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Bulletproofing The Workplace: Symbol And Substance In Employment Discrimination Law Practice, Susan Bisom-Rapp
Bulletproofing The Workplace: Symbol And Substance In Employment Discrimination Law Practice, Susan Bisom-Rapp
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This Article examines how employment lawyers representing management play a role in creating data and affect the perception of employment disputes. More specifically, it explores how defense lawyers attempt to strategically position employers to safeguard these clients against discrimination and other employment-related litigation. A primary focus of their advice is on producing an evidentiary record that an employer can use defensively should the need ever arise. Defense attorneys, therefore, counsel employers to implement and carefully administer standardized employee evaluation systems and train supervisors how to write up and terminate employees without running afoul of the law.
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Not Quite Grown Up: The Difficulty Of Applying An Adult Education Model To Legal Externs, Linda H. Morton, Janet Weinstein, Mark Weinstein
Not Quite Grown Up: The Difficulty Of Applying An Adult Education Model To Legal Externs, Linda H. Morton, Janet Weinstein, Mark Weinstein
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Using andragogical theory developed by Malcolm Knowles as a foundation as well as a counterpoint, this article presents a new framework for teaching clinic students. Frustrated by tensions they encountered in teaching students whom they expected to have all the qualities of “adult learners,” the authors developed a new theory that blends humanistic as well as developmental theory. The article describes this new theory and evaluates why it works in clinical teaching.