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Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Craig Fisher, Talent Consultant & Author.  In a world where technology has made it easier than ever to overapply, Fisher explains what companies are doing to find qualified candidates, and what job seekers should be aware of befo...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to talk about workplace activism. Our guest is Peter Rahbar, an employment attorney, workplace issues expert and founder of The Rahbar Group. He offers a three-step process—strategy, policies, and communication with employees—to handle whatever comes up...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we’re going to talk about religious accommodation in the Dobbs era. Our guest is Ann McGinley. She’s a recently retired law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, where she also served as the co-director of the Workplace L...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are going to talk about college sports and unionization. Our guest is Nellie Drew. Drew is a law professor and founder of the Center for the Advancement of Sport at the University at Buffalo. In this episode, we talk about myriad employment law issues the Nation...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we talk about the future of noncompete agreements. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to ban them in April 2024, but are they really dead? That’s the question everyone is asking, and we put it to Stewart Schwab, a former Cornell Law School Dean who, in his 40...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. The interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client relationship management and wellness. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we talk about making career transitions...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are featuring a discussion with Holly Sutton, the chair of Farella, Braun and Martel’s employment practice.  Sutton walks us through a list of dos and don’ts for effectively managing leave rules and regulations. Perhaps even more important than strictly followin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are featuring a discussion with Kate Nearpass about how to keep workplace investigations neutral.  Nearpass, a veteran investigator who recently started her own firm, says ne...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Laura Mitchell, Principal at Jackson Lewis.  This conversation with Mitchell was originally recorded for the AccelPro Audit community, however, it is relevant to those in the legal field as well. This bonus episode is free for ev...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are featuring a discussion with Mike Strauss, the co-founder of Strauss and Strauss.  He constructed his employment law career with the goal of becoming a mediator. In this interview, Strauss walks us through the steps, skills and abilities necessary to make the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Bonnie Levine, a partner at gunnercooke, about ways attorneys can help craft diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that are both...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion about the union grievance arbitration process. Our guest is Corey Franklin, a member of FordHarrison’s Labor Relations and Healthcare Practice Gro...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This episode is free for everyone, a sample of what paid members get when they join the community. The interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client relationship management and wellness. Our host is internationally recogn...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Erin Grau, a breast cancer survivor and co-founder of Charter, a company that focuses on the future of work. She offers tips on ways companies can codify empathy in order to create a supportive workplace for employees battling ca...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion about artificial intelligence and bias with Rachel See, Senior Counsel and Vice President of People Analytics Group at Seyfarth. If you read too m...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Anthony Paradiso about how to build a strong culture rooted in diversity, equity and inclusion. Paradiso is the vice president of HR support services for Industrial UI Services. He has led DEI efforts for the New Jersey chapter o...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Josh Guttman about non-compete agreements in light of the FTC’s recent vote to ban them. Guttman says non-competes aren’t just golden handcuffs placed on high flying executives, but they’re much more insidious than that. And it appears th...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This episode is free for everyone, a sample of what paid members get when they join the community. The interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recogn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Marie Stehmer about how to fire someone. Stehmer has had a decades long career as an HR executive, including many years as a chief human resources off...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Jessica Stender about salary history bans. Stender, the policy director and deputy legal director of Equal Rights Advocates, says salary history bans...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Terri Gerstein about classification of workers. Gerstein is the director of the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative. She’s a Harvard Law School graduate who previously spent 17 years in New York government, mainly for the New York Attorn...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee . Today we’re featuring a conversation with T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Ben Eubanks about AI and bias. Eubanks, the author of Artificial Intelligence for HR , blogger and podcast host, is Chief Research Officer at...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Joe Beachboard about covid and employment law. Beachboard, who has practiced employment law for 35 years, is the chief concierge attorney at...

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Chai Feldblum about professional development, the value of peer-to-peer relationships and how to develop a writing voice that flows like butter. Feldblum served as a professor at Georgetown for 18 years, a commissioner at the Equ...