Employment Litigation Handbook

Each phase of employment litigation offers opportunities for success--and many risks of failure. This handbook is designed to help litigators identify and make the best use of the opportunities that become available to them and avoid the pitfalls that await.

Solutions to real-life problems and issues
This is a practice-oriented guide, not a treatise. Employment Litigation Handbook provides experienced solutions to the procedural and important substantive problems you will encounter in assessing, settling, litigating, and appealing an employment case--no matter your level of experience, whether you represent management or employee, or whether the case at hand involves harassment, discrimination, or wrongful discharge. It includes dozens of checklists, sample pleadings, interrogatories, letters, and other useful forms.For both management and plaintiffs lawyers The editors actively sought and have incorporated the varying views and suggestions of lawyers who represent both management and plaintiffs, and they have provided legal authority supporting those contrasting approaches. The fourteen chapters were written by experienced, successful employment lawyers and were extensively peer-reviewed for accuracy and balance.

Chapters include:

Commencing the lawsuit

Responding to the lawsuit

Discovery

Experts

Summary judgement

Pretrial motions

Special evidentiary concerns

Trial preparation

Juries

The trial

Post-trial motions

Appeals

Professionalism and ethics

Arbitration and mediation

The many sample forms include:

Pleadings

Motions to bifurcate, in limine, to sever

Motions checklists

Pretrial, trial, post-trial checklists

Witness checklists

Engagement and intake questionnaires

Plaintiff and defendant checklists

Jury questionnaires

Juror profile sheet

Timetables

Notice of appeal

Disclosure statements

Fee agreements

... and much more