Attorney Elizabeth K. Rattigan of Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC was among the faculty for a five-day management training seminar sponsored by the Center for Professional and Executive Development at Champlain College May 6-8 and 13 and 14 at the Norwich Inn in Norwich, Vt. The five-day program recognizes that professional workplace achievements which lead to management appointments may be different from skills that will help a manager to succeed.
Rattigan talked about situations that managers encounter in the workplace and ways to be pro-active, drawing upon her extensive experience as an attorney practicing employment and labor law in the Upper Valley. Her topics included the basics of employment law regarding discrimination, leave, sexual harassment and at-will employment, and protected activity under federal labor relations law. She discussed managing employee performance and minimizing employment-related liability.
“I applaud the college for offering this course and the students and their employers who have attended it,” Rattigan said. “Effective managers need a broad range of skills that are not always learned intuitively in the workplace, and this type of training helps a company to assure that their managers have the tools they need to handle workplace situations.”
Rattigan practices employment and labor law from DRM’s Lebanon Office, and chairs the firm-wide Labor and Employment Practice Group. She focuses her practice in the areas of employment law, labor law, and commercial litigation. Rattigan joined DRM in 2012 after many years in employment law and commercial litigation for another Upper Valley firm. She is admitted to the bar and to federal courts in both Vermont and New Hampshire, and to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the First Circuit.
Downs Rachlin Martin is a full-service law firm with more than 60 attorneys and six offices in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. DRM provides legal services to local, national and international clients in practice areas that include bankruptcy and business restructuring, business law, captive insurance, energy and telecommunications, health law, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and land use, environmental law, tax law and trusts and estates. The firm represents clients in legislative, regulatory and public affairs through the Government and Public Affairs group. DRM is the exclusive member firm in Vermont for Lex Mundi – the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience throughout the United States and in more than 100 countries worldwide.