by Shaun Southworth | Mar 18, 2020 | Firm News
PLEASE NOTE: our offices remain open and available to serve you during the COVID-19 crisis. As usual in representing clients in all fifty states and abroad, we are used to providing legal representation across distances. Like normal, we are offering our clients the...
by Shaun Southworth | Mar 6, 2020 | Federal Sector EEO, Firm News, Hostile Work Environment
Our federal employment attorneys recently settled a sexual harassment case. Our attorneys fought to resolve a complex case where, among other things, our client was mistreated and subjected to harassment because assumptions were made about our client’s sexual...
by Shaun Southworth | Feb 12, 2020 | Federal Sector EEO, Firm News, Pregnancy Discrimination
Our federal employment law firm recently settled a case where our client, a federal employee, faced discrimination based on pregnancy and her gender. Discrimination against pregnant women is all too common today and a serious societal issue. People might think it is...
by Shaun Southworth | Jan 28, 2020 | Federal Sector EEO, Firm News, Reasonable Accommodations in the Federal Sector
Today, our federal employment attorneys settled a reasonable accommodation case on behalf of our client, a former federal employee, where we alleged an Agency failed to engage in the interactive process in good faith. Additionally, our federal sector attorneys helped...
by Shaun Southworth | Dec 20, 2019 | Firm News, MSPB
Our federal employee attorneys achieved another victory in a case against the Department of Justice. Federal employees have constitutional property interests in their continued employment, so removing them from federal service requires due process. At many points...
by Shaun Southworth | Nov 1, 2019 | Federal Sector EEO, Firm News
We are pleased that a Judge from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has today ordered and green-lighted what is essentially a trial (we call it a ‘hearing’ in the federal sector) on our client’s claims. As usual, the Agency tried to prevent the hearing from...
On behalf of Southworth PC | Jul 9, 2019 | Firm News
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