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Employment Class Actions: Strategies for Target Defendants

Events / December 10, 2014
Seminar: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET | Cocktail Reception: 4:00 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. ET

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Private Dining Room
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106

BakerHostetler’s Employment Class Actions team is pleased to invite you to a seminar that will address recent developments in class action and collective action litigation involving workplace issues. In a climate that is likely to fuel even more litigation in this area, the discussion is designed to provide you with strategies to avoid such litigation and the negative legal exposure and publicity that may come with it.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Seminar:

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET

Cocktail Reception:

4:00 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. ET

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Private Dining Room
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106

Registration and presentations will begin at 10:00 a.m., with lunch beginning at 12:00 p.m. A cocktail reception will follow the program at 4:00 p.m., when you will be invited to stay to enjoy a tour of the museum.

AGENDA

Our speakers will discuss:
  • Put Up Your Dukes: Taking Advantage of Recent Defense Cases
  • Avoiding Death by Discovery: Managing ESI Issues in Employment Class Actions
  • Taming the Monster: Controlling Wage and Hour Class and Collective Actions
  • Who Are Those People? Avoiding Class Action Liability for Non-Employee Workers, Both Inside and Outside a Business’s Benefit Plans
  • Avoiding the Fight in the First Place: Approaches to Limit Employment Class Actions Through Arbitration and Waivers
  • California: The Golden State Still Not So Golden for Employers
  • Getting It Over With: Avoiding Pitfalls in Dismissal, Settlement, and Approval

RSVP to attend in person | RSVP to attend via webinar | AGENDA

Speakers will include:
  • Gil Brosky – Partner, BakerHostetler, Cleveland
  • David Grant – Group Chair, Partner, BakerHostetler, Washington D.C.
  • Karin Scholz Jenson – Partner, BakerHostetler, New York
  • Gil Keteltas – Partner, BakerHostetler, Washington D.C.
  • Todd Lebowitz – Partner, BakerHostetler, Cleveland
  • John Lewis – Partner, BakerHostetler, Cleveland
  • Greg Mersol – Partner, BakerHostetler, Cleveland
  • John McGowan – Partner, BakerHostetler, Cleveland
  • Sabrina Shadi – Partner, BakerHostetler, Los Angeles
  • Marty Wymer – Partner, BakerHostetler, Cleveland

Registration is complimentary. 5.0 hours CLE credit approved in Ohio for in-person event. CLE credit still pending for webinar.

For more information or to be added to our mailing list, please contact Lynmarie Lane at 312.416.6297.

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