HOW HR & LEGAL TEAM UP FOR MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS

Whether the approach is strategic to business objectives or focused on limiting liability in the courtroom, Human Resource Managers are critical to employing a successful strategy.  Learn tips and tactics from an employment lawyer who has been working with HR Managers in and out of the courtroom for more than 25 years. 

Learning Objectives:

• Business Strategy: Provide guidance and leadership by better understanding the interaction between HR and the law when your company is growing, looking to become more efficient or reducing its workforce to remain competitive in the business environment.
• Risk Management: Walkthrough real-life scenarios involving HR Managers and analyze their involvement in helping successfully resolve employment law claims.
• Employee Relations: Review tips and tactics to help support your best workers while initiating change for your unproductive workers.

Presented by: 

William Gaar is an advocate and litigator for his business and employer clients, providing practical solutions to everyday concerns and protecting his clients’ rights in state and federal court, private arbitration and mediation, and before state and federal agencies. Well versed in all areas of employment and commercial/consumer law, he has assisted every size of organization. As the current chair of the Litigation Practice Group, Bill is a frequent speaker and author on employment law topics providing important information to clients through seminars and individual training.

William Gaar is also a fellow with the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society. The Litigation Counsel of America limits membership to 3,500 Fellows, representing less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Bill has been a fellow since 2013.

• General employment counsel for all types and sizes of business in daily human resource management as well as production of key employee agreements and compensation packages for sales and other employees.
• Representation of automobile dealerships and both manufactured housing dealerships and manufacturers in all areas of consumer and commercial law and litigation.
• Public employment law providing employment advice to local municipalities.
• Representing, drafting, and negotiating trade secret/confidentiality and non-competition agreements as well as providing litigation services for the enforcement of such agreements to protect business assets.