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Crisis Management Update: Managing your business through change and disruption
This week's guide to Crisis Management
 
This week's email features a look at 'Hard conversations' about diversity at work can be challenging and transforming; Law firms face new risks from public shaming of clients; My Black-owned business and COVID-19; Employers face COVID-19 vaccine questions; The importance of technology competence when communicating electronically.
 
For more on Crisis Management be sure to visit our website, crisismanagementupdate.com. We'd love to hear your thoughts or feedback on this newsletter. Please contact Patrick Brannan at [email protected].
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Having ‘hard conversations’ about diversity at work can be challenging and transforming
How can diversity, equity and inclusion policies, known as DEI, transform from one-time reactive moments in recent history to a sustainable, long-haul movement aimed at genuine changes in recruiting, hiring and retaining a broad and diverse workforce from anywhere, and everywhere.
 
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Law firms face new risks from public shaming of clients
Pressure campaigns urging law firms to withdraw from representing such clients have grown in frequency and sophistication in recent years, usually amplifying their message via social media.
 
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My Black-owned business and COVID-19
Being a Black-owned business has never been an easy task. To count yourself worthy of greatness in a society that has a tendency to grab a “shotgun” when you simply ask for what you’re owed is a magical act within itself. And because many of us don't have access to capital we have to constantly find creative ways to get quality results with limited resources.
 
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Employers face COVID-19 vaccine questions
Per the EEOC guidelines, any COVID-19 vaccine that has been approved or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration is not a medical exam under the Americans with Disabilities Act. That means it can be administered by an employer or administration by a third party can be required.
 
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The importance of technology competence when communicating electronically
It’s always been important to ensure that you understand how to use the technologies that you use regularly in your practice. But now that many of us are working — and appearing in court — remotely, it’s imperative that lawyers are technologically competent when communicating electronically.
 
 

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