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 PETER BROIDA

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Spring 2009 Calendar

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 Adjunct Instructors:

 

Katherine R. Atkinson

Law Offices of Gary M. Gilbert, P.C.

8401 Colesville Road, Suite 315

Silver Spring, MD 20910

 

(301) 608-0880 x204 (Voice)

(301) 608-0881 (Fax)  

 
  Katherine R. Atkinson is an associate attorney with the Law Offices of Gary M. Gilbert, P.C., where she represents both plaintiffs and employers.  Ms. Atkinson played an instrumental role in a ground-breaking 2006 Department of Agriculture victory in a sexual harassment case.  Ms. Atkinson’s argument that the Agency was entitled to the “Farragher and Ellerth” affirmative defense was successful on summary judgment before the Administrative Judge and on appeal to the Commission (EEOC Appeal No. 01A60388). That defense approved by the U.S. Supreme Court allows an employer to avoid liability for sexually hostile work environment claims where (a) the employer exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any sexually harassing behavior, and (b) the employee unreasonably failed to take advantage of any protective or corrective opportunities provided by the employer or to avoid harm otherwise.  Ms. Atkinson also assists with writing several of Mr. Gilbert’s books, including Hostile Work Environment Law, as well as the Disability Discrimination Law Deskbook and Compensatory Damages and Other Remedies in Federal Sector Employment Discrimination Cases.  She is a member of the Maryland bar, and co-authored an article analyzing the various county employment discrimination statutes in Maryland for Trial Reporter, the publication of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association.

Prior to working for Mr. Gilbert, Ms. Atkinson interned for Judge Gerald Bruce Lee in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, where she worked on the interesting employment discrimination case Gaskins v. BFI Waste Services.

Ms. Atkinson received her J.D. from American University ’s Washington College of Law.  She was a senior staff member and note and comment mentor for the Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law, and a staff writer and articles editor for the Human Rights Brief.  Ms. Atkinson also worked as a teaching assistant for two years in the Legal Rhetoric: Writing and Research Program. 

Ms. Atkinson received her B.S. in Foreign Service and a certificate in Women’s Studies from Georgetown University.

 Robert L'Heureux  
601 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 739-1339
Fax: (703) 739-1338
e-mail: boblaw@cyberhost.com

Robert L'Heureux is an attorney in the private practice of employment and white-collar criminal law in Alexandria, Virginia. He was, for some 14 years, the Associate Special Counsel for Investigation at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, supervising the collection of evidence in thousands of whistleblower reprisal cases. He was counsel during early successful OSC litigation on behalf of whistleblowers. Since leaving government, he has successfully represented both individuals and government agencies in whistleblower reprisal cases. His other government experience included service as a Marine Corps officer, a Special Agent of the Naval Investigative Service, and Assistant to the Inspector General of the SBA. He represents individuals and government agencies before the MSPB and EEOC, and individuals in all courts in Virginia and the District of Columbia. He also lectures and consults on questions of federal employment law, trial and hearing advocacy, and non-criminal investigation.

 

Carl C. Bosland
1390 Ash Street
Denver, CO 80220
Phone: 720-560-2207
Fax: (303) 320-9388
email: cbosland@mail.com

Carl C. Bosland, Esq., is a leading authority on the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.  He is the author of three highly acclaimed books on the FMLA including A Federal Sector Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act & Related Litigation (Dewey Publications, Inc. 2007) and A School Administrator’s Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act (ASBO/Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).  Mr. Bosland also reports on FMLA developments on The Federal Sector FMLA Blog. 

Mr. Bosland is the CEO of the Bosland Consulting Group, which helps organizations comply with the FMLA through training and consultation.  Carl is an attorney and arbitrator with more than 20 years of federal and private sector labor and employment law experience.  He received his law degree from Fordham University, and a Masters of Law in Labor Law from the New York University School of Law, where he was awarded the Seymour Goldstein Memorial Prize for Academic Excellence in Labor Relations. 

 

Carl may be reached through his website: www.fmlacounsel.com.