This past August a court dismissed an EEOC discrimination suit against Bloomberg contending that the company had systematically discriminated against pregnant women or those who recently returned to work from maternity leave. The judge, New York district court judge Loretta Preska, saw the EEOC’s essential charge to be that Bloomberg, as a company policy, did not provide work/life balance for its employees
October 2011
That Old Crying Feeling
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House Speaker John Boehner teared up when introducing two newly elected Republican congressmen during a closed party meeting on September 15th…
Practical Practice Management Skills: The Delegating Dilemma
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One of the more challenging skills lawyers need to master is the ability to delegate–to younger partners, associates, and non-lawyer staff, and in this marketplace, to third party providers, like document reviewers and e-discovery firms. And even to clients.
But there is a lot of internal resistance in many lawyers to mastering that skill. Perfectionism, wanting to stay in control and…