Defensive Telephone Seminars

Managing Construction Costs ...ion requiring significant vigilance and the employment of defensive solutions along the way. This teleconference will help you understand some of the decision points during a typical construction project at which you can influence your company's risk allocation and influence who pays when construction costs rise. This teleconference will explain important methods for limiting your risk during  more...

Working With Challenging Parents: Strategies and Techniques ...manding or avoidant parent. Staff can become demoralized, defensive and protective of their positions; parents lose trust and hope. The child is caught in the middle. This teleconference examines a spectrum of difficult parent situations, including parents who are persistently demanding, have extreme beliefs about what benefits their child, are in denial, chronically fail to follow through  more...

Current Issues in Qualified Immunity for Law Enforcement Officials BenefitsPlaintiffs see suits against individual officers as a way to recover monetary damages because Monell claims against municipalities are often too difficult or expensive to litigate effectively. From strip searches to excessive force claims, qualified immunity is a powerful defensive tool. This teleconference will help you identify current trends in qualified immunity doctrine in some of the  more...

FASB Statement 157 - Fair Value Update on Corporate Asset Valuation ... 820) guidelines, including the definition of fair value, defensive value, and the three-tier hierarchy. We will discuss measurement assumptions, disclosure requirements, and summarize the key differences in this standard. We will help you to understand the many layers of FAS 157 (ASC 820), including questions still being resolved and how answers are likely to impact you. Accountants,  more...