Offering Telephone Seminars - Training Resources

Reverse Mortgages: A Lender's Perspective ...ind. Learn what a reverse mortgage is, what's involved in offering such a product, which reverse mortgage products are currently offered in the market, state and federal requirements, and potential pitfalls. Join Reed Smith attorney Arthur Axelson for an informative discussion on the important issues involved in reverse mortgage lending. Attorneys, presidents, vice presidents, branch managers,  more...

Federal Flood Plain Regulation ...new EPA and USACE guidance following the Rapanos decision offering limited relief. In the post-Hurricane Katrina era, FEMA is proposing sweeping changes to flood plain regulations in conjunction with its Flood Insurance Rate Map Modernization Program. These changes include new standards of certification and accreditation that can decertify existing levee systems and other facilities that  more...

Benchmarking your Health Benefit Program: How Do You Stack Up? ...s and the quality of health insurance other employers are offering. Measuring your health plan against meaningful benchmarks will help fuel your strategies not only for reducing cost, but also for recruiting, employee retention and health plan design. n nThis teleconference will work through several methods to evaluate your health benefit program's cost, design and impact on employees with an  more...

Smoking Discrimination in the Workplace: On and Off the Clock ...kers in its workforce. These employer programs range from offering quit smoking programs to refusing to hire smokers and even terminating smokers. Privacy advocates argue an employer's interest in the smoking habits of applicants and employees ends at the employer's property line, and that an employer has no business regulating whether applicants or employees smoke off-duty, away from the  more...

Tenancies in Common - Legal and Practical Issues ...offering industry has grown to approximately $5 billion in annual equity raised. While specific data is hard to find, industry experts estimate that between $10 billion and $12 billion has been raised and spread across more than 2,000 offerings. In the last year, the number of materially under-performing TIC transactions has increased. As the commercial real estate market worsens, more workouts  more...

Preparing a Winning Closing Argument ... passed down from generation to generation. n nNow we are offering a program featuring a 30-year courtroom veteran who will demystify closings and teach you how to pull victory from the jaws of defeat by making a killer closing argument. You will learn why closings matter, what arguments are radioactive, and what arguments are so powerful they are grounds for a mistrial (and why you should make  more...