3-Hour Program

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Overview

Why you should attend

Psychological issues in employment law are both unavoidable and fascinating. They help to determine counsels’ day-to-day advice regarding a variety of employment issues, play a central role in litigation, shape damages analyses, and motivate or impede resolution of disputes, including employment lawsuits. Psychological issues often are at the core of incentivizing employees, negotiating workplace disputes or trying an employment claim to a jury. Yet attorneys and mental health professionals struggle too often to speak the same language.

This program brings together prominent practitioners from the management and plaintiffs’ bars, in-house counsel, mediators, members of the judiciary, forensic psychiatrists, and psychologists, to transcend the jargon, identify practical ways of working together, and to describe effective strategies to avoid, pursue and resolve litigation. They will address in a clear and pragmatic way key legal and ethical issues at the intersection of employment law and psychology.

What you will learn

  • How to recognize psychological issues in order to avoid, manage or help resolve employment litigation
  • The importance of psychological issues in mediation and settlement of employment disputes; perspectives from mediators and members of the plaintiffs’ and defense bar
  • When and why to conduct a mental examination of an employee and how to use the results at deposition and trial
  • Avoiding Americans with Disabilities Act pitfalls when conducting psychiatric exams and testing employees
  • Ethical issues arising from the tension between privacy laws and zealous advocacy when employees claim severe emotional distress, have a history of psychiatric treatment or threaten workplace violence
  • Ethical issues to consider when litigation involves mentally disabled employees or employees with cognitive impairments
Special Features:
  • Convenient half day program format
  • Earn one hour of Ethics

Who should attend

In -house employment and labor counsel, outside counsel for employers and employees, human resources executives, and forensic mental health professionals will benefit from this program.

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