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Navigating the world of employment discrimination law is challenging for practitioners and employers alike. With greater attention to issues of social justice and equity in the workplace, companies face increased legal and reputational risk. A new treatise from PLI Press, Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook, helps shed light on these complex issues. Its author, experienced employment litigator Keisha-Ann G. Gray of Proskauer Rose LLP, provides background on the book and what sets it apart from other employment law resources.
What made you decide that now was the time to publish a book like this?
The complex issues that we grapple with in our personal lives as a society are the same issues that we grapple with in our professional lives in the workplace. And these issues shape our experiences — especially when it comes to issues and allegations of unfair treatment, including, but not limited to discrimination and harassment.
I realized that there is a crucial need for a book that can address these issues from an active practitioner’s perspective in a straightforward manner and that can also be easily understood by lawyers and non-lawyers alike.
In writing this book at this moment, I also realize the value and unique perspective I bring to the discourse as a female employment defense attorney of color. I am grateful for the fact that I get to be a voice for perspectives that historically have not been heard in large corporations, and I have seen...
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