Labor and Employment Law for a New Economic and Political Era

Has been approved for 13.25 CLE hours, including 2 ethics hours, by the Kentucky Bar Association. 

Thursday, June 18

7:45 AM:  Registration

8:20 AM:  Welcome

• Jim Chen, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law

Session I.   

• Moderator: Cynthia Blevins Doll, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP, Louisville, KY

8:30-9:15 AM:  Review of Kentucky Employment Law Cases

• David Leightty, Leightty & Associates, Louisville, KY

9:15-10:15 AM:  Review of U.S. Supreme Court Labor and Employment Cases

• Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Willard & Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Indiana University-Bloomington

10:15-10:30 AM:  Break

Session II.   

• Moderator: Professor Robert N. Covington, Vanderbilt University Law School

10:30-12:00 PM:  The Obama Legislative Agenda

• William Lurye, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
• Marc Fredman, Director, Labor Law Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC
• Ross E. Eisenberg, Vice President, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC

12:00-1:00 PM:  Lunch

1:00-2:00 PM:  Carl A. Warns, Jr. Lecture: The Fall and Rise of Self-Governance at Work

• Cynthia L. Estlund, Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law, New York University

Session III.   

• Moderator: George Adams, Fisher & Phillips LLP, Louisville, KY

2:00-2:45 PM:  FMLA Update

• Victoria A. Lipnic, Former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards, Arlington, VA

2:45-3:00 PM:  Break

3:00-3:45 PM:  Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008

• Mark A. Rothstein, Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine

3:45-4:45 PM:  Law and Ethics of Lawyer Mobility

• Robert W. Hillman, Professor of Law, University of California Davis School of Law

Friday, June 19

Session IV.   

• Moderator: Thomas J. Schulz, Priddy, Cutler, Miller & Meade PLLC, Louisville, KY

8:00-8:45 AM:  Unemployment Insurance Update

• Jeffrey A. Calabrese, Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, Louisville, KY

8:45-9:30 AM:  Workers’ Compensation Developments

• James Fogle, Ferreri & Fogle PLLC, Louisville, KY

9:30-9:45 AM:  Break

Session V.   

• Moderator: Richard S. Cleary, Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, PLLC, Louisville, KY

9:45-10:30 AM:  ADA Amendments Act of 2008

• Ann S. McGinley, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

10:30-11:15 AM:  Public Employee Labor Law

• Martin H. Malin, Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Law and the Workplace, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology

11:15 AM -12:00 PM:  NLRB Update

• John Higgins, Deputy General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC

12:00-1:00 PM:  Lunch
 
Session VI.   

• Moderator: Aimee L. McFerren, Trial Attorney, EEOC, Louisville, KY

1:00-2:00 PM:  At the Crossroads: Employment Issues, WARN Act and Bankruptcy Law

• Bonnie Glantz Fatell, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE
• Paul Friedman, Blank Rome LLP, New York, NY

2:00-2:45 PM:  EEOC Update

• Carolyn L. Wheeler, Office of the General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC

2:45-3:00 PM:  Break

3:00-4:00 PM:  Multiple Representation Issues in Labor and Employment Cases

• Charles A. Powell, IV, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Birmingham, AL

4:00 PM:  Conference Adjourns

• Carl A. Warns, Jr. and Dr. Marian Kincaid Warns Biographies
• Carl A. Warns, Jr. Labor & Employment Law Institute Founders