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I am excited to announce we have just opened registration for the 20th Anniversary of our HR Law & Solutions Seminar!  The seminar is March 27 at Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa.  Topics and speakers include:

• Employment Law and Legislative Update presented by Attorneys Robert Shearman and John Agnew
• First Report of Injury: Best Practices to Save Your Bottom Line presented by Attorneys Cora Molloy and David Roos
• DHS/DOL Immigration Audits: Is Your Company Ready? presented by Board Certified Immigration Lawyer Tulio Suarez 
• Dealing with the Retaliation Claim Boom presented by Board Certified Employment Lawyer John Potanovic
• Employment Law IQ: Test Your Knowledge and Issue Spotting Abilities presented by Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer Vicki Sproat and Attorney Suzanne Boy
• It's Not the Fruit, It's the Root presented by guest speaker Sean Carter, Humorist at Law.

Also, as I teased in my Save the Date post, we have some fun surprises up our sleeves, including a surprise guest and a special 20th Anniversary celebration!  Download the seminar brochure here.  Click here to register.  Can't wait to see you all!

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Henderson Franklin is so excited to announce the 20th Annual HR Law & Solutions seminar will take place March 27, 2012 at Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa.  To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we have several great topics planned, we are bringing back the hilarious Sean Carter, and we might just have a few surprises up our sleeves! 

Registration will open in the beginning of February.  Thank you for your continued support of our seminar -- we are looking forward to making it the best yet, and can't wait to share all we have planned with you.

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Last week, we hosted the 19th Annual HR Law & Solutions seminar.  We welcomed a huge crowd and, for the first time, two fabulous guest speakers.  Paul Macleish got the day started off right (bagpipes anyone?!), and Dr. Rick Goodman finished the day with a bang.  In between, attendees learned about new cases, the FLSA, worker's compensation, and GINA from Henderson Franklin attorneys.

We inducted three new members into the HR Law & Solutions Hall of Fame:  Lori Burke of INgage Networks, Anna Evans of Lykes Insurance, and Sandie Peterson of Markham Norton.  Our Hall of Fame recognizes attendees for their contribution to our seminar, and to the HR field in Southwest Florida. 

Anna Evans, Sandie Peterson, Lori Burke

A packed house!

You can checkout our Facebook page for more photos.  We want to thank everyone who attended for helping make the event such a success.  A very special thanks goes out to our generous lunch sponsor, Lykes Insurance.  Your continued support and partnership means so much to us!

Plans are already underway for next year's seminar -- our 20th anniversary celebration!   

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By now I hope you have registered for our 19th Annual HR Law & Solutions Seminar, as we are at full capacity with a wait list!  Inevitably, though, we will have a few cancellations, so if you haven't registered yet and would like to attend please contact Gail Lamarche ASAP.  We have so many exciting things planned, and don't forget the 5.75 HRCI Strategic Credits. Check out the agenda here.

For the first time, we will have live Twitter updates throughout the seminar, provided mostly by the fabulous Lori Burke on the HR Collier feed.  We will use #swflhrlaw and #shrm as hashtags.  If you're in the audience, feel free to join in! 

Finally, I wanted to give everyone the opportunity to send in their questions for the breakout sessions in advance.  We will, of course, field live questions at the seminar, but if you want to send them in now please email them to me at suzanne.boy@henlaw.com. 

See you Tuesday!

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We are less than three weeks away from the 19th Annual HR Law & Solutions Seminar, and thanks to an overwhelming (and record-setting!) response, we are only 10 spots away from being at full capacity.  If you haven't signed up and want to attend, register here, or contact Gail Lamarche at gail.lamarche@henlaw.com as soon as possible. 

As I've told mentioned before, we are featuring two fabulous guest speakers this year.  I profiled the first, Paul Macleish, in this post last month.  I want to take a minute to profile our second guest speaker, Dr. Rick Goodman:

What can an ex-team physician for the St. Louis Rams teach local business owners and HR professionals?  Dr. Rick Goodman's high-energy speeches are designed for companies of all sizes that want to maximize their potential. Dr. Rick has been working and studying with some of the most successful people and organizations in the world for over 20 years. He has developed unique and effective systems that help organizations.

In 1995, Dr. Rick became a medical staff member for two professional sports teams, the St. Louis Rams and the St. Louis Ambush. After selling his medical practice, Dr. Rick worked with two of the largest corporations in America, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing Corporation, where he implemented strategies to form and execute self-directed work teams. Throughout the project, he worked directly with leaders from all branches of the armed services to increase the productivity of all employees, maximize efficiency, and cut costs. During the first two years, Dr. Rick saved each company several million dollars and even prevented layoffs at all of their facilities.

Dr. Rick doesn't speak, teach, or train from the text book but passionately shares his life's stories and experiences with laughter and fun. Click here for a YouTube sneak peak.

We are very excited to welcome Dr. Rick to our seminar, and we think attendees are in for a real treat.  See you soon!

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We are very close to opening registration for the 19th Annual HR Law & Solutions seminar and we couldn't be more excited!  We have a lot of great things planned this year, including, for the first time, TWO guest speakers.  The first, Paul Macleish, is profiled below.  We will profile the second guest speaker in the coming weeks. 

Our first guest speaker, Paul Macleish, is originally from the Scottish border.  Paul is a seasoned human resource professional, leadership coach, facilitator, author and motivational speaker. Paul created Achieve Leadership,® a company which specializes in creating and sustaining a culture of leadership excellence through sound business practices, good people skills, human resource best practices and great mentorship, development and guidance. 

Paul is an authority on the subject of developing world-class leaders to meet the challenges of today and the vision of tomorrow.   He was involved in the leadership development performance excellence strategies at Walt Disney World®, which helped transform the Disney® culture to a culture of high leadership performance and accountability.

Paul's presentation "Becoming a True Strategic Partner" will help attendees:

• understand why they need to become strategic partners
• understand how to identify key business needs that will help align participants as a strategic partner
• build an awareness of influencing skills and how to build alliances in the workplace
• understand the importance of the company vision, mission and goals and how to use them on a daily basis
• understand how to have a greater strategic impact with your boss, team and peers and elevate your professional reputation within the workplace.

Check back next week for registration, and for a very exciting announcement about the HRCI credits that will be available to attendees this year.  Make sure to register early, as last year we were near full capacity with 280 attendees.  Thank you so much for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing you all Tuesday, April 26, 2011.

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The Employment Law Practice Group is pleased to provide the February 2010 edition of the Employment Law Update, which features the following articles:

• Did you know that Florida ranks second only to California in the number of wage and hour suits brought against employers?  Robert Shearman provides employers with a timely update and advice in "Taking Care of Business and Working Overtime: FLSA Lawsuits on the Rise."

• Whether an employee is terminated because of a depressed economy or poor performance, severance agreements are important for employers and employees alike. John Agnew explains in "Why a 'Golden Parachute' Can Be As Good For The Employers As It Is for the Employee, Especially in Difficult Economic Times."

• In the article "Amendment to FMLA Expands Military Family Leave," Joanne Lashey explains how FMLA policies should be reviewed and revised to comply with changes to exigency leave, contingency operations and caregiver leave requirements.

• Be sure to mark your calendar and save the date of April 27, 2010 so you can attend the 18th Annual HR Law & Solutions Seminar at Pelican Preserve Country Club in Fort Myers. The topics and speakers are announced on page 4; look for registration to begin mid-March.

• Click to download your copy of the Employment Law Update.

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