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FELTG Executive Director Deborah Hopkins instructing a class
Feb
1
Wed
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Feb 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga

Course Description

Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.

Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.

  • February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
  • February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
  • March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
  • March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment

Price

$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.

Feb
8
Wed
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Feb 8 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga

Course Description

Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.

Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.

  • February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
  • February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
  • March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
  • March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment

Price

$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.

Feb
15
Wed
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga

Course Description

Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.

Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.

  • February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
  • February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
  • March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
  • March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment

Price

$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.

Feb
22
Wed
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga

Course Description

Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.

Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.

  • February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
  • February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
  • March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
  • March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment

Price

$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.

Mar
1
Wed
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Mar 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga

Course Description

Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.

Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.

  • February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
  • February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
  • March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
  • March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment

Price

$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.

Mar
8
Wed
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Mar 8 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga

Course Description

Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.

Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.

  • February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
  • February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
  • March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
  • March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment

Price

$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.

Jun
5
Mon
Legal Writing Week – Washington, DC @ International Student House (ISH) – Ella Burling Hall
Jun 5 – Jun 9 all-day

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Did you hear about the recent case in Maine where there was a dispute between a company and its truck drivers about the interpretation of guidelines regarding overtime pay? The punchline: the company lost the case and now has to pay millions of dollars of overtime to a group of workers because there was a missing comma in the guidelines. That’s one expensive grammatical error.
In our world, we regularly see cases where agencies lose appeals of removals that they shouldn’t have lost, because of mistakes in the way the charges were drafted.
What about a motion for summary judgment that should have been granted because there truly were no disputes of material fact, yet wasn’t granted because of a technicality in how the motion was written? Yep, that happens too.
Legal Writing Week is a writing-based workshop program that focuses specifically on effective legal writing in federal sector employment law cases. We’ll start you off with the fundamentals of good legal writing and then build on those basics with sessions targeted to material organization, persuasive factual narratives, writing for your audience and drafting specific documents for the MSPB and EEOC. Analysis and evaluation of writing exercises allows you to receive immediate feedback from our instructors. Come prepared to write!

Sessions are held daily from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Instructors

Deborah HopkinsErnest Hadley

Daily Agenda

Monday

Legal Writing I — The Basics: Legal writing and citation formats, argumentative approaches, writing from the reader’s perspective, organizational logic, word choice and structure, legal terms and court structure. Workshops: Spin Words, Speed Ball Exercise & Spin an Issue, Putting it All Together

Tuesday

Legal Writing II — Writing for Your Audience: Defining and distinguishing claims, defenses and issues, the factual narrative, identification of material facts, and persuasion. Workshops: Defining Claims, Writing the Agency Factual Statement, Writing the Employee Factual Statement

Wednesday

Legal Writing III — Writing for Your Audience (con’t.): Educating the reader, analyzing the evidence, organizing the arguments, distinguishing cases. Workshops: State the Rule, Writing the Analysis.

Thursday

Legal Writing IV — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC: Charges and penalties, drafting proposed discipline and decision documents. Workshops: Writing a Notice of Proposed Discipline, Writing a Final Agency Decision.

Friday

Legal Writing V — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC (con’t.): Motion practice and summary judgment, MSPB petitions for review and EEOC appeals, deconstruction and critique of final decisions, editing your work. Workshop: Deconstruction of a Final Decision.

Pricing

Most people attend the full training week, but you may opt out of any days you don’t plan to attend.

  • 5 days = $2070
  • 4 days = $1700
  • 3 days = $1310
  • 2 days = $930
  • 1 day = $510
Feb
8
Thu
Webinar Series – Handling Behavioral Health Issues in the Federal Workplace
Feb 8 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, Shana Palmieri

Course Description

FELTG proudly presents this four-part series on dealing with behavioral health issues in the federal workplace. Join us for one session, or register for them all.

Session 1: Handling Behavioral Health: Legal Considerations and Clinical Overview (February 8)

  • Legal considerations for managing employees with a behavioral health disability
    • Disability Accommodation
    • The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
    • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Overview of Behavioral Health Conditions & Symptoms
  • Effective Accommodations for Behavioral Health Conditions
  • Effective Communication and Supervision/Management Strategies for Employees with Behavioral Health Conditions

 

Session 2: Successful Management and Supervision of Employees with PTSD (February 22)

  • An in-depth understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms, Causes, and Prevalence
  • Overview of how symptoms of how PTSD symptoms impact performance in the workplace
  • Learn Effective Management and Supervision strategies to support employees in the workplace
  • Learn how to effectively assist an employee in the workplace having a crisis due to PTSD symptoms

 

Session 3: Managing Employees with Substance Use Disorders (March 8)

  • Overview of substance use disorders, causes and prevalence
  • Legal considers in the workplace for employees with substance abuse disorders
    • What is protected and what is reason for termination
  • How to handle intoxication in the workplace
  • How to handle employees positive for cannabis (marijuana) on their drug test
  • Learn how to effectively manage and support employees recovering from substance use disorders in the workplace

 

Session 4: Handling a Psychiatric Crisis in the Workplace (March 22)

  • Overview of behavioral health symptoms that may present as a crisis in the workplace
  • Suicidal Ideation and how to handle in the workplace
  • Steps to take in the workplace with an employee experiencing a psychiatric crisis

 

   Price

  • $220 per site, per session.
  • Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each teleworker, each webinar, on a space-available basis.
  • Special series discounts available through Feb. 3. See registration form for details.

 

Feb
22
Thu
Webinar Series – Handling Behavioral Health Issues in the Federal Workplace
Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, Shana Palmieri

Course Description

FELTG proudly presents this four-part series on dealing with behavioral health issues in the federal workplace. Join us for one session, or register for them all.

Session 1: Handling Behavioral Health: Legal Considerations and Clinical Overview (February 8)

  • Legal considerations for managing employees with a behavioral health disability
    • Disability Accommodation
    • The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
    • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Overview of Behavioral Health Conditions & Symptoms
  • Effective Accommodations for Behavioral Health Conditions
  • Effective Communication and Supervision/Management Strategies for Employees with Behavioral Health Conditions

 

Session 2: Successful Management and Supervision of Employees with PTSD (February 22)

  • An in-depth understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms, Causes, and Prevalence
  • Overview of how symptoms of how PTSD symptoms impact performance in the workplace
  • Learn Effective Management and Supervision strategies to support employees in the workplace
  • Learn how to effectively assist an employee in the workplace having a crisis due to PTSD symptoms

 

Session 3: Managing Employees with Substance Use Disorders (March 8)

  • Overview of substance use disorders, causes and prevalence
  • Legal considers in the workplace for employees with substance abuse disorders
    • What is protected and what is reason for termination
  • How to handle intoxication in the workplace
  • How to handle employees positive for cannabis (marijuana) on their drug test
  • Learn how to effectively manage and support employees recovering from substance use disorders in the workplace

 

Session 4: Handling a Psychiatric Crisis in the Workplace (March 22)

  • Overview of behavioral health symptoms that may present as a crisis in the workplace
  • Suicidal Ideation and how to handle in the workplace
  • Steps to take in the workplace with an employee experiencing a psychiatric crisis

 

   Price

  • $220 per site, per session.
  • Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each teleworker, each webinar, on a space-available basis.
  • Special series discounts available through Feb. 3. See registration form for details.

 

Mar
8
Thu
Webinar Series – Handling Behavioral Health Issues in the Federal Workplace
Mar 8 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, Shana Palmieri

Course Description

FELTG proudly presents this four-part series on dealing with behavioral health issues in the federal workplace. Join us for one session, or register for them all.

Session 1: Handling Behavioral Health: Legal Considerations and Clinical Overview (February 8)

  • Legal considerations for managing employees with a behavioral health disability
    • Disability Accommodation
    • The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
    • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Overview of Behavioral Health Conditions & Symptoms
  • Effective Accommodations for Behavioral Health Conditions
  • Effective Communication and Supervision/Management Strategies for Employees with Behavioral Health Conditions

 

Session 2: Successful Management and Supervision of Employees with PTSD (February 22)

  • An in-depth understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms, Causes, and Prevalence
  • Overview of how symptoms of how PTSD symptoms impact performance in the workplace
  • Learn Effective Management and Supervision strategies to support employees in the workplace
  • Learn how to effectively assist an employee in the workplace having a crisis due to PTSD symptoms

 

Session 3: Managing Employees with Substance Use Disorders (March 8)

  • Overview of substance use disorders, causes and prevalence
  • Legal considers in the workplace for employees with substance abuse disorders
    • What is protected and what is reason for termination
  • How to handle intoxication in the workplace
  • How to handle employees positive for cannabis (marijuana) on their drug test
  • Learn how to effectively manage and support employees recovering from substance use disorders in the workplace

 

Session 4: Handling a Psychiatric Crisis in the Workplace (March 22)

  • Overview of behavioral health symptoms that may present as a crisis in the workplace
  • Suicidal Ideation and how to handle in the workplace
  • Steps to take in the workplace with an employee experiencing a psychiatric crisis

 

   Price

  • $220 per site, per session.
  • Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each teleworker, each webinar, on a space-available basis.
  • Special series discounts available through Feb. 3. See registration form for details.

 

Mar
22
Thu
Webinar Series – Handling Behavioral Health Issues in the Federal Workplace
Mar 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Deborah Hopkins, Shana Palmieri

Course Description

FELTG proudly presents this four-part series on dealing with behavioral health issues in the federal workplace. Join us for one session, or register for them all.

Session 1: Handling Behavioral Health: Legal Considerations and Clinical Overview (February 8)

  • Legal considerations for managing employees with a behavioral health disability
    • Disability Accommodation
    • The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
    • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Overview of Behavioral Health Conditions & Symptoms
  • Effective Accommodations for Behavioral Health Conditions
  • Effective Communication and Supervision/Management Strategies for Employees with Behavioral Health Conditions

 

Session 2: Successful Management and Supervision of Employees with PTSD (February 22)

  • An in-depth understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms, Causes, and Prevalence
  • Overview of how symptoms of how PTSD symptoms impact performance in the workplace
  • Learn Effective Management and Supervision strategies to support employees in the workplace
  • Learn how to effectively assist an employee in the workplace having a crisis due to PTSD symptoms

 

Session 3: Managing Employees with Substance Use Disorders (March 8)

  • Overview of substance use disorders, causes and prevalence
  • Legal considers in the workplace for employees with substance abuse disorders
    • What is protected and what is reason for termination
  • How to handle intoxication in the workplace
  • How to handle employees positive for cannabis (marijuana) on their drug test
  • Learn how to effectively manage and support employees recovering from substance use disorders in the workplace

 

Session 4: Handling a Psychiatric Crisis in the Workplace (March 22)

  • Overview of behavioral health symptoms that may present as a crisis in the workplace
  • Suicidal Ideation and how to handle in the workplace
  • Steps to take in the workplace with an employee experiencing a psychiatric crisis

 

   Price

  • $220 per site, per session.
  • Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each teleworker, each webinar, on a space-available basis.
  • Special series discounts available through Feb. 3. See registration form for details.

 

Apr
18
Thu
Webinar – Substance Abuse Disorders and the Federal Workplace
Apr 18 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

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Instructors

Shana Palmieri, Mollie Slater

Course Description

Employee substance abuse is a costly and dangerous problem for federal workplaces, especially when it comes to safety and productivity. Yet, many federal supervisors fail to address the situation appropriately. FELTG is here to do something about that.

Healthcare attorney Mollie Slater and Shana Palmieri, a licensed clinical social worker, will share strategies for reducing risk for substance-abuse issues and aligning agency processes to fit within the scope of the law, while promoting a safe and productive workplace. You will leave this 90-minute webinar knowing how to successfully navigate the legally complex relationship employers have with healthcare providers. You will also gain the knowledge and skills to effectively and appropriately take action when substance abuse impacts workplace safety and productivity.

Attendees will also learn:

  • When substance abuse is reason for termination.
  • The privacy standards applicable to employees and patients.
  • How to effectively manage the medical clearance process for employees returning to work after they receive substance abuse treatment.

This class focuses most of its emphasis on the practical and clinical side of managing employees with substance abuse issues, and trains you how to identify and work with people who have addiction issues. You won’t want to miss it.

Price

Early Bird Tuition: $275 per webinar per site (registration submitted by April 8)

Standard Tuition: $305 per webinar per site (registration submitted April 9 or later)

Register for both webinars by April 8 and pay only $530.

Add a teleworker for $35 per webinar, in addition to a main site registration, if space permits.

May
2
Thu
Webinar – Successfully Managing Federal Employees with Mental Health Disabilities
May 2 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

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Instructors

Shana Palmieri 

Course Description

If one of your employees had a mental health crisis in the workplace, would you know what to do? This isn’t a far-fetched scenario. Almost 18 percent of all adults have a mental illness diagnosis at some point in their lives. This 90-minute webinar will provide you with an understanding of mental health conditions and the impact they have on the individual, as well as strategies to effectively provide supervision and management to ensure a productive workplace.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker Shana Palmieri will help you walk the tenuous line between providing accommodations and support for a mental health condition and holding employees accountable for their work performance.

Attendees will leave this webinar with strategies to:

  • Improve performance and success for employees with mental health conditions.
  • Effectively accommodate employees with behavioral health conditions.
  • Set appropriate boundaries and expectations in the workplace.

This class focuses on the practical and clinical side of managing employees with behavioral health conditions, rather than the legal side. You won’t want to miss it.

Price

Early Bird Tuition: $275 per webinar per site (registration submitted by April 8)

Standard Tuition: $305 per webinar per site (registration submitted April 9 or later)

Register for both webinars by April 8 and pay only $530.

Add a teleworker for $35 per webinar, in addition to a main site registration, if space permits.

Oct
7
Mon
Legal Writing Week – Washington, DC @ International Student House (ISH) – Ella Burling Hall
Oct 7 – Oct 11 all-day

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All too often, legal cases are lost not for lack of evidence, but based on some procedural issue that could have been avoided through careful drafting of legal documents. Whether it’s a motion for summary judgment, a prehearing brief, or a final agency decision, words matter.

So back by request, it’s FELTG’s new and improved Legal Writing Week, a writing-based workshop program that focuses specifically on effective legal writing in federal sector employment law cases. We’ll start you off with the fundamentals of good legal writing and then build on those basics with sessions targeted to material organization, persuasive factual narratives, writing for your audience and drafting specific documents for the MSPB and EEOC. Analysis and evaluation of writing exercises allows you to receive immediate feedback from one of the preeminent authors in the field.

Sessions are held daily from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Friday.

Instructor

Ernest Hadley

Daily Agenda

Monday

Legal Writing I — The Basics: Legal writing and citation formats, argumentative approaches, writing from the reader’s perspective, organizational logic, word choice and structure, legal terms and court structure. Workshops: Spin Words, Speed Ball Exercise & Spin an Issue, Putting it All Together

Tuesday

Legal Writing II — Writing for Your Audience: Defining and distinguishing claims, defenses and issues, the factual narrative, identification of material facts, and persuasion. Workshops: Defining Claims, Writing the Agency Factual Statement, Writing the Employee Factual Statement

Wednesday

Legal Writing III — Writing for Your Audience (con’t.): Educating the reader, analyzing the evidence, organizing the arguments, distinguishing cases. Workshops: State the Rule, Writing the Analysis.

Thursday

Legal Writing IV — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC: MSPB prehearing submissions, drafting final agency decisions. Workshops: Drafting a Prehearing Submission, Writing a FAD.

Friday

Legal Writing V — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC (con’t.): Motion practice and summary judgment, MSPB petitions for review and EEOC appeals, MSPB petitions for review and EEOC appeals, editing your work. Workshop: Deconstruction of a Final Decision.

Pricing

Most people attend the full training week, but you may opt out of any days you don’t plan to attend.

Early Bird Tuition (register by Sept. 23):

  • 5 days = $2180
  • 4 days = $1790
  • 3 days = $1380
  • 2 days = $980
  • 1 day = $540

Standard Tuition (register Sept. 23-Oct. 11):

  • 5 days = $2280
  • 4 days = $1890
  • 3 days = $1480
  • 2 days = $1080
  • 1 day = $640

Metro, Parking, Directions

Metro: The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) is located in convenient proximity to the Red Line. Exit Metro at the Dupont Circle station and proceed to the Q Street/North exit. Head north (you will come off the escalator facing north; if you use the elevator take a left after exiting) on Connecticut Avenue to R Street NW (approximately one block). Turn right onto R Street NW. Cross 19th Street NW and the International Student House will be on the left side of the street approximately halfway down the block. If you reach the Bikeshare dock, you’ve gone too far. Approximate walk time: 7-10 minutes.

Parking: Street parking is metered and is limited to two hours, unless you have a Washington, DC, Zone 2 parking pass. The closest parking garage is at 11 Dupont Circle, approximately two blocks from the International Student House (1825 R Street NW). Approximate walk time: 5 -7 minutes.

From the Carlyle Hotel: After exiting the Carlyle Hotel, turn left. At the first intersection, R Street NW, turn right. Proceed approximately one block. The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) will be on your right, just past the Bikeshare dock. Approximate walk time: 4-6 minutes.

Cancellation and No-show Policy for Registered Participants: Cancellations made after the cancel date on the registration form will not be refunded or given credit toward future courses. Pre-paid training using the “Pay Now” option will not be refunded or given credit toward future courses. No-shows will not be refunded or given credit toward future courses.

Jan
16
Thu
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Jan 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Katherine Atkinson, Ann Boehm, Deborah Hopkins, Meghan Droste

Course Description

Legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft. Cases have been lost because of poorly or ambiguously written documents. This webinar series will help you sharpen the skills you need to produce effective, defensible, legally sound documents in the federal sector. This includes disciplinary letters, summary judgment motions, reports of investigation, and more. With the sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars, you’ll have tools use can continue to use long after the series ends.

Sessions will be held on Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been to law school recently, or ever at all. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and you’ll find the way to make the documents you write be more clear, effective, and persuasive.

  • January 16 – Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: Nuts and Bolts
  • January 23 – Writing Performance Demonstration Period Plans that Work
  • January 30 – Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 6 – The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 13 – Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
  • February 20 – Drafting a Legally Sufficient Report of Investigation

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition: $240 per site (payment made by January 13).
  • Standard Tuition: $270 per site (payment made January 14 or later).
  • Register for all six webinars by January 13 and pay only $1350!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $40 per teleworker, on a space-available basis.

Jan
23
Thu
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Katherine Atkinson, Ann Boehm, Deborah Hopkins, Meghan Droste

Course Description

Legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft. Cases have been lost because of poorly or ambiguously written documents. This webinar series will help you sharpen the skills you need to produce effective, defensible, legally sound documents in the federal sector. This includes disciplinary letters, summary judgment motions, reports of investigation, and more. With the sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars, you’ll have tools use can continue to use long after the series ends.

Sessions will be held on Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been to law school recently, or ever at all. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and you’ll find the way to make the documents you write be more clear, effective, and persuasive.

  • January 16 – Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: Nuts and Bolts
  • January 23 – Writing Performance Demonstration Period Plans that Work
  • January 30 – Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 6 – The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 13 – Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
  • February 20 – Drafting a Legally Sufficient Report of Investigation

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition: $240 per site (payment made by January 13).
  • Standard Tuition: $270 per site (payment made January 14 or later).
  • Register for all six webinars by January 13 and pay only $1350!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $40 per teleworker, on a space-available basis.

Jan
30
Thu
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Katherine Atkinson, Ann Boehm, Deborah Hopkins, Meghan Droste

Course Description

Legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft. Cases have been lost because of poorly or ambiguously written documents. This webinar series will help you sharpen the skills you need to produce effective, defensible, legally sound documents in the federal sector. This includes disciplinary letters, summary judgment motions, reports of investigation, and more. With the sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars, you’ll have tools use can continue to use long after the series ends.

Sessions will be held on Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been to law school recently, or ever at all. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and you’ll find the way to make the documents you write be more clear, effective, and persuasive.

  • January 16 – Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: Nuts and Bolts
  • January 23 – Writing Performance Demonstration Period Plans that Work
  • January 30 – Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 6 – The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 13 – Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
  • February 20 – Drafting a Legally Sufficient Report of Investigation

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition: $240 per site (payment made by January 13).
  • Standard Tuition: $270 per site (payment made January 14 or later).
  • Register for all six webinars by January 13 and pay only $1350!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $40 per teleworker, on a space-available basis.

Feb
6
Thu
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Instructors

Katherine Atkinson, Ann Boehm, Deborah Hopkins, Meghan Droste

Course Description

Legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft. Cases have been lost because of poorly or ambiguously written documents. This webinar series will help you sharpen the skills you need to produce effective, defensible, legally sound documents in the federal sector. This includes disciplinary letters, summary judgment motions, reports of investigation, and more. With the sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars, you’ll have tools use can continue to use long after the series ends.

Sessions will be held on Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been to law school recently, or ever at all. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and you’ll find the way to make the documents you write be more clear, effective, and persuasive.

  • January 16 – Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: Nuts and Bolts
  • January 23 – Writing Performance Demonstration Period Plans that Work
  • January 30 – Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 6 – The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 13 – Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
  • February 20 – Drafting a Legally Sufficient Report of Investigation

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition: $240 per site (payment made by January 13).
  • Standard Tuition: $270 per site (payment made January 14 or later).
  • Register for all six webinars by January 13 and pay only $1350!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $40 per teleworker, on a space-available basis.

Feb
13
Thu
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Download Registration Form

Instructors

Katherine Atkinson, Ann Boehm, Deborah Hopkins, Meghan Droste

Course Description

Legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft. Cases have been lost because of poorly or ambiguously written documents. This webinar series will help you sharpen the skills you need to produce effective, defensible, legally sound documents in the federal sector. This includes disciplinary letters, summary judgment motions, reports of investigation, and more. With the sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars, you’ll have tools use can continue to use long after the series ends.

Sessions will be held on Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been to law school recently, or ever at all. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and you’ll find the way to make the documents you write be more clear, effective, and persuasive.

  • January 16 – Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: Nuts and Bolts
  • January 23 – Writing Performance Demonstration Period Plans that Work
  • January 30 – Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 6 – The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 13 – Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
  • February 20 – Drafting a Legally Sufficient Report of Investigation

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition: $240 per site (payment made by January 13).
  • Standard Tuition: $270 per site (payment made January 14 or later).
  • Register for all six webinars by January 13 and pay only $1350!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $40 per teleworker, on a space-available basis.

Feb
20
Thu
Webinar Series – Legal Writing in Federal Sector Employment Law
Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Download Registration Form

Instructors

Katherine Atkinson, Ann Boehm, Deborah Hopkins, Meghan Droste

Course Description

Legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft. Cases have been lost because of poorly or ambiguously written documents. This webinar series will help you sharpen the skills you need to produce effective, defensible, legally sound documents in the federal sector. This includes disciplinary letters, summary judgment motions, reports of investigation, and more. With the sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars, you’ll have tools use can continue to use long after the series ends.

Sessions will be held on Thursdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been to law school recently, or ever at all. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and you’ll find the way to make the documents you write be more clear, effective, and persuasive.

  • January 16 – Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: Nuts and Bolts
  • January 23 – Writing Performance Demonstration Period Plans that Work
  • January 30 – Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
  • February 6 – The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
  • February 13 – Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
  • February 20 – Drafting a Legally Sufficient Report of Investigation

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition: $240 per site (payment made by January 13).
  • Standard Tuition: $270 per site (payment made January 14 or later).
  • Register for all six webinars by January 13 and pay only $1350!

Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $40 per teleworker, on a space-available basis.

Apr
16
Thu
Webinar – Due Process Violations: How One Mistake Could Cost You the Case
Apr 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

FELTG is making its webinars easier to access during the COVID-19 closures and emergency telework scheduling, to ensure that proper training is still available when the majority of employees are working at home. Contact us at 844.283.3584 or [email protected] to find out how you can bring FELTG’s off-the-shelf or custom webinars directly to your agency.

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Instructor

Deborah Hopkins

Course Description

Due process is a simple, yet often misunderstood, concept. FELTG President Deborah Hopkins will explain constitutional due process, how it applies to the federal workforce, and what happens if your agency violates it. (Hint: You will lose your appeal.)  This 60-minute webinar, part of the Navigating Challenges in the Discipline Process series, will cover Ward and Stone violations, the role of the proposing and deciding officials and the discipline timelines as required by Executive Order 13839.

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition (payment required by April 10, 2020):
    • 1 line: $100
    • 2-5 lines: $185
    • 6-9 lines: $260
    • 10-15 lines: $340
    • 16-20 lines: $425
  • Standard Tuition (payments made April 11, 2020 or later):
    • 1 line: $115
    • 2-5 lines: $215
    • 6-9 lines: $290
    • 10-15 lines: $370
    • 16-20 lines: $455

Additional teleworkers may be added for $40 each, if space is available.

May
21
Thu
Webinar – Understanding and Managing Federal Employees with Behavioral Health Issues
May 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

FELTG is making its webinars easier to access during the COVID-19 closures and emergency telework scheduling, to ensure that proper training is still available when the majority of employees are working at home. Contact us at 844.283.3584 or [email protected] to find out how you can bring FELTG’s off-the-shelf or custom webinars directly to your agency.

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Instructors

Shana Palmieri 

Course Description

If one of your employees had a behavioral health crisis in the workplace, would you know what to do? This isn’t a far-fetched scenario. One in six workers are experiencing mental health problems at any time, according to recent studies. Crisis management in the federal workplace is a critical area to understand – it is truly life and death. And with the current COVID-19 global pandemic, uncertainty about the world – combined with social isolation – has more people struggling than ever before.

This 90-minute webinar, led by Licensed Clinical Social Worker Shana Palmieri, will provide you with an understanding of mental and behavioral health conditions and the impact they have on the individual, as well as strategies to effectively provide supervision and management to ensure a productive workplace. Learn to walk that tenuous line between providing accommodations and support for a mental health condition and holding employees accountable for their work performance.

Attendees will leave this webinar with strategies to:

  • Improve performance and success for employees with mental health conditions.
  • Effectively accommodate employees with behavioral health conditions.
  • Set appropriate boundaries and expectations in the workplace.

This class focuses on the practical and clinical side of managing employees with behavioral health conditions, rather than the legal side. You won’t want to miss it.

Price

  • Early Bird Tuition (payment required by May 19, 2020):
    • 1 line: $120
    • 2-5 lines: $205
    • 6-9 lines: $280
    • 10-15 lines: $360
    • 16-20 lines: $445
  • Standard Tuition (payments made May 20, 2020 or later):
    • 1 line: $135
    • 2-5 lines: $235
    • 6-9 lines: $3100
    • 10-15 lines: $390
    • 16-20 lines: $485

Additional teleworkers may be added for $40 each, if space is available.

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