Class Telephone Seminars

Best Practices for Motivating Students ... designed to work when conventional approaches fail. This class will explain why some students struggle in school due to motivation problems, then show you what you can do to systematically improve the situation. Strategies will be offered for students who say they don't need school because they'll go on welfare, marry a wealthy man, win the lottery, play pro sports, or have their family take  more...

Portal to Portal Act: Determining Hours Worked at the Start and End of the Work Day ...class action claims for off-the-clock work and unpaid overtime wages at a fever pitch. Thousands of wage and hour class actions asserting violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act or parallel state laws are filed each year and the costs of defending these matters and the damages claimed and paid, whether through trial or settlement, are staggering. Now, the U.S. Department of Labor is issuing  more...

Portal to Portal Act: Determining Hours Worked at the Start and End of the Work Day ...class action claims for off-the-clock work and unpaid overtime wages at a fever pitch. Thousands of wage and hour class actions asserting violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act or parallel state laws are filed each year and the costs of defending these matters and the damages claimed and paid, whether through trial or settlement, are staggering. Now, the U.S. Department of Labor is issuing  more...

Prevailing Wage Law: An Understanding of Davis-Bacon ...have become a major source for the new wave of employment class actions, which often result in hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in many cases millions of dollars, of recoverable damages and attorneys' fees awarded to the successful litigants and their attorneys - in addition to the substantial amount of legal fees and administrative costs incurred by employers in defending these actions.  more...

Telecommuting: The Next Wave of Wage and Hour Litigation ...umber of wage and hour lawsuits, frequently collective or class actions, have been directed against employers who offer telecommuting arrangements. This live audio conference will provide managers and legal advisers with the background they need concerning the legal landscape surrounding wage and hour issues applicable to telecommuting arrangements, and the management policies and practices  more...

Using Travel Policy to Control Costs ...ces regarding travel agencies; reservation processes; and class of service for airlines, hotels, and car rentals; policy enforcement, and groups and meetings. At the conclusion of this live audio conference, you should see not only how a good policy works, but how travel management can improve overall business management. This live audio conference is designed for human resource managers,  more...

Effective Use of the Internet in Criminal Investigations ...net to communicate, store data, and even perpetrate a new class of digital crime. This live audio conference will cover several recent case studies along with the methods used to track the offenders, cover new forensic issues in cyberspace, and introduce the attendee to a new frontier in online investigation. This live audio conference is designed for law enforcement professionals, training  more...

Status Classification: Exempt vs. Nonexempt ...oyees and their counsel continue to pursue individual and class action overtime claims based on the alleged misclassification of exempt workers at a fever pitch. Thousands of lawsuits asserting violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act or parallel state laws are filed each year, and the costs of defending these matters and the damages claimed and paid, whether through trial or settlement, are  more...

Ethical Settlement Negotiations BenefitsThis audio conference will outline the key ethical rules and parameters faced by lawyers during negotiations of litigated matters. This program will also emphasize the recent guidance from the American Bar Association and various state and federal courts on matters ranging from basic duties of disclosure to the often murky rules affecting class actions and the settlement of complex  more...

Options Under Section 504 BenefitsPublic and private educational facilities receiving any federal monetary assistance (and, arguably, other forms of aid) are obligated to comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This comprehensive statute imposes a number of obligations on such recipients of federal aid regarding disabled students and employees. An educational facility's failure to comply with Section 504  more...

Recent Developments in Employer Liability for 401(k) Investments ...ment of Labor investigations, IRS investigations, massive class action lawsuits - an ever-expanding list of factors bombards sponsors of 401(k) plans, and places companies and their management potentially in the cross hairs. From Enron, Worldcom and Sarbanes-Oxley, to the more recent massive class actions filed against Fortune 500 companies regarding 401(k) plan service fees, decision makers  more...

S Corporations: How to Avoid Common and Often Overlooked Pitfalls (Simple to Complex) BenefitsAs many practitioners will attest to, there are many pitfalls when S corporations are involved. This teleconference will identify the most common pitfalls, such as not properly maintaining earning accounts, ineligible shareholders, the one class of stock principle, invalid or missing S corporation elections and built-in gain. You will not only learn how to identify these pitfalls, but you  more...

Recruiting on a Limited Budget: Proven Low and No Cost Tools and Approaches BenefitsThere is a long and established history of recruiting professionals being asked to accomplish more with less around the world. A June 2010 poll recently revealed that while 73 percent of organizations expected the volume of recruiting activity in their organization to increase significantly in the current year, only 18 percent received an increase in budget on par with the forecasted  more...

Best Practices for MRO Purchasing BenefitsMany organizations lack thorough MRO purchasing strategies that are comprised of a guiding strategy and supporting tactics to achieve the goals that have been identified for the MRO purchasing function. This is often a significant opportunity to reduce operating cost and improve mean time to repair. This teleconference will help you understand and design the MRO purchasing system and  more...

A Primer on International Estate Planning ...ng and planning for common issues that can arise for this class of individuals. This teleconference specifically reviews basic transfer tax issues for U.S. citizens, noncitizen residents and nonresident aliens; the treatment of foreign and domestic trusts; and estate planning issues concerning noncitizen spouses. The teleconference will also discuss special considerations for U.S. citizens  more...

Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: Application to Condominiums and Single-Family Homes ...poses them to individual rescission actions and sometimes class action suits on a broad scale. Finally, the issue of piggyback exemptions will be explored and discussed. Whether to defend against rescission for sales already made or to increase the chance of compliant future sales, this teleconference is critical for strengthening ILSA compliance to withstand and overcome the heavy burden of  more...

Using and Challenging Statistical Evidence: An Essential Training for Litigators ...d how statistical evidence is used in a variety of cases: class actions, antitrust, environmental law, product liability, construction law and employment discrimination. This teleconference will assist you in determining whether you need a statistician and how best to present the statistical evidence to help you win the case in the light most favorable for your client. This program is  more...

Reductions in Force Litigation Update ...tself; and special issues regarding electronic discovery, class or collective actions and the unionized workforce. Although the presenter speaks based on a career of representing employers, the lessons to be learned also will be beneficial to attorneys representing individuals, labor organizations and regulatory agencies, as well as human resources professionals. This program is primarily  more...

Enterprise Resource Planning - Getting the Payback From Your ERP System ...u will get an overview of the planning hierarchy in world class businesses and how the planning process utilizes the ERP system. You will better understand the need for robust metrics and an accountability infrastructure, and will become more aware of the power the ERP discipline has in getting the most return for the effort invested. It will become apparent that there is a lot of opportunity  more...

Don't Bet the Company: Understanding and Avoiding Class Actions in Labor and Employment Law! ...ws media reports of companies settling employment-related class actions for many millions of dollars. The horror of class actions is that a small claim among a few employees can mushroom into a huge claim worth millions of dollars once some ferocious plaintiff's lawyers get their teeth into it and add hundreds of additional claims through the simple process of becoming a class action. Not  more...

Multiplaintiff Settlement Negotiations ...class and collective actions continue to increase. More and more employers are facing wage and hour cases and collective actions under the FLSA. Plaintiffs' counsel increasingly are relying on the benefits of Rule 23 certification to bring their wage and hour claims under applicable state wage and hour laws, bypassing the more restrictive FLSA collective action "opt-in" process. Where courts  more...