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COVID-19 Legal Learning Series CLE - Navigating Employment Law Issues Raised by COVID-19

Event Type
Professional Development
Sponsor
University of Illinois College of Law and The Jerome Mirza Foundation
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Jul 29, 2020   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Speaker
Scott A. Carroll - Jackson Lewis P.C., Tara K. Burke - Jackson Lewis P.C., Suja Thomas - University of Illinois College of Law
Cost
Free, but registration requested.
Registration
REGISTER HERE
Contact
Heather Ball
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hball@illinois.edu
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COVID-19 Legal Learning Series CLE
Hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law and The Jerome Mirza Foundation

"Navigating Employment Law Issues Raised by COVID-19"

July 29, 2020
12 pm-1 pm CST

Among its many challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic touches virtually every aspect of the employment relationship and the laws and regulations that cover it. In addition, many new laws affecting that relationship have arisen. This presentation will address many of the legal and practical challenges that arose as well as issues that still loom while employees return to the workplace.

Presenters:

Scott Carroll
Scott A. Carroll is Office Managing Principal of the Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, offices of Jackson Lewis P.C. He is a member of the firm's Board of Directors.

Mr. Carroll represents clients across the spectrum of labor and employment law, including wrongful discharge litigation, collective bargaining, union avoidance, and human resources counseling for multi-state and multi-national employers. He has expertise in Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank matters as well as multi-plaintiff employment cases.

Mr. Carroll lectures frequently on all aspects of labor and employment law matters. Mr. Carroll serves on the National Board of Directors for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). His service to LLS in Cincinnati and nationally began in 2005.

During law school, he was a member of the University of Cincinnati Law Review. After law school, he clerked for The Honorable Sandra S. Beckwith in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio from 1993-1995.

Tara Burke
Tara K. Burke is the Knowledge Management (“KM”) Attorney for Jackson Lewis P.C.’s Disability, Leave & Health Management Practice Group, and is based in the in the Cincinnati, Ohio, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She works with employers to build positive and inclusive workplaces and reduce legal risk through policy development, training, and employment law counseling.

Ms. Burke provides practical and legal advice to clients on employment law issues including harassment and discrimination prevention, diversity and inclusion, hiring and interviewing, internal investigations, disability accommodation and leave management, reductions in force, individual separations and employee relations issues. Ms. Burke works with clients, including multi-state employers, to identify the trends in workplace law and stay in compliance with the rapidly changing state-by-state legal landscape. Ms. Burke helps clients of all sizes and in all industries, create, revise and implement workplace policies and procedures including employee handbooks. She also routinely conducts workplace training for leadership, human resources, managers and employees on numerous topics including strong management practices that reduce legal risk and build effective teams, preventing sexual harassment by supporting respectful and positive workplaces, achieving winning results through diversity and inclusion, conducting investigations, and employee accommodations and leaves of absence.

Ms. Burke has defended employers in employment-related litigation and administrative proceedings.

In addition to working with for-profit clients, Ms. Burke also works with non-profit clients, including small non-profits, to provide employment law expertise to non-profit organizations supporting our communities across the country.

Ms. Burke is a frequent speaker for a variety of human resource, business leader, and legal audiences.  

Suja A. Thomas
Suja A. Thomas is the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Thomas’s book The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries was published by Cambridge University Press. The book has been reviewed by federal judge William Young who asserted it is “akin to Tom Paine’s Common Sense.” Professor Thomas’s second book Unequal: How America’s Courts Undermine Discrimination Law, published by Oxford University Press, was discussed in the New York Times Magazine and reviewed by federal judge John McConnell. For several years, her article Why Summary Judgment Is Unconstitutional, published by the Virginia Law Review, has been the basis of legal arguments in briefs to the United States Supreme Court and other courts. Professor Thomas is a fellow with Kartemquin Films, the film company that made Hoop Dreams among other films. She is making a mainstream documentary film, which shows the demise of the jury. Professor Thomas received her B.A. in mathematics from Northwestern University and her J.D. from NYU School of Law where she graduated with honors and was on the Law Review.  After clerking, she practiced in New York City at the law firms of Cravath, Weil, Gotshal, and Vladeck.

This course is approved for 1.00 Illinois MCLE general credit hours.

Free, but registration requested. Register HERE.

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