Faculty-Led Webinar Series:
Learn How Employment Law Training Strengthens HR Leadership
Today’s HR leaders are often the first to identify, evaluate and respond to workplace legal risk. Whether navigating accommodation requests, discrimination claims, internal investigations or retaliation concerns, the decisions HR professionals make can have significant legal and organizational consequences.
Tulane University Law School’s online Master of Jurisprudence in Labor & Employment Law is designed for professionals who want to better understand the legal landscape behind these decisions. This webinar series introduces key topics from the program’s curriculum and demonstrates how legal education can help HR leaders approach complex workplace issues with greater confidence.
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Both webinars are complimentary, but space is limited. Register today to secure your spot. See firsthand how Tulane Law faculty translate complex employment law into the practical insights today’s HR leaders need.
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Explore the employment law issues human resources leaders face every day, from religious accommodations and discrimination claims to retaliation risk and workplace compliance. Led by faculty from Tulane University Law School’s online Master of Jurisprudence in Labor & Employment Law program, this two-part webinar series offers a glimpse into the legal frameworks, decision point, and risk areas covered in the program’s core curriculum.
Join Tulane Law faculty for practical, timely conversations on the workplace legal challenges that shape HR leadership.
Reserve your spot for one or both webinars.
Navigating Today’s Most Complex HR Workplace Legal Challenges
Religious Accommodations:
What Triggers an EEOC Charge?
Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Saru Matambanadzo, JD, PhD., Moise S. Steeg Associate Professor of Law
Sex and Gender Discrimination:
Retaliation Risk
Date: Wednesday, July 22
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Presenter: Andrea James, Esq., Adjunct Professor
Through faculty-led discussions, attendees will gain insight into core workplace risk areas, including:
- Discrimination
- Retaliation
- Investigations
- Accomodations
- Compliance
Religious Accommodations: What Triggers an EEOC Charge?
The HR Decision Points an Employment Law Master’s Degree Trains You to Handle
Wednesday, June 24 | 2:00 PM ET
Presented by Saru Matambanadzo, Moise S. Steeg Associate Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law
Religious accommodation requests sit at the intersection of employee rights, operational realities and legal compliance. One inconsistent decision, missing document or overlooked process step can transform a routine HR matter into a formal EEOC charge.
In this faculty-led session, Professor Saru Matambanadzo will examine the HR decision points that determine whether a workplace issue is resolved internally or escalates into costly legal exposure. Attendees will explore how legal training equips HR professionals to recognize risk earlier and approach accommodation requests with a more informed lens.
What You'll Learn:
- What can trigger an EEOC charge related to religious accommodations
- Where HR decision-making can create—or reduce—legal risk
- How accommodation requests connect to broader discrimination and compliance obligations
- Why documentation, consistency and process matter in workplace investigations
- How Tulane’s employment law curriculum prepares professionals to handle complex workplace issues
About the Presenter
Saru Matambanadzo is the Moise S. Steeg Associate Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law and Senior Director of Online Legal Education. A nationally recognized authority on gender equality and workplace equity, Professor Matambanadzo brings an interdisciplinary approach to legal education—drawing from critical race theory, feminist legal theory, LatCrit theory, philosophy and gender studies. She is a longtime teacher in Tulane Law’s online MJ-LEL program, where she helps students examine modern workplace challenges through both legal and practical lenses.
Sex and Gender Discrimination: Retaliation Risk
What HR Leaders Miss
Wednesday, July 22 | 2:00 PM ET
Presented by Andrea James, Esq., Adjunct Professor, Tulane University School of Law
Sex and gender discrimination claims rarely begin and end with the initial complaint. For HR leaders, retaliation risk often emerges in the spaces between—during investigations, in routine communications, throughout performance management and in the follow-up steps that come weeks or months later. Knowing where that risk lives is essential to protecting both employees and the organization.
In this webinar, Adjunct Professor Andrea James will share the retaliation risks HR leaders most often overlook and explain how employment law fluency strengthens decision-making during sensitive matters.
What You'll Learn:
- How retaliation risk can arise in sex and gender discrimination matters
- Common HR missteps during investigations and follow-up
- Why timing, documentation, and communication are critical
- How retaliation concerns intersect with discrimination, compliance, and workplace culture
- How employment law training can help HR leaders identify risk before it escalates
About the Presenter
Andrea James is an adjunct professor at Tulane Law and an associate in Holland & Knight’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice and Labor & Employment Practice, with extensive experience representing employers in arbitration and mediation. Prior to Holland & Knight, she served as an attorney in the Honors Program with the National Labor Relations Board, acting as lead counsel in multiple unfair labor practice trials and handling motions, briefs, oral arguments and settlement negotiations.
Go Deeper: The Online Master of Jurisprudence in Labor & Employment Law
These webinars offer a window into the kind of legal thinking that transforms HR leaders into strategic, executive-level assets. For those ready to develop that expertise in full, Tulane Law School offers an online Master of Jurisprudence in Labor & Employment Law (MJ-LEL) designed specifically for HR professionals who don’t intend to practice law but need to think like a lawyer.
The MJ-LEL program equips you with the advanced knowledge and rigorous legal training to:
- Prevent workplace discrimination and mitigate illegal HR practices
- Master state and federal employment law compliance
- Build legal frameworks that reduce investigations, audits, litigation and reputational damage
- Implement organization-wide legislative protections across thousands of employees
The program pairs powerfully with credentials you may already hold—SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or an MBA with an HR concentration—allowing you to stack qualifications that position you for senior leadership and executive roles.
