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CLEs
Prosecutorial Misconduct: How to Avoid It, How to Exploit it
Morley Swingle, who spent years as both a prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer, discusses cases from across the country where prosecutors were disciplined for misbehavior, sometimes intentional, sometimes accidental, resulting in everything from censure or reprimand to suspension or disbarment. The Code of Professional Responsibility applies to prosecutors, and they and defense lawyers need to be aware of these cases. Swingle is the author of Don't Get Disbarred: Ethics & Professional Responsibility For Prosecutors. Professor Bennett L.
Introduction to Prosecuting and Defending Employment Discrimination Claims
This introductory course provides attorneys with a practical framework for evaluating, prosecuting, and defending employment discrimination claims. Designed for lawyers with limited employment-law experience. The course will address the principal federal and state laws prohibiting workplace discrimination, the elements of common claims and defenses, administrative exhaustion requirements.
Happenings
Legally Reading Book Club: Fulfillment by Alec MacGillis
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. With empathy and breadth, MacGillis demonstrates the hidden human costs of the other inequality--not the growing gap between rich and poor, but the gap between the country's winning and losing regions. The result is an intimate account of contemporary capitalism: its drive to innovate, its dark, pitiless magic, its remaking of America with every click.
