Hello, my friend, and welcome to another episode of Negotiate Anything.

Thanks for spending time with us today.

It's listeners like you in 181 different countries that have made Negotiate Anything the most popular negotiation and conflict resolution podcast in the world.

I'm your host, Kwame Christian.

I'm a business lawyer, mediator,

professor, and the director of the American Negotiation Institute. Before we get started,

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resolve conflict and persuade at work? If you answered yes to both of those questions,

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learn more. Alicia, thanks for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Yeah, it's great to have you. Another

teammates on the show. So how about you get us started by telling us a little bit about

yourself and what you do? Yes, Alicia Shaw. I'm an attorney with Carlisle Patchen and Murphy,

and I do our employment law. We usually represent employers.

So I'm typically on the management side.

And I do a lot of HR consulting,

a lot of counseling for our employers,

and a lot of compliance work in terms of,

what do I do when this happens?

And what happens, you know, what do I need to do

if, you know, someone makes a request for an accommodation? Just a lot of very basic

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