June 9: Returning to Work Post-COVID and Labor Developments in the Biden Administration

As the pandemic winds down in the United States, employers are faced with the challenge of bringing employees back to the workplace in a safe and productive way.
This webinar will cover the latest on how to navigate return-to-work considerations as well as other labor developments arising in the Biden administration.
Our discussion will include:

• COVID-19 statutory changes, recent case law and agency developments
• Vaccination requirements and reasonable accommodations
• Hiring and reinstatement considerations post-pandemic
• Employee safety and other obligations
• Review of significant employment developments in the Biden administration.

Title:
Returning to Work Post-COVID and Labor Developments in the Biden Administration
2021 Labor Update
Webinar Date+Time:

Wednesday, June 9, 2021
12:00 PM EDT / 09:00 AM PDT / 05:00 PM BST
DURATION:60 MINUTES
Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar - register now!
Speakers:

• Nicolle L. Jacoby is the co-head of Dechert’s Labor and Employment practice. Her practice focuses on employment-related matters, including conducting internal investigations into allegations of employee misconduct and litigating high-stakes discrimination cases, contractual disputes with executives, and non-compete, non-solicit and trade secret cases in the courts as well as in mediation and arbitration. Ms. Jacoby also regularly represents employers in proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New York City and State Human Rights Commissions and other regulatory agencies.
• J. Ian Downes practices in the area of labor and employment law, with a focus on ERISA litigation and labor-management relations. He has significant experience with ERISA and wage-and-hour class actions, as well as in representing clients in all types of labor and employment litigation. Mr. Downes devotes a significant portion of his practice to providing clients with day-to-day assistance and counseling concerning all varieties of labor and employment issues, including negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and restrictive covenants, planning and implementing reductions in force and complying with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act and state and local plant closing laws, and handling of employee complaints and discipline issues.
• Linda Dwoskin's practice includes both litigation and counseling on a wide variety of employment and labor issues, including all forms of discrimination, sexual harassment, disability claims, restrictive covenant issues, the Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. Linda also regularly conducts training programs nationwide and both conducts and advises on internal workplace investigations involving sensitive topics and high-level managers. As part of her litigation practice, she has represented employers ranging from small companies to multinational corporations, and she has litigated matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and a number of state and federal trial courts, as well as state and federal administrative agencies.

By:
Dechert
Credit:
CLE credits in CA, CT, IL, NJ, NY and PA are currently pending. For other jurisdictions, contact the sponsor.

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March 26: Burnout Prevention: Harnessing the Tools of Time and Thought Tracking to Set You Up for Continued Success

The past 12 months have brought plenty to be stressed out about. Adding a pandemic, economic insecurity, and working remotely to the usual challenges of running a law firm can leave even the most organized and efficient among us vulnerable to burnout. This webinar identifies the signs of burnout in the legal profession and offers tools and techniques to mitigate its negative effects in your law practice.
This webinar addresses:

• How stress impacts the brain, and why lawyers are a vulnerable population when it comes to burnout
• How to identify the signs of burnout, anxiety, and depression in lawyers
• The ethical implications of unmanaged stress and burnout in the legal field
• Tools and techniques to prevent and mitigate lawyer burnout and the increased likelihood of anxiety and depression.

You can't be efficient at work if you’re burned out. The troubles and uncertainty that we all faced in the last year has forced us to take wellness in the workplace more seriously. Smokeball is committed to making legal professionals' lives easier and more productive by starting with the people behind the firm name. Now is the time to focus on personal growth for your firm!

Title:

Burnout Prevention: Harnessing the Tools of Time and Thought Tracking to Set You Up for Continued Success
When/Where:
March 26, 2021
11 am CT (9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET)
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Speaker:
Chelsy Castro, JD, MA, MSW, LCSW is CEO and Founder of Castro Jacobs Psychotherapy and Consulting (CJPC), a firm specializing in lawyer well-being. An attorney turned psychotherapist and career strategist, Chelsy counsels individuals and the organizations they work for on how to achieve their goals in healthy and productive ways. Chelsy’s publications and trainings focus on science-based skills and strategies for improving performance and increasing well-being in high-pressure professions. After practicing law as a multilingual attorney in the field of international regulatory compliance, Chelsy later earned her clinical degree at the University of Chicago and shifted her focus to lawyer well-being. Prior to launching CJPC, Chelsy designed, developed, and managed clinical programs for the legal profession, and provided evidence-based psychotherapy and training for lawyers, judges, and law students.
Credit:
The sponsors has applied for CLE credit in the jurisdictions of FL, IL, and CA and can supply materials to be used for additional CLE certification after the webinar.
By:
Smokeball

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