This is our full-day, onsite, Managing Within the Law legal training for managers and executives. It works as foundational training for new managers and as a refresher for experienced ones, and includes our core training on key management concepts, performance management, and documentation, as well as our discrimination and harassment prevention modules.
The managers people want to work for share a few habits. They set clear expectations. They give honest feedback early. They treat people consistently. They handle hard situations without making them worse.
Those habits are learnable, and they’re also, almost exactly, what employment law asks of a manager. That is why managers who understand the law get better at the job and your workplace gets safer for everyone.
“Marvelous, engaging speaker. Kept all material moving along and still answered and invited questions.”
– Manager, Oracle Corp.
Our Trainers Are Employment Lawyers
Not consultants who studied the law. Not a video course with a quiz at the end.
Every session is led by a employment law attorney who is also a genuinely engaging facilitator. They teach from actual cases, use real stories, and are allowed to be funny about it.
Which means your managers can ask the question they’ve been sitting on for six months and get a real answer, in the room, from a lawyer. That’s what legal training for managers should look like.
“Laura is a natural presenter. Class was very fun. Having a legal expert teach it offered so much insight.”
– Manager, Veeam Software Group
What Your Managers Will Learn:

Preventing Harassment
- The causes of harassment, discrimination, retaliation and workplace
- Why most harassment and disrespect are unintentional
- The manager’s duty to prevent and effectively respond to harassment and abusive conduct claims
- How to address unconscious bias and microaggressions
- What to do as a bystander to harassment and discrimination
Preventing Discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Stereotyping, glass ceilings, reasonable accommodation
- Hiring: behavior-based interviewing, illegal questions, references policy
The Four Key Management Concepts
- Be consistent
- Have a legitimate business reason for decisions
- Document: importance, electronic files, how to write it, what to share and when
- Call the experts: your management, HR and Legal team
Effective Performance Management
- Treat employees fairly: good reason, discipline, performance appraisals
- Setting expectations and coaching
- Keep your promises: policies, handbooks, oral promises
- Respect whistle-blowing
What Your Managers Can Expect
Our legal training is updated annually and includes your organization’s policies and procedures, small group discussions, video vignettes, skill-building exercises, extensive Q&A, and case studies based on actual legal cases. This onsite training is designed for a national audience.
Managing Within the Law: Legal Training for Managers answers common questions managers have, as well as providing an opportunity to have answered unusual ones as we have done in our many years of eNews and Ask the Lawyer articles.
We also offer programs for your CEO, President, and Vice President. Check out our Executive Sessions for more information.
To find out more about our legal training programs or to book a workshop, call 800-458-2778 or email us.
This is our full-day, onsite, Managing Within the Law legal training that includes our Leave of Absence and Accommodation (LoAA) module. It is suitable foundational training for new managers and also works as a refresher for experienced ones. Also included is our core training on key management concepts, performance management, documentation, and discrimination awareness.
“The instructor was extremely knowledgeable of her subject, very confident with her material, and gave multiple real life examples. Very engaging. Really enjoyed the day today! Thanks!”
– Manager, VMware, Inc.
We Wrote This Program. We Teach It Ourselves.
Managing Within the Law is our curriculum, developed and taught by our own attorneys.We update it every year to track changes in federal and state employment law, including state-specific harassment prevention requirements.
And we build your organization’s policies, handbook language, and procedures into the material so your managers learn the rules they’ll actually be held to, not a generic version of them.
“I thought Lynne was a powerful speaker. Her points and instructions were insightful. Very well presented.”
– Manager, Seagate Technology
What Your Managers Will Learn:
Leaves of Absence and Accommodation
- Prevent and respond to workplace injuries
- Workers compensation procedures
- Family Medical Leave and Pregnancy Disability Acts
- Organization’s LOA policy
- Americans with Disabilities Act
Preventing Discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Stereotyping, glass ceilings, reasonable accommodation
- Hiring: behavior-based interviewing, illegal questions, references policy
The Four Key Management Concepts
- Be consistent
- Have a legitimate business reason for decisions
- Document: importance, electronic files, how to write it, what to share and when
- Call the experts: your management, HR and Legal team
Effective Performance Management
- Treat employees fairly: good reason, discipline, performance appraisals
- Setting expectations and coaching
- Keep your promises: policies, handbooks, oral promises
- Respect whistle-blowing
What Your Managers Can Expect
Our legal training is updated annually and includes your organization’s policies and procedures, small group discussions, video vignettes, skill-building exercises, extensive Q&A, and case studies based on actual legal cases. This onsite training is designed for a national audience.
Managing Within the Law: Employment Law for Managers training answers common questions managers have, as well as providing an opportunity to have answered unusual ones as we have done in our many years of eNews and Ask the Lawyer articles.
- Can we ask employees why they are absent from work?
- As the federal government pulls back on DEI, can companies do the same?
- Can we tell an employee’s wife if he is at work?
- Can a single use of a racial slur create the grounds for a hostile workplace claim?
- Can we ask employees to document their medical history?
We also offer programs for your CEO, President, and Vice President. Check out our Executive Sessions for more information.
To find out more about our legal training programs or to book a workshop, call 800-458-2778 or email us.
Our half-day, onsite, Managing Within the Law legal training for managers and executives focuses on our core training program, including key management concepts, performance management, documentation, and discrimination awareness. It works as foundational training for new managers and as a refresher for experienced ones.
“The material was presented clearly and trainer was very engaging. Good info that ultimately will help me be a better manager.”
– Manager, XL Construction
What Changes When Managers Use What They Learn
Managers stop avoiding the hard conversations. Untrained managers dodge difficult feedback because they’re afraid of getting it wrong. Once they know where the lines are they engage, solving the problems before they grow.
People start experiencing the workplace as fair. Consistency is something employees feel. Stated expectations, legitimate reasons, the same standard across a team, those are the things that make the difference between a place people tolerate and one they commit to.
Respect becomes a daily practice. Most disrespect at work isn’t malicious, it’s unnoticed. Managers learn to recognize it, respond as a bystander, and set a tone their teams follow.
“This training should be done before a team lead is able to manage a team.”
– Manager, Veeam Software Group
What Your Managers Will Learn:
The Four Key Management Concepts
- Be consistent
- Have a legitimate business reason for decisions
- Document: importance, electronic files, how to write it, what to share and when
- Call the experts: your management, HR and Legal team
Effective Performance Management
- Treat employees fairly: good reason, discipline, performance appraisals
- Setting expectations and coaching
- Keep your promises: policies, handbooks, oral promises
- Respect whistle-blowing
Preventing Discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Stereotyping, glass ceilings, reasonable accommodation
- Hiring: behavior-based interviewing, illegal questions, references policy
How Company Values Drive Decisions
What Your Managers Can Expect
Our legal training is updated annually and includes your organization’s policies and procedures, small group discussions, video vignettes, skill-building exercises, extensive Q&A, and case studies based on actual legal cases. This onsite training is designed for a national audience.
Managing Within the Law: Legal Training for Managers answers common questions managers have, as well as providing an opportunity to have answered unusual ones as we have done in our many years of eNews and Ask the Lawyer articles.
We also offer programs for your CEO, President, and Vice President. Check out our Executive Sessions for more information.
To find out more about our legal training programs or to book a workshop, call 800-458-2778 or email us.
Our half-day (4 hrs, 30min. break), online, Managing Within the Law webinar is legal training for managers and executives that focuses on our core training program, including key management concepts, performance management, documentation, and discrimination awareness. It works as foundational training for new managers and as a refresher for experienced ones.
“Absolutely wonderful! Fun, entertaining, and educational. I have never been so engaged in an online training.”
– Manager, Oracle Corp.
Same Attorney. Same Questions. No Travel.
Our live webinar isn’t a lighter version of the classroom program. It’s the same curriculum, taught in real time by the same employment attorney, but delivered to wherever your managers already are.
That solves a problem multi-site organizations know well: getting every manager the same training, on the same day, without flying anyone anywhere. A manager in a satellite office gets the identical session as one at headquarters.
“This training should be done before a team lead is able to manage a team.”
– Manager, Veeam Software Group
Your Managers Will Learn

The Four Key Management Concepts
- Be consistent
- Have a legitimate business reason for decisions
- Document: importance, electronic files, how to write it, what to share and when
- Call the experts: your management, HR and Legal team
Effective Performance Management
- Treat employees fairly: good reason, discipline, performance appraisals
- Setting expectations and coaching
- Keep your promises: policies, handbooks, oral promises
- Respect whistle-blowing
Preventing Discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Stereotyping, glass ceilings, reasonable accommodation
- Hiring: behavior-based interviewing, illegal questions, references policy
How Company Values Drive Decisions
What Your Managers Can Expect
This on-line training program is highly interactive, using humor, polls, stories and cases to ensure learning and practical application. We feature excerpts from outstanding video programs that demonstrate the complexities of these issues. Our instructors are seasoned attorneys, experienced trainers, and skilled facilitators who use personal stories and appropriate humor to make these topics come alive!
Managing Within the Law: Employment Law for Managers training answers common questions managers have, as well as providing an opportunity to have answered unusual ones as we have done in our many years of eNews and Ask the Lawyer articles.
We also offer training programs for your CEO, President, and Vice President. Check out our Executive Sessions for more information.
To find out more about our legal training programs or to book a workshop, call 800-458-2778 or email us.
Managing Within the Law is legal training for managers and executives, delivered onsite or online. It works as foundational training for new managers and as a refresher for experienced ones. We cover core management concepts, documentation, performance management, and discrimination. Full-day trainings also include either a Leave of Absence and Accommodation training or a Harassment Prevention module.




