Educational Programming
For more than 100 years, Smith Anderson’s client-centered culture has sought to add value for our clients in ways that are not always about the billable hour.
With this goal in mind, we offer complimentary seminars, workshops and on-demand webinars where we share our experience and knowledge on particular subjects of interest. In this CLE syllabus, there are many opportunities for continuing legal education programs. As part of this complimentary service, our firm will seek CLE credit on your behalf, subject to certain requirements from the state in which accreditation is being sought. We hope our CLE programs will be of service to you and your business and we invite you to inquire about subject areas which might not be listed.
CLE Syllabus
General
- Protecting the Attorney-Client Privilege: They Can’t Find Out What We Tell Our Lawyers, Can They?
- Estate Planning – The Basics Everyone Should Know
- Document Retention and eDiscovery: Why You Should Care and What You Should Be Doing
- Basics of Insurance Coverage – What Everyone Needs to Know
Employment
- Diversity, Inclusion and Employee Engagement: Two Birds, One Stone
- Equal Employment Opportunity Update
- Religion at Work: Best Practices for Avoiding Claims of Discrimination and Handling Requests for Accommodation
- Be Careful What You Ask For: Recent Developments on Background, Criminal History and Credit Checks
- Gender-Based Discrimination in Compensation Claims: Do You Have a Bull’s Eye on Your Forehead?
- Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs: Final Vets and Rehab Rules Compliance Checklist (2 parts)
- Non-Union Workplaces: New Attacks on Common Practices and Policies
- Back Home from Down Range: A Refresher on Employers’ Obligations to Returning Service Members
- Health in the Workplace: What’s Hot Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and More
- Applying the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act to Employee Health Issues: Navigation Tips for Smooth Sailing
- Americans with Disabilities Act: Responding to Requests for Reasonable Accommodations
- When Performance is Impacted by Health: Understanding When and How an Employer May Obtain Health Information Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Effectively Managing Absences Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act
- Time and Money: Avoiding Common Mistakes Under the Fair Labor Standards Act and NC Wage and Hour Act
- What is “Work Time” under the Fair Labor Standards Act?
- Are Your Employees Properly Classified?
- North Carolina Unemployment Insurance Reform (various presentations)
- Conducting Internal Investigations: Tips and Pitfalls for Investigating Misconduct in the Workplace
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Workplaces: Dealing with the Inevitable
- Protecting Your Business from Unfair Competition by Former Employees: A Roadmap of Tools and Enforcement
- Defense of Marriage Act and Your Benefit Plans
- Best Practices for Internal Employee Stock Ownership Plan Trustees
- Domestic Violence in the Workplace
- Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
- Restrictive Covenants in Employment Agreements: Best Practices in 2015
Corporate
- Public Company Director Duties and Sources of Liabilities
- Stock Option Decisions
- M&A Trends
- Best Practices in the Due Diligence Process
- Drafting Acquisition Agreements
- Introduction to Conducting Due Diligence
- Corporate Governance Overview (DE)
- Role of the Board of Directors in Mergers and Acqusitions
- Dealing with the Board: Understanding the Role of the Board Versus Officers, Including an Overview of Fiduciary Duties
- Best Practices in Corporate Minute-Taking
- Understanding and Documenting Board Actions
- To Trade or Not to Trade: Lessons Learned from Insider Trading Cases
- Securities Trading Policies – Best Practices
- How to Respond to Acquisition Proposals/Takeovers
- Compliance Update: Regulation FD and Form 8-K Triggers
- When the SEC Calls
- Majority Versus Plurality Shareholder Voting – What Works Best for You?
- Legal Issues to Consider When Incorporating a Delaware Subsidiary to do Business in North Carolina
- Choice of Entity Considerations for Privately-Held Business
- Legal Issues to Consider When Doing Business in North Carolina
- Conducting Board Self-Assessments
- Addressing Environmental Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions
- Accessing the Debt Markets
- Mezzanine Financing
- Private Equity Financing
- Legal Considerations in a Private Equity Sale
Commercial
- Drafting Contract Boilerplate
- Overview of Software Licensing
- Protecting Company Interests: Non-Competes and Other Tools
- Commercial Contracting: Landmines, Pitfalls and Risk Management
- Drafting and Enforcement of Contracts – Controlling and Limiting Risk
- Analyzing the Prime Lease
- The Leasing Process – Essentials of Office and Retail Leases
Litigation
- Handling the Challenging Case
- Bringing Your Case Alive to Judge and Jury
- Cost-Effective Litigation: Winning the Case Without Breaking the Bank
- eDiscovery Part I: The Initial Stages
- eDiscovery Part II: Principles and Protocol
- eDiscovery Part III: Defensibility and Efficiency
- Hot Topics in Contract Litigation; Commercial Contracting – Top 10 Landmines for Litigation
- Summary Judgment and Contract Litigation: The Why, When and How
- Real Estate Litigation
- Blackwater: War of Wars, a Comprehensive Journey into Media Shenanigans, Congressional Inquiry and Bet-The-Company Litigation
- Anti-Patent Troll Law
- The Lifecycle of an Insurance Claim (With a Focus on D&O Insurance)
- Building Better Bylaws
- So You've Been Sued, Now What?
Data Use, Privacy and Security
- Primer on Privacy and Confidentiality
- The High Cost of Cyber Crime: Protecting Yourself, Your Business and Your Clients
- Data Breach – Prevention, Preparation and Response
- Grid Modernization & Emerging Technologies: Privacy and the Smart Grid
- Protecting Against Insider Threats
- You Will be Hacked!
- Threats to Confidential Data on Mobile Devices
- Protecting Proprietary Business Assets: Strategies to Safeguard Your Company
- Social Media: How Your Company, Customers, Competitors, Shareholders and Others are Using It and the Legal Pitfalls and Current Best Practices You Need to Know
Regulatory
- Overview of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- What To Do When the OSHA Investigator Knocks
- OSHA Recent Developments: Back in the Enforcement Business
Government Contracts
- Teaming Arrangements (teaming agreements, joint ventures and subcontracts)
- New Developments in Government Contracting
- Bid Protest and Debriefings
On-demand Webinars
Please note that according to the State Bar, CLE credit is not available for on-demand, pre-recorded webinars.
You may access our full list of on-demand webinars by clicking here.
For in-house education details, please contact:
Debbie J. Smith
djsmith@smithlaw.com
919.821.6632