Employment Law Association
Mission Statement
The purpose of ELA is to provide all students and ELA members interested in employment and labor law academic, social, emotional and professional support. The organization will provide both insight into the real world aspects of employment law practice and excellent networking opportunities.
About Us
The Employment Law Association is working in conjunction with The Race to the Bottom, a faculty student corporate governance blog to cover the Ward Churchill trial. Mr. Churchill is suing the University of Colorado over a violation of his first amendment rights after he wrote a piece on 9/11. Our members, along with other students and faculty, will be entering daily blogs from the courthouse. Please follow these entries on the website http://www.theracetothebottom.org/ward-churchill/
ELA hosts several speakers throughout each semester to increase student’s knowledge and awareness in the Employment law field.
ELA also helps active attorneys find students to work for them on projects.
Past ELA speakers include:
- Career Opportunities in the Public Sector Panel Discussion. Speakers: Steve Chavez, the Director of the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, Kristin Rozansky: Director of the Colorado State Personnel Board, and Don Mares: Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Labor & Employment.
- Michael Josserand Regional Director of the NLRB, supervises the handling of NLRB cases arising in CO, WY, UT, and parts of ID, MT, and NE. The NLRB administers and enforces the National Labor Relations Act, including investigation and remedy of unfair labor practices.
- Nicole De Herrera Works as Associate General Counsel for Assurity Financial Services, LLC, a mortgage bank employing employees in 21 different states. Date: Monday, October 29th from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
- Ms. Lynn Feiger Sexual Harassment in Employment Law
- Magistrate Beth Faragher, former plaintiff of the second sexual harassment case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court (Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775)- it was a groundbreaking case on employers’ responsibility for sexual harassment.
- Judge Edwin L. Felter, Jr., Senior Judge for the Denver Office of Administrative Courts
- Bob Truhlar, one of the preeminent employment lawyers in the Denver legal community, founding partner of Truhlar and Truhlar, LLP and Past President of the Colorado Bar Association