery for the client while minimizing risks