The author, Ernest C. Hadley, is engaged in the private practice of law in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. A graduate of the late Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C, he represents employees, and occasionally agencies, in the federal sector and is the author or coauthor of several books on federal sector employment law. He also is a founding director of the Federal Employment Law Training Group and a frequent speaker and instructor at seminars on federal employment discrimination law. He engages in all of these activities in his spare time when he is not otherwise coaching soccer, basketball and baseball at Truro Central School.