Know Thyself: Self Audits as a Key to Litigation Avoidance
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Employers that have struggled with the expense and disruption of litigation or agency investigations related to employee issues are aware that the related demands for time, money, and energy stretch the resources of a company, and take valuable time away from "the business of doing business." While no one has found a fool-proof way to eliminate the possibility of lawsuits or agency reviews, legal liability in those circumstances can be reduced by a well-organized and objective audit of the company's labor and employment policies and procedures.
This seminar will provide the elements of and tools for an audit, and will help employers to organize and effectively conduct such a basic review.
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Learning Objectives:
- How to decide if and when an audit is necessary, and how to establish the scope of the audit.
- How to staff the audit, and how to determine who should coordinate the process.
- What management should understand about an HR audit, and why management "buy-in" is important.
- How to prepare the company for a review of its policies, and how to assign resources to gather relevant information.
- How best to report the findings and results of the audit.
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Who Should Attend?
- Human Resource Professionals
- Managers
- Leaders
- Supervisors
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Presented by:
Maria Greco Danaher
Shareholder
Ogletree Deakins
Ms. Danaher began practicing law in 1986, and has been practicing
employment and labor law since 1989. Her area of emphasis is
employment litigation, including both administrative claims and
matters in federal and state courts. Ms. Danaher’s initial
employment and labor law experience began with an in-house
legal position at a Fortune 100 company, and has continued as
outside counsel to small and medium sized companies, as well as
to large corporations. In addition, Ms. Danaher has extensive
experience in alternate dispute resolution, and regularly acts as a
mediator, arbitrator, and neutral evaluator in federal court actions.
Ms. Danaher attended law school at the University of Pittsburgh
and is admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania. She is a regular
contributor to HR Magazine’s “Court Reports” column, and serves
on the Advisory Board to “You & the Law,” a publication of the
National Institute for Business Management. Ms. Danaher is an
adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School; she
also acts as an Instructor for the trial tactics programs conducted
by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). In 2007, she
was named as one of the Best Lawyers in America.
Michael H. Cramer
Shareholder
Ogletree Deakins
Mr. Cramer counsels and represents employers on a wide variety of labor
and employment-related legal matters. He has advised clients ranging
from small non-profits to Fortune 500 companies on employment
matters, negotiated cost-effective resolutions to troubling disputes, and
litigated to victory.
Mr. Cramer has achieved Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer review
rating (AV), has been named a Leading Lawyer, and repeatedly has been
designated an Illinois Super Lawyer, based on peer surveys by Law &
Politics. In 2003, the Chicago Law Bulletin Publishing Company named
Mr. Cramer one of “40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 To Watch.”
Mr. Cramer’s employment litigation practice includes discrimination and
harassment cases, wage and hour collective actions, and restrictive
covenant litigations. Examples of his work include:
- Enabling one formerly beleaguered client to drastically reduce
EEOC charges and lawsuits by counseling the HR Director and
executives on policies and all potentially volatile disciplinary
and termination decisions;
- Defeating a former employee’s attempt to certify a class of more
than 200 employees alleging denial of overtime pay, then
defeating the remaining plaintiff’s claims at trial;
- Winning summary judgment on behalf of employers in
numerous discrimination and retaliation suits; and
- Defeating a 27-count federal lawsuit brought by the former chief
executive of a non-profit organization against the entity and each
of its board members.
Mr. Cramer also practices traditional labor law, including collective
bargaining, union grievance arbitration, and federal litigation related to
collective bargaining agreements.
A frequent speaker and writer on labor and employment law topics, Mr.
Cramer serves on the Labor & Employment Advisory Committee for the
Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education. He received a national
Burton Award for Legal Achievement as co-author of Anonymity,
Immunity and Online Defamation: Managing Corporate Exposure to
Reputation Injury, published in The Sedona Conference Journal in Fall
2003.
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*CD Only: $199.00
Questions About this AudioConference CD? Call 1-800-431-7571
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