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A must for any in-house practitioner needing to stay up to speed on current employment law, this permanent fixture on the ACC Annual Meeting agenda will do just that. Join our panel to learn about new case law and legislation that affects employment and labor law issues. You will take away resources to draw from to help you understand these changes and how they might affect your company's employment practices.

All employers need to know when their employees are eligible for an excused protected leave. Now there are so many different types of protected and unprotected leaves for employees. This presentation will help you understand an overview of state and federal laws covering leaves such as: FMLA, disability accommodations, and USERRA. Learn how best to deal with FMLA intermittent leave, employees who have been called up for active military duty, employees requesting extended periods of leave, and leave as an accommodation.

Three federal agencies have released final regulations on what is allowable as part of company wellness programs including premium discounts, health risk assessments, and more. The regulations are required reading to avoid ERISA, HIPAA, ADA, and IRS issues. Allow our panel of seasoned counsel to highlight the requirements of the regulations and the interplay between applicable statutes, and identify best practices throughout the country to (legally) help control health costs.

With growing emphasis on controlling the costs of litigation, corporate counsel must demonstrate value using objective measurements. The emerging best practices for measuring the value of litigation management require metrics using methodology CFOs understand and in which they will have confidence. Our panel of law department leaders will demonstrate litigation management metrics and how they can be used in combination with risk analysis and early case assessment to improve litigation results.

The hottest class action law suits all focus in on wage and hour. Don’t let it happen to you! Find out what you need to know to help eliminate significant liability in the ever changing, highly regulated, litigious world of wage and hour. You’ll find this program to be of great value as our panel shares with you what you need to conquer the basics of spotting the intricacies of wage and hour law early on.

More and more employees are qualifying for certain benefits deemed for domestic partners. This is a relatively new area for benefits coverage: here is a your chance to get a clear picture up close from your in-house peers as they share their expertise on current legal status of domestic partners and best practices. You will come away from this session with a better understanding of the legal rights, or lack thereof, of domestic partners and their family members to employee benefits and other HR matters.

This ACC CLO ThinkTank Executive Report highlights key takeaways and discussion highlights from a recent ACC CLO ThinkTank session on "Taking Charge of Escalating Law Firm Costs-Connecting Costs with Value."

The employment relationship is a complex and knotty area of the law with a rapidly changing backdrop. With such a dizzying array of employee rights and workplace laws applicable to employers, do you have the necessary tools to protect your company from liability? Learn effective methods to manage employee leave, wage and hour compliance, practical considerations for pre-employment screening and employment verification, useful strategies in drafting employment manuals and non-competition
agreements, and the legal implications of employee benefits and other human resources matters.

Discuss what compliance issues the Feds are focused on right now, and what you can do to protect your company. Learn about companies and in-house counsel who have suffered the consequences of non-compliance and discover the best resources available to keep up with changes in the law.

Learn how to actually implement the program you’ve structured; Discuss who in your organization should and should NOT be involved; Identify interactive training tactics that make compliance training more engaging and memorable for trainees; Learn about technological aids that can assist with overcoming compliance-training obstacles, including budgetary issues, and learn how to adapt to changes in the law and keep your program up-to-date.

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