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Each phase of employment litigation offers opportunities for success--and many risks of failure. This handbook is designed to help litigators identify and make the best use of the opportunities that become available to them and avoid the pitfalls that await. Solutions to real-life problems and issues This is a practice-oriented guide, not a treatise. Employment Litigation Handbook 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.For both management and plaintiffs lawyers The editors actively sought and have incorporated the varying views and suggestions of lawyers who represent both management and plaintiffs, and they have provided legal authority supporting those contrasting approaches. The fourteen chapters were written by experienced, successful employment lawyers and were extensively peer-reviewed for accuracy and balance. Chapters include: Commencing the lawsuit Responding to the lawsuit Discovery Experts Summary judgement Pretrial motions Special evidentiary concerns Trial preparation Juries The trial Post-trial motions Appeals Professionalism and ethics Arbitration and mediation The many sample forms include: Pleadings Motions to bifurcate, in limine, to sever Motions checklists Pretrial, trial, post-trial checklists Witness checklists Engagement and intake questionnaires Plaintiff and defendant checklists Jury questionnaires Juror profile sheet Timetables Notice of appeal Disclosure statements Fee agreements... and much more