Events June 26 - 27, 2008: Steven M. Sprenger, Thomas J. Henderson, Michael D. Lieder and Mara R. Thompson will serve as speakers, panelists and/or moderators at the 19th Annual Convention of the National Employment Lawyers Association, "Rising Together: Advancing Equality & Justice in the Workplace" at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, GA. April 11, 2008: Susan Coler spoke on High-Caliber Litigation of Employment Cases in an Ever Expanding E-World at the Eighth Circuit NELA Employment Law Conference in Kansas City, MO. March 11, 2008
Susan Coler spoke on "Strategies for Plaintiff-Friendly Protective Orders" at the March meeting of Minnesota Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers' Association. November 8, 2007
Thomas J. Henderson spoke as a panelist on the issues to be considered and the benefits and risks associated with media coverage of cases and law firms in “From ‘No Comment’ to ‘No Problem’: Developing a Media Strategy For Handling a Crisis and Growing Your Business” at the Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference of the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section. June 29, 2007
Michael Lieder discussed “Statistics in Employment Class Action Litigation: The Declining Trend for Plaintiffs” at the National Employment Lawyers Association’s Eighteenth Annual Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 28, 2007
Thomas J. Henderson discussed a paper he authored entitled, “Obtaining & Using Electronic Evidence” at the National Employment Lawyers Association’s Eighteenth Annual Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 28, 2007
Mark A. Amadeo served as a panelist discussing, “Representing Workers in ERISA Benefits Claims Litigation,” at the National Employment Lawyers Association’s Eighteenth Annual Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 4-5, 2007
Steven M. Sprenger served as a panelist, discussing trends in employment practices liability claims, at the 2007 PLUS Bermuda Perspective Symposium sponsored by the Professional Liability and Underwriting Society at the Hamilton Princess in Hamilton, Bermuda. May 30-31, 2007
Susan M. Coler co-presented a session titled “Attacking Releases and Waivers – A Plaintiff’s Perspective” for the 2007 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute at Saint Paul RiverCentre. The presentation addressed recent cases challenging the validity of releases of discrimination claims. This is a “hot topic” in legal circles because many releases previously considered “standard” may be found invalid. May 16, 2007
Thomas J. Henderson served as a panelist discussing “E-Discovery-Since the New Rules”, during a teleconference and live/video webcast hosted by the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education in Washington D.C. Spring 2007
Four S+L attorneys have articles published in Employee Rights and Employment Law Journal (Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology) Vol. 10, Number 2/ 2006. These articles include “Practical Considerations in Selecting Class Representatives, and Managing Their Expectations in Litigation and Settlement” by Thomas J.Henderson, “Handling Class Actions Under the ADEA”, by S+L attorney Susan Coler and Laurie A. McCann and Cathy Ventrell-Monsees, and “Class Actions Under ERISA” by Michael Lieder and Mark A. Amadeo. February 15-16, 2007
Susan M. Coler moderated a panel at the Strategic Conference on Title VII Class Actions sponsored by the Impact Fund in Oakland, California. Titled “Rethinking Remedies: Effective Approaches to Changing a Discriminatory Workplace,” panelists Frank Dobbins, Ph.D. from Harvard University and Lauren B. Edelman, Ph.D., J.D. from U.C. Berkeley discussed new research about what kinds of injunctive relief are most effective in increasing workplace diversity and how courts view corporate diversity efforts. January 24-25, 2007
Steven M. Sprenger served as a presenter and panelist, discussing employment discrimination in class actions, for the 12th Annual Conference on Employment Practices Liability Insurance sponsored by the American Conference Institute at the Jumeirah Essex House in New York. October 5, 2006
Thomas J. Henderson discussed “Ethical Considerations In Investigating Claims And In Communications Prior To Class Certification,” at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Annual Civil Rights Institute in Warrenton, VA. June 27, 2006
At its annual luncheon on June 27, 2006, the National Partnership for Women & Families honored Paul Sprenger, Senator Christopher Dodd and Dr. Madelyn Antoncic as three distinguished individuals who have helped pave the way for the advancement of women in the workplace over the past three decades. June 23-26, 2006
Paul C. Sprenger served as a speaker and panelist at the 17th Annual Convention of the National Employment Lawyers Association, "Bridging the Divide: Strategies for Fairness in the Workplace" at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel. Mr. Sprenger spoke at the plenary session on June 24, 2006. He discussed strategic and practical "lessons learned from hard fought battles," including his own employment class action and multi-party litigation rules for plaintiffs' counsel developed over 40 years of litigation practice. May 22-23, 2006
Susan M. Coler participated on a national panel of attorneys addressing advanced litigation issues related to age discrimination litigation for the 2006 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute at Saint Paul RiverCentre. Topics included new cases from the United States Supreme Court, releases and waivers, damages and uses of experts. April 27-28, 2006
Michael Lieder served as a presenter at the ERS Group "Employment Discrimination Seminar." April 16, 2006
Susan M. Coler spoke at the Penn-Lake Library Book Club about the book Class Action and the Jenson v. Eveleth Mines case underlying it. April 7-8, 2006
Susan M. Coler spoke on a panel addressing the nuts and bolts of class actions at the National Employment Lawyers Association Eighth Circuit Conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Titled “Class Actions: Do Big Cases Against Big Defendants Get a Small Office, Big Money, Big Problems or Both?”, the panel of experienced class action attorneys discussed legal and practical issues in litigating class actions. April 2006
Michael Lieder presented “Disputes Concerning Statistical Experts and Evidence in Employment Discrimination Class Action Litigation,” at a seminar in Washington, D.C. sponsored by ERS Group. March 7, 2006
Steven M. Sprenger served as a presenter and panelist, discussing "Rule 23 Certification Lessons from Dukes v. Walmart" sponsored by the Class Action Law Monitor and Securities Class Action Reporter. The program was presented live by teleconference. Click here to obtain a complete audio recording of the program on CD. March 2-3, 2006
Susan M. Coler spoke about “New Defense Experts and Strategies” on a panel at the Strategic Conference on Title VII Class Actions sponsored by the Impact Fund and held at Preservation Park in Oakland, California. The presentation focused on the effective use of experts in class and collective actions and strategies for undermining defense experts.
December 1, 2005
Steven M. Sprenger appeared on TF1's evening news broadcast as an interviewee discussing the purpose and benefits of class-action litigation. In light of possible class-action lawsuits being faced by France's three largest telephone companies, many in France are wanting to know more about the concept of class-action litigation. October 21, 2005
"North Country" premiered -- a movie inspired by Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., the first sexual harassment class action litigated in the United States. Sprenger + Lang represented the plaintiffs and class in this hard-fought litigation that took over ten years to get substantial relief for the women. October 15, 2005
Michael Lieder, along with Mark A. Amadeo, presented “Class Actions Under ERISA” at NELA’s Class and Collective Action Seminar. In 2006, their paper was published in the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, (10 Empl. Rts. & Employ. Pol’y J. 665) October 14-15, 2005
Susan M. Coler, Michael Lieder, and Thomas J. Henderson served as panelists for and attended the national conference “Impact Litigation: Representing Workers in Class, Collective & Multiple Plaintiff Actions,” sponsored by the National Employment Lawyers Association at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the panel titled “Handling Class Actions Under the ADEA,” Coler discussed the use of releases in reductions in force and unique challenges for statistical analysis in age cases. Lieder presented an overview of ERISA class action issues in “Handling Class Actions under ERISA.” As a panel member in the session on “The ‘Named Plaintiff’ & Multiple Plaintiffs Issues,” Henderson addressed ethical and legal issues in selecting named plaintiffs for class cases. June 23-24, 2005
Steven M. Sprenger served as a presenter and panelist, discussing the elimination of bias in the context of the television writers age discrimination litigation, for the 2nd Annual Film and Television Law Conference sponsored by CLE International at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Click here for more information regarding the conference. (PDF) June 2-3, 2005
Susan M. Coler presented the plaintiffs’ perspective on two panels for the 22nd Annual Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute at Saint Paul RiverCentre. In a session titled “Advanced Trial Practice: Keys to Bringing or Defending Baby Boomer Age Discrimination Claims,” Coler discussed statistics, litigation strategies, use of releases and the recent United States Supreme Court decision allowing disparate impact claims in federal age cases as a member of a panel of practitioners from across the U.S. She also fielded questions, along with other practitioners, in the session “Plaintiff Litigation – A Planning, Strategies and Tactics Open Forum.” June 1, 2005
Sprenger + Lang's Washington, DC office was relocated to:
1400 Eye Street, N.W. | Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 265-8010
(202) 332-6652 May 2, 2005
Sprenger + Lang's Minneapolis office was relocated to:
310 Fourth Avenue South | Suite 600
Minneapolis, MN 55415
(612) 871-8910
(612) 871-9270 April 13, 2005
Steven M. Sprenger served as a presenter and panelist, discussing "ADR In Class Action: Strategies For Achieving A Successful Outcome?" sponsored by the Class Action Law Monitor and Securities Class Action Reporter on April 13, 2005. The program will be presented live by teleconference. March 22, 2005
Thomas J. Henderson served as a panelist, discussing the implications of two class action housing discrimination cases in which he served as counsel, in a symposium on Remediation Techniques for Racial Housing Discrimination sponsored by the Wayne Law Review of the Wayne State University Law School, and supported by the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on March 22, 2005, at the Law School. February 23, 2005
Susan M. Coler served as a panelist with Judge Joan Ericksen and Joseph Hammell, moderated by Professor Deborah Schmedemann, on the topic of legal developments in Minnesota whistleblower law at the Minnesota State Bar Association Mid-Winter Labor and Employment Section Lunch Meeting. May 25-26, 2004
Susan M. Coler discussed “Punitive Damages, Implications, and Other Plaintiff Perspectives on Whistleblower Claims” for the 2004 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute at Saint Paul RiverCentre. March 31, 2004
Steven M. Sprenger served as a presenter and panelist, discussing "Rule 23 Amendments and Proposed Federal Legislation: The Class Action Fairness Act of 2004 – Tort Reform or Litigator’s Nightmare?" sponsored by the Class Action Law Monitor and Securities Class Action Reporter on March 31, 2004. The program was presented live by teleconference. Click here to obtain a complete audio recording of the program on CD.
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