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Jane Howard Martin - Former

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EMPLOYER LAWYER driving this bus

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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/20...nathan-martin-richie-incognito-miami-dolphins

In 1987, a young lawyer out of Harvard Law School and working for a prestigious Washington, D.C., firm volunteered to investigate a restaurant for refusing to hire waitresses or allow blacks to work outside the kitchen.

When the legal dust settled, the restaurant, Martin's Tavern (unrelated to the family), paid a settlement, agreed to change its hiring policies and the attorney, Jane Howard-Martin, continued down a path toward becoming a nationally prominent employment lawyer.

All these years later, as Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin's saga swirls under a national spotlight, the only definitive point in a confusing period of "he-said-they-said" is the Dolphins couldn't have tangled with a player better equipped for the involved legal and ethical implications.

Martin simply had to turn to his mom, Howard-Martin, to ask whether the volatile workplace that led to his leaving the team met legal standards.

Howard-Martin now is a corporate lawyer for Toyota in Los Angeles. But for nearly two decades she litigated employment-law cases, spoke at legal symposiums as an expert on the subject and wrote articles for legal journals with ambitious headlines like, "A Critical Analysis of Judicial Opinions in Professional Employment Discrimination Cases."

She also wrote a cautionary USA Today article in 2002 that applies directly to her son's current issue. Its headline: "Stop workplace harassment in your company."

One of this issue's many uncertainties remain whether it ends with the ongoing NFL investigation or in a courtroom as part of a potentially multimillion-dollar lawsuit. Experts in Howard-Martin's former field say such a landmark case of the football culture is possible, even building.

Martin's mother, the daughter of two college professors, is more than comfortable dealing with employment issues at the center of this storm. She was professionally raised in this exact world of employment concerns and expensive lawsuits.

"She's a great person, a great lawyer and this is her playing field,'' said an attorney who worked with Martin in the employment-law field but declined to be named.

Howard-Martin, who could not be reached for comment, rose to a partner in the Pittsburgh law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius. She dealt in a broad palate of employment law from sexual harassment to disability laws.

She became part of the involved community, elected to the Urban League board of directors and the executive committee of the American Arbitration Association.

Her expertise led to writing a regular column at USA Today, where she was introduced as having, "practiced employment law for 15 years with a focus on employment discrimination litigation, human resources counseling and workplace training."
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Yep, she ran with it. What she doesn't understand is that she ruined her son's chances of an NFL career and attached a permanent stigma that will scare off most employers. Will she win the case against the NFL (because let's face it, they are the deep pockets, not the Dolphins) ... remains to be seen. But, she better get enough to let him live the rest of his life in exclusion, because walking down the street will be traumatic from the polarizing exposure that is sure to follow a law suit like this.
 
I do not want people getting harassed at work, but people do realize how much out of your pocket money people like her cost you? It is gross. I can live without people like her.
 
To be the Assistant General Counsel for Toyota in the US - she's in the big time and make no mistake, she would have to be a top attorney. It is interesting that everyone assumes that Martin is wrangling for legal action. Jonathan probably has a decent case but the real issue is his mental health and we are lucky that he didn't go home and blow his brains out.
Maybe Mom should have devoted a bit more time to Jonathan along the way so that he was better able to deal with handling disappointment.
 
spiketex said:
To be the Assistant General Counsel for Toyota in the US - she's in the big time and make no mistake, she would have to be a top attorney. It is interesting that everyone assumes that Martin is wrangling for legal action. Jonathan probably has a decent case but the real issue is his mental health and we are lucky that he didn't go home and blow his brains out.
Maybe Mom should have devoted a bit more time to Jonathan along the way so that he was better able to deal with handling disappointment.
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Stop bullying the mother.
 
Money will prove to be the quick, sloppy and simplistic angle. There won't be a lawsuit and Martin will play in the NFL next season.

Somehow that's going to read like going out on a limb when it's all the favorite...by individual characteristic and in total.
 
spiketex said:
To be the Assistant General Counsel for Toyota in the US - she's in the big time and make no mistake, she would have to be a top attorney. It is interesting that everyone assumes that Martin is wrangling for legal action. Jonathan probably has a decent case but the real issue is his mental health and we are lucky that he didn't go home and blow his brains out.
Maybe Mom should have devoted a bit more time to Jonathan along the way so that he was better able to deal with handling disappointment.
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very astute...he might not be such a b***** now
 
I'm sorry, but "a great person" usually does not make money from others misery. Friggin' lawyers!!
 
Ireland's been asking the wrong question all along, instead of asking is your mother a whore he should have been asking is your mother a litigious zealot (whore)?
 
spiketex said:
To be the Assistant General Counsel for Toyota in the US - she's in the big time and make no mistake, she would have to be a top attorney. It is interesting that everyone assumes that Martin is wrangling for legal action. Jonathan probably has a decent case but the real issue is his mental health and we are lucky that he didn't go home and blow his brains out.
Maybe Mom should have devoted a bit more time to Jonathan along the way so that he was better able to deal with handling disappointment.
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It seems to me, there is enough reasonable doubt (Hijinx occur in all locker room & Athletes are morons (see below))

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...ed-skirmish-blake-griffin-053028702--nba.html

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...winston-being-investigated-for-sexual-assault

On a tangent, Shouldn't all phins fans boycott Toyota?
 
Believing it's not about the money is like believing the pregnant girl down the block is a virgin.
 
You can see where Martin gets his good looks..:baghead:
 
if you're small-minded enough to believe this is about money, you don't understand The Law.

The Law isn't about grabbing money, it's about policy change - moving a society in a specific direction. as with any career choice there are bottom feeders; but most who reach for the law do so wanting to effect change and make a difference. if you don't see this situation as a test case involving the whole of the NFL and society, you're not seeing its big picture. just sayin
 
johngarry said:
if you're small-minded enough to believe this is about money, you don't understand The Law.

The Law isn't about grabbing money, it's about policy change - moving a society in a specific direction. as with any career choice there are bottom feeders; but most who reach for the law do so wanting to effect change and make a difference. if you don't see this situation as a test case involving the whole of the NFL and society, you're not seeing its big picture. just sayin
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No, I do believe mommy cow is a crusader, no doubt about that. She'll hide behind the societal change motive, but the bottom line is Rat Fink will probably never, ever play again, and mommy cow wants to ensure he can sit on his fat vagina the rest of his feminized life.
 
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