Age Discrimination in the Workplace: Practical Solutions for Overcoming Common Employer Challenges and Strategies for Defeating Claims in Litigation
Raymond L. Peeler
Special Assistant to Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic
EEOC
William C. Martucci
Shook Hardy & Bacon LL
- Addressing the continuing rise in age discrimination claims as a record number of Americans are choosing to retire much later
- Practical solutions for employers in facing new and complex age discrimination challenges
- Essential steps for preparing for and defending the latest ADEA cases
- Methods for discovery – ensuring a favorable ruling
- Effective evidence building strategies to ensure a winning case
- Tips and best practices for showing an employer was in full compliance with the ADEA
- Responding effectively to anticipated arguments
- Tactics to avoid spoliation of evidence during discovery
- Techniques for exposing weakness in your opponent’s arguments
- Expert witness selection strategies
- Mitigating damages in age discrimination claims
- The uses and misuses of statistical evidence in age discrimination claims
- Looking ahead – will ageism claims by millennials be on the horizon for employers?