FD (Fair Disclosure) Wire, June 14, 2005, Tuesday

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June 14, 2005 Tuesday

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HEADLINE: Employment Best Practices For the Non-Profit Organization - Final

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ROBERT AMBERG, VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL COUNSEL, SENIOR RETIREMENT HOUSING FOUNDATION: Good afternoon and good morning, everyone. This is the webcast for the Association of Corporate Counsel, entitled "Employment; Best Practices for the Nonprofit Organization."
My name is Robert Amberg. I am Senior Vice President General Counsel of Retirement Housing Foundation. I will serve as the moderator for this webcast. We have a very distinguished panel. I will now go through their biographies and introduce them to you.
Steve Garrett (ph) is on the panel. He is the Associate Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Texas A&M Research Foundation. Mr. Garrett joined the research foundation in 1982.
In his current position, Mr. Garrett is responsible for the overall legal interests of the research foundation, providing legal advice and guidance to the board of trustees, senior management and the managers of the functional areas of the organization, including human resources and risk management. Prior to joining the Texas A&M Research Foundation, Mr. Garrett was an attorney with a private practice in Birmingham, Alabama.
He received his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 1980, and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1977. He is a member of the bar of the State of Texas. Mr. Garrett also serves as a member of the nonprofit Association Committee of the Association of Corporate Counsel and serves as Chair of the subcommittee on webcasts.
Also joining us are two fine lawyers from Jackson Lewis in New York. Philip Rosen is the managing general partner of the New York City office of Jackson Lewis, LLP, one of the nation's largest law firms, representing management exclusively in workplace law and related litigation.
Mr. Rosen lectures extensively, conducts management training and advises clients with respect to corporate strategies, business ethics, reorganizations and reductions in force; purchase-sale transactions, sexual harassment and other workplace conduct rules; compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, wrongful discharge and other workplace litigation; corporate campaigns and union organizing matters, collective bargaining, arbitration and National Labor Relations Board proceedings.
He is an accomplished author. He has written articles entitled "Labor Relations Consideration for the New High Technology Company," for the Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal," published in 1986; "Substance Abuse; A Crisis in the Workplace," published in the July 1987 issue of Trial Magazine; "Legal Implications of Substance Abuse Testing in the Workplace," published by the Notre Dame Law Review.
"Is Your Early Retirement Package Courting Disaster?" published by Personnel Journal in its August 1988 issue; "Playing by Fair Rules," published by HR Magazine in its April '91 issue; "Responding to Union Organizing Campaigns," published in 1984 as a part of Matthew Bender's Business Law Monograph Series. "Don't Get Nailed," published in the January '97 ProEmp Journal; "Taking on a Unionized Company; You Can Do It," published in the May 1998 ProEmp Journal.
"Managing Expatriate Employees; Employment Law Issues and Answers," published in the Winter 2000 Journal of Employment Discrimination Law; "Managing A Nonprofit Effectively Under the Equal Employment Opportunities Laws," published in the Nonprofit Governance Executives Guide Second Edition; "DOL Final Regulations on White Collar Exemptions; What Employers Need to Know," published in the June 2004 issue of Inside HR/NY.
Mr. Rosen received his B.A. Cum Laude in 1976 from the University of Rochester, was awarded the degree of Juris Doctor from New York University Law School of Law in 1979. He received the American Jurisprudence Award for Labor Law in 1978.
Mr. Rosen is a member of the bars of the State of New York and District of Columbia. These biographies are online, by the way, in case you want to do any more research on these articles that I've mentioned.
Richard I. Greenberg, a partner in the Jackson Lewis New York City office, was admitted to the bar of the State of New York, federal district court for the southern district of New York. Mr. Greenberg graduated from Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations in '92, earned a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School in '95.

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