Employment

This Year

Recorded on: Jan. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing On-Line Defamation: The Latest Developments and Trends recorded January, 2013. The explosion of social media and on-line review websites has resulted in a dramatic increase in defamation claims by employees, businesses and consumers. This briefing will focus on the latest legal developments and practical approaches to avoid and defend on-line defamation claims. For this new program we have an experienced ...

Recorded on: Jan. 28, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, On-Line Defamation, the Latest Developments and Trends. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the Course Handbook tab in the ...

From the program: Social Media 2013: Addressing Corporate Risks

Released on: Feb. 20, 2013

Did you know that Facebook now has one billion active users? (By contrast, the entire population of the United States is 310 million people.) Or that Facebook accounts for over ten percent of all U.S. web traffic? And that over 250 million photographs are posted to Facebook each day? Or that Twitter users are expected to send over 91 billion tweets during 2012? And that over four billion videos are viewed per day on YouTube? Facebook, Twitter, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, we're back. A couple of housekeeping matters. As I mentioned at the beginning, we look forward to your feedback. Let us know what you like. Let us know about other topics that we can cover next year. We hope to have you back next year. So if you have thoughts about other issues you're seeing in your own practice that we haven't been able to touch upon in a day long conference, we'd love to hear about it. So please fill out the evaluation ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: I think we're back. Next topic up is drafting and updating social media policies and guidelines. And one thing I will say. So much has happened in this area of the law since we last met a year ago that I can say with quite some confidence that, if your company hasn't updated its social media policy or guidelines in the past year, they're probably out of date, just because so much has happened in this area. And we're very fortunate to ...

From the program: Managing Wage & Hour Risks 2013

Released on: Feb. 25, 2013

Counsel as well as Human Resources and compliance personnel whose responsibilities include wage and hour matters must keep up to date on the latest developments, and understand and anticipate wage and hour risks so that these risks can be effectively managed through compliance programs and responses to early warning signs.  At the same time, given the sensitivity of these issues, it is critical for counsel on both sides to master best practices ...

From the program: Trade Secrets 2013: What Every IP Attorney Should Know

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Trade Secrets 2013: What Every IP Attorney Should Know recorded February, 2013 in San Francisco. Lecture Topics  [00:58:21] Protecting Your Client's Secrets  [00:58:21] Creating value: identifying trade secrets that aren’t secret recipes Managing employees: what to do to reduce risks and preserve remedies Trade secret plumbing: how to stop leaks Monitoring employees and competitors ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

ROBERT P DAVIS: So given our usual procedure for moving very promptly into the next panels. I'm going to wait for the logistics to get settled out here. Then I'll briefly introduce our panel and turn it over to them. OK. I think Laura, soon as she's got her name-- AUDIENCE: Go ahead. ROBERT P DAVIS: All right, so I got the clear signal to proceed. Really, two things I'd like to point to in introducing this next panel on handling classification and ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

MICHELE R. FISHER: So our next panel's presentation, and I'll introduce them as they're coming up here, so we can keep moving, is To Arbitrate or Not to Arbitrate? Good question. Arbitration has been a hot topic since the Supreme Court decisions of Concepcion, Stolt Nielsen, and D. R. Horton case. And there've been a lot of questions and disputes as to whether employers should have arbitration agreements. What are the pros, and what are the cons? ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

ROBERT P. DAVIS: Yeah, we're right on. OK. Good. All right, everybody. Showing you that we really mean when we say the break periods will be strictly enforced, we go to our last panel of the morning, followed by a meal period which, as far as I can tell, is not mandated by statute or regulation. REID R. BRODA: Yet. ROBERT P. DAVIS: Yet, said Reid Broda. And just briefly, to introduce our panel. Immediately to my right, Reid Broda, who here is one ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

P. ANTHONY SAMMI: So let me just jump right into the next panel. This is entitled, Protecting Your Clients' Trade Secrets. And we've got two wonderful gentlemen with us here today. One is David Garrett. And one is David Klausner. There are two Davids. David is obviously closer to me, David Garrett. And David Klausner is on the other side. Let me introduce them briefly. David Garrett is managing director and head of Stroz Friedberg's San Francisco ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

Taken from the briefing Health Care Reform: An Employer's Essential Guide recorded February, 2013. Guidance on health care reform is coming in fast and from all angles.  The departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor have recently been releasing proposed rules in droves, with much more to come on the horizon.  Employers must already contend with several of the new rules, and other looming requirements will ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my Name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Health Care Reform, an Employer's Essential Guide. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab ...

From the program: Ethics in Social Media 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Ethics in Social Media 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:16:05] Risks of Social Media  [01:16:05] Social media threats Employee use of social media Managing user generated content Employee social media policy - drafting considerations Employee/Customer privacy issues The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course ...

Released on: Mar. 19, 2013

Taken from the briefing ADA and Mental Disorders: Employee Threats and Violence, Employer Assessments and Accommodations recorded March, 2013. Threats of physical harm in the workplace may arise in a variety of ways, none benign. They range from bullying behavior to blatant homicidal and suicidal statements. Typically, employers must contend with a threatening and aggressive employee while under considerable pressure to take action quickly. Employers ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

RICHARD RAYSMAN: All right. Our first panel today is going to be talking about ethics in social media, obviously. And we're going to have, really, a panel discussion, which I think will be quite interesting. At least in my mind view, it's been a pretty good format. So I wanted to introduce our three panelists. All the way to your left, to my right, one of our panelists is Sofia Rahman. She's the global social media attorney for Citi's Consumer Businesses. ...

From the program: Understanding Employment Law 2013

Released on: Apr. 19, 2013

Whether you are new to the field, seeking a quick refresher, or if your law practice only touches upon employment law issues, this jam-packed employment law primer is designed for you.  An expert faculty will lead you through the major regulations and case law governing the employer/employee relationship and offer practical pointers ranging from hiring to firing and everything in between. In addition, the program will address certain key concepts ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: We're about ready to get underway for the afternoon session. I hope everyone had a good lunch. Consistently with the previous panelists, we have really just a terrific panel on the FLSA update-- basic wage and hour update with Michele Fisher of Nichols Kaster in Minnesota, and my partner Matt Lampe from Jones Day here in New York. Matt and Michele are perpetual panelists and perpetual adversaries. So it will be another one of ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: I think that we're almost all assembled. We're going to get ready for our last panel of the morning. Each of the previous panels ended with hot topics, and each of the previous panelists covered a series of hot topics. This particular panel is all about one very hot topic, a topic that doesn't seem to go away. And as with the previous panelists, we're really fortunate to have Larry Baer, Don Sapir, and Marty Schmelkin with us, ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

THEODORE O. ROGERS JR.: Thanks. I have the pleasure of being able to kick us off here. We're going to in about an hour and a quarter try to run through the whole gamut as an overview of Federal employment laws. We're not going to try to get into the state of the city level, but you can assume that at least in New York but also in virtually every other state there's a whole set of statutes that are quite similar to the Federal ones we'll be talking ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: OK. Before we get into the substance of the next panel, I have to ask if there's a video. Is there a YouTube video? ROBERT M. HALE: Oh, no. Nobody was on the FMLA or IDA. DEBRA L. RASKIN: No rock and roll. No nothing. WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Music? DEBRA L. RASKIN: What can I tell ya. WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Nothing? Zero? Oh, okay. ROBERT M. HALE: No, I'm afraid. You just got us. You just got us. WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: Well, I'm ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J. GOLDSMITH: I hesitate to say we've saved the best for last, but maybe we have. We have an ethics presentation that as in the past, I know is today going to be just terrific. Just to introduce people, to my right is Jill Rosenberg, John Gaal to her right, Laura Schnell, and Karen Mitchell. Again, the biographical materials are in the handout. And I commend you to read them, as well as the general materials that they've prepared. And so with ...

Recorded on: Apr. 8, 2013

WILLIS J.GOLDSMITH: So as, I think, Zach and Peter are going to arrange themselves, we're now going to move right to the panel on The Nuts and Bolts of Traditional Labor Law. That is a law under the National Labor Relations Act. Even though union density has decreased, as all the data show, over the last 10 or 12 or 15 years to really the lowest percentage of union represented workers in the private sector probably since the '30s, the importance ...

Course Handbook from the program Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation 2013: New Developments & Strategies, held April, 2013.

Published: April 2013