Hosted by Sommers Schwartz, PC on behalf of the Michigan Employment Lawyers Association. Sommers Schwartz' office is located at 1 Towne Square, Ste 1700, Southfield, MI 48076. Please RSVP by e-mail to Tad Roumayah by Friday February 4, 2016. Wine and light fare will be served as we hear from two distinguished attorneys working at the forefront of LGBTQ rights.

University of Michigan Professor Julian Davis Mortenson, who joined with ACLU counsel in the Caspar v. Snyder case involving the rights of individuals who were married after Judge Friedman’s ruling in Deboer v. Snyder, but whose marriages the state refused to recognize.

EEOC attorney Miles Shultz, who works on LGBTQ cases with the EEOC and is currently litigating EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, a case in which the EEOC brought a Title VII discrimination claim on behalf of a transgender woman fired from her job at a funeral home.

Don’t forget to bring your questions . . . our Q&A session will follow!