Labor & Employment

MT Specific

4.29

Montana Employment Law 2024

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
OnDemand
5 hours 51 minutes
Talia Damrow
Dawn Gray
Gabrielle Wirth
Steve Bell
Lisa Hammer
With Talia G. Damrow from Space Exploration Engineering, LLC + 4 others
Recorded November 04, 2024
Product ID 99206

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Overview

Key Leave Issues, Common Discrimination Claims, Independent Contractors, and More

Whether you are new to employment law, or you are looking to freshen up your knowledge, this seminar is for you! This online seminar gives you an overview of current trends and best practices in employment law. From essential guidelines for accommodating employees to recent developments concerning non-compete and confidentiality agreements, get the information you need to stay on the cutting edge and mitigate litigation risks. Register today!

  • Stay informed of new local and state employment laws.
  • Examine essential guidelines for ensuring compliance with leave laws.
  • Discover best practices for hiring and terminating employees.
  • Uncover practical guidance for handling discrimination and harassment cases.
  • Unearth the latest wage and hour law developments and guidance.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. State and Local Employment Laws Update
  2. Family and Medical Leave: What You Must Know
  3. ADA Accommodations: Ensuring Legal Best Practices
  4. Hiring and Firing Employees
  5. Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Claims
  6. Wage and Hour Law: Best Practices and Current Developments
  7. Non-Solicitation, Non-Compete, and Confidentiality Agreements
  8. Ethical Issues in Employment Law

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Product ID 99206

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Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
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  1. State and Local Employment Laws Update

  2. Family and Medical Leave: What You Must Know

    1. State and Local Leave Laws
    2. FMLA
    3. USERRA
    4. Best Practices for Creating and Updating Leave Policies
    5. Common Issues and Answers
    6. Mitigating Litigation Risks

  3. ADA Accommodations: Ensuring Legal Best Practices

  4. Hiring and Firing Employees

    1. Reference Checks: Top Considerations
    2. Interview Questions - Avoiding Common Perils
    3. Applicant Screening and Social Media
    4. New Hires: Necessary Paperwork and Documentation
    5. Keeping a Paper Trail: Why It Matters
    6. Severance and Release Packages: What You Need to Know
    7. Discipline and Termination: Legal Dangers

  5. Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Claims

    1. Burdens of Proof: Title VII and Other Considerations
    2. How Employers Can Satisfy Burdens of Production
    3. Burden of Persuasion: Establishing Pretext for Discrimination
    4. Common Claims
    5. Employer Documentation That Makes or Breaks Claims: With Examples
    6. Hot Topics and Trends in Workplace Discrimination and Harassment

  6. Wage and Hour Law: Best Practices and Current Developments

    1. Hours Worked
    2. Employee Classification
    3. Independent Contractors - The Latest Developments
    4. Special Considerations for Remote Workers
    5. New Salary Thresholds
    6. Overtime Exemptions: What You Need to Know

  7. Non-Solicitation, Non-Compete, and Confidentiality Agreements

  8. Ethical Issues in Employment Law

    1. Key Rules of Professional Conduct
    2. Confidentiality
    3. Privileged Communications
    4. Identifying and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest

Who Should Attend

This basic level online seminar offers employment law essentials that will benefit:

  • Attorneys
  • Human Resource Personnel
  • Accountants
  • Paralegals

Speakers

Talia G Damrow
Talia G.
Damrow
Space Exploration Engineering, LLC
Dawn Gray
Dawn
Gray
Law Office of Dawn Gray, LLC
Gabrielle M Wirth
Gabrielle M.
Wirth
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Steve Bell
Steve
Bell
Lisa J Hammer
Lisa J.
Hammer
onXmaps, Inc.
Speaker bio
Talia G Damrow

Talia G. Damrow

Space Exploration Engineering, LLC
Talia Damrow

is corporate counsel at Space Exploration Engineering, LLC, where she concentrates her practice on civil litigation and insurance defense. She has defended a wide array of litigation including employment, real estate, medical malpractice, and construction defect claims. In the business arena, Ms. Damrow frequently handles contract disputes, corporate contract review and negotiations, and intellectual property trademark matters. She has served as corporate counsel for a broad range of businesses and represents insurance companies in bad faith defense and coverage disputes. Ms. Damrow is licensed in Montana, Washington, Colorado, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Before joining Hall & Evans, she practiced civil litigation at small firms in Billings, Montana. While attending the University of Washington School of Law, Ms. Damrow was chief online editor of the Washington Journal of Law Technology & Arts; law clerk for the Washington State Attorney General; and an intern with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Issaquah, Washington.

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Dawn Gray

Dawn Gray

Law Office of Dawn Gray, LLC
Dawn Gray

is an attorney at Law Office of Dawn Gray, LLC, where she focuses her practice on civil law in contracts, federal-Indian law, policy, constitutional law, individual rights, in-house attorney for large organization, business law, drafting legislation, and day to day legal assistance to client, departments and family matters. Ms. Gray also practices government to government relations. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Providence and her J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law. Ms. Gray is admitted to practice law in Montana.

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Gabrielle M Wirth

Gabrielle M. Wirth

Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Gabrielle Wirth

is a partner with Dorsey & Whitney LLP. Her successful trial experience is in a broad range of employment disputes, including wage and hour, whistleblower, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, and trade secret/noncompetition cases. Ms. Wirth's work with the corporate team on acquisitions and startups, equip her to nimbly assess and provide legally compliant options, whether in the counseling or litigation defense role. She also represents employers before a wide variety of state and federal agencies, including the EEOC, OFCCP, state human rights agencies, Labor Commission, Employment Development Department, and OSHA. Ms. Wirth earned her A.B. degree from the University of California, Berkeley; and her J.D. degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law. She is a member of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys, John Muir Heritage Society, Yosemite Conservancy, Breakfast Committee, Orange County United Way Women's Philanthropy Fund, Orange County United Way, and the Alexis de Tocqueville Society. Ms. Wirth is admitted to practice in California and Montana; and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern districts of California.

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Steve Bell

Steve Bell

Steve Bell

is a partner of Dorsey & Whitney LLP's trial group in their Denver office. He assists clients in construction litigation, banking and trust litigation, employment litigation, securities litigation, commercial litigation, franchise litigation, and intellectual property and trade secret litigation. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his J.D. degree from University of South Dakota School of Law. Mr. Bell is admitted to practice law in Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming; and before the U.S. District courts of Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana and Colorado.

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Lisa J Hammer

Lisa J. Hammer

onXmaps, Inc.
Lisa Hammer

is senior legal counsel at onXmaps, Inc. onXmaps is a Montana-based mobile apps company which provide maps for hunters and other outdoor recreation. The company aggregates nationwide data on property ownership, trails, permitted land use, and many other parameters. Ms. Hammer was previously a mediator contract management attorney, and dispute resolution and legal operations consultant. She earned her B.S. degree from College of Saint Benedict; her M.P.A. degree from Montana State University, Bozeman; and her J.D. degree from Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Ms. Hammer is admitted to practice law in Montana.

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