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Ill be attending the ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity the next two days in Washington, DC and using Twitter to report on the highlights. ampnbsp Its an important topic for employers and lawfirms: What are the next steps we can take to move beyond the current discussion on diversity? ampnbspIts a working summit, so well be rolling up the sleeves to address these issues. You can follow along a variety of ways:ampnbspGo to search.twitter.com and search for ampquotabadivampquot youll get all the highlights. Or, you can go to my Twitter feed at twitter.comdanielschwartz or danielschwartz if youre already on Twitter. ampnbsp Ill provide some recaps each day on information relevant to employers so check back later. ampnbsp

Today was Day 1 of the ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity being held just outside Washington, DC.ampnbsp Recapping such a conference in a blog post is impossible I wont even begin to try. ampnbspBut I thought I would pass along some thoughts from the conferences Twitter feed. So, in response to the question on ampquotWhy Have Diversity In Your Law Firm and Company?ampquot, here were some thoughts from the speakers: For one, in order to understand and engaged with diverse clients For another reason, some clients, like Wal-Mart, are also demanding it Because research proves that a broader team with perspective comes up with better answers Because minorities will become...

While Im tempted to write on my airplane flight adventures on the way home from the ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity they involved a ampquotground holdampquot and a Congressional member who had the plane return to the gate, there was quite a lot of ground covered in Day 2 of the Presidential Summit that should be of interest to employers and their attorneys. In case you missed it, theampnbspDay 1 recap can be found here.ampnbsp The first part of Day 2 focused on recapping the various breakout sessions held the day before. Once again, I used Twitter to describe the morning with various details, which Ill reprint here: Have to abolish diversity balkanization how? by emphasizing cross identity mentoring Real desire of companies and attorneys to gather practices that work and publ...

In case you missed it, a California court recently upheld a 4.1 billion aribration award to a former executive who brought a wrongful termination suit against his former employer. The National Law Journal has a good analysis today of what happened here, as well.ampnbsp ampnbsp Although this blog covers issues applilcable to Connecticut employers, the lessons learned from this California case -- which seems to be the largest single plaintiff employment law case award ever -- are applicable to employers everywhere.ampnbsp Numerous other blogs have done a great job recapping the case so Im not going to spend time here doing so. For a employee perspective, check out the Employee Rights Post recap.ampnbsp For an employer pers...

Yesterday's Los Angeles Times reported on an unusual campaign to unseat four San Diego (CA) trial court judges in the June 8 primary. A group calling itself "Better Courts Now" is endorsing four Christian conservative candidates for Superior Court judgeships, saying it is attempting to unify the "moral vote" and make judges accountable. The movement was the brainchild of now-deceased Zion Christian Fellowship pastor Don Hammer who campaigned for California's Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage. The socially conservative Better Courts Now is backed by pastors, gun rights advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage. One of ...

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