CLE Audio Conferences

An Employer's Tax Guide to Gifts, Prizes, Business Expenses, Fringe Benefits and Other Payments to Employees

Paying employees is not just about wages. Today there are a myriad number of taxable and nontaxable benefits, such as gift cards, moving expenses, educational expenses, meals and travel expenses, that employers provide as part of employee’s total compensation. Particularly in difficult economic times,...

Ditching the Traditional Performance Review

Traditional performance review practices were born in the industrial age and organizations are becoming increasingly frustrated with performance management processes that have become overly complex, bureaucratic and demotivating. Performance management in general and performance reviews in particular...

Conducting a Successful Purchasing Audit

The purchasing audit is used as a diagnostic process that identifies opportunities for increased profitability. The purchasing audit should be broad and systematic and serves a way of reaffirming the company objectives, determine how the current purchasing strategy is performing, and identify the areas...

What You Need to Know About Section 404 Permits

Any proposed project involving wetlands or other waters of the United States is likely to require some type of permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As the federal agency responsible for regulating impacts to wetlands, the Corps’ regulations and the permit process can represent a significant...

Drafting Document Retention Policies

As organizations are increasingly creating official records in electronic form, the data deluge of high volumes of data has raised the importance of information management and the need for a comprehensive records and information management (RIM) program. Litigation and government investigations heighten...

Utilizing Social Media in Investigations

Investigators today face the almost insurmountable task of identifying usable information from the plethora of social media sites. Facebook® alone has over 800 million users and Twitter® users send 175 million tweets each day. Sifting through the social media data presented online can ultimately be...

Lender Liabilities

Post-recession litigation has elevated and changed the landscape for lender liability issues. Lenders, more often than not, find themselves defending against counter-claims or defenses raised by borrowers. Some of these claims are rooted in long-standing common-law doctrines, but more often, others...

Contract Basics for Paralegals

Contracts govern the basic business and commercial relationships for most of us; yet for many the basics of contract law remain a mystery. There is often misinformation about such simple questions as “Is a handshake enough?” or “Do all the boilerplate terms of a contract really matter?” This live audio...

Current Employment Issues for Nonprofits

Nonprofit employers are presented with compliance requirements keyed to their tax exempt status. This is notably true with respect to executive compensation and perks and volunteers and interns. Nonprofit employers also must parse out whether they are covered by new statutes, such as the Affordable...

Self-Auditing Your Employee Benefits: A Guide to What May Need Fixing

Staying in compliance with the numerous complex requirements and the specific terms of your employee benefits plans is a monumental task. It is easy to have your time consumed by the day-to-day issues and questions that arise under your benefit plans and the typical annual processes and compliance requirements...