Events & Speaking Engagements Archive

Join us for a complimentary webinar where we will discuss a practical guide, tips, and legal strategies to enforcing judgments by looking at post-judgment proceedings and ancillary litigation needed to recover assets.

Please join Dykema attorneys David West and Dawn Williams for a presentation regarding fiduciary duties impacting (i) digital assets of trust and estates and (ii) mortgage servicing.

Please join us for a presentation discussing the recent slew of employment laws in Illinois. This presentation will assist employers, HR professionals, and in-house attorneys in reviewing their policies and practices to ensure compliance with recent state, local, and federal employment law changes. 

In recent years, the international activities of US corporations have grown at a remarkable rate. As a result, more clients and potential clients are encountering international business disputes, which present legal risks, challenges and opportunities that can differ substantially from the usual course of wholly domestic disputes. This program will cover those differences, and set out basic measures to manage the risks of an international dispute and prepare the ground so that, if one does arise, clients will be well-positioned to achieve efficient and effective results.  

We invite you to join us in Dallas on Thursday, October 10, 2019 for our Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Roundtable: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are and Where We are Going… and How to Be Ready. Our interactive session will provide an opportunity to learn from presenters with unique and highly relevant “real world” experience.

On September 25th, the Department of Labor published new regulations increasing the minimum salary most exempt employees must be paid in order to continue being deemed exempt, from $23,660 per year to $35,568. The regulations also modify other salary-related issues for exempt employees. This brief webinar will cover the legal changes and options for employers to respond for retaining exempt status, minimizing overtime liability for those losing their exempt status, and otherwise understanding how the new regulations may be applied.

We invite you to join us in San Antonio on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 for our Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Roundtable: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are and Where We are Going… and How to Be Ready. Our interactive session will provide an opportunity to learn from presenters with unique and highly relevant “real world” experience.

Join Dykema for our annual Dykema Litigation Institute (DLI) United States Supreme Court review and preview webinar. We will discuss trends from the last term; decisions that will affect corporations, including rulings on class actions, arbitration, antitrust, First Amendment, and banking law; and will then preview the upcoming term.

Employers must be keenly aware of where their employees are working and the applicable laws and ordinances. Keeping policies and procedures up to date is also an ongoing challenge. This dynamic workshop will present current legal trends and the general issues and legal mandates affecting employers.  

Autonomous vehicles bring promises of enhanced safety, boosted personal productivity time, eased traffic congestion, and improved fuel economy, among other societal benefits. So what is holding us back?

The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) resulted in an increase in trade secret claims in the last three years. Separately, while there had been a slowdown in patent litigation claims during that same time period, the last several months have seen a significant uptick in filings. Thus, it is clear that both trade secrets and patents play increasingly important roles in today’s technology-centric economy.

The False Claims Act (FCA) is one of the government’s most powerful tools, allowing for treble damages and qui tam or “whistleblowers” to bring FCA claims. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has successfully used the FCA in a wide variety of industries from healthcare to government contracting to residential mortgages. For the first time, DOJ recently issued guidance on voluntary disclosures to reduce civil penalties in FCA cases.

It is no secret that having a compliance program is a must, particularly for companies in heavily regulated industries. The existence of an “effective” compliance program is a material credit in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines; it is a factor used by enforcement agencies in determining whether to pursue criminal charges or even to pursue a matter at all; and, most importantly it can prevent wrongdoing in the first place. But, all too often companies put little thought into the design of the program and, even more frequently, pay little attention to the operation of the program.

Thankfully workplace violence is not a common occurrence in most workplaces. That said, the threat is ever present and even one act may have horrifying consequences. Though not to be down played, the catastrophic events that receive wide spread media attention are not what employers commonly encounter.

Please join Dykema employment litigators Arlene Switzer Steinfield and Elizabeth Voss for a discussion of recent developments and emerging issues in labor and employment law.

Please join Ashley Fickel, Luke Sosnicki, and Brittany Mouzourakis for a discussion about recent trends in class action litigation filed against credit unions and banks. This webinar will examine new theories of liability, potential defenses, and will compare and analyze some of the publicly-disclosed settlements reached in these cases. 

Dykema’s Federal Government Policy Team and Environmental Practice Leader will brief Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) members on the status of the recent United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trade deal intended to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Record cash, disruptive change, aggressive new buyers, and rising valuations are making this the best time to sell in a decade. Many owners are taking advantage – but are you ready? What are the trends and valuations you need to know? What is the process to achieve an optimal outcome? How do you keep from being a deal disaster – one of the 80% that fail in self-managed M&A efforts?

Please join Dykema attorneys Ashley Fickel, Lukas Sosnicki and Ashley Jackson for a presentation about California’s new data privacy legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which is set to go into effect on January 1, 2020. This sweeping new law grants California consumers the right to know what information companies collect about them, the right to “opt out” from allowing companies to sell their personal information, the right to demand that companies delete collected information, and the right to receive equal service even if consumers exercise their “opt out” right.

Please join Dykema attorneys Laura Baucus and Joseph Hickey for a presentation regarding challenges to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), along with a discussion of CFPB activities under the stewardship of former Acting Director Mick Mulvaney and Director Kathy Kraninger (confirmed by the Senate in December 2018).

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1964 and the last significant federal law passed by the United States Congress was the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993. It seems like a lifetime has passed since these laws were implemented. With this passage of time, it would seem that employers would be well versed in these laws and how to avoid problems. However, not only are all laws subject to interpretation by courts, but enforcement agencies draft regulations that further define these laws. Add to that the fact that regulations are also open to interpretation and change depending on the party in the White House, and things are anything but clear. 

Please join Dykema for a discussion on Illinois’ law on biometric privacy, the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and the potential litigation fallout in light of the Illinois Supreme Court decision in Rosenbach.

Three recent legal developments require all employers with Michigan employees to put their employment policies through an immediate triage to determine what policies must be modified, if not created outright. These laws soon will become effective, so considering these issues now is necessary to avoid potential legal liabilities later.

This event is jointly sponsored by Dykema, the Eastern Michigan Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, and the Health Care Compliance Association.

In the absence of new laws to allocate the risk of product liability emanating from the deployment of autonomous vehicles, that risk will be allocated in consideration of existing legislation and traditional principles of law. Please join us for a panel discussion featuring William Kohler, experienced autonomous vehicle attorney and leader of Dykema’s Mobility and Advanced Vehicle Technology Group, and Brian Smith, preeminent product liability lawyer with significant experience counseling major automotive businesses regarding autonomous vehicle product liability issues.