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| Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Special Welcome Breakfast for New Labor and Employment Law Practitioners - Sponsored by the Labor & Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan | | - Pre-registration is required.
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| Special New Lawyer Presentation: "The Secrets to Building a Successful Practice in Labor and Employment Law" |
| Stanley C. Moore III
Plunkett Cooney; Bloomfield Hills
Gary W. Francis
Plunkett Cooney; Bloomfield Hills
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| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast for Registrants - Sponsored by Butzel Long |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | Welcome and Section Activity Update |
| Daniel J. Bretz
Clark Hill PLC; Detroit
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| 9:20 AM - 10:15 AM | Americans with Disabilities Act Update |
| John R. Runyan
Sachs Waldman PC; Detroit
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| 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | EEO Caselaw Update |
| Daniel J. Bretz
Clark Hill PLC; Detroit
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| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Networking Break - Sponsored by Vercruysse Murray & Calzone PC |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Family and Medical Leave Act Update |
| David B. Calzone
Vercruysse Murray & Calzone PC; Bingham Farms
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| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch Program: The EEOC in the New Administration - Sponsored by Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone PLC |
| Peggy R. Mastroianni
Associate Legal Counsel
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Washington, DC
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| 2:00 PM - 2:55 PM | Fair Labor Standards Act Update |
| Robert A. Boonin
Butzel Long; Ann Arbor
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| 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | The EEOC and Disability Law Today |
| - What's new at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the area of disability law? Hear directly from someone who sits at the table! Learn about new amendments and new regulations concerning the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Where is the agency going? What changes can you expect? What do you need to know?
Peggy R. Mastroianni
Associate Legal Counsel
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Washington, DC
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| 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | Regulating Off Duty and Away From Work Activities |
| - First it was smoking, then it was obesity and now some Japanese companies are regulating waist lines! What will they think of next?! Learn what employers can and can't do in regulating off duty behavior. Compare and contrast the rules in a union and non-union setting when employees engage in off duty/away-from-work inappropriate behavior at company functions.
Linda G. Burwell
Nemeth Burwell PC; Detroit
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| 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | Managing and Leveraging FOUR Generations of Employees in the 21st Century Workplace! |
| - Never before have we faced four generations of employees all at once, each with a unique perspective. Learn to manage them all successfully and without conflict by exploring the work values and intergenerational work group dynamics of Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Millennial employees. Develop a framework to coach and manage inter-generational work groups, learn to assess and affirm generational differences, build bridges between them and maximize team performance by cultivating the right organizational culture.
Lynn Perry Wooten, Ph.D.
Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan; Ann Arbor
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| 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Networking Break - Sponsored by Nemeth Burwell PC |
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| 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM | The Essentials of Preparing Your Clients for the Burdens of E-Discovery |
| - Prepare your clients for the burden of e-discovery long before the first discovery wave crashes on your shore. Get advice on electronic document management policies and practices. Learn to marry e-discovery arrangements with standard document practices, and how to negotiate work share and cost shifting arrangements early. Take home sample documents of e-discovery demands, directives to employees affected, check lists for IT departments and more!
B. Jay Yelton III
Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone PLC; Kalamazoo
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| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | NLRB/MERC Update |
| - Special expanded one-hour presentation featuring highlights of the past year's most significant decisions issued by the National Labor Relations Board, the courts, the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, and the Court of Appeals in reviewing MERC decisions.
Stanley C. Moore III
Plunkett Cooney; Bloomfield Hills
D. Lynn Morison
Redford
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| 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM | The Year in Review for HR Professionals - Part I |
| - Our team of annual update presenters shares their perspective on what the newest cases mean for the operation of your human resource department. Get expert insight and analysis from top experts. Bring your questions and get them answered.
Robert A. Boonin
Butzel Long; Ann Arbor
Daniel J. Bretz
Clark Hill PLC; Detroit
David B. Calzone
Vercruysse Murray & Calzone PC; Bingham Farms
John R. Runyan
Sachs Waldman PC; Detroit
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| 4:50 PM - 5:30 PM | Selecting the Retaliation Case |
| - Retaliation cases have been much in the news of late. Discover what a successful practitioner thinks is a good case. How do you recognize one? Should your client go to the authorities, or not? What should you be advising clients while still employed? How do you approach settlement without being accused of extortion? Join an outstanding plaintiff's lawyer as he shares his thinking and approach.
Michael L. Pitt
Pitt McGehee Palmer Rivers & Golden; Royal Oak
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| 4:50 PM - 5:30 PM | The Year in Review for HR Professionals - Part II |
| - Our team of annual update presenters continues this annual presentation. Bring your questions and get them answered.
Robert A. Boonin
Butzel Long; Ann Arbor
Daniel J. Bretz
Clark Hill PLC; Detroit
David B. Calzone
Vercruysse Murray & Calzone PC; Bingham Farms
John R. Runyan
Sachs Waldman PC; Detroit
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| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Breaking News and Capitol Hill Update |
| - 2009 is likely to be a year of major changes in Washington and Lansing in labor and employment law. Get ahead of the curve with all the latest on new federal legislation, new federal regulations, and all the news from Lansing in this special session!
Reginald M. Turner Jr.
Clark Hill PLC; Detroit
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| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Networking Reception - Sponsored by Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton PLC |
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| Friday, April 03, 2009 |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by
Right Management | | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Conducting the High Level/High Profile Sexual Harassment Investigation |
| - Join a top investigator as she describes the "right" way to conduct a high level/high profile sexual harassment investigation. Who should you be talking to when the allegations are at best sensitive and at worst sensational? What's the role of in-house counsel? Who sees the results? Should she write a report? To whom do you answer? Learn the answers to these questions and more!
Kiffi Y. Ford
Dykema; Lansing
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| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Strategies for Right Sizing |
| - The economy hasn't bottomed out and more cuts are necessary! What are the considerations if temporary shutdowns are required? What rules apply to restructuring and retracting medical benefits? What options are available for retirement, lay off, and educational stipends? When should the lawyers be brought in? Take home the latest thinking before another client gets in trouble!
Peter J. Kok
Miller Johnson; Grand Rapids
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| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Where and How to Find the Next Generation of Leaders - An HR/Operations Strategic Partnership |
| - The world is changing rapidly. The current generation of enterprise leaders is aging. Partner with operations to identify, assess, and develop their successors. Learn to think strategically: what motivates the next generation, how do you attract them, what talents are you looking for, do you look inside or outside the organization, and how do you develop new talent once on board? Join an organizational development psychologist in boldly facing the challenge of doing more with less!
Jeremy N. Borys, Ph.D.
Vice President Organizational Consultant
Right Management; Southfield
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| 9:50 AM - 10:30 AM | "But I AM the Company Lawyer, Really I Am!" The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Role of In-House Counsel |
| - Focusing on the attorney-client, work-product and critical self-analysis privileges and the role of in-house counsel in workplace investigations and compliance programs, this session will pick up where the previous session left off. Does the privilege apply to all external or internal communications by in-house counsel? How can these privileges be preserved? What practices provide the most protection?
Margaret Carroll Alli
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC; Bloomfield Hills
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| 9:50 AM - 10:30 AM | Hard Bargaining Ahead! What Every Lawyer Should Know About Buy Downs, Buy Outs and Medical Buy Outs |
| - In tough times, how do labor and management find common ground on ways to preserve jobs while allowing employers to remain competitive in the global marketplace?
Jeffrey David Sodko
International Union UAW; Detroit
Robert M. Vercruysse
Vercruysse Murray & Calzone PC; Bingham Farms
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| 9:50 AM - 10:30 AM | What To Do When the ICE-man Cometh - Are Your I-9s in Order and Other Coping Strategies |
| - Are you ready to respond to requests for your I-9s? Are you using the new I-9 form? Have you dealt with the e-verify program? Have you had a "no match" letter? Be ready when the ICE-man cometh or calleth with tips and advice from an immigration specialist.
Kathleen M. Hanenburg
Warner Norcross & Judd LLP; Grand Rapids
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Networking Break - Sponsored by Dykema |
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| 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Cross Examining the HR Manager in Sexual Harassment Litigation - A Role Play Demonstration |
| - You've listened to the presentation on how to conduct a high level/high profile sexual harassment investigation. Now watch a realistic role play demonstrating what a deposition looks like when the HR manager has not done a professional, workmanlike investigation to get to the bottom of the dispute.
Kathleen L. Bogas
Law Offices of Kathleen L Bogas PLLC; Bingham Farms
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| 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Managing Religious and Cultural Differences in the Work Place |
| - Get competing perspectives on the challenges of managing a diverse workplace where religious and cultural differences divide employees and lead to friction. Take home suggestions and tips on how to manage effectively.
Shereef H. Akeel
Akeel & Valentine PLC; Troy
James F. Hermon
Dykema; Detroit
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| 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | The Survivors of Downsizing: Succeeding with Employees Who Made the Cut! |
| - Your work force has been cut to the bone, but the work hasn't gone away. Remaining employees shoulder a huge burden and fear they will be next. How do you reassure and retain employees who survived downsizing? What strategies succeed? What work can be reduced? What training can be offered? How does management demonstrate its commitment to the survivors? A long time HR professional shares his analysis and recommendations.
Daniel J. Clinton
Farmington Hills
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| 11:35 AM - 12:30 PM | Managing the Return to Work of Uniform Military Service Personnel |
| - The United States commitment to military engagement is going to continue for a time despite the election of a new president. Learn to cope with just cause issues, troublesome employees suffering the effects of combat, overtime equalization, entitlement to former buyouts, how to provide counseling and EAP during service and successor employers.
Jennifer A. Zinn
Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton PLC; Birmingham
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| 11:35 AM - 12:30 PM | Just Cause Revisited - A Review of an Old Idea in the New World of Today |
| - Join two of the country's top labor arbitrators as they share the history of "just cause" for discharge, describe the seven tests to determine just cause, and explain why arbitrators don't always follow them. Get practical examples of how just cause operates in labor arbitrations in the 21st century.
George T. Roumell Jr.
Roumell Lange & Cholack PLC; Detroit
Theodore J. St. Antoine
University of Michigan Law School; Ann Arbor
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| 11:35 AM - 12:30 PM | Surviving Cancer - Lessons Learned for HR Professionals from Personal Experience |
| - Valuable employees can experience catastrophic illness or injury requiring extended time off work. One HR professional experienced cancer. Find out the lessons she learned for dealing with management support, privacy, employee stress, and FMLA intermittent leave. Learn from the experience of others and be ready should this type of misfortune strike someone at your company!
Antoinette Knechtges, SPHR
ASK Consulting Group LLC; Plymouth
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| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch Program: My Clients in Abu Ghraib and Bagdhad - Representing the Victims of Private Contractors in Iraq! |
| Shereef H. Akeel
Akeel & Valentine PLC; Troy
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| 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Understanding the New EEOC Guidelines and Regulations |
| - A range of important new guidelines and regulations have been issued by the EEOC in the last year concerning veterans' rights, religious discrimination, the FMLA and ex-offenders. Join the Director of the EEOC's Detroit Field Office and a management side practitioner to get the "skinny" on each!
Gail D. Cober
Director
EEOC Detroit Field Office; Detroit
Timothy H. Howlett
Dickinson Wright PLLC; Detroit
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| 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Between You, Me, and the Internet! Developing Policies and Practices in the Electronic Information Age |
| - Help your clients develop policies and practices to address securing confidential information, manage corporate electronic bulletin boards and office intranets, address data breach notification, deal with employees who pilfer confidential information, and implications for union organizing drives.
John Gabriel Adam
Martens Ice Klass Legghio & Israel PC; Royal Oak
Thomas J. Barnes
Varnum LLP; Grand Rapids
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| 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | There's a Whistleblower in the House! Dealing with Current Employees Pursuing Whistleblower Litigation |
| - Whistleblower litigation is tough enough, but add a whole new level of complexity when the plaintiff is a current employee! Learn the profile of whistleblowers. How should management deal with the situation? How are co-workers reacting? What are the practical implications and issues for continuing to operate in this environment?
Gloria A. Hage
The University of Michigan Office of the Vice President and General Counsel; Ann Arbor
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| 2:50 PM - 3:30 PM | Handling Federal Discovery Practice and Disputes Effectively |
| - As technology and business changes transform the term "document," and electronically stored information grows in significance, lawyers, courts and think tank scholars have struggled with the manner, method, timing, scope and cost of production. Join three federal magistrate judges who share practical tips and insight to help you meet your motion practice needs.
Hon. Hugh W. Brenneman Jr.
US Magistrate Judge
United States District Court - Western District of Michigan; Grand Rapids
Hon. Mona K. Majzoub
US Magistrate Judge
United States District Court - Eastern District of Michigan; Detroit
Hon. Virginia M. Morgan
US Magistrate Judge
United States District Court - Eastern District of Michigan; Detroit
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| 2:50 PM - 3:30 PM | Family Responsibility Discrimination Claims |
| - Care giving family responsibilities disproportionately affect women, particularly minority women. While most jurisdictions do not afford specific protection other than the FMLA, "sex plus" and FRD cases are increasing exponentially. In this cutting edge presentation, you'll learn the kinds of employer mistakes that lead to substantial recoveries for the plaintiff, male and female alike!
Jennifer B. Salvatore
Nacht & Associates PC; Ann Arbor
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| 2:50 PM - 3:30 PM | Reconciling the ADA and the FMLA and Dealing with Requests for Intermittent Leave |
| - Conflicting statutory demands and the need to efficiently operate the enterprise in the face of requests for intermittent leave continue to confound HR departments of companies across the country. A leading authority who deals with it every day shares her insights and recommendations for operating a humane yet efficient operation without incurring liability!
Megan P. Norris
Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone PLC; Detroit
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