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EEOC Seattle Seminar Thursday , August 20, 2009: Click for a brochure for this 1-day conference sponsored by the US. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Alex will be speaking on "Recent Developments in the Law: A Legal Update". To register or for more information, click here.
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Mental Disabilities in the Workplace: Expanded Protection for Employees: Click to read Alex’s article on mental disabilities, submitted to the Kane County Bar Bulletin for publication. [top]
GENERAL LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS/INFORMATION
King County Bar Association: The King County Bar Association provides support to its diverse membership; promotes a just, collegial and accessible legal system and profession; works with the judiciary to achieve excellence in the administration of justice; strives to benefit the community through its own efforts and those of its Foundation; and offers opportunities for public service and input into matters of public policy.
Founded in 1886 and incorporated in 1906, the King County Bar Association is the largest voluntary bar association in the state of Washington, with approximately 6,000 members. [top]
King County Superior Court [top]
Washington State Bar Association: The Washington State Bar Association is a private, nonprofit organization authorized by the Washington Supreme Court to license the state's 27,300 lawyers. [top]
Washington State Courts: Information on all levels of Washington State Courts. [top]
Department of Labor: The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers’ rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support. [top]
Family and Medical Leave Act: Covered employers must grant an eligible employee up to a total of 12 workweeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period for a variety of reasons. [top]
Law Memo: Law professor in Oregon with useful employment law information: We publish Employment Law Memo - summaries of latest court decisions, one-click links to full text, three emails per week. [top]
LegalWA: Great resource on Washington law. [top]
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: The EEOC enforces Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination. EEOC also provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies. [top]
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries: L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety, health and security of Washington's 3.2 million workers. They help employers meet safety and health standards and inspect workplaces when alerted to hazards. As administrators of the state's workers' compensation system, they are similar to a large insurance company, providing medical and limited wage-replacement coverage to workers who suffer job-related injuries and illness. Their rules and enforcement programs also help ensure workers are paid what they are owed, that children's and teens' work hours are limited, and that consumers are protected from unsound building practices.
They serve customers in 20 offices throughout Washington, and have approximately 2,700 skilled employees, including safety inspectors, claims specialists, nurses, researchers, accountants, labor experts and support staff. [top]
Washington State Human Rights Commission: Established in 1949, the Washington State Human Rights Commission ( WSHRC ) enforces the Washington State Law Against Discrimination. The mission of the WSHRC is to eliminate and prevent discrimination in Washington State through the fair application of the law, efficient use of resources, and establishment of productive partnerships in the community. [top]
Council on Education in Management: For over 35 years, Council has provided high-quality employment law, workers' comp and HR training to human resource and other business professionals across the U.S. Over one million delegates have attended our programs to date! Our events provide innovative solutions to the workplace challenges you face every day, from FMLA compliance to managing an internal & Workplace investigation, and everything in between. Some of the more popular training option's council offers is our FMLA and Employment Law Webinars. Council also offers Certificate Programs: Advanced training programs brought to you in association with George Washington University. [top]
Lorman Education Services: Lorman Education Services is a leading provider of continuing education seminars. We held our first continuing education seminar in 1987. Since then, Lorman seminars have kept businesses, and the professionals who serve them, current in the rapidly changing regulatory environment. We understand your need for concise, accurate and timely information. Our faculty are leading professionals who work daily on the subjects they address. [top]
National Business Institute: National Business Institute (NBI) has been providing legal education to attorneys, accountants, human resource and insurance professionals, real estate agents, teachers and all other corporate and legal professionals for over 20 years. We have trained on every legal topic relevant to the workplace and have access to the most comprehensive library of training tools in the industry. Since 1983 we have been one of the largest providers of legal and professional education in the nation. We currently hold seminars in major metropolitan areas in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, serving over one million professionals. [top]
National Employment Law Institute: NELI is a non-profit educational organization headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The Institute's activities pertain exclusively to employment law compliance, the application of employment law to human resource practices, and practice and procedure before administrative bodies and in state and federal courts. The Institute conducts seminars, briefings, conferences and other public training programs as a means of providing continuing legal education (CLE) for employment and labor attorneys and continuing professional education (CEU) for human resource and other professionals in the field. We also provide related services including in-house training, counseling, investigations, human resource audits, expert witness, consulting and testifying services, all of which meet the needs of the employment law and human resource professions representing business, industry, government, labor and other publicly and privately formed organizations. NELI also maintains an extensive library of employment related publications. [top]
National Institute of Trial Advocacy: NITA, The National Institute for Trial Advocacy, is the premier continuing legal education provider of trial skills, deposition skills, cle training seminars and litigation related publications and case files. Since 1972, NITA has trained more than 30,000 trial attorneys. [top]
Pacific Coast Labor and Employment Law: Hosts of the annual Pacific Coast Labor & Employment Law Conference, held in Seattle. [top]
University of Washington Law School: The University of Washington School of Law, located in Seattle, was first organized in 1899 and is fully accredited. The current law building, William H. Gates Hall, was completed and occupied in September of 2003 and is located on the Northwest corner of the main University campus. The Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library is one of the finest law libraries in the country. Its collection is among the largest university law collections on the West Coast and currently numbers more than 525,000 volumes. [top]
Washington Law Institute [top]
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