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 before they submit their applications. Specificity, Fisher says, is the best way to get your resume i...
Aug 21, 2024•27 min
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, and with this being an election year, surely something will. A company can’t predict or control pr...
Aug 14, 2024•23 min
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 Law Program. She sees rising controversy due to growing interest in religious accommodation, particul...
Aug 07, 2024•24 min
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 National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) is facing, from the rise of name, image and likeness deal...
Jul 31, 2024•24 min
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 years as a professor, has taught and spoken on this topic frequently. Schwab believes the Supreme C...
Jul 24, 2024•26 min
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 that are right for you, with guest Erica Buell. Buell is a Founder and Startup Legal Advisor at Bue...
Jul 17, 2024•25 min
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 following guidelines, is a commitment to treating employees fairly — that covers a multitude of mistakes, she...
Jul 10, 2024•24 min
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 neutrality is crucial to building trust into the system and can help avoid further escalation of claims...
Jun 26, 2024•12 min
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 everyone, a sample of what paid members get when they join the AccelPro community. When it comes to rep...
Jun 25, 2024•23 min
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 transition from lawyer to mediator. He says his years of experience as a litigator have been crucial...
Jun 18, 2024•24 min
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 legally informed and effective. “The baseline is that lawyers don’t have a lot of background in dive...
Jun 12, 2024•9 min
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 Groups and office managing partner of the firm’s St. Louis office. He’ll walk us through keys to succes...
Jun 05, 2024•8 min
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 recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with recr...
May 29, 2024•19 min
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 cancer. “Businesses don’t know how to manage people anymore,” Grau says. “And on top of that, in the a...
May 22, 2024•22 min
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 much about AI and algorithms, you can either get lost in the weeds of the tech, or you can get worrie...
May 15, 2024•9 min
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 of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and conducted trainings, workshops and lectures for e...
May 08, 2024•16 min
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 the FTC agrees with him, as its vote last week to ban most non-competes shows. But whether that ban wi...
May 01, 2024•21 min
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 recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Beth...
Apr 24, 2024•25 min
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 officer. She walks us through best practices to make a horrible situation a little less so, both for th...
Apr 17, 2024•8 min
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 are an effective tool to stop pay discrimination. Twenty-one states, plus Puerto Rico, have laws pro...
Apr 10, 2024•8 min
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 Attorney General enforcing labor laws. She describes her work there as like “Law And Order” but pursuing a...
Apr 03, 2024•22 min
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 Tushar Kumar, Financial Advisor at Twin Peaks Wealth Advisors. We discuss the challenge of surviving ...
Mar 27, 2024•23 min
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 Lighthouse Research and Advisory, where he has done intensive study on the use of AI and how to ide...
Mar 20, 2024•6 min
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 Beachboard Consulting Group . He says the long-term ramifications of covid on employment law are onl...
Mar 13, 2024•9 min
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 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for 10 years and is now Vice Chairperson of the AbilityO...
Mar 06, 2024•19 min
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 her career-spanning work with the Americans with Disabilities Act and LGBTQ+ issues. Feldblum served as a commissioner at the EEOC for 10 years and is now vice chair of the AbilityOne Commission and a workplace consultant. In the words of Feldblum, “To achieve any lasting change in social justice, three vari...
Feb 28, 2024•20 min
Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the EEOC and AI in the workplace. Our guest is Jim Keaney, a senior associate at Sandberg Phoenix. Keaney walks us through the EEOC’s Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness Initiative. Keaney says the EEOC has taken a broad view of technology because it changes so quickly and so often, and the law often has a hard ti...
Feb 21, 2024•21 min
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 Tara Antonipillai, Founder & Principal at Cultivate. We discuss the detrimental effects of a lack...
Feb 14, 2024•22 min
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’re featuring a conversation about best practices for employers hoping to avoid unionization. Our guest is David Pryzbylski, a partner at Barnes and Thornburg and blogger and thought leader on labor relations issues. He says the key for employers hoping to avoid unionization...
Feb 07, 2024•8 min
Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about non-compete agreements. Our guest is Jay Zweig, a partner at Ballard Spahr who has been an employment attorney for more than two decades. Non-compete agreements, as well as other restrictive covenants like non-solicitation agreements and confidentiality agreements, have drawn a lot of attention in recent years because of chang...
Jan 31, 2024•24 min
