Veterans Benefits Attorney Chris Attig discusses the recent addition of new conditions to the list of diseases presumptively service connected to Agent Orange exposure.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently released its Annual Report on the Federal Workforce for FY 2008.  This report contains a lot of statistical information about EEO complaints and claims of discrimination against Federal Government Agencies.

Here are some interesting numbers from the Report for FY 2008:

1) Out of 8,036 requests for hearing, only 155 resulted in findings of discrimination by an EEOC Administrative Judge (roughly 2%);

2) Approximately 25.5% of EEO hearings resulted in a settlement in FY 2008;

3) [...]

Attorney Chris Attig, an attorney with experience before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), discusses how the Administrative Judge considers the credibility of witnesses at an MSPB hearing.

We have been getting an increasing number of calls over the last year about firefighters in the Federal Government being denied retirement credits for time served as a firefighter.  Here are the rules, and how it works.

If you are reading this, then you know that Federal employees [...]

Both the MSPB and the EEOC afford Appellants (or Complainants) the opportunity to pursue discovery.   While the timelines and the amounts of discovery allowed are quite different, the basic ideas of what discovery is and how it should be used are very similar.

There are six (6) primary types of discovery in litigation in the U.S (click [...]

Veterans Benefits attorney Chris Attig discusses evidence of increase in mental health issues for Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

This post is part of a continuing series describing the general discovery tools available to Federal Employees who are Appellants before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and/or Complainants before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Both the MSPB and the EEOC afford Appellants (or Complainants) the opportunity to pursue discovery.  While the timelines and the amounts of discovery allowed are quite different, the basic ideas of what discovery is and how it should be used are very similar.

There are [...]