Events & Speaking Engagements

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.