Includes CD-ROM of checklists, sample pleadings, interrogatories, letters and more.

This updated and expanded edition provides experienced solutions to the procedural and important substantive problems you will encounter in assessing, settling, litigating, and appealing an employment case--no matter your level of experience, whether you represent management or employee, or whether the case at hand involves harassment, discrimination, or wrongful discharge. It includes dozens of checklists, sample pleadings, interrogatories, letters, and other useful forms. These time-saving materials are also available on a CD-ROM that is included with the book. Chapters include the following:

• Commencing the lawsuit
• Responding to the lawsuit
• Discovery
• Experts
• Summary judgment
• Pretrial motions
• Special evidentiary concerns
• Trial preparation
• Juries
• The trial
• Post-trial motions
• Appeals
• Professionalism and ethics
• Arbitration and mediation
• Settlement in employment litigation

The book incorporates the varying views and suggestions of lawyers who represent both management and plaintiffs and provides legal authority supporting those contrasting approaches. The fifteen chapters were written by experienced, successful employment lawyers and were extensively peer-reviewed for accuracy and balance.