If you are considering a career in Employment law, Bloomberg BNA’s Employment Discrimination Report is the key resource for you. It provides coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the practice area of equal employment opportunity, spanning all areas of EEO policy and practice. With the Employment Discrimination Report you can:
- Prepare for any practice question
- Keep up with key case law
- Look out for updates
- Create action plans for the future
- Review summaries of court documents
- Know what experts know
- Get insights into the changes and impact
- Protect your clients
To make this resource even easier, email summaries are available for the busy practitioner who needs to find out about new updates quickly.
To access this resource go to:
- Charlotte Law Homepage
- Click Law Library
- Click Electronic Resources
- Click A-Z Index of Databases
- Click Letter “E”
- Click Employment Discrimination Report
The homepage of the Employment Discrimination Report provides a wealth of information to stay up to date on employment law. As soon as you land on the homepage you can see highlights in the practice area, hot topics, and a search bar in the top right corner if you know exactly what you are looking for.
The bottom of the homepage displays a table of contents of the current edition of the Report.
For example, if you wanted to find out whether or not there was any news related to disability law, you could type disability in the search bar on the main page:
You retrieve 1000 results:
These results are organized by date with the most recent case appearing first and identifiers that precede every article. For example, one article is called “Maryland Teacher With Neurological Disorder Could Not Show ADA Violation, Court Decides.” This case is preceded by the header Disabilities/Retaliation. When you click on the case it opens the full article:
On the left of the screen, you links to key features, hot topics, and recent topics are still readily available to link to other featured content.
At the bottom of the article, there are links for related content organized by Topics, Agencies, Courts/Tribunals, States, and Federal Laws. Plus, the full text of the opinion to this case is easily accessible for someone who may need more information about the case.
Overall, The Employment Discrimination Report is a great database to access if you need to stay abreast of particular areas of law. It features a great supply of information related to many facets of employment law and keeps attorneys on top of their expertise, so they can provide the best advice to their clients.
~Ashely C. Washington L’13~
