The Legacy of Bostock v. Clayton County for LGBTQ Rights Cases

Understanding what neurodiversity means for individuals, their colleagues, and working environments assists when developing recruitment, retention, and intake policies that welcome all clients and ensure attorneys and support staff contribute to the firm’s success.

Participants will learn how to plan a response to an investigation addressing discrimination and harassment issues, including the planning of the investigation, the investigation, as well as a company’s response to a finding substantiating the investigation. The session will also address unique issues attorney investigators face in investigations that include warnings to witnesses, third-party attendees, and two key privileges: attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine. Finally, additional faculty members will join Kathryn and Thurston for a discussion on common but difficult occurrences in investigations involving race, gender and more. The issue will be covered from all sides; the investigator, in-house attorneys, employee and employment counsels. All will share practical advice on what to do when the issue has many gray areas.

Every day, the law is evolving related to the rights of transgender individuals. This session will discuss the terminology, state and federal laws related to accommodation of transgender populations.