Rule Telephone Seminars - Training Resources

Satisfying OFCCP's Internet Applicant Rules ...rocess for monitoring adherence to the Internet Applicant Rule. This teleconference will review the new and expanded OFCCP guidance and provide you with a greater understanding of what is included in the definition of Internet and related technologies, who is an applicant, what records must be kept, the role of recruiters, managing data and what parameters an employer can establish around its  more...

California's New State Court E-Discovery Rules: Do Try This At Home ...14, the Judicial Council followed suit by amending Calif. Rule of Court 3.724 to require early meet and confer as to e-discovery issues. The new rules, which largely track current federal provisions, took effect immediately and brought California in line with the growing number of states adopting specific regulations for modern civil litigation's critical arena of electronically stored  more...

The New ADA Design Standards- When, Where, and How? ...onference will provide an update on the status of the new rule, a highlight of the major changes, and the potential implications for your business and clients. Presenters include past and present chairs of the U.S. Access Board and the former deputy chief of the Disability Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington. Learning Objectives - You will be able to describe key  more...

EPA's Rules on Compensatory Mitigation for Impact on Wetlands, Streams and Other Waters ...fitsIn 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers adopted new rules that dramatically changed its approach to mitigation under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, which regulates fill in wetlands and other waters of the United States. The new rules adopt a mitigation hierarchy that moves away from the prior preference for on-site, in-kind mitigation in favor of mitigation banks and watershed-based  more...

Battle of the Forms: Back to the Basics and Recent Developments ...C 2-207, with a focus on the practical application of the rule. We will discuss the steps necessary to gather the facts crucial to the analysis, walk through the analysis from different perspectives, and discuss significant majority and minority views throughout the U.S. and how the results may differ under the varying approaches. We will also briefly discuss alternative international  more...

Appealing Standards: Determining the Applicable Standard of Review BenefitsThis teleconference is designed to help you with your two most important jobs: prediction (telling clients what appellate courts are likely to do with a given case) and persuasion (getting the appellate courts to do it). The two most common mistakes in appellate advocacy are (1) taking the standards at face value, uncritically assuming that they mean what they say and that the court will  more...

Economic Nexus Standards in State Taxation ... 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed its longstanding rule and held in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota that nexus requires some form of physical presence in the taxing state. In today's economy, however, states are continuing to push nexus limits farther than ever before and have begun to reach beyond traditional notions of nexus by relying on economic connections to create nexus. Is merely  more...

Current Issues in Cell Tower Regulation ... cases, and a description of the new federal backup power rule for cell towers and its implications for municipalities. You will gain a useful understanding regarding wireless communications technology for nontechnical staff, including overview discussions of cellular, PCS, DAS and WiMAX provided by wireless carriers. This teleconference will also provide specific methods to deal with RF safety  more...

New Federal Rule of Evidence 502 - Preservation or Waiver of the Attorney Client Privilege and Work Product Protection in Federa ... product protection is a fundamental for most litigators. Rule 502 of the Federal Rules of Evidence has been adopted to clarify and resolve a common dispute regarding the effects of certain disclosures otherwise protected by the privilege or work product, including inadvertent disclosures and the agreement of the parties regarding disclosure. This 90-minute teleconference will discuss the  more...

Impact of Confidentiality Rules in Bankruptcy Proceedings BenefitsDistressed companies struggle to protect their proprietary and strategic information against the assumption that a bankrupt's financial affairs are public. Since 2005, creditor committees have similarly confronted their statutory obligation to share information with creditors with their practical duties in working through a Chapter 11. This teleconference will provide both a relevant  more...

Protecting Attorney Work Product in Communications With Testifying and Consulting Experts ...perts. It will also discuss the sweeping changes in those rules that could take place by December 2010 under the proposed amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26. This teleconference will review privilege and work product protections as applied to expert materials. Our faculty will explore the common disclosure pitfalls for practitioners and present real-life scenarios involving  more...

Current Issues in Attributional and Agency Nexus ... 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed its longstanding rule and held in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota that nexus requires some form of physical presence in the taxing state. However, physical presence 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  more...

Making Revisions to Closed Medical Records ...ronic records and revisions, including the HIPAA Security Rule and recent amendments in the 2009 stimulus package, regional health information organizations, and other health information communication and storage portals. Medical records directors, health information directors, coders, business managers, office managers, nurses, hospital administrators, billing managers, social workers,  more...

Understanding the New Penalties for Tax Preparers ...oader. In addition, there are various other penalties and rules of conduct you must be aware of and new guidance has been issued in several of these areas in the past year. It is imperative that you understand these penalties and have systems in place to prevent them from being imposed. This teleconference will focus on the preparer penalty, how and when it applies, how the IRS assesses it and  more...

New Rules and Formats for International ACH Transactions ...hat all international transactions comply with the travel rule which includes all sorts of information not currently carried in domestic ACH entries. To comply with this regulation, the NACHA and its members designed and developed a new format along with the rules to support it that enables international transactions to flow through the ACH network. This teleconference will explain the why the  more...

Introduction to New ICD-10 Coding: Preparing for Implementation ...Department of Health and Human Services published a Final Rule for the adoption of ICD-10 effective October 1, 2013. While this seems like a significant time period in order to get ready, there is a tremendous amount of preparation required. This teleconference is designed to help you understand all the ways in which the transition to ICD-10 will affect your organization. It will begin with a  more...

AIA Document A312 Payment Bond Forms ...onds without modification because of the so-called 45-Day Rule. This teleconference is designed to help personnel responsible for obtaining bonds and administering contracts avoid the pitfalls presented by use of the A312 bond form and to modify the bonds in a way that will meet their business objectives. Particular attention will be paid to the 45-Day Rule modifications approved by the AIA and  more...

Understanding the New GFE and HUD-1/IA Settlement Statements ...oan origination forms and procedures to comply with a new rule recently adopted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The new rule dramatically changes both the Good Faith Estimate and the HUD-1 and HUD-1A Uniform Settlement Statements required by the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and creates significant new responsibilities and potential liabilities in  more...

FASB Statement 157 - Fair Value Update on Corporate Asset Valuation ...llenging for companies - and has been in some cases - the rule aims to make it easier to communicate value to shareholders. This teleconference will provide an overview of SFAS 157 guidelines, including the new definition of fair value, defensive value and the three-tier hierarchy. We will discuss measurement assumptions, disclosure requirements and summarize the key differences. We will help  more...

401(k) Plan Costs Including Recent Update on Supreme Court Rule LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates Inc. ...he company. We will cover the basics of the federal law's rules in easy-to-grasp language and practice applying those rules by examining actual and hypothetical cases. You will have an opportunity to share your concerns and possible resolutions with one another and the presenters, who are professionals experienced in investments, fiduciary law and litigation, administration, operation and  more...

Multiplaintiff Settlement Negotiations ...iffs' 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 have shown reluctance to certify Rule 23 classes under discrimination laws, plaintiffs' counsel simply bring multiplaintiff cases naming long lists of  more...

State Income Tax Apportionment-The Sales Factor and The Throwback Rule Benefits This teleconference will provide an in-depth analysis of the sales factor used in state and local income tax apportionment. You'll learn all about the sourcing of sales of tangible personal property and services, including the dock sales test and market-based sourcing. Find out what you need to know about the throwback rule and the throw-out rule. Get expert advice on handling issues  more...