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Jan. 27, 2020

Legislation cannot prevent sexual harassment in the workplace

A good place to start trying to effect change is in our own profession. Because we lawyers love our pretentious Latin phrases, the applicable one here is: Medice, cura te ipsum.

Michael H. Leb

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U Michigan Law School

THE NEUTRAL CORNER is a monthly column discussing recent cases or topics of interest from a neutral's perspective.

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This month's column is inspired by a headline in a publication directed to attorneys in Los Angeles and the 2nd District Court of Appeal decision in Schmidt v. Superior Court, 2020 DJDAR 509 (Jan. 22, 2020).

The headline reads: "Los Angeles lawyers ... provide an overview of new legislation in California...

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