Refining Your Skills: Exploring Emerging Issues and Trends in Employment Law - Virtual Onlylls: Exploring Emerging Issues and Trends in Employment Law

Join us for NCAJ's Annual Employment Law seminar!   Program Co-Chairs ​Joseph Hjelt ​and ​Trisha Pande and Glen Savits have assembled North Carolina's finest Employment Law practitioners to provide you with invaluable insights on major topics that every North Carolina employment law practitioner encounters.  Regardless if you are an aspiring experienced practitioner or just want to brush up on the latest in employment law, the wide range of topics covered and knowledge gained in connection with this seminar are not to be missed!  Register Today!

Registration includes seminar materials (in electronic format) and 6.0 CLE hours (inc. 1.0 ethics/technology and 1.0 substance abuse/mental health). 

 

TOPICS & SPEAKERS

8:00 am | Registration

 8:55 am | Welcoming Remarks by Program Chairs

• Joseph Hjelt, Kornbluth Ginsberg Law Group, P.A., Durham
• Glen Savits, Green Savits, LLC. Wilmington
• Trisha Pande, Patterson Harkavy LLP, Chapel Hill 

 9:00 am | Pushing the Envelope: Going On Offense About Who Can Be in "the Room" and Other Pushing the Envelope Tactics

Josh Van Kampen and Brian Cordova will discuss whether an entity party can have multiple corporate representatives, and if so, who those individuals may be. Their presentation will include analysis of non-party representatives and real-time strategies for addressing these issues at deposition.

• Josh Van Kampen, Van Kampen Law PC, Charlotte
• Brian Cordova, Van Kampen Law PC, Raleigh 

10:00 am | Legal Issues Arising from the Remote Workplace

Remote work has become common practice since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This panel touches on the various employment issues arising from the shift to remote work.

• Joseph Hjelt, Kornbluth Ginsberg Law Group, P.A., Durham
• Jennifer Spyker, Tin Fulton Walker, Owen, Charlotte

 11:00 am | Break

 11:15 am | Getting Lost in Our Own Lives

This presentation examines some of the root causes of lawyer distress and focuses on areas of life that lawyers can control in order to increase their happiness and emotional resilience.

• North Carolina Lawyer Assistance Program & LAP Foundation of NC, Inc.

 12:15 pm | Lunch 

 1:15 pm | Rusch v. High Point Clinical Trials Center: Case Debrief

Mike Kornbluth and Andrew Legg will discuss a recent trial victory in a state court wage and hour case, Rusch v. High Point Clinical Trials Center.

• Mike Kornbluth, Kornbluth Ginsberg Law Group, P.A., Durham
• Andrew Legg, Kornbluth Ginsberg Law Group, P.A., Durham 

2:45 pm | Considerations in Representing Immigrant Workers

• Carol Brooke, North Carolina Justice Center, Raleigh

3:15 pm | Break

3:30 pm | Real Life Ethics in a Virtual World 

This presentation explores how modern technology and security concerns implicate an attorney’s ethical obligations to protect documents, communications, and other confidential materials.

• Brian Oten, Chief Ethics Counsel, NC State Bar, Raleigh

4:30 pm | Adjourn

SEMINAR MATERIALS

All of our seminar materials are PAPERLESS! Please be on the lookout for an email 72 hours prior to the seminar that includes the seminar materials to download and print.

This program has been approved for credit in the following jurisdiction(s):

North Carolina State Bar, Board of Continuing Legal Education

Credit has been approved with the North Carolina State Bar, Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.00 Ethics credit, 4.00 General credits, and 1.00 Professional Well Being credit.

 

 

Materials available with registration:

Cancellations received one week prior to the seminar date are refunded less a $35 service charge. Refunds cannot be given after this date. Substitutions are welcomed and may be made until the date of the seminar. For registrants who wish to transfer their registration to another NCAJ seminar, transfer requests received by 12:00 noon the third working day prior to the seminar are subject to a $50 transfer fee. Transfer requests received after this time are subject to a $110 transfer fee. Registrations may be transferred once and only to (one day) seminars scheduled through June 30, 2023.