A Civic Armor guide
The Third Option
Recognize it. Document it. Prove it. Before you ever see a lawyer.
Something happened at work, and you can't stop thinking about it. Passed over for something you earned. Write-ups out of nowhere. The sudden chill after you spoke up. Most people feel like they have two options: swallow it, or blow up. There's a third one. Find out.
THIRD
OPTION Swallow it. Blow up. Or find out.
There's a third option. Lamont Ragland II
What's inside
Not a book you read once and shelve. A working instrument: every tool in it is something you'll actually do, with your own situation in mind.
- See itWhat actually counts as discrimination: because of who you are, a real harm, and a connection between the two.
- Prove itThe ladder of evidence. Turn a bad feeling and a spoken moment into a pattern of small, dated, real pieces that point one way.
- Judge itAn honest read of your own case, strengths and weaknesses both. The people who do well saw their case clearly first.
- File itThe multi-claim map, and the deadlines you cannot miss.
- After you fileWhat happens next, so the waiting isn't the scary part.
- One case, start to finishFollow Renée from a bad feeling to a prepared case, the whole way through.
The next step: the course
The book gives you the whole method. The Civic Armor course does what a book can't: it walks through your own situation with hands-on tools, like a case-strength check, a multi-claim map and an evidence sorter, and connects you, when you're ready, to an attorney who understands the preparation you've done.
Learned it at the table first?
The Second Number board game is the same idea in a game: read every deal through three colored lenses before you sign it. It's free, and it plays in about 25 minutes.