The DC Insider - Employer Update Podcast
The DC Insider – Employer Update™ brings you insights and expertise from Washington, DC attorneys at FortneyScott. Each episode provides key updates and analyses employers need to know to stay on top of developments affecting the workplace.
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David S. Fortney is a co-founder of Fortney & Scott, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm counseling and advising clients on the full spectrum of work-place related matters, including employment discrimination and labor matters, compliance programs, government contracting, international dispute resolution, and counseling matters, and developing strategies for avoiding or responding to workplace-related crises.
Burton J. Fishman has devoted his practice to developing the “law of the workplace,” an interdisciplinary approach that offers employers counsel and representation on a broad range of matters growing out of government regulation of business. His experience extends to the full spectrum of employment and labor matters, including employment discrimination, affirmative action (OFCCP), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and human resources counseling. In recent years, his practice has focused on assisting clients with the changing laws of pay equity, mandated leave, and similar workplace matters.
H. Juanita "Nita" Beecher is a nationally recognized expert on OFCCP and EEOC matters. She is Counsel to Fortney & Scott, LLC with a focus on OFCCP regulatory affairs. Ms. Beecher’s primary focus is labor and employment law with substantial experience with class investigations by the EEOC and OFCCP. She has more than 30 years of experience in labor and employment law particularly with class investigations by the OFCCP and the EEOC.
The DC Insider - Employer Update Podcast
Latest Episodes
DOL Update with Jonathan Berry, Solicitor of Labor
This episode features a timely conversation with Jonathan Berry, DOL’s Solicitor of Labor, discussing how the Solicitor prioritizes DOL’s enforcement efforts (focusing on the Big, the Bad and the Ugly) and the Department’s regulatory agenda.&nb...
EO 14398 and the Procurement Power Play: Compliance, Contracts, and Consequences
The administration is reframing DEI compliance as a matter of “economy and efficiency” in federal contracting. FortneyScott attorneys Elizabeth Bradley, Nita Beecher, and Adriana Joens unpack EO 14398, explain how it differs from EO 14173, and ...
Trump Administration Continues to Push against DEI
The Trump Administration challenges based on DEI continue. Join David Fortney and Nita Beecher as they discuss the latest developments, including the FTC letter warning 42 law firms about participating in the Mansfield Certification program; th...
State of Civil Rights Under Trump 2.0
Join David Fortney, Nita Beecher and Burt Fishman as they discuss the altered state of workplace civil rights in the second Trump Administration. The panel reviews the legal landscape in the wake of President Trump’s executive orders elim...