Workshop 6: Recent Developments in Employment Litigation 2004

Testing and employee selection practice are impacted by continuously evolving legislation, case law, and the actions of federal and state regulatory agencies. This workshop will provide a review of recent developments in case law and regulatory trends, including recent Supreme Court decisions and administrative agency holdings. This year the technical focus will be on transporting validity and alternative methods to otherwise establish job relatedness without conducting site-specific validation studies.

Wade M. Gibson is a principal at W. M. Gibson and Associates, a consulting firm where he helps organizations develop, validate, and implement effective employee selection programs. He has provided litigation support and expert witness testimony in matters involving validation and employment statistics and published numerous scholarly and professional papers on various testing issues. Wade received his PhD in I-O psychology from Bowling Green State University.

Keith M. Pyburn, Jr., is a partner in the law firm Fisher & Phillips, LLP. He has represented management in the practice of labor relations and employment law since 1975, after graduating from Tulane University School of Law in 1974 and serving as a law clerk to Justice John Dixon of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Keith is a member of the Louisiana Bar and served during 19931994 as chairman of the Labor and Employment Law Section. He is also a member of the ABA, Section of Labor Employment, Equal Employment Law Committee (1976present). In 1997, Keith was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White).

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