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How do I find an attorney

#22
In mosts states (I think) there is a hotline you can call for free legal advice. You could first get free advice on whether or not to get a lawyer, and also can find out how to find lawyers who could help you in that area. Try Google or the Yellow Pages. You may have to leave a message though, usually there are a lot of people calling those numbers.
 
#28
jady said:
Ok, So you are a male but are referring to your husband. I am assuming that this is a same sex union here. That information may be relevant to your case. You also say that your husbands VP expressed disappointment with both of you. Why are you even involved in your husbands company? Do you also work there? This is also very relevant information.
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No, I'm a woman, my real name is Michelle. My husband's VP said that she was disappointed in him and his supervisor because she needed to hire a mediator for them. My husband was trying to show her some areas of his supervisor that bordered on unethical and unprofessional ethics. Some examples:

Calling the Academic Dean of Undergraduate Education "white boy" during the director's meetings. This is a group of 8 program directors and the meeting is chaired by my husband's supervisor, the Associate VP. He must have used that term at least a dozen times before people asked him to stop because it made everyone uncomfortable. My husband's supervisor is African American.

When a program director was caught looking at porno on his office computer by the director of technology, my husband's supervisor told him to not trust the tech person because he was the "FBI." This program director had been fired from another university for sexual harrassment.

When my husband brought two colleagues to a meeting to explain how the summer advising proces works, his supervisor proceded to constantly interrupt their presentation, becoming verbally agressive and berating them because he didn't agree with the process...this was the University's process not theirs. His constant shouting and interruptions forced the other members in the meeting to begin shouting and not trying to hear them as my husband said, "it was like a mob." My husband said that the sight of his staff members slinking out of that meeting wondering what happenened and the sight of his supervisor smirking because of the damage that he had done was almost too much for him to bear and it took everything to not hit his supervisor.

I've heard these stories so many times that I can almost visualize what happened. I appreciate people writing their thoughts and opinions on this forum because we have no idea how to procede. Your comments are all appreciated.

I understand that layoffs occur and that people need to move forward but my husband has built a fine and wonderful reputation on that campus for the past 20 years and to see a person, the VP, who has been on the job for only a year treat him this way is very disrespectful. He has helped hundreds of students and colleagues for years and tries to treat everyone with a tremendous amount of respect.
 
#29
To the people who wondered why I hadn't responded earlier, I had to work all day and just got on to my computer at home. I've heard about this forum from other bass players who I've known and that you guys can help with all sorts of questions, not just music related. Sorry for causing such a ruckus but I'm very concerned about my husband and the future..
 
#30
Thank you, Michelle, for your well written response.

While I stick by my earlier advice (unpopular though it was), from your description of events, I agree that your husband was treated very badly, unethically and, almost certainly, in a manner that would be grounds for legal action.

I sincerely hope that you and your husband get through your terrible situation with a better outcome than it is right now, however you decide to proceed.
-- hbarcat



P.S. Viewers of a thread often look to the profile page to get information about another poster which can often be helpful to advance the topic of discussion. Information that a user wishes to remain private should be left blank, since it can cause confusion (as it did in this thread) to have incorrect information listed (such as listing 'male' when the user is female, or having a username 'Mike Fong' when your name is 'Michelle'.
 

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