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Program Materials – Volume II

THE CONSULTING TRACK

Don’t Beat the Clock: A Primer on Wage and Hour Laws and Potential Claims Under Them

Recent Wage and Hour Developments

John M. Husband

Investigating and Litigating Wage and Hour Collective and Class Actions From Plaintiff’s Counsel’s Perspective

Roberta L. Steele

Advanced Discrimination Principles for Counseling Purposes

Hypothetical

Mary K. O’Melveny

Releases and the Law of Retaliation: Theories and Recent Developments

Eric S. Dreiband and David A. Rappaport

EEOC v. Ventura Foods

Constructive Discharge Post Suders1

Adele Rapport

Do You Want to Know a Secret: When the New Employee Knows Too Much

Protecting the Employer and Employee When the Employee Knows Too Much

Arnold H. Pedowitz

When the Employee Knows Too Much

Robert J. Wood

Keep It Safe: Dealing with Violence in the Workplace

The Extent to Which the NLRA Protects Violent Conduct

Joel Glanstein

Keeping it Safe: Dealing with Violence in the Workplace

B. Scott Silverman

Keep It Safe: Dealing With Violence In The Workplace – Checklists

Sheree Wright

THE FUNDAMENTALS TRACK

Occupational Safety and Health Law Fundamentals

Occupational Safety and Health Law Fundamentals

David E. Jones and Stephen A. Yokich

International Labor Law Fundamentals

International Labor Law Fundamentals: China

Marissa Anne Pagnattaro

GLOBAL DIFFERENCES IN EMPLOYMENT: Key Issues and Important Cultural Considerations

Baba M. Zipkin

Overview of the Railway Labor Act

An Introduction to the Railway Labor Act

Jack Gallagher

An Overview of the National Mediation Board

Eileen M. Hennessey

THE TRADITIONAL LABOR TRACK

Oral Argument Before the National Labor Relations Board

Board Decision

 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Decision 223

 

United States of America Before the National Labor Relations Board

Gary C. Moss, Joanna Kishner and Paul T. Trimmer

Charging Party’s Pre-Argument Brief

Richard G. McCracken and Michael T. Anderson

Pre-Argument Brief of the General Counsel

Ronald Meisburg, Michael J. Karison and Ellen A. Farrell

Change the Labor Laws: A Discussion

Consequences of the Employee Free Choice Act: What’s Left of Section 7

Jonathan Kane and Christopher P. Zubowicz

The Employee Free Choice Act ("EFCA"): Salvaging Sec. 7 Rights

Brent Garren

A Prospective and Retrospective with the NLRB and FMCS on the 60th Anniversary of the Taft Hartley Act

Labor Czars - Commissars – Keeping Women in the Kitchen – the Purpose and Effects of the Administrative Changes Made by Taft-Hartley

John E. Higgins, Jr.

A Prospective and Retrospective with the NLRB Former General Counsels – The Conflict Between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the National Labor Relations Act

Jerry M. Hunter

Challenging and Controversial Examples of Prosecutorial Discretion During my Term

Leonard Page

THE HOW TO DO IT RIGHT TRACK

Responding To Agency Requests for Information

The Duty to Furnish Information Under the National Labor Relations Act

Jeffrey I. Pasek and Charles J. Kawas

The EEOC Investigation: Agency Requests for Information: The Plaintiff’s Perspective

Vicki Lafer Abrahamson

Essential Elements of Negotiating Employment Agreements, Severance Agreements and Releases

Negotiating Executive Employment Agreements on Behalf of the Employee

Ellen J. Messing

Essential Elements of Severance Agreements and Releases

Terence G. Connor

Practical Observations on the Use of Employment Agreements

Terrence H. Murphy

How It’s Done

Mock Negotiation of Executive Employment Agreement Fact Pattern and Proposed Employment Agreement

Wayne N. Outten and Barbara J. D’Aquila

Representing the Executive

Wayne N. Outten

Entering Into and Severing The Employment Relationship: Concepts for the Employers Counsel When Drafting the Governing Agreements

Barbara J. D’Aquila

THE DIVERSITY TRACK

Effective and Interactive Sexual Harassment Training

Effective and Interactive Sexual Harassment Training

Stephen Anderson

Retention of Women and Minorities in Law Firms

Diversity in the Legal Profession

Johnine P. Barnes

Diversity in Law Firms

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Goals and Timetables for Minority Hiring and Advancement

The Bar Association of San Francisco

THE INTERNATIONAL TRACK

Employing “Ex-Pats” Outside the U.S.: What Obstacles Are Presented and How Do You Overcome Them

Hypothetical

 

Legal Issues Relating to Secondment and Cross Border Employment in the EU

Bruno Blanpain

Employment Agreements and Cross Border Employment – Employing “Ex-Pats” Outside the U.S.: What Obstacles Are Presented and How Do You Overcome Them

Bryan Dunne

Employment Agreements and Cross Border Employment – Employing “Ex-Pats” Outside the U.S.: What Obstacles Are Presented and How Do You Overcome Them

Wendy S. Lazar

Employing Ex-Pats Outside the US: What obstacles are presented and how do you overcome them? The Four Red Flags

Clare Murray

Dealing With Workers, Unions and Other Worker Organizations in Foreign Jurisdictions

The Continental Approach: Dealing with Workers, Works Councils and Unions in Austria

Dr. Roland Gerlach

Dealing with Workers, Unions and Other Worker Organisations in the United Kingdom

Tony Hows

Asia v. EU : Can European Employers & Workers Meet the Asian Challenge in an Era of Global Competition and Wage Pressures?

Asia v. EU : Can European Employers & Workers Meet the Asian Challenge in an Era of Global Competition and Wage Pressures?

Laurent Develle

THE E-DISCOVERY TRACK

What’s Feasible

Discovery of Electronically Stored Information

Douglas E. Dexter

E-Pitfalls

Linda G. Sharp and Michelle C.S. Lange

Sample E-Discovery Project Assesment Questions

Linda G. Sharp

E-Discovery Sample Forms & Pleadings

Linda G. Sharp

Alphabet Soup of Acronyms and Other Jargon Used in ESI Discussions

Joel Vogel

What’s Reasonable

What’s Reasonable: Application of the New Federal Rules and State Rules on ESI to the Discovery Process and the Impact on Employees, Employers, In-house and Outside Counsel

Sean R. Gallagher

Getting Ahead of Discovery: Early Case Assessment and ESI

Mark Risk and Cecil A. Lynn III

What’s Expected

The December 2006 Federal Rules Amendments Governing Electronic Discovery

Judge Andrew J. Peck

What Every Lawyer Needs to Know: What’s Expected

Julie A. Totten

ESI: The New Federal Rules and Their Impact on Labor Unions

Gwynne A. Wilcox and Dana E. Lossia

THE ETHICS TRACK

Doing the Right Thing

Ethics at the Movies

Lawrence M. Cohen

THE CONSULTING TRACK (SATURDAY)

The Claims to Watch Out For: Sarbanes-Oxley, Whistleblowing, Qui Tam and Other Retaliation Issues

Representing Whistleblowers in Sarbanes-Oxley Cases

Jonathan Ben-Asher

An Qui Tam Law Survival Guide for Employment Lawyers

Mark A. Kleiman

Reporting Back For Duty: USERRA and the Rights of Military Employers

Summary of Law Review Articles on USERRA

Captain Samuel F. Wright

Discussion Points

Captain Samuel F. Wright

How Employment and Union Advocates Can Obtain Information From Companies to Evaluate Claims

How Employment and Union Advocates Can Obtain Information From Companies to Evaluate Claims

Robert W. Sikkel

Requests to EEOC Under Freedom of Information Act and Section 83 of EEOC’s Compliance Manual to Evaluate Claims of Employment Discrimination 1150

Robert Johnson

Press # For Other Options: Telecommuting and the Workplace

Working At Home As A Reasonable Accommodation: A Circuit-By-Circuit Survey

Joseph H. Yastrow

Creating a Successful Telecommuting Program

Wanda E. Flowers

Teleworking and Title VII

Piper Hoffman

What Do I have to Keep, When and for How Long? Document Retention Programs

Recordkeeping Requirements

Jeffrey C. Brodin

Chart of Workplace Data and Related Legal Requirements

E. Ray Stanford

Counseling of Multi-national U.S. Companies Operating Outside the United States

Fairness, Employee Privacy and Individual Freedom Under French Labor Laws

Thierry Gillot

Collective Termination in Canada

Robert Bonhomme

Whistleblowing and Privacy Protection in Europe

Gerlind Wisskirchen

THE FUNDAMENTALS TRACK (SATURDAY)

Public Sector Labor & Employment Law Fundamentals

The Constitutional Aspects of Public Sector Bargaining

James Allmendinger

Collective Bargaining Under Comprehensive State Collective Bargaining Statute

James Baird

Interest Arbitration and Collective Bargaining In the Public Sector A Brief History

Peter R. Meyers