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Miller Canfield Discusses Retaliation Claims at Morning Update on September 19 - Attend Over the Internet or Live in Detroit

September 5, 2006

The U.S. Supreme Court recently increased an employer’s exposure to liability under Title VII’s anti-retaliation provision by greatly expanding the meaning of retaliatory conduct. Join Miller Canfield labor and employment attorney, Adam S. Forman, for “Retaliation Claims: Now What? How the Supreme Court has Expanded the Meaning of Retaliatory Conduct,” on Tuesday, September 19, from 8:00-8:30 a.m. The Morning Update will be presented as a webinar and live in the firm’s Detroit office at 150 W. Jefferson, Suite 2500. There is no cost to attend.

During this brief, yet information-packed overview of the Supreme Court’s decision in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White, Forman will offer guidance to employers on how to prevent, investigate and defend all varieties of whistleblower and retaliation claims.

Topics include:


• Dos and don’ts
• How to investigate a complaint
• What all employment lawyers should know about defending a claim
• What constitutes retaliatory conduct
• How the Supreme Court’s recent decision will affect you

Reservations are required to Virginia Herrick at Herrick@millercanfield.com or 313/496-7548. For those who attend in person, a continental breakfast will start at 7:30 a.m.

The 350-attorney law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. was established in Detroit in 1852 and has offices in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Howell, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Monroe, Saginaw, and Troy, Michigan. Other offices are located in New York City, Naples and Pensacola, Florida, Windsor, Ontario, and in Gdynia, Warsaw, and Wroclaw, Poland.