Total Credits: 1.5 including 1.5 CLE
Annual Update of recent US Supreme Court and 11th Circuit Court of Appeals cases involving Title VII claims. Topics covered include parties, prohibited conduct, litigation, proof burdens and more.
| Seminar Handout (957.5 KB) | 156 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Coleman Slides (1.1 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Ms. Leonard is a partner with the Birmingham law firm of Heather Leonard, P.C., where she concentrates her practice on labor and employment law, including litigation before the federal and state courts as well as administrative agencies. Her practice embraces a variety of matters relating to wage and hour law, harassment, invasion of privacy and employment discrimination. She is also adjunct faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she teaches mediation and trial advocacy, and serves as an assistant coach for the UAB Mock Trial Team. Ms. Leonard received her B.A. from the University of Kentucky and her J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she was the Managing Editor for the Law and Psychology Review and a member of the National Moot Court Team. She is a member of the Alabama bar and various state and local bar associations.
John Coleman has practiced management side labor and employment law for over thirty-five years. A 1978 magna cum laude Duke University graduate, a 1981 Duke University School of Law graduate, a former law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Donald Russell, and a current Burr & Forman LLP partner, John has been elected as Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, as Life Fellow of The American Bar Foundation, and member of the Management Labor and Employment Roundtable, and every edition since 1993 of Best Lawyers in America. Law & Politics’ SuperLawyers this year named him one of Alabama’s top fifty lawyers. John is an adjunct professor at two law schools and has authored Thompson West’s Disability Discrimination in Employment and annual updates, Southern University Press's Employment Discrimination in Alabama and annual updates. He has coauthored a book on workers compensation and contributed to the 1997 and 2004 updates of BNA's Occupational Safety and Health Law and chapters in the book’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions.
