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Webinar: American Health Lawyers Association On Hospital Transactions

  • When: Apr 19, 2018
  • Where: Webinar

Jeanne L. Vance will present at an American Health Lawyers Association webinar panel called, “Hospital Deals: How to Avoid A Regulatory Crash and Burn” on April 19. She joins national experts on hospital acquisitions and licensing and enrollment matters.

Mandatory AB 1825 Sexual Harassment Prevention Training and Optional Supervisor Best Practices and Legal Compliance Training

  • When: Apr 19, 2018

Mandatory AB 1825 Sexual Harassment Prevention Training

The regulations regarding California’s Mandatory Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for supervisors require that certain employers provide training to their supervisors every two years.

The Labor and Employment Group at Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin is offering a two hour in-person training session that will comply with all the requirements outlined in the regulations including things like:

  • An overview of sexual harassment laws
  • Examples of conduct that constitute sexual harassment
  • Strategies to prevent harassment in the workplace
  • Lawful supervisory responses to complaints of harassment in the workplace
  • Training on prevention of “abusive conduct” in the workplace
  • Training on policies that prohibit harassment based on gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation (Senate Bill 396)
  • Practical and inter-active hypotheticals and examples to help illustrate what bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation can look like.

If you are an employer with 50 or more employees, and have supervisors who have not yet been trained, this training is a must. We look forward to hearing from you and helping you comply with your continuing sexual harassment training obligations.

 Approved for two (2) hours MCLE (Elimination of Bias).

OPTIONAL: Supervisor Best Practices and Legal Compliance Training

Most employers know that it is crucial to have well trained supervisors to help ensure that rank and file employees perform their jobs effectively and efficiently.  However, many employers don’t realize how important it is that supervisors be trained to understand the many employment laws that govern the workplace.  Untrained supervisors can take actions (or fail to take actions) that result in significant legal consequences for an employer.

This one-hour training will cover topics like:

  • Legal do’s and don’ts when hiring and firing
  • Tips for effective communication between supervisors and employees, including how to give constructive performance feedback
  • The importance of consistent, objective, and timely discipline
  • Important wage and hour laws
  • Workplace safety rules
  • Accommodating disabilities and understanding the many leaves of absence laws
  • The in’s and out’s of employee privacy rights

Date & Time:

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Seminar Program

AB 1825 Training: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Optional Supervisor Best Practices: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Weintraub Tobin Office

400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor | Sacramento, CA 95814

Parking Validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage, entrances on 4th and 5th Street. Please bring your ticket with you to the 11th floor for validation.

AB 1825 Training: $95/person

Supervisor Best Practices and Legal Compliance Training: $60/person

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Fiduciary’s Guide to the Attorney-Client Privilege

  • When: Mar 6, 2018

Summary of Program

As a fiduciary, you may think that all of your communications with your attorney are confidential.  While communications between an attorney and his or her client are generally protected by the attorney-client privilege, in the trustee context, it is the office of the trustee, not the individual who is acting as trustee, that is the client.  As a result, if a trustee resigns or is removed from office, all of the confidential attorney-client communications will pass to the successor trustee.

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Trusts and Estates Group as they discuss the important legal and practical implications for trustees and other fiduciaries of the confidentiality of attorney-client communications, and learn why the protection of the attorney-client privilege can be here today, but gone tomorrow.

Program Highlights

  • Is every communication that you have with your attorney confidential?
  • How is the attorney-client privilege different for trustees and other fiduciaries?
  • Learn how to recognize the potential risks of disclosure of your confidential attorney-client communications.
  • Identify practical tools and strategies to protect your communications with your attorney.

Participants
Edward J. Corey, Jr.
Kelly E. Dankbar
Mary K. deLeo
Daniel C. Kim
Gary D. Rothstein

Date & Time:

Tuesday, March 6, 2018
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Presented by The Trusts & Estates Group at Weintraub Tobin

Seminar Program
3:30 pm – Registration
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm – Seminar
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm – Wine & Hors d’oeuvre Reception

Location
Weintraub Tobin Office
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor | Sacramento, CA 95814
Parking Validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage, entrances on 4th and 5th Street. Please bring your ticket with you to the 11th floor for validation.

There is no cost for this seminar
Approved for one (1) hour of California Fiduciary Credit.

Please RSVP by Thursday, February 27, 2018

You Aren’t In Kansas Anymore, Dorothy: A Common Sense Method of Complying with California’s New Fair Pay Act

  • When: Feb 15, 2018
Wooden court gavel and a plaque that reads equal pay.

Summary of Program

For decades the California Equal Pay Act has prohibited an employer from paying its employees less than employees of the opposite sex for equal work. On October 6, 2015, Governor Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act (SB 358), which strengthened the Equal Pay Act in a number of ways.  Then, on September 30, 2016, Governor Brown signed two other bills into law – SB 1063 which added race and ethnicity as protected categories under the Fair Pay Act, and AB 1676 – which prohibits employers from justifying a sex-, race-, or ethnicity-based pay differences solely on the grounds of prior salary.  California’s Fair Pay Act is now known as one of the strictest in the nation.Join Weintraub Tobin’s labor and employment attorneys as they discuss California’s Fair Pay Act and what this means for employers.

Program Highlights

  • The amendments to the Fair Pay Act
  • Recordkeeping requirements
  • What is “substantially similar work”
  • Justifications for pay difference
  • Bona fide factors other than sex, race, or ethnicity
  • How to comply with the Act
  • Strategies to defend against litigation

Date & Time:

February 15, 2018

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Seminar Program

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Registration & Breakfast

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Seminar

Location

Weintraub Tobin Office

400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor | Sacramento, CA 95814

Parking Validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage, entrances on 4th and 5th Street. Please bring your ticket with you to the 11th floor for validation.

There is no charge for this seminar.

Webinar

This seminar is also available via webinar. Please indicate in your RSVP if you will be attending via webinar.

Approved for two (2) hours MCLE.  This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.  Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance for the entirety of the webcast. 

Jeanne L. Vance Invited To Speak At The American Health Lawyers’ Association’s Medicare Medicaid Payment Issues Conference Regarding Provider Enrollment

  • When: Mar 21, 2018
  • Where: Baltimore, Maryland

For the eighth consecutive year, Jeanne L. Vance has been invited to present at the American Health Lawyers’ Association’s Medicare Medicaid Payment Issues conference regarding provider enrollment. Ms. Vance is thrilled to join esteemed colleagues of the health law bar at this annual conference which is March 21-23, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland.

2018 Employment Law Update (San Francisco)

  • When: Jan 10, 2018

Summary of Program

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Labor and Employment Group as they discuss important legal developments from 2017 and review a number of new laws facing employers in 2018.

Program Highlights

  • New Federal and State Legislation and Court Cases
  • Developments in Harassment, Discrimination and Retaliation Law
  • Leaves of Absence and Reasonable Accommodations
  • Wage and Hour Laws
  • Arbitration and Class Actions
  • NLRB

Date & Time:
Wednesday, January 10, 2018 – San Francisco

Seminar Program 
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.  – Registration & Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  – Seminar

Cost: There is no charge for this seminar

Location
Weintraub Tobin
475 Sansome Street, Suite 1800 | San Francisco, CA 94111

Parking
San Francisco – Parking Validation provided. Please park in the garage located at 475 Sansome Street. Access to the garage via Clay Street. Please bring your parking ticket with you to receive validation from the receptionist.

Approved for three (3) hours MCLE.  This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.  Certificates will be provided upon verification of attendance for the entirety of the webcast. 

 

Jacqueline M. Simonovich Moderates Seminar for the Bar Association of San Francisco

On November 21st, 2017, The Bar Association of San Francisco hosted a seminar for newer attorneys titled, A Conversation with First Generation Attorneys: Advice to My Younger Self. Weintraub attorney Jacqueline M. Simonovich moderated the event, which covered the following topics:

  • Specific obstacles faced by first-generation attorneys
  • How to be successful as a first-generation attorney
  • Career development
  • Managing difficult work environments and professional relationships
  • How to build and sustain professional relationships
  • Learning and practicing self-advocacy

“Saying It’s So, Doesn’t Make It So”- Independent Contractor v. Employee Status

  • When: Jun 15, 2017
  • Where: Webinar

Summary of Program

The risks involved in misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor rather than an employee have always been serious. A number of federal and state agencies regulate the proper classification of workers and have the authority to impose significant monetary and non-monetary sanctions against employers who get the classification wrong.

Program Highlights

This informative webinar will cover the legal landscape of independent contractor status. Topics will include:

  • A summary of the various tests applied by federal and state agencies to determine independent contractor status;
  • A summary of the enforcement authority of various federal and state agencies and the sanctions they may impose;
  • The due diligence employers must engage in before classifying a worker as an independent contractor; and
  • California’s law imposing monetary and non-monetary sanctions against employers (and other individuals) who willfully misclassify workers as independent contractors.

If you or your company is currently using independent contractors, this is a webinar you won’t want to miss. Register today!

Date & Time:

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Webinar
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

There will be no cost for this webinar.

Approved for one (1) hour MCLE. This program will be submitted to the HR Certification Institute for Review.

Please RSVP by Monday, June 12, 2017.

Mandatory AB 1825 Sexual Harassment Prevention Training and Optional Supervisor Best Practices and Legal Compliance Training

  • When: May 18, 2017

Mandatory AB 1825 Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: : $95/person

The regulations regarding California’s Mandatory Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for supervisors require that certain employers provide training to their supervisors every two years.
The Labor and Employment Group at Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin is offering a two hour in-person training session that will comply with all the requirements outlined in the regulations including things like:

  • An overview of sexual harassment laws
  • Examples of conduct that constitute sexual harassment
  • Strategies to prevent harassment in the workplace
  • Lawful supervisory responses to complaints of harassment in the workplace
  • Training on prevention of “abusive conduct” in the workplace
  • Practical and inter-active hypotheticals and examples to help illustrate what bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation can look like

If you are an employer with 50 or more employees, and have supervisors who have not yet been trained, this training is a must. We look forward to hearing from you and helping you comply with your continuing sexual harassment training obligations.

Approved for two (2) hours MCLE (Elimination of Bias).

OPTIONAL: Supervisor Best Practices and Legal Compliance Training: $60/person

Most employers know that it is crucial to have well trained supervisors to help ensure that rank and file employees perform their jobs effectively and efficiently. However, many employers don’t realize how important it is that supervisors be trained to understand the many employment laws that govern the workplace. Untrained supervisors can take actions (or fail to take actions) that result in significant legal consequences for an employer.

This one-hour training will cover topics like:

  • Legal do’s and don’ts when hiring and firing
  • Tips for effective communication between supervisors and employees, including how to give constructive performance feedback
  • The importance of consistent, objective, and timely discipline
  • Important wage and hour laws
  • Workplace safety rules
  • Accommodating disabilities and understanding the many leaves of absence laws
  • The in’s and out’s of employee privacy rights

Date & Time:

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Seminar Program
AB 1825 Training: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Optional Supervisor Best Practices: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Weintraub Tobin Office
400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor | Sacramento, CA 95814

Parking Validation provided. Please park in the Wells Fargo parking garage, entrances on 4th and 5th Street. Please bring your ticket with you to the 11th floor for validation.

Please RSVP by Monday, May 15, 2017

Please Note: AB 1825 Training: $95/person Supervisor Best Practices and Legal Compliance Training: $60/person. Please specify which training you will be attending in your RSVP.