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Michelle Gomez
"COVID-19 - Its Impact on Employment Litigation, How Best to Prepare Your Company, and What the Future of Litigation May Hold"

 

 

Learning Objectives:

    1. Types of cases resulting from COVID-19
    2. How to best avoid pandemic-related litigation
    3. How to best defend against pandemic-related litigation

Session Description:

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an immediate and ongoing impact on employment litigation across the country, affecting virtually every industry. Since the beginning of the pandemic, over 2,000 cases have been filed against employers, with more than 95% of those cases involving retaliation and discrimination claims. In this session, we will explore these pandemic-related litigation trends thus far, the types of claims we believe are on the horizon for 2022, and the steps employers ought to be thinking about now to prepare themselves for those claims. We will also provide predictions about how the pandemic may have changed the way the courts manage and handle litigation in the future.

 

Speaker Bio:

Michelle Gomez is a shareholder in Littler Mendelson’s Denver office. Michelle represents and advises employers on a wide variety of employment matters, including claims based on age, race, color, national origin, and sexual discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour issues. She defends clients in employment-related disputes before federal and state courts, the EEOC, the Colorado Civil Rights Division, and the Montana Human Rights Bureau. Michelle has extensive trial experience, including a federal court jury trial, a federal court bench trial, and a state court jury trial, all of which concluded favorably for Littler’s clients.