Project ShewinMemorandum 3Yourthird memorandum on Ms. Shewi

Project: ShewinMemorandum 3Yourthird memorandum on Ms. Shewin’s case is due this week. In Unit 1, yousummarized the facts and prepared draft follow-up questions for lead counselto use in a future client interview.Thisweek you will write a 1000-1250 word memorandum,addressed to the client, notto lead counsel.Usingyour earlier work and any additional research you consider needed, please createa draft memo to the client that includes the following items:· Summary of the facts;· Summary of the issues;· Analysis of each causeof action;· Summary of theadditional information needed, and· Conclusion indicatingwhich of Ms. Shewin’s claims is the strongestHERE IS THE CASE FACTS:Ima Shewin is a 45-year-oldAfrican-American woman with advanced degrees in English and journalism from theUniversity of Chicago. She has been employed by The Blabber, a newspaper inAtlanta, Georgia, for 10 years. She started as an entry level researcher. Twoyears later, she was promoted to a junior-level reporter position, and twoyears after that, to a senior-level reporter position. She has now been asenior-level reporter for the last six years. During the first eight years of heremployment, Shewin reported to George Doright. Two years ago, The Blabberreorganized, and Doright was moved to another division in the company. Sincethen, Shewin has reported to Arthur King, The Blabber’s senior editor.Following the reorganization, two editors have retired. Although Shewin appliedfor these positions, they were not offered to her. In fact, she was onlyinvited to interview for one of the positions, although she believes she metthe qualifications for both. Last month, she applied for a junior-editorposition she has been after for several years now. Based upon thequalifications that were identified in the job’s classified ad, she felt shewas a shoo-in. She applied and was interviewed. The interview with Mr. King didnot go as well as she had hoped. The interview took place over lunch in arestaurant. King started out the conversation by engaging in seemingly harmlesssocial banter, but Shewin was uncomfortable with his personal questions abouther relationship with her boyfriend. A few weeks after the interview, thecompany announced that it was hiring Gene Whiz, someone from outside thecompany. Whiz is 26 years old and recently earned a master’s degree injournalism from the University of Chicago. He has worked as a reporter for asmall local newspaper. Shewin believes a number of factorsmay have been held against her. For example, only three women are in the upperlevels of management, and all were promoted prior to the reorganization. Kingwas not involved in the promotion decisions for any of the three women. King has a reputation for makingsexist comments, which several women in the company find offensive, as do anumber of men. For example, he described one pregnant reporter as’barefoot and pregnant.’ He has also asked Shewin out to ‘discussbusiness,’ invitations that she has declined. She feels that rejecting himmay have something to do with her not getting the job. Another possible factor is thatthere are only five African-American senior managers in the company. Shewin hasheard through the rumor mill that Whiz is part AfricanAmerican. Also, prior to Mr. Doright’stransfer, Shewin filed a complaint against some of her male colleagues.Apparently the men whose cubicles were surrounding Shewin’s area had a habit ofdiscussing their weekend dates in graphic detail on Monday mornings. Althoughthey did not make these comments directly to Shewin, the conversations werequite loud and she overheard them regularly. After several months of hopingthey would stop, Shewin brought this matter to Mr. Doright, who sternly toldthe employees to stop such behavior. However, since Arthur King became thesenior manager, her coworkers have reverted to their old behavior, and King hastaken no action against them, despite Shewin’s repeated complaints to him. Infact, Shewin has observed King laughing at the conversations as he walked by.He did not, however, participate in the conversations. Finally, Shewin is more than 40years old and has concerns that she may be getting passed over because of herage. A friend of hers overheard King talking to another senior manager,speculating as to when Shewin would finally retire.