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Harassment
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Legal Profession Blog
Threats To Bar Prosecutors Leads To Bar Charges
The Illinois Administrator has filed a complaint alleging misconduct in two client matters.The attorney's answer is linked here.Count Two alleges harassment of a former clientOn March 13, 2015, Rutkowski contacted…
Legal Profession Blog
Misconduct Found In Shirvell Disciplinary Case
A Tri-County Hearing Panel of the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board has issued findings in the case brought against a former Assistant Attorney General concluding that some of the charged misconduct had…
Employment Law Landscape
Employment Tricks For Halloween
By K.M. Zouhary
Employers, along with tricks and treats, the holiday could bring risk of religious discrimination and harassment lawsuits. Employers should review discrimination policies and dress codes and rid themselves of any…
Housing Plus
New Fair Housing Rule Extends Liability to Housing Providers for Harassment
This week, HUD issued a final rule that creates liability under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) for housing providers for occurrences of "quid pro quo harassment" or "hostile environment harassment." The…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Smith on empathy and the women at Fox News
Terry Smith (DePaul) has a thoughtful piece at Huffington Post on the dissonance between the sexual harassment claims of some of the women and Fox News and their commentary in…
School Law
Employers Beware: Shoddy Harassment Investigations Can Still Lead to Liability
Imagine this scenario: You, the employer, think you’ve taken all the right steps when hearing about a harassment complaint. You encourage the employee to file a written complaint. You conduct…
The EPL Advisor
Fifth Circuit: Evidence That Not All Employees Received or Were Trained on Employer’s Harassment Policy Sufficient to Create Fact Issue on Faragher/Ellerth Defense
In light of evidence that not all employees were given training or information about the employer’s sexual harassment policy, the Fifth Circuit recently reversed the grant of summary judgment in…
Human Rights at Home Blog
New Developments in Comparative Legal Ethics — the Harassment Restriction
By mdavis
Earlier this week, the American Bar Association amended its legal ethics guidelines, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, to clarify that sexual, racial and other forms of harassment can be…
The Law for Lawyers Today
ABA amends model ethics rules to prohibit discrimination, harassment
By Karen Rubin
On Tuesday, the ABA House of Delegates amended the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to add a provision barring harassment or discrimination in all conduct related to a lawyer's practice…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Book Review: Two Books on Cyberspace Harassment of Women
By Tracy Thomas
Catharine Ross, Taming the Wild West: Online Excesses, Reactions and Overreactions, 51 Tulsa L.Rev. 267 (2016)Abstract: A review essay discussing Danielle Keats Citron’s Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Harvard University Press 2014)…