Established Telephone Seminars

Paralegal's Guide to Administrative Law Research ...ules. The procedures at the federal level are fairly well established. Administrative research at the state level will vary with jurisdictions. The audio conference will explain some of the context a researcher needs to take into account to research these materials in comparison to those at the federal level. You should expect to have an understanding of the administrative law process and how  more...

Medicare Secondary Payer Act: Protecting Medicare's Interest In Insurance Settlements ...tlements, as CMS is most actively monitoring them and has established policies with respect to addressing past and future medical expenses in the settlement of claims. Liability MSAs continue to be discussed only in theory as there continues to be no established CMS guidance as exists for workers' compensation settlement. However, given the MMSEA reporting requirements and its hefty  more...

Collaborative Delivery Method Fundamentals ...ude with a look at some of the lessons from the more well-established collaborative approaches and some of the early emerging practices from the newer integrated project delivery approaches. Learning Objectives: - You will be able to review project delivery methods. - You will be able to identify IPD and other collaborative project delivery approaches. - You will be able to discuss  more...

Learning on the Job: Creating Legally-Sound Internship Programs ...ion's internship program satisfies the legal requirements established by the United States Department of Labor (or any applicable state laws or guidance). Organizations that offer internship programs are encouraged to register for this live audio conference to ensure compliance with the law. This live audio conference is designed for human resource managers, benefit and payroll professionals,  more...

Curbing FMLA Abuse: How to Manage Manipulative Employees BenefitsAbout 62% of workers nationally qualify to take leave under the FMLA, and over 50 million employees have taken advantage of leave under the Act. Managing FMLA leave can be extremely challenging for employers, especially in the face of rampant employee abuse. However, there are tools available to employers seeking to minimize abuse of the protections provided by the FMLA. While there is no  more...

Turbidity Control and Testing on Construction Sites ...nto a waterway that has a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) established by the EPA/state. This live audio conference will provide information with regards to the NPDES Construction General Permit, Turbidity, the Clean Water Act, established standards for turbidity, the TMDL in impaired waters, erosion controls to reduce turbidity in storm water runoff, and turbidity sample collection, testing and  more...

Pervious Pavement Alternatives ...ent design, construction and maintenance. We will discuss established standards for installation of two types of porous paving materials: pervious concrete and open-jointed block. A discussion of case studies from all over North America illustrating results in diverse soil, climate and traffic situations, and applications for investment and environmental purposes will be addressed. Learning  more...

Recruiting on a Limited Budget: Proven Low and No Cost Tools and Approaches ...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 increase in demand. Despite  more...

Land Abandonment and Vacation Fundamentals ...property for access but a problem arises or a use will be established without anyone reaching an agreement. This teleconference will provide you with an understanding of how to deal with issues of abandonment, vacation and prescriptive easement, and provide some strategies for avoiding problems in future transactions. Learning Objectives - You will be able to discuss easements and abandonment.  more...

8 Issues When Doing Business or Contracting With Native American Tribes ...ognized American Indian tribes in the United States, each established under a constitution unique to the tribe. Each tribe, through its constitution and subsequent legislation, has developed its own laws and regulations addressing issues of contracting, jurisdiction and waivers, if any, of sovereign immunity. Individuals and entities seeking to do business with and/or contract with one or more  more...

Current Issues in Attributional and Agency Nexus ...ce is not limited only to direct presence. It may also be established indirectly through relationships with third-parties in the taxing state. In today's economy, states are pushing nexus limits farther than ever before and are increasingly focusing on third-party and affiliated relationships as a means to create nexus. This teleconference will explore the concept of third-party nexus - often  more...

Slope Stabilization: Best Practices and Challenges ...ures by the application of best practices. There are well-established engineering principles for the design and maintenance of stable slopes. This teleconference summarizes practices to overcome challenges to enhance slope stability. Many engineers are faced with challenges to protect against the potential for slope failure. Indicators include sloughs, erosion and deep rotation/sliding failure.  more...

Navigating through the Maze of Unclaimed Property Compliance - Unique Rules and Regulations for Financial Institutions ...ional areas of compliance includes ensuring that you have established proper procedures and controls to prepare for the upcoming unclaimed property filings. Though these laws have been in effect since the early 1900s there are still financial institutions facing significant assessments and aggressive audits due to noncompliance. It is imperative that you have adequately addressed these and  more...

Storm Water Best Management Practice (BMP) Inspection and Maintenance ...and the added importance of proper maintenance with newly established storm discharge benchmark criteria, offer suggestions for the selection and design of storm water BMPs with an understanding of maintenance requirements, address inspection and maintenance issues for construction BMPs on linear projects, and illustrate the use of technology to support your storm water BMP maintenance and  more...

Value Engineering Change Proposals in Government Contracting ..., the Value Engineering ('VE') contract clause, which was established specifically to provide increased profits from cost reduction suggestions. Using a Value Engineering Change Proposal ('VECP'), a contractor may suggest a contract change that, if accepted and implemented, provides cost savings to the Government and a substantial share in those savings to the contractor. Contractors that do  more...

The Streamlined Sales Tax Project - How and Why It Affects Your Business ...ould effectively eliminate the physical presence standard established in Quill. Therefore, under an economic nexus standard, taxpayers would be required to collect sales tax on all sales, regardless of whether they are physically present in a state. This could lead to a substantial confusion for taxpayers and tax jurisdictions. The SSTP represents the most comprehensive attempt at broad-based  more...

Advanced Records Management: The Intersection of Good Records Management and eDiscovery Preparedness ...a corporation's bottom line. While many corporations have established policies related to paper records, many of those same corporations have failed to update those policies to account for their rapidly increasing volumes of electronically stored information. No form of ESI demonstrates these complex issues more so than backup tapes. Backup tapes can be a company's salvation in the context of  more...

AIA and ConsensusDOCS Contract Documents: Comparison and Contrast ... of their respective families of contract forms. The long established family of documents published by the American Institute of Architects has been substantially revised. The new family on the block, the ConsensusDOCS, represents an effort by a broad industry coalition of construction industry interests (owner, contractor, subcontractor, and insurance and surety interests) to develop by a  more...