Understanding Successor Liability: How to Deal with Employment Law Claims
Live Webcast Date:
Friday, September 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (ET)
This course offers companies an overview of the latest trends; critical issues and best practices with respect to employment-related claims in order to avoid successor liability. 
In a two-hour webcast, the speakers will discuss:
- Successor liability employment-related claims: an overview
- Assumptions of liabilities
- Employment law and general rules concerning successor liability
- Best Practices
- Up-to-minute regulatory updates
Who Should Attend
- Employment Law Attorneys
- In-House Counsel
- Legal Consultants
- Legal Executive
- Legal Officers
- General Counsel & Vice President of Human Resources Public Companies
- HR and Personnel Professionals
- Employment Law Advisors
- In-House Lawyers and Solicitors
- Employee Relations Professionals
- Directors and Line Managers
- And other Related/Interested Professionals
Faculty
Matthew J. Maguire
Of Counsel
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Jenna L. Mooney
Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Matthew J. Maguire, Of Counsel
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Jenna L. Mooney, Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Pepper Hamilton LLP
- Introduction to corporate transactions and how successor liability arises.
- Why are employment and labor issues different?
- Traditional labor successor doctrine.
- Expansion into Title VII claims.
- Conducting due diligence with an eye towards successor liability issues
- FLSA
- FLMA
- WARN Act
- Addressing liability risks in the transaction.
- Indemnity
- Insurance
- Post-closing compliance.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- General Rule of Successor Liability
- Federal Successor Liability Standard
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- State Law
Matthew J. MaguireOf CounselPepper Hamilton LLP
Matthew J. Maguire is of counsel in the Labor and Employment Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the Berwyn office. Mr. Maguire represents management in a variety of labor and employment matters. He counsels employers on labor and employment aspects of corporate transactions, and on avoiding and addressing union organizing campaigns.
Mr. Maguire defends employers before state and federal administrative agencies and courts in claims involving age, race, gender, disability and national origin discrimination and claims of unlawful workplace harassment. He also defends claims involving the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Equal Pay Act, wage payment disputes, unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board, and claims involving the enforceability of restrictive covenant agreements.
He frequently counsels employers on a variety of human resources issues, employment policies, employee handbooks, executive employment agreements and employee misconduct, including employee drug and alcohol abuse.
Jenna L. MooneyPartnerDavis Wright Tremaine LLP
Jenna Mooney is an employment law counselor and litigator in the Portland office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She defends employers in wage and hour, wrongful discharge, and discrimination matters, and litigates trade secret and noncompetition cases. Jenna helps employers proactively develop and maintain best practices, and trains managers and employees regarding a range of issues, including diversity, harassment and other key topics. She frequently speaks on retaining and managing employees, discrimination in the workplace, wage and hour law, and other issues related to employment law. Learn more about Jenna at www.dwt.com.
Course Level:
Intermediate
Advance Preparation:
Print and review course materials
Method Of Presentation:
On-demand Webcast
Prerequisite:
NONE
Course Code:
144613
NASBA Field of Study:
Business Law
NY Category of CLE Credit:
Skills
Total Credits:
2.0 CLE
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About the Knowledge Group
The Knowledge Group has been a leading global provider of Continuing Education (CLE, CPE) for over 13 Years. We produce over 450 LIVE webcasts annually and have a catalog of over 4,000 on-demand courses.
Pepper Hamilton LLP is a multi-practice law firm with more than 500 lawyers nationally. The firm provides corporate, litigation, intellectual property and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout the nation and the world. While our practice is remarkably diverse, we operate as a unified firm, using our size, depth of talent and the latest technology to assist our clients. The firm was founded in 1890. Pepper’s practice areas encompass nearly all areas of law, and continue to expand as the firm and its clients grow. Our legal services include: antitrust, banking and finance, bankruptcy and reorganization, business transactions, construction, corporate, employee benefits and executive compensation, energy, environmental, family business, government contracts, government regulations, government relations and legislation, health care services, health effects litigation, housing and community development, information technology , insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, international trade, investment management, labor and employment, life sciences, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, real estate, securities, securities enforcement and litigation, sports, taxation, trusts and estates, venture capital, white collar litigation and investigations.
Each Pepper office is active in its local community and serves as a base for the firm’s national and international work. The firm uses modern communications technology to link its offices and, when appropriate, staffs projects with lawyers from more than one office, enabling our clients to from the talents and experience of all of Pepper’s lawyers.
Website: http://www.pepperlaw.com/
Davis Wright is a full-service business and litigation law firm with approximately 500 lawyers in nine offices on the east and west coasts of the United States and in Shanghai. The Firm is recognized for excellence in a broad number of areas, with 89 of our attorneys across 31 practice areas cited as leaders in their fields in the most recent Chambers USA guide, and over 140 of our attorneys across 56 practice areas included in the 2015 edition of "The Best Lawyers in America."
Website: http://www.dwt.com/
