Mastering The Facts And Creating The Narrative (Video)

In this video, Proskauer Partner Kate Gold draws from her deep experience as an award-winning litigator to address the nuances of highly sensitive claims of discrimination and harassment, and how mastering the facts up front can help build the narrative and gain a strategic advantage. Kate explores how taking a proactive approach to building fact patterns from witnesses and documents can lead to a strategic advantage and help steer a matter to resolution.

Kate Gold: When you have a discrimination or harassment complaint, the most important thing is to master the facts right up front. Often when you first get a complaint or you get a demand letter, the allegations are egregious and severe, and the problem can look extremely large. In order to really understand, you really need to go talk to the witnesses. That's really the best way to advise the client on what size of a problem this is and what kind of a problem it is.