Join the Massachusetts Bar Association for its 18th Annual In-House Counsel
Conference, which will focus on the theme of “The New (Not So) Normal.” In
keeping with these unusual times, this year’s conference will be offered as a
Zoom webinar.
This program will provide information on current topics of significant
concern to in-house and outside counsel. This year’s conference will
feature:
- A keynote address from Massachusetts Lieutenant
Governor Karyn Polito.
- A panel discussion moderated by James Donnelly and
Robert Kerwin, and including panelists Julie Koshgarian, corporate counsel,
IPG Photonics Counsel; and Simon Platt, chair, StoneTurn, addressing traps for
the unwary in the development and administration of record retention programs
as employees resort to new technologies to communicate during the pandemic.
- A nationwide panel discussion moderated by J.
Christopher Collins, and including panelists Doug Baker, vice president and
chief legal counsel, UNUM (Chattanooga, TN); Eileen Riethle, vice president,
corporate compliance and regulatory affairs, Health Plans Inc. (Westborough);
and Katharine Weber, shareholder at Maynard Cooper (Birmingham, AL), regarding
roles and responsibilities that contribute to an effective relationship
between in-house counsel and outside counsel. The panel will discuss the
variety of approaches that are used to provide legal services in today’s
corporate America.
- A panel discussion moderated by Robert Kilroy, of
Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee LLP, including panelists Amanda Baer
and Brian Casaceli of Mirick O’Connell, regarding key employment law issues
facing employers due to the pandemic and recent statutory
developments. Discussion will include: i) employee requests to
continue working remotely indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including
a discussion of an employer’s ability to mandate return to on-site work; ii)
employers’ ability to mandate, as a condition of employment, that employees
receive the flu and/or COVID-19 vaccine once ready for distribution;
iii) advantages to enacting a furlough of employees instead of a layoff; and
iv) the interplay of the commonwealth’s Paid Family Medical Leave Act, the
federal FMLA, the commonwealth’s Parental Leave Act, and employer paid time
off policies.
- A presentation by Peter MacDonald, general counsel, loanDepot, regarding
doing business in multiple states.
The conference will also offer moderated breakout sessions, where attendees
may remotely network with other counsel in a less formal setting.
This conference was be
hosted using Zoom.
Faculty:
J. Christopher Collins, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Mirick Law, Worcester
James C. Donnelly Jr., Esq., Conference Co-chair
Mirick Law, Worcester
Robert J. Kerwin, Esq., Conference Co-chair
IAMERS, West Newton
Peter D. McDermott, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Law Office of Peter D. McDermott, Hopkinton
David A. Parke, Esq., Conference Co-chair
Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas LLP, Springfield
Amanda Baer, Esq., Panelist
Mirick, Westborough
Doug Baker, Esq., Panelist
Unum Group, Chattanooga, TN
Brian Casaceli, Esq., Panelist
Mirick, Westborough
Robert L. Kilroy, Esq., Panelist
Mirick, Westborough
Julie Koshgarian, Esq., Panelist
IPG Photonics Corporation, Oxford
Peter MacDonald, Esq., Panelist
loanDepot, Irvine, CA
Simon Platt, CPA, CFF, FCA, Panelist
Stoneturn Group LLP, Boston
Eileen Riethle, Esq., Panelist
Health Plans Inc., Westborough
Katharine A. Weber, Esq., Panelist
Maynard Cooper & Gale, Birmingham