CLE Audio Conferences

Executive Compensation Issues for Nonprofit Organizations

The success of a nonprofit or tax-exempt entity depends largely on finding and hiring a talented executive team. Talented executives demand and require compensation packages that are commensurate with their abilities. Unfortunately, the rules for compensating nonprofit and tax-exempt executives are...

Best Practices in Budget Development and Analysis

In difficult fiscal times many budget officers and municipal managers begin the process by a rather simple approach: revenues are down 10%, we need to cut the budget by 10%. Then they wait for the battles to begin, internally with department heads, externally with council members and other public stakeholders....

Smoking Discrimination in the Workplace: On and Off the Clock

Employers have multiple issues to address that concern or involve the health of their employees. Employees have privacy interests, in addition to their own interests in preserving and improving their health. All of these interests, and more, arise within the context of nonsmoking policies used within...

Skip Tracing and Locating Assets Techniques

You will learn how to track down subjects and uncover their assets. Patrick McPherson, a licensed private investigator with over a decade of skip trace and asset location experience, will teach you how to use the best free and proprietary data bases to locate people and assets. This live audio conference...

Curbing FMLA Abuse: How to Manage Manipulative Employees

About 62% of workers nationally qualify to take leave under the FMLA, and over 50 million employees have taken advantage of leave under the Act. Managing FMLA leave can be extremely challenging for employers, especially in the face of rampant employee abuse. However, there are tools available to employers...

Client Nonpayment: Ethical Considerations in Collections and Termination

You have worked many hours on your client’s matter and obtained a good result, only to find yourself in a dispute with your client over the payment of your fee. The client may complain about the quality of the service or may claim that they cannot pay your fees. Whatever the excuse, it is a problem...

IRS Repair and Maintenance Regulation Update

All taxpayers that acquire, produce, or improve tangible property will need to comply with the recently issued “repair” regulations. These new regulations are a marked departure from prior law, and generally require taxpayers to capitalize more costs than they were required to capitalize under prior...

Insurance Coverage Disputes and Construction Defects

This live audio conference has been prepared by two nationally recognized experts in construction law and insurance coverage. You will gain knowledge and insight based on practical experience of handling both the construction and insurance components of construction defect claims of all sizes, and implicating...

Keys to Understanding and Writing Purchasing Contracts

Purchasing law is an emerging legal area invoking a variety of legal doctrines including Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, treaties such as CISG and the New York Convention, common law concepts of impossibility, products liability, insurance coverage law, civil law concepts of good faith and...

Noncompetition Agreements for HR and Business Leaders: Protecting the Company's Business Resources

Now more than ever, employers are seeing former employees trying to jump start their career moves – voluntarily or involuntarily – by cashing in on the employer’s investment in relationships and information. Quite simply, the most effective way to protect your company’s resources against the actions...