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Free One-Hour Briefing on Exporting EEO: Aligning a Multinational’s Approaches to Discrimination, Harassment and Diversity Compliance Overseas

September 11, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

A multinational might proclaim “zero tolerance” for discrimination and harassment across its U.S. operations. But does it ignore sex harassment in its Dubai office? Does it tolerate mandatory retirement in its Berlin facility? And does it excuse blatant race and gender discrimination at its Tokyo subsidiary as “cultural differences”?

Equal employment opportunity compliance initiatives evolved in domestic American HR, and we Americans think of our U.S.-style EEO initiatives as world-leading. These days, U.S.-based multinationals push to align, across national borders, their human resources “offerings” that promote workplace equality?their HR policies, code of conduct provisions, training modules, and internal compliance audits. But directly exporting a homegrown American EEO initiative does not work. Fighting discrimination and harassment, and promoting diversity, across borders requires subtlety, nuance, strategy and finesse. Americans may even need to relax their fierce “zero tolerance” stance to account for different discrimination and harassment laws and attitudes overseas. For that matter, in many countries diversity is less of an imperative, demographically.

This session offers U.S. multinationals a toolkit for expanding and localizing U.S.-style EEO initiatives to work across worldwide operations. How can we adapt American-style EEO strategies and policies for global compliance initiatives? How can we impose rules against workplace discrimination and harassment abroad? How can we champion diversity internationally?

Please join Donald C. Dowling, Jr. of White & Case LLP for a discussion on the following topics:

  • combating workplace discrimination across borders
  • the special challenge of global age discrimination compliance
  • the special challenge of global pay discrimination compliance
  • combating workplace harassment across borders
  • promoting workplace diversity across borders

Register now and don’t miss this important free briefing!

Now you can access PLI Discover PLUS with a Search Widget

The library team at PLI is happy to announce the addition of the Discover PLUS search box. This search widget can be embedded into any page you choose whether it’s your library’s intranet page or standard webpage. It’s our mission to deliver you the most up-to-date valuable information in the most efficient way possible. This new search box will allow your organization and patrons a direct line to over 4,000 segments of legal research. This simple and easy search box allows you to enter a search query without having to open a new window with our designated web address.

Interested in adding this to your webpage? Write us at discoverplus@pli.edu and we’ll send you the code.
Or you can test drive the search from our blog.

PLI Treatises Updated in August 2014

In August 2014, PLI updated the following Treatises:

Also in August 2014, PLI published the following new Treatise title:

If you are on standing order for any of these titles, the releases have already been shipped.  If you would like to place an order, please email PLI Library Help Desk or call 877-900-5291.

Free One-Hour Briefing on Transitioning to an In-House Counsel Role

September 9, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

The role of the in-house lawyer has long since evolved away from the notion that it is simply cheaper to employ attorneys than use outside services. Increasingly employers are realizing that their legal staff can and should contribute unique value that cannot be matched by outside counsel. Yet, in many cases, this goal remains illusory because the conceptual understanding of the in-house role is not clearly articulated by either employer or attorney. This One-Hour Briefing will offer ideas as to how to address this challenge. It is specifically designed for attorneys who are thinking about moving to an in-house role or have recently done so.

Please join James D. Dinnage (formerly in-house at DuPont and Conoco) and Laurence S. Rickles (formerly trademark counsel at Johnson and Johnson), now both with the law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC , together with David C. Shelton, Associate General Counsel and Mary Jo Anderson, benefits attorney, both at DuPont, Charles “Chic” Krukiel of the law firm of Dunlap Codding P.C. (formerly Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Invista S. a r.l.) and Luke Mette, Head of Global Litigation at AstraZeneca Inc. as they:

  • offer ideas on how to think about the in-house role in the world of 2014;
  • identify the opportunities inherent in the in-house role that enable the attorney to bring value to the enterprise;
  • discuss the skills that need to be developed to be successful; and
  • explore ways for appraising the attorney’s contribution based on the value proposition.

Register now and don’t miss this important free briefing!

Free One-Hour Briefing on Basics of the Federal Election Campaign Act 2014

September 4, 2014, 1:oop.m. – 2:00p.m. (E.D.T.)

In just one hour, this briefing will provide you with a summary of federal candidate and PAC campaign law, as regulated by the Federal Election Campaign Act and administered by the Federal Election Commission’s Regulations and Disclosure Rules.

Please join Jan Witold Baran of Wiley Rein LLP, Kenneth A. Gross of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Chip Nielsen of Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP for a discussion addressing:

  • Contribution definitions, limits, and prohibitions
  • Contributions and expenditures after the Citizens United and McCutcheon cases
  • Disclosure and political action committees
  • Tax laws for political organizations and 501(c)(4)s
  • Resource materials provided by the FEC and other experts

This One-Hour Briefing is offered as a primer for the two-day program Corporate Political Activities 2014: Complying with Campaign Finance, Lobbying and Ethics Laws on September 11-12, 2014 at The Ritz Carlton in Washington, D.C., and is presented by the program co-chairs. Register for the live two-day program and receive complimentary access to this preparatory briefing.

Register now and don’t miss this important free briefing!

PLI Discover PLUS – Transcripts Video

PLI Discover PLUS has hundreds of program transcripts available at your fingertips.  Here’s a quick video on how to search for transcripts on PLUS.  Check out the rest of our videos on the PLI Librarian YouTube channel!

We will continue to add instructional videos to this channel, so stay tuned for more!  And if you have any suggestions on search tips videos you would like to see, please contact the PLI Library Help Desk .

Copyright News: Monkey Selfies

open_law_bookNature photographer David Slater asked the Wikimedia Commons website to take down photos he contends he owns the copyright too. The request was refused because the pictures in question were taken by a monkey who grabbed the camera and appeared to enjoy the sound of snapping photos. The monkey took hundreds of pictures, including selfies.

You can read more about the decision here: Monkey selfies do not qualify for copyright protection, US regulators say

You can also learn about copyright law in PLI Discover PLUS. We have books, forms and program transcripts covering the topic, including Substantial Similarity in Copyright Law, Advanced Copyright Law Annual Review 2014, and the Fundamentals of Copyright Law in the Data Era 2014.

PLI Discover PLUS – Forms Video

We’ve added another video to our PLI Librarians YouTube channel!  These videos have been created to provide quick search tips, and offer advice on how to navigate through PLI Discover PLUS.  The most recent 1 minute video gives you tips on how to easily locate the forms you need.

 

We will continue to add instructional videos to this channel so stay tuned for more!  If you have any suggestions for other search tips videos, please contact the PLI Library Help Desk team.