RESCHEDULED- Employment Law and Social Media: Rights, Obligations, and Disputes in the Workplace CLE

RESCHEDULED- Employment Law and Social Media: Rights, Obligations, and Disputes in the Workplace

February 2012

Employment Law and Social Media: Rights, Obligations and Disputes in the Workplace - LIVE IN DENVER

Program Description:

The intersection of social media and the workplace has become a given. Use of social media is rapidly expanding while societal norms regarding exposure of employment-related information continue to erode. The result is an increasingly complex social media environment for employees, employers, and attorneys. Join us to learn about employment law and social media trends and how they affect you, your clients, and your practice.

This interactive program will use hypotheticals and audience inquiries to approach numerous issues important for practitioners, including:

Recent Court decisions and NLRB opinions and their impact on workplace social media policies;
Discovery and use of social media in litigation; and
Discovery and use of social media in mediation.

Presented by David Stacy, Esq., Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix, and Adrienne Fechter, J.D., LL.M.

Agenda:

11:15 am - 11:45 am Registration (LUNCH PROVIDED)

11:45 am - 1:30 pm Employment Law and Social Media: Rights, Obligations and Disputes in the Workplace

1:30pm Adjourn

About the Faculty:

David H. Stacy, Esq.

Kelly, Stacy & Rita, LLC

David Stacy is a civil trial lawyer who has specialized in management labor and employment law and litigation for more than 25 years. He has conducted numerous jury trials, court trials, arbitrations and appeals, including those involving claims alleging race, disability, sex, age and sexual orientation discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets. Mr. Stacy has defended employment-related lawsuits in federal and state courts in 11 states. He is a frequent lecturer on employment law and trial topics and is a former co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association. Mr. Stacy is listed in Best Lawyers in America, America's Leading Lawyers by Chambers USA and Colorado Super Lawyers.

Kristen L. Mix

Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado

Kristen L. Mix graduated from Middlebury College, cum laude, with a degree in English. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law, and practiced law in Denver until 2007, when she was appointed to the federal bench. Magistrate Judge Mix's expertise prior to her appointment was in the area of labor and employment law. She was recognized as a top employment lawyer both locally and nationally, having been honored in 2006 and 2007 by Chambers U.S.A. and named one of the top twenty-five women lawyers in Colorado by 5280 Magazine. Magistrate Judge Mix is a past Co- Chair of the Colorado Lawyers Committee's Hate Violence Task Force, past Chair of the Colorado Pledge to Diversity Legal Group, serves on the Colorado Commission on Family Medicine as the representative from the First Congressional District, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Family Medicine Institute. She is on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and is a frequent speaker on the law.

Adrienne Fechter, J.D., LL.M.

Managed Conflict

Adrienne Fechter is a full time mediator and arbitrator with a practice primarily focused on handling employment-related and civil rights disputes. She has mediated and arbitrated more than 1,500 employment and civil rights cases, including class and collective actions, high profile harassment and discrimination claims, and complex multi-plaintiff and multi-defendant disputes. She maintains locations in both Atlanta and Denver, dividing her time equally between the two. Prior to devoting her practice to serving exclusively as a neutral, Adrienne was an employment law trial lawyer, representing both individuals and management. As an advocate, Adrienne handled bench and jury trials and argued cases before the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. Adrienne has completed training as a mediator and arbitrator from the Duke University Private Adjudication Center, the University of Miami, American Mediation Institute & Collaboration in Advanced Dispute Resolution Education, the American Bar Association Arbitration Training Institute, and the Justice Center of Atlanta.