Arbitration of Employment Disputes: Emerging Issues
Why Attend?
Get the information that's essential to your practice in a convenient, concise, and practical seminar. As an interactive seminar, the program affords the opportunity to submit questions for faculty discussion in advance of and during the event. This intermediate course of study, comprised of 120 minutes of instruction, provides guidance on the essential issues involved in Arbitration of Employment Disputes.
What You Will Learn
Increasingly, the courts are grappling with sometimes arcane issues regarding whether or not a pre-dispute arbitration agreement is enforceable. Increasingly employment disputes are being arbitrated. Two experts in employment arbitration, one the author of "Arbitration of Employment Disputes" text and the other an advocate for employees rights with respect to arbitration and an adjunct professor teaching arbitration,will discuss the gatekeeping issues as well as actual "nuts and bolts" of arbitration practice.
Among the topics that they will discuss will be:
• Bans on class and collective actions
• Limitations on damages/preclusion of punitive damages
• Awards of attorneys' fees
• Shortened statutes of limitations
• Discovery
• The handbook dilemma - can the employer have its cake and eat it too?
• AAA employment rules in practice
• Forum fees -- who pays?
• Scope of judicial review after Hall Street Associates
• Proposed federal legislation banning pre-dispute arbitration of employment disputes
• Arbitration cases excepted by the Supreme Court for review next term, including whether Alexander v. Gardner-Denver remains good law
Planning Chairs
Robert B. Fitzpatrick, Robert B. Fitzpatrick, PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Frank C. Morris, Jr., Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, D.C.
Faculty
Daniel P. O'Meara, Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads, LLP, Berwyn, PA
John Vail, Vice President and Senior Litigation Counsel, Center for Constitutional Litigation, PC, Washington, DC
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.0; Total 50-minute hours: 2.4
Suggested Prerequisite: Limited experience in legal practice in subject matter.
Educational Objective: Development of proficiency in performance of intricate and complex legal tasks within a narrow area, provision of information on recent legal developments; maintenance of professional competence as a practitioner.
Level of Instruction: Intermediate
Times
Eastern 12 noon - 2 pm
Central 11 am – 1 pm
Mountain 10 am – 12 noon
Pacific & Arizona 9 am – 11 am
Alaska 8 am – 10 am
Hawaii 6 am – 8 am
