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Employment Practices Liability Insurance – Preserving, Defending and Pressing Your Rights to Coverage
 
This webinar will cover the background and scope of Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) and the insurance coverage issues you need to know to avoid having an insurance company deny your claim or curtail your benefits.  The webinar will cover such issues as giving notice of a claim, responding to the insurer’s reservation of rights, preserving the attorney-client privilege, working with defense counsel, obtaining independent counsel, settling cases with covered and non-covered claims, maximizing recoveries for wage and hour claims, pressing recovery of punitive damages, negotiating with your insurance company, and building your case for bad faith claims handling in the event of a breakdown.

Damages at Trial:  How best to prepare or refute the damages assessment.  This program will focus on building a successful damages strategy in both class and individual employment cases.  Prevailing at trial starts early in the case, explain defense counsel Lisa Brown and economist Dr. Andrew Cook.

The California Supreme Court’s recent Quesada decision is a reminder of the power of California’s consumer protection laws, including the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) (CC §§1750–1784).

The CLRA provides for actual and punitive damages, injunctive, and restitution for consumers injured by certain unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive practices in the advertising and sale of consumer goods and services. In addition, if the consumer is a senior citizen or is disabled, he or she may be awarded an additional sum if he has suffered substantial physical, emotional, or economic damage as a result of the defendant’s conduct. This webinar provides an overview of the CRLA as well as an update to changes in application and practice of the CRLA.

Law, science, and public policy collide in environmental class actions. While lawsuits over oil spills or toxic emissions can raise some unique questions in the context of common class action issues such as ascertainability and preemption, the lessons of the case law—like how your expert can make or break your case—apply to any complex litigation. In this seminar you will learn from experienced class action litigators and environmental law experts about how to best represent your client in environmental disputes.

In light of the increased salary requirement for the white collar exemption included in the Department of Labor’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, many firms are evaluating whether to reclassify some of their exempt employees to non-exempt (in which case they will have to pay overtime) or increase the employee’s salaries to meet or exceed the new threshold.  The employee’s work hours are critical to properly evaluate the available alternatives, but most firms do not have reliable measures of work hours for exempt employees.  Furthermore, with the potential for a change in the duties test for the white collar exemption, firms will likely need to understand what tasks their employees are performing and the portion of time spent in each to ensure proper classification.  The goal of this webinar is to provide several options available to estimate work time and understand employee’s activities so that firms can make informed decisions regarding employee classification.