AAAA Professional Development and Training Institute

AAAA 2013 Webinar Series

The Legal Risks of Social Media in the Workplace

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Genesys Conferencing Webinar
Room entrance begins at 1:45p.m. EST
Presenter: Ed Loughlin, Esq.
Webinar
United States

Registration site: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1242994

The June 2013 webinar will be presented by Ed Loughlin, Esq., Trial Attorney, EEOC Field Office, Washington, DC 

Social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter can provide recruiters, employers, and human resources professionals with a lot of useful tools and information, but they also present significant legal risks. These risks are difficult to manage because of the fluid nature of both the law and technology. Your organization’s policies may provide protection under the laws enforced by the EEOC, but they may violate laws enforced by other government agencies. Please join us as a trial attorney from the EEOC outlines the legal risks and provides us with a road map for navigating this treacherous legal landscape.

Presenter:  Ed Loughlin, Esq.

As a trial attorney in the EEOC’s Washington D.C. Field Office, Mr. Loughlin is responsible for litigating complex employment litigation cases on behalf of the EEOC in the federal courts of Washington, D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Before joining the EEOC, Mr. Loughlin was a litigation associate at an American Law 100 firm.    

In addition to his litigation responsibilities, Mr. Loughlin conducts training, domestically and internationally, for private corporations and professional and community organizations on a variety of employment issues, with a special emphasis on the legal risks associated with using social media in the workplace. Mr. Loughlin is currently serving a three-year term as a Government Fellow to the American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section.

This program has been submitted for 1.0 (General ) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

The Fisher v. University of Texas Decision: What it Means for Educators and Employers

Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Genesys Conferencing Webinar
Room entrance begins at 1:45p.m. EST
Presenters: Schuyler Goldstein Sparlin Camardella
Webinar

Registration site: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1243425

The Topic:

The July webinar will be presented by the attorneys who co-wrote the amicus curiae brief for the American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA).  This will be a 60-minute webinar. The topic of the webinar is: "The Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin Decision: What it Means for Educators and Employers." This topic will cover the issues in the case, the decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court and the potential implications for educators and employers.  With the future of affirmative action and diversity programs at stake, this is an important webinar for everyone concerned with human resources and equal opportunity issues.

For a copy of the AAAA Press Releases and Amicus brief, go to: AAAA Fisher Press Release and Brief

The Presenters:  

Matthew Camardella, Esq.:

Matthew Camardella is a Partner in Long Island, New York, office of Jackson Lewis LLP, and a member of the Firm's Affirmative Action Practice Group. He directs the preparation of more than 400 AAPs each year and has defended hundreds of OFCCP audits for a broad range of employers across the country. In addition, Mr. Camardella serves as the Practice Group lead on responding to OFCCP allegations of class-based discrimination. He spends significant time counseling clients about the design and implementation of company-wide AAP structures, applicant flow tracking systems, compensation practices and other complex “real world” compliance issues.

Mr. Camardella also is General Counsel to the American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA) and serves as Vice-Chair of the Philadelphia “Liberty” Industry Liaison Group (ILG). His work with the AAAA and ILG keeps him abreast of OFCCP enforcement trends.

Mr. Camardella joined Jackson Lewis in September, 1997. He received a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in 1993 and graduated with honors from Hofstra University School of Law in 1997. While at Hofstra, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Hofstra Labor Law Journal and received the Award for Outstanding Performance in Labor and Employment Law. He is admitted to the New York State Bar.

David Goldstein, Esq.:

David J. Goldstein works with in-house counsel, business leadership, and human resources to proactively identify and implement creative solutions for effectively utilizing human resources, complying with legal and regulatory requirements, avoiding liability, and resolving internal and external disputes. Areas in which he provides advice include wage and hour law, employee selection procedures, test validation, protection of intellectual property, and enforcement of non-compete agreements.

David also tries cases before judges, juries, and arbitrators and has substantial experience representing employers in class action litigation. In addition to trying two class action lawsuits to judgment, he has represented clients in other class or collective actions brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, and state laws. He also frequently works with mediation and other dispute-resolution techniques in order to efficiently resolve disputes.

David devotes a significant portion of his practice to assisting employers with the preparation and approval of affirmative action plans and to representing government contractors in connection with Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), state, and local compliance reviews.

Marilyn Schuyler, Esq.:

Marilynn L. Schuyler has been developing Affirmative Action Plans for public, private, and academic institutions since 1996, and has been working in the field of Equal Employment Opportunity since 1988.  She provides clients with strategic advice and analysis related to all aspects of Affirmative Action compliance, and produces Affirmative Action Plans consistent with OFCCP regulations.  She has successfully led clients through audits, from notice of audit to notice of compliance, and develops compliant compensation analyses and all other analyses required for responses to OFCCP.  Ms. Schuyler also provides advice and counsel on the Internet Applicant Rule and all related aspects of applicant tracking and recordkeeping. 

Ms. Schuyler began her professional career at the Department of Labor.  She served in the Oakland District Office of the OFCCP as Assistant District Director, and in the San Francisco Regional Office as an OFCCP Liaison and as the Regional Civil Rights Officer.  In the National Office, she was the Department of Labor's Affirmative Action Officer. She also served as the Affirmative Action Officer for the Office of the President at the University of California, for whom she developed the Affirmative Action Plan for four years.  Prior to establishing Schuyler Affirmative Action Practice, Ms. Schuyler was a Senior Attorney and Director of Affirmative Action Program Development at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

Ms. Schuyler received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor for the Poverty Law Journal.  She earned her B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was an Alumni Scholar.  Ms. Schuyler is Co-Chair of the Washington Metro Industry Liaison Group and the District of Columbia State Coordinator of the American Association for Affirmative Action.

Dean Sparlin, Esq:

Dean Sparlin is a lawyer and affirmative action consultant based in Fairfax, Virginia. He represents and advises management on employment issues, specializing in affirmative action plans and other applications of sophisticated statistical techniques to the field of employment law. In doing so, he draws upon his legal education at the College of William and Mary, a masters degree in statistics at George Mason University, and nearly 20 years of experience as a practicing attorney and affirmative action consultant.

Mr. Sparlin earned his J.D. in 1986 from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. While at William and Mary, he served as Managing Editor of the William and Mary Law Review and became a member of the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for top law students at select member institutions. He is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the District of Columbia, and various federal courts.

Immediately after his graduation, Mr. Sparlin became associated with the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a leading national law firm, where he practiced law for 17 years. Drawing upon his experience, education, and aptitude in mathematics, Mr. Sparlin honed his expertise in the application of statistics and quantitative analysis in the field of employment law. In addition to acting as an affirmative action consultant for numerous clients, he analyzed salary structures, the race and gender impacts of proposed reductions in force, and patterns of alleged discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, and disability in connection with litigated matters.

Mr. Sparlin also applied his quantitative expertise in other labor-related fields. For example, during a lawsuit seeking alleged unpaid overtime wages for a class of several thousand employees, Mr. Sparlin developed a computerized algorithm designed to isolate individual claims that were likely to be inaccurate or overstated. The algorithm was successfully applied in mediation to limit the client's total damages. Mr. Sparlin also prepared a comprehensive critique of the economic analysis supporting the Department of Labor's proposed ergonomics standard. This 206-page critique became part of formal submission by industry interests challenging the standard, which later was rescinded by a majority vote of Congress.

In 2003, Mr. Sparlin left Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP to establish an independent practice, offering his services as a lawyer and affirmative action consultant. This move also facilitated an opportunity to formalize and expand his qualifications as an affirmative action consultant through graduate study in statistics at George Mason University. Mr. Sparlin completed his M.S. in Statistical Science at George Mason in 2006.

This program has been submitted for 1.0 (General ) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

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For more information about PDTI, Webinars or other AAAA programs, please call us toll-free at 1-800-252-8952 or visit www.affirmativeaction.org. 

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