Starting a new internship can be a mix of excitement and nerves. Because an internship is limited in scope and duration, you want to maximize your experience while making a positive impression on your colleagues. To help you succeed in your internship, we’ve gathered some valuable tips from the outgoing class of summer associates at
Lessons Learned
Change the Channel: Improve Remote Work Life
Many of us have been working from home longer than we ever could have anticipated when shelter-in-place orders were rolled out in March 2020. As we’ve tried to settle into these going-on-five months of remote work, there is always room for improvement as to our work settings. As we ease into accepting this as “normal”…
How Telecommuting During the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts the Disability Interactive Process
As more businesses start to reopen, the COVID-19 pandemic will have long-term effects on the work environment beyond temperature checks and social distancing protocols. One impact is that it may be harder for employers to justify denying a disabled employee’s request for an accommodation to work from home. Whereas employers previously may have been reluctant…
Working From Home + Homeschooling – A Journey During A Pandemic
I’ve been working from home since March 16, 2020 when my children’s school closed. I am not alone – with the COVID-19 pandemic and safer at home orders, many employees across the country have been working from home. While restrictions may be easing, without schools reopening, many parents are balancing their roles as teachers, parents,…
A Week to Shape a Lifetime
As summer slowly winds to a close, students across the nation will head back into classrooms for the upcoming academic year, and I find myself reflecting on the last few months. Nearly every June for the last 20 years, I traveled to the University of Central…
Lessons Learned From LCW’s “How to Avoid Claims of Disability Discrimination” Seminar
This post was authored by Matthew Nakano.
On July 11, 2017, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore’s Jennifer Rosner partnered with Department of Fair Employment and Housing (“DFEH”) Assistant Chief Counsel Paula Pearlman to present a seminar on “How to Avoid Claims of Disability Discrimination: The Road to Reasonable Accommodation.” This seminar focused on navigating the challenges…
5 Lessons I Learned at Harvard’s Kennedy School This Summer
This summer I had the opportunity to attend Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Senior Executives in State and Local Government course. It is a 3-week class designed to help state and local government officials, and those of us who serve them, effectively manage operations and employees; and to hone skills to exercise leadership in an…