November 1, 2017 Tom Spiggle served as the moderator at today’s D.C. Bar’s LPM Community Big Law Series: Big Law and Babies. He joined a panel of speakers in discussing how to raise a family while maintaining a career at a big law firm. The panel of speakers consisted of practicing attorneys who are also […]
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October 30, 2017 Those fired may argue that they are the ones being unfairly targeted; the former Google employee has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board arguing that his rights were violated. But, the NLRB notes, its protection does not extend to “saying or doing something egregiously offensive.” Or, as employment lawyer
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The nation watched with sorrow in August as a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent, resulting in one woman’s death. The public backlash was immediate, with participants being outed on social media and their hate speech reported to their employers. At least four people returned home to find that they’d lost their jobs
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If you work for a large corporation, you’ve probably noticed how the general working population is a fair mix of men and women, but as you go up the corporate ladder, you find fewer and fewer women. It’s not your imagination. According to Women in the Workplace 2016, a recent study by McKinsey & Company
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October 23, 2017 According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2,945 charges were filed in Virginia in fiscal year 2016. Of those, 1,069 charges were on the basis of race, and 881 on sex. That number doesn’t reflect the volume of sexual harassment and assault cases that don’t go reported, or aren’t reported to the
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October 20, 2017 Founder of the Spiggle Law Firm, Tom Spiggle, will speak about employment law at the 2017 Fairfax Bar Association’s Annual Convention on Friday, Oct. 20. He will sit on a panel at the continuing legal education session on what lawyers need to know about fact patterns. The speakers at the CLE panel
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Winning a lawsuit against your employer is hard—the odds just aren’t in your favor. In 2009, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published an article about those odds, “Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs in Federal Court: From Bad to Worse?” The authors found that employees won their lawsuits against their employers only 15% of the time, whereas
Practically all businesses rely on their ability to find new customers and maintain existing ones. In some businesses, customers may be more devoted to a specific employee than they are to the business itself. In these situations, the business may struggle to survive when a key employee departs. To prevent departing employees from taking away
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One of the biggest hurdles to a plaintiff in pursuing a lawsuit is the cost of doing so. Suing someone, especially a corporation, is never easy. Hiring an attorney is usually necessary to have a reasonable chance of succeeding. However, legal support isn’t free. Lawyers have to make a living, just like everyone else. But
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President Trump surprised the world when he fired FBI Director James Comey. Without getting into the political and legal ramifications of that decision, the way it unfolded demonstrated a few things about how high-profile firings should (and should not) happen. Law360’s article “Comey Fallout Illuminates Pitfalls of High-Profile Firings” covers many of these elements—but what
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