June Telephone Seminars

California E-Discovery Rules: Still in Their Infancy ...June 29, 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law AB 5, California's first set of statutes designed to address the realities of electronic discovery. AB 5 added two new statutes to the California Code of Civil Procedure and amended 19 pre-existing CCP sections. On August 14, 2009, the Judicial Council followed suit by amending California Rule of Court 3.724 to require early meet  more...

Recruiting on a Limited Budget: Proven Low and No Cost Tools and Approaches ...ng 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 increasing complexity attributed to changing  more...

Accounting for Off-Balance Sheet Items Update ...ting standards for these transactions and structures. In June of 2009, the FASB issued two major standards, SFAS 166 and 167, in an attempt to address these concerns. SFAS 166 strengthens the sale accounting requirements for transactions involving transfers of financial assets, such as receivables and loans. SFAS 167 addresses perceived shortcomings and abuses relating to the consolidation  more...

Your Organization's Obligations Under the FTC's Red Flags Rule: A Comprehensive Overview ...Identity Theft Red Flags Rule is set to go into effect on June 1, 2010. Yet, uncertainty remains as to which organizations are subject to the rule and what it takes to comply with the rule's requirements. Compliance is further complicated by the rule's nonprescriptive nature. Rather than tell organizations subject to the rule what they must include in their identity theft prevention programs,  more...

Reducing Insulin Errors ...rs for Disease Control and Prevention announced this past June that 24 million Americans now have diabetes, an increase of three million people in just two years. Diabetes is also one of the most common diagnoses seen in hospitalized patients. Moreover, insulin may be the preferred medication to manage glucose while patients are hospitalized. The Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare  more...

Same-Gender Marriage Rulings: Impacts on Employee Benefit Plans Across the Nation ...cked to California and started getting legally married on June 17, 2008. But then in November 2008, California voters approved Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage going forward. Massachusetts and Canada also allow same-gender marriage, and more than 15,000 couples have been married there. n nOn the flip side, more than half of the states have passed state constitutional amendments  more...