Disaffection and downturns spur retooling trend; increasingly, lawyers find they need to learn new skills to remain in firms

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Law firms as a rule deal poorly with lawers' midcareer doubts and problems that lead to retooling. Many lawyers become bored or discover they do not care for aspects of their work, and that some other sort of legal area holds greater appeal, but retraining costs and time quickly mount up, while few knowledge areas carry over. Consultants advise lawyers to carefully plan such transitions according to their interests, and to emphasize to their firm the value of their basic analytical skills.

Human resource management, Attorneys, Lawyers, Training, Law firms

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Note from the doctor can land employers in court; a federal ruling penalizes a company that relied on a physician's exam to bar an obese woman from a bus job

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The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in EEOC v. Texas Bus Lines that keeping workers away from certain jobs could violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case concerned a morbidly obese woman who in the opinion of a physician should not be given a job as an airport shuttle van driver because she was too large to react promptly to emergency situations. Now employers will have to think of both workers' compensation and disability law when making their decisions.

Usage, Overweight persons, Discrimination against disabled persons, Handicapped discrimination, Medical examination, Periodic health examinations

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Which persona had sex with Samaritan?

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The Texas case Kramer v Robichaux is a sexual assault case by a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder against a charity volunteer. The defense contends that the personality active at the time of the sexual encounter consented and that in any case little additional damage was done to a person whose life had already entailed so much suffering. Lawyers for the woman respond that it is never ethical for a charity volunteer to have sex with a charity recipient.

Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill, Volunteer workers in social service, Social service volunteers, Sex crimes

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