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Webinar: Dispute Resolution in the Workplace: Managing Remote Workers
Remote or hybrid work has been trending over the past several years. Companies and employers are shifting to remote work in order to cut costs, gain efficiencies, and offer employee flexibility. According to recent Census data, 5.2% of the workforce worked from home before the pandemic. It is likely that the pandemic has increased the percentage of remote workers. Whether the change to remote work will be for better or worse depends on a lot of factors such as worker productivity and collaboration. How are you or your client doing managing remote workers? Do you need workplace facilitation tips for remote worker issues? Do you manage remote workers and are you trying to uplevel?
We will discuss the following topics for attorneys, mediators, and human resource professionals to consider while navigating the waters of managing remote workers:
- Laws that relate to managing remote workers
- Accountability for remote workers
- Accountability for remote worker supervisors and managers
- Creating a cohesive work culture in a remote environment
- Rapport building for remote workers and teams
- Ideas for managing dynamic employee personalities in remote work environments, including difficult personalities
- Toxic work environments and employee discipline
- Remote workplace issues that attorneys, mediators, and human resource professionals often hear about or encounter and possible solutions
The CLE panel of presenters includes labor and employment attorneys, seasoned mediators, and a human resource professional and career coach. We have allocated time for questions and answers at the end of the program. Please join us on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EST for this interesting and lively one-hour program focused on the ADR process and skills and labor and employment law.
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About the Presenters
Angela Eastman, Principal Consultant, AME High Solutions, LLC (Moderator)
Angela Eastman, JD, LLM is a regulatory compliance consultant primarily focused on health law and market regulation matters related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. Prior to regulatory compliance consulting, Angela worked for a large health insurer as in-house counsel. Thereafter, Angela practiced law for several years at Eastman Law + Dispute Resolution in Vermont providing outside counsel to health insurance companies and other health organizations, representing clients in domestic relations matters including domestic and sexual violence, and mediating complex civil litigation matters. She has also instructed MBA students as an adjunct professor. Angela earned her BA from of McGill University, JD from Vermont Law School, and LLM in ADR from Pepperdine University School of Law (Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution). She has completed leadership training through the Vermont Leadership Institute (Snelling Center for Government), Leadership Champlain (Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce), and the University of Vermont (School of Business Administration). Angela holds certifications and designations in Project Management, Advanced Project Management, Market Conduct Management (MCM), Leadership and Management, and Emotional Intelligence. Her admissions include the State of Vermont, U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Currently, Angela serves as a board member for Cardinal Opportunities, Inc. and secretary of the ADR section of the Federal Bar Association. She is also active in the local Boulder, Colorado community by volunteering for and supporting non-profit organizations with missions focused on self-sufficiency, education, women, and mental health and substance use disorder.
Gabriel Soto, Attorney, Thomas J. Henry Law (Moderator)
Gabriel (Gabe) Soto grew up in Seguin, Texas and graduated from Villanova University with a BA in 1997. He graduated from the St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio with his JD in 2001 and his LLM in ADR from the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University Law School. Gabriel served as a mediator before Superior Court of California Santa Monica Small Claims Court and received training through the California Academy of Mediation Professionals. He also served as an extern with the ADR court for the LA Superior Court and the EEOC Mediation Unit in Los Angeles. Gabriel has represented the State of Illinois in labor and employment disputes and presented cases before arbitration. He also practiced as a litigation attorney and conducted negotiations for over fifteen years in civil board litigation cases. Currently, Gabriel serves as a board member for the Southern California Family Mediation and membership chair for the ADR Section of the Federal Bar. Gabriel is licensed by the Texas and Illinois Bar. He also enjoys fishing, running, and outdoors activities with his two children.
Daniel Lacy, Command Labor Attorney, United States Military Entrance Processing Command
Daniel (Dan) Lacy grew up in Westmont, Illinois and graduated from Valparaiso University in 2006. He graduated from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago with his J.D. in 2010 and his LL.M. (Information Technology and Privacy Law) in 2011. Daniel was named Assistant Director of Academic Achievement at The John Marshall Law School. In that role, he oversaw bar preparation courses for 3L students as well as teaching Professional Responsibility and Bar Essay Writing. In 2012, Dan joined the Army Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps as a Second Lieutenant. In 2015, Dan became a labor and employment law attorney for the United States Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM) in North Chicago, IL. USMEPCOM is responsible for the processing and enlistment of all applicants into the Uniformed Services. In this role, he has responsibility for all labor and employment legal actions taken against or by the Command. He handles on average over 40 Merit Systems Protection Board actions, 30 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discrimination suits, and multiple Federal Labor Relations Authority actions. He is responsible for over 3,000 civilian employees at 66 sites nationwide (including Puerto Rico) for a joint command with direct reporting to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Dan is one of two ethics counselors for the Command and reviews contracts for fee-based providers totaling over $200,000,000 a year. He is also a Captain and acting Brigade Judge Advocate for the 420th Engineer Brigade, Bryan Texas. He currently lives in Westmont, Illinois with his wife Beth and two dogs, Maverick & Dasha.
Neil Groberg, Mediator and Attorney, Groberg Mediation
Neil Groberg owns Groberg Mediation located in Burlington, Vermont. He provides mediation, arbitration and facilitation services online and in person as well as teaching, training, and independent harassment investigations in Vermont, Connecticut, New York, throughout New England and beyond. Neil spent many years as in-house counsel focusing on labor and employment issues (and serving as the alternative work scheduling facilitator for the State of Connecticut and one of its major unions). Neil also currently teaches health care law to Bachelor of Science and Masters of Health Care Administration students at Champlain College and has also taught Employment Law and Business Law to college and grad students. Neil currently serves as co-chair of the Dispute Resolution section of the Vermont Bar Association.
Angela Smith, Human Resources, Recruiting, and Career Coach, Loft Consulting
Angela Smith is an award-winning leader in the field of human resources and career coaching, and offers over a decade of experience in leadership development, and organizational strategy. Her varied background includes academia, non-profit, renewable energy, healthcare, tech, corporate, and start-up. A champion for progressive and modern HR policies, she is passionate about organizational development, workplace culture, employee engagement, and employer branding. She writes regularly about the world of work and job searching, and her work can be found on The Muse, LinkedIn Today, Mashable, Forbes, and LearnVest. As a speaker, Angela has presented at several conferences and workshops, including Miami Dade’s NAF Student/Industry Conference, Women of Isenberg, CUPA HR, and Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, as well as college campuses including Cornell University, University of Vermont, Florida International University, Champlain College, and Miami Dade College. She holds an MBA from UMass Amherst, and is a certified HR professional through SHRM and HRCI, and provides fractional HR consulting services via Loft Consulting.
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No refunds will be made for notices of cancellation received after the close of business on July 8, 2020. No-shows will be billed. Substitutions may be made up to one business day prior to the event except as the Association otherwise agrees in writing. Please contact Ariel White at awhite@fedbar.org with cancellation and/or substitution requests.
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1 Credit (60min) / 1.2 Credit (50min)
Credit for these complimentary webinars will be processed/reported within 4-6 weeks of the webinar event date and available for credit in states that allow credit for live webinar presentations. Your bar number must be accurate in our database to receive credit.
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