Shaun Southworth and Lydia Taylor

Civil Rights for Civil Servants

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Civil Rights for Civil Servants is a biweekly podcast from Southworth PC, a federal employment law firm representing federal employees and applicants nationwide. Co-hosted by founding partner Shaun Southworth and partner Lydia Taylor, the show breaks down the rights, protections, and processes that shape federal careers — MSPB appeals, EEO complaints, whistleblower protections, RIFs, discipline, and due process — in plain English you can actually use. Each episode delivers straight, experience-based analysis: what the law actually says, where cases go wrong, and what federal employees can do t...

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Shaun Southworth and Lydia Taylor

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Probation and Beyond: Surviving The Most Dangerous Year of Your Federal Career 03.07.2026 1:23:07

Your probationary year is the year the law protects you least — and the year your agency can move you out without proving much of anything. Though these days, many people who have survived their probationary year feel like they're under similar strain. Regardless of how you feel about your legal protections, and regardless of what those protections are, are there other steps you can take to protec...

Premiere: 18 Months That Changed the Federal Workforce — and the File You Should Be Building 19.06.2026 1:06:16

Welcome to the premiere of Civil Rights for Civil Servants, the podcast from Southworth PC dedicated to federal employees nationwide. Hosts Shaun Southworth (founding partner) and Lydia Taylor (managing partner) launch the show on Juneteenth — a deliberate choice, because the day the last enslaved Americans in Galveston learned they were free, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, capture...

They Kept a File on You. It's Time You Kept One on Them. 16.06.2026 1:56

They kept a file on you. It's time you kept one on them. For the last year and a half, federal employees have lived through hiring freezes, deferred resignations, probationary firings, and RIFs — and watched a court rule that tens of thousands of those firings were unlawful while almost no one got their job back. Civil Rights for Civil Servants is the answer to that moment: a podcast from Shaun So...