Jessica Golden Cortes, Davis+Gilbert Labor + Employment partner, will moderate a session titled “In-House Think Tanks on Employment Discrimination” at the American Conference Institute’s 9th Annual Forum on Defending and Managing Employment Discrimination Litigation to be held in New York on September 26-27.
Session Overview
This panel will discuss:
- Emerging areas of risk in the employment discrimination landscape
- Managing company expectations with respect to discrimination suits
- Formulating and adapting employment discrimination policies in the face of uncertainty caused by the new administration
- First-hand accounts of compliance strategies and pitfalls to avoid
- What in-house can do to make their clients less of a target
- Strategies for responding to enforcement initiatives and EEOC litigation
- Selecting and retaining outside counsel; examples of law firms succeeding and falling short
- Managing complex litigation