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2010 Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference


Date 10/15/2010  -  10/15/2010  
8:30 AM  -  4:15 PM  

Location The Offices of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
Chicago, IL


2010 Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference
"Preventing & Solving Today's Employment Law Problems"

A day-long program hosted by the Labor and Employment Group of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

Friday, October 15, 2010
111 South Wacker Drive
29th Floor Conference Center
Chicago, Illinois

Registration and continental breakfast: 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Program: 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Lunch: 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Program (cont'd.): 1:30 - 4:15 p.m.

General session topics include:

  • Protecting Your Company’s Trade Secrets and Intellectual Property: A Toolkit
  • Health Reform — Smart First Steps for Employers
  • Background Checks: What’s Legal and What’s Not

Workshop topics available:

  • Unemployment Compensation Protests in a Tough Economic Environment: More Dollars on the Line — More Discrimination Charges Likely to Follow
  • Why Employees Sue — And How They Win
  • Compliance Review for Employee Benefits Plans: A Periodic Checkup for Your Plan
  • Employer Harassment Liability: New Strict Liability Standard for Supervisors
  • Employees with Repeated or Long-Term Injuries: What Can an Employer Do
  • Solving the Tough Wage and Hour Problems: Answers to the Issues Most Perplexing to You
  • What’s New in California — And How it May Affect You

Please contact Marissa Pallan at mpallan@lockelord.com or 312-443-1792 with questions. 

This program has been approved by the Illinois MCLE Board for 5.5 hours of CLE credit. HRCI credit is pending.

Click here for access to the event brochure.