Training & Speeches

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Training.

We offer training sessions for employees and supervisors in a wide variety of employment subjects, such as:
  • preventing and correcting unlawful harassment and discrimination
  • lawful hiring and interviewing methods
  • supervisor tips for effective documentation and disciplinary actions
  • prevention and avoidance of unionization

Speeches and Publications.

We frequently write articles and speak before human resource professionals, management groups and employment lawyers on labor and employment law subjects, such as the following:

  • “Sex Harassment: Ten Things Management Needs to Know”
    (MOWAT, Austin) Speech 2007
  • “Cost Containment Options After Workers’ Comp Reform”
    (ASSE, Ft. Worth) Speech 2007
  • “The ADA/FMLA/Workers’ Compensation Web”
    (Harris & Harris Seminar, Dallas) Speech 2007
  • “Pros & Cons In and Out of the Workers’ Comp System”
    (Open 4 Bus., Austin) Speech 2007
  • “Ten Employment Law Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
    (Austin, El Paso) Speech 2006
  • Is It Time For You to Arbitrate and Avoid Jury Trials?
    Article 2006
  • Reforming Workers’ Compensation
    (Texas Orthopedics) Article 2005
  • “Workers’ Comp Reform in the Lone Star State”
    (Risk & Ins. Mgt Soc., Dallas) Speech 2005
  • “Taking Control & Opting Out: The Ultimate Reform”
    (Risk & Ins. Mgt Soc., Dallas) Speech 2005
  • “Reforming Comp Through the Legislature and the Courts”
    (ASSE, El Paso) Speech 2005
  • Avoid Costly Workers’ Comp Insurance by Opting Out
    (Executive Legal Advisor) Article 2004
  • Substance Abuse in the Workplace
    (NALS E-Learn Newsletter) Article 2004
  • “Nonsubscribers on the Offensive: Tort Reform & Legislative Session”
    (Dallas) Speech 2003
  • Just Say No [to Costly Comp]
    (Texas Lawyer) Article 2003
  • Labor Relations, Ch. 22, Doing Business in Texas
    (Int’l Law Sec. State Bar of Tx) Article 2003
  • “A New Business—Now What?”
    (Leander Business Symposium) Speech 2003
  • Texas Business Report, “Workforce Q&A,” guest contributor
    (Tex. Ass’n of Bus.)    Article 2002
  • “Untangling ADA/FMLA/Workers’ Compensation”
    (Lorman Seminar, Austin)    Speech 2002

Additional seminars and presentations by topic:

  • Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation
  • Cutting Workers’ Comp Down to Size: The Latest on Reforms & Alternatives
  • ERISA Plans and Related Litigation
  • Nonsubscriber’s Rights, Responsibilities & Injury Benefit Plans

Americans with Disabilities Act

  • The EEOC Psychiatric Guidelines
  • AIDS, HIV & Other Disabilities: Accommodating Employees & Customers
  • The Unstable Employee: How to Balance Your Legal, Ethical & Co-Worker Obligations
  • Advanced ADA: Reasonable  Accommodations from A to Z
  • Accommodation; Recent Cases & Practical Guidelines

Discrimination and Harassment

  • The Impact of Latest Court Cases on Title VII Claims
  • Can Employers Regulate Appearance, Conduct and Conversation?
  • Sex and Other Harassment

Ethics and Crime Prevention in the Workplace

  • Preventing Liability from Ethical Breaches
  • Policing the Workplace
  • Preventing and Responding to Workplace Violence

Family and Medical Leave Act

  • Time Off in Texas: Strategies to Contain the Cost of Absenteeism
  • Invoking Statutory Rights to Control Intermittent Leave under the FMLA

Litigation Avoidance

  • Discipline and Discharge: Prevent Lawsuits and Exert Management Rights
  • The Proactive Employer: Bold Actions to Deal with Employee Lawsuits & Charges

OSHA and Occupational Liability Containment

  • Workers’ Compensation, OSHA, ADA and FMLA
  • Using Return to Work to Minimize Malingering

Wage and Hour/FLSA

  • Litigation of Wage & Hour Claims
  • Work Time and Hours Worked
  • Exempt v. Nonexempt Employees