Written by Renn Fowler and Joseph Kaplan, veteran practitioners with years of litigation and hearing experience, Litigating Federal Sector Employment and Labor Law Disputes provides guidance on how to effectively litigate a case before the MSPB, EEOC, FLRA, or in arbitration. This is a how-to text devoted to hearing skills with examples, sample forms and citations to governing regulations and statues and relevant case law. Where the rules diverge the book deals with each venue separately. Agency and employee representatives and pro se appellants and complainants rely on this book for instruction on:

• Discussion of Venues—including the Merit Systems Protection Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Federal Labor Relations Authority, and arbitration
• Initial Investigation and Planning—including burdens of proof, legal research, and informal factual investigations
• Filing an Appeal and Answer—including deadlines, appeal contents, acknowledgement orders, and amendments
• Formal Discovery—including motions to compel and protective orders
• Paper Discovery—including interrogatories, requests for the production of documents, and admission requests
• Depositions—including deposition planning, rules, a sample deposition notice, and taking a deposition
• Defending a Deposition—including preparation, rules, objections, and instructing the witness not to answer
• Motion Practice—including forms and mechanics, sample forms, regulatory, statutory and guidance requirements and substance as to motions for a more definite statement, protective orders, summary judgment, sanctions, subpoenas, extension of time, non-party discovery, and interlocutory appeals and motions to strike, compel discovery, quash, and disqualify the judge
• Pretrial Filings; Conferencing—including response, statement of claim, witness list and prehearing orders, conferences, and filings
• Preparing and Organizing for Hearing—including trial materials, evidence, opening and closing statements, exhibits, direct and cross examination, and witness preparation
• Statements and Prehearing Memorandums—including opening and closing statements
• Direct Examination—including the rules, forms of questions, questioning techniques, and how to organize for direct
• Cross-Examination—including the rules, what to ask, questioning techniques, what not to ask, and how to control the witness
• Objections and an Evidentiary Primer—including rules of evidence, hearsay, and relevancy
• The Advocacy of Winning Writing—including detailed discussion of persuasive writing and drafting of petitions for review and post-hearing briefs
• Remedies—including separate discussion of remedies available before the MSPB and EEOC
• The Art and Tactics of Settlement—including settlement negotiations, mediation, offers of resolution, reducing agreements to writing, and creative settlement options
• Arbitration—including how to choose the arbitrator, burdens of proof, and the hearing
• Enforcement
• Ethical Considerations—including discovery abuse

Also included is a detailed table of contents.

Also available as a .pdf file on a CD-ROM or as an ebook for instant download.

350+ pages.

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