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AccelPro | Employment LawOn Making Career Transitions that are Right for YouWelcome 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 Buell Law, PLLC and a former professor and director of the Law and Entrepreneurship program at Duke University. Over the course...
2024-07-1725 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Making Career Transitions that are Right for YouWelcome to AccelPro IP 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 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 Buell Law, PLLC and a former professor and director of the Law and Entrepreneurship program at Duke University. Over the course...
2024-07-1725 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn The ‘S’ In ESGWelcome 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 reporting around ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), the ‘E’ often gets most of the attention as companies wrestle wi...
2024-06-2523 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Transitioning from Law to MediationWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. We are coming to you a day early this week because of the Juneteenth holiday. We’re featuring a discussion on mediation with Mike Strauss, the co-founder of Strauss and Strauss.This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client relationship management and wellness. The conversation with Strauss was originally recorded for the AccelPro Employment Law community, however, it is relevant to all in the legal field.He walks us through the...
2024-06-1823 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Tech Assurance in a Time of DisruptionWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Matt Johnson, U. S. National Technology Assurance Leader at KPMG. Thanks to artificial intelligence, blockchain and the rise of remote work and advanced analytics, the technology companies use to get work done and serve customers is evolving at an incredible pace. How are tech specialists in the audit field keeping up? Over a 20+ career at KPMG, Matt Johnson has been helping both clients and internal teams adapt to tech innovation and avoid technology-related risks.
2024-06-1221 min
AccelPro | AuditOn The ‘S’ In ESGWelcome to AccelPro Audit, 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. When it comes to reporting around ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), the ‘E’ often gets most of the attention as companies wrestle with new rules and guidelines around carbon emissions and other environmental impacts. But the landscape around the ‘S’ — which stands for social — is changing just as rapidly as employees, other stakeholders and even activists from both sides of the political spectrum start to take a greater interest in firms...
2024-06-0522 min
AccelPro | AuditOn the Auditor's Role in Detecting FraudWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dennis McGowan, Vice President, Professional Practice at the Center for Audit Quality. On this podcast previously we’ve had a pair of guests — former PCAOB board member Jay Brown and academic Luigi Zingales — come out strongly in favor of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s proposed changes strengthening auditors’ responsibilities for detecting fraud, known as noncompliance with laws and regulations (NOCLAR.) But many in the industry, including the Big Four accounting firms, have serious objecti...
2024-05-2923 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Making a Lateral Career MoveWelcome 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 recruiter Jonathan Birenbaum, Senior Director at Lateral Link.Birenbaum is an experienced litigator who now specializes in the recruitment of partners, co...
2024-05-2919 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Creating a Vision and Strategy in Risk ManagementWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Chris Chung, SVP Business Assessment and Chief Audit Executive at The Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician owned medical malpractice insurer. Chung, who previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and focused on enhancing governance, risk and compliance activities, has a comprehensive idea of risk assessment. Having worked across sectors, Chung recognizes that risk can’t be boiled down to a single number. Auditors, he says, benefit from implementing a strategic approach to risk management that weighs impact...
2024-05-2220 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Making a Lateral Career MoveWelcome to AccelPro IP 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 client relationship management and wellness.Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jonathan Birenbaum, Senior Director at Lateral Link.Birenbaum is an experienced litigator and recruiter who specializes in the recruitment of partners, councils and associates. He says that the right time to make a lateral move is when you are no...
2024-05-2218 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Cancer and the Future of WorkWelcome 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 absence of political solutions, there’s just more pressure on companies to step up and lead in things...
2024-05-2222 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Trademarks, Small Business Owners and Side HustlesWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Pablo Segarra, trademark attorney and founder of SideHustle.Law.Segarra discusses trademarks from the perspective of an attorney serving a client base of small and part-time businesses and side hustles. We talk about Segarra’s transition from NYPD officer to lawyer, going to law school in his thirties, misconceptions small business owners have about trademarks, how lawyers can structure their offerings for the small business market and more.“Most of the...
2024-05-1524 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Auditing Regulations and the Incidence of Corporate FraudWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Luigi Zingales, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. For auditors to properly gauge how much effort they should devote to searching out fraud, it would be helpful to know exactly how common corporate fraud is. In a recent paper Italian academic Luigi Zingales and his collaborators came up with a clever methodology to answer exactly this question. In this interview, Zingales talks about the eye...
2024-05-1524 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Mitigating AI RiskThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome 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 worried you’ll inadvertently feed bad data into bad tech and it will re...
2024-05-1509 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn USPTO DOCX Filing RequirementsWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Julie Burke, Expert Witness on US Patent Practice and Procedures at IPQuality Pro.Burke, a former patent scientist and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) quality assurance specialist, special program examiner and patent examiner, focuses in our conversation on the USPTO’s updated DOCX filing requirements.We talk about Burke's paper on DOCX filing and rendering errors, DOCX filing requirements and the type of errors IP practitioners may encounter when fili...
2024-05-0822 min
AccelPro | AuditOn the Biggest Challenges in ESG Reporting and AssuranceWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jeanna Doherty, ESG Enablement Leader at EY Americas.In her role at EY, Doherty helps the firm’s clients and client teams understand and prepare to comply with the fast-changing regulations around ESG reporting, both in the US and abroad. In this conversation she shares the biggest challenges she sees companies struggling with today, as well as her best advice on how auditors can help clients overcome them. In the course of the co...
2024-05-0821 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Building a Strong DEI CultureWelcome 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 employers. He says the three keys to a strong DEI culture are company policy, training and compliance. He says the common...
2024-05-0815 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Fraud and the PCAOBWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jay Brown, Lawrence W. Treece Professor of Corporate Governance at University of Denver and former Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) board member. When the PCAOB released its priorities for inspections in 2023, fraud topped the list. Why is the audit field’s regulatory body focusing more on fraud now? What does that mean for practitioners in the trenches? And what steps can responsible auditors take to ensure they're following best practices when it comes to fr...
2024-05-0124 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Noncompete Agreements - The Client PerspectiveWelcome 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 will ever actually be enforced remains an open question.---AccelPro’s interv...
2024-05-0120 min
AccelPro | AuditOn the Context Around ESG ReportingWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with David Gelles, reporter on the New York Times climate team and leader of The Times’s Climate Forward newsletter and events series.Here on AccelPro Audit we usually talk to auditors, regulators, academics and regulators. But today we’re talking to a journalist at one of the world’s most respected newspapers. Why? With years of business reporting under his belt and a recent promotion to the head of up the Times’ Climate Forward newsletter...
2024-04-2421 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn The Art of Client ManagementWelcome to AccelPro IP 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 Beth Toth, Principal Coach and Consultant at Consulo Consulting. Beth has a long history working in the human facing side of business; starting in HR, she’s moved through recruiting to consulting, and has a comprehensive perspective. She has advis...
2024-04-2424 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn The Art of Client ManagementWelcome 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 Toth, Principal Coach and Consultant at Consulo Consulting. Beth has a long history working in the human facing side of bus...
2024-04-2424 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn How to Fire SomeoneThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome 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 the person receiving the news and the person delivering it. The key...
2024-04-1707 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Real World Prior ArtWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Jonathan Masur about real world prior art.Masur, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, specializes in patent law, administrative law, behavioral law and economics and criminal law. In this conversation, we talk about whether an invention is or is not novel, litigation over these issues and more.“It’s an interesting subject to talk about because the rules for real world prior art in the physical universe are diff...
2024-04-1720 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Helping Auditors and Accountants Actualize Their PotentialWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Guylaine Saint Juste, the CEO of the National Association of Black Accountants. Saint Juste is former banking executive at Capital One, where she oversaw small business strategy and led various aspects of business banking, including talent acquisition, performance management, marketing and sales. She was also the former Executive of Year Up, a non-profit organization that helps develop talent and provide opportunities for promising young adults. “There's plenty of talent in this country. But we...
2024-04-1720 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Public Art and Intellectual PropertyWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Yayoi Shionoiri, Lawyer for the Chris Burden Estate and the Nancy Rubins Studio & Sarah Conley Odenkirk, Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP.In this interview, Odenkirk and Shionoiri discuss public art commissions and their overlap with intellectual property law, the public art development process, ways for artists and municipalities to work together and more.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your...
2024-04-1023 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Digital Transformation in Accounting and AuditWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about digital transformation in the accounting and audit space. Our guest is Ben Richmond, Country Manager, United States at Xero, one of the leading providers of cloud-based accounting software. The work of auditors and accountants used to be mostly done with a whole lot of Excel. Now thousands of apps and platforms are emerging promising to move that work to the cloud and automate much of it. What opportunities does that present for auditors? What cha...
2024-04-1024 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Salary History BansThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome 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 prohibiting employers from asking prospective employees about their salary histories, and Stender says many companies are voluntarily not asking...
2024-04-1008 min
AccelPro | Employment LawPay Equity with AccelPro Employment LawSign up now, and your annual membership will include a free trial and a discount of more than 40%.Dear AccelPro Employment Law Community,In anticipation of tomorrow’s interview with Jessica Stender, Policy Director and Deputy Legal Director at Equal Rights Advocates, we are highlighting other AccelPro podcast interviews that focus on pay equity issues. Salary history bans, pay transparency and diversity at the executive level can all help to reverse decades of pay discrimination.The clip above, from an AccelPro live event, features Jessica speaking about her grandmother’s fight for gender equa...
2024-04-0901 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Forging Productive Client RelationshipsWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we focus on the trends, topics and advice most useful to managing your career. 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 and thriving in the financial advising industry and how that applies to other client-oriented roles, including audit. Tushar offers strategies for...
2024-04-0322 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Local Enforcement of Worker Classification RulesWelcome 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 abusive employers.We talk about the rise of independent contractors in recent years, the problems of misclassifying them when t...
2024-04-0321 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Authorship, Animals, Humans and AIWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Angela Dunning, partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP. In this interview, Dunning discusses her work in the Naruto v. Slater case, legal questions around authorship and artificial intelligence, class action lawsuits around training data for generative AI, her work on behalf of Midjourney, what the future holds for legal approaches around AI and more. We spoke with Angela in mid-2023 and conducted a follow-up interview in February 2024.___Acc...
2024-04-0323 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Opportunities for Auditors in Regulation and Supervision (Part II)Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dr. Damion McIntosh, Professor of Practice Finance at Auburn University and an advisor with the International Monetary Fund. As the former deputy director of the Jamaican Central Bank’s Bank Regulatory Policy Department, Damion brings a wealth of experience in regulation and supervision to current role in academia. His experience in different financial systems in Jamaica, the U.S. and the Caribbean gives him a unique outlook. He’ll share how the audit profession can chan...
2024-03-2718 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Forging Productive Client RelationshipsWelcome to AccelPro IP 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 and thriving in the somewhat thankless industry of financial advising. Tushar offers strategies for gaining and preserving long-lasting client relationships, whether the market is up or dow...
2024-03-2722 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Forging Productive Client RelationshipsWelcome 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 and thriving in the somewhat thankless industry of financial advising. Tushar offers strategies for gaining and preserving long-lasting client relationships, whether the market is up or dow...
2024-03-2722 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn AI and BiasThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome 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 identify, mitigate and prevent bias. He says one particular trait can help HR executives...
2024-03-2006 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Auditor Independence and Accountability (Part I)Welcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dr. Damion McIntosh, Professor of Practice Finance at Auburn University. McIntosh, who formerly worked at the Central Bank of Jamaica, brings an international perspective to his work. His experience in different areas of the financial system both in the US and abroad gives him unique insights on regulation. We discuss how best to uphold audit and assurance standards in a constantly changing economic environment, the relationship between internal auditors and their clients, and what bei...
2024-03-2022 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Common Myths and Misconceptions in Intellectual Property LawWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Michael Snyder and Joseph Gushue, shareholders at Volpe Koenig.In this interview, Gushue and Snyder discuss key client misconceptions about intellectual property law, copyright and patents. Snyder and Gushue are cohosts of the IP Goes Pop! Podcast and focus on common misunderstandings about obtaining patents, self-copyright, fair use and more.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make...
2024-03-1322 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn COVID and Employment LawThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome 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 only beginning to emerge. Remote work, handbooks and policies, and performance management have all undergone, and are still in the...
2024-03-1309 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Copyright and Transformative Use (Part II)Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation on copyright transformative use with Professor Ann Bartow. Bartow is a professor whose work focuses on the intersection between intellectual property law and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law and feminist legal theory.In part one, Bartow discusses intellectual property law, copyright infringement, Campbell vs. Acuff Rose, Weird Al Yankovic and questions of parody vs. satire. In this second part of our interview, Bartow discusses parody precedent and the book The Win...
2024-03-0619 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Working With IT Specialists in an Evolving Tech LandscapeWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Cassandra Estep, Assistant Professor of Accounting at Emory University Goizueta Business School. As companies have grown more complex over the last few decades, so have their financial statements. In response, auditors have had to bring in various specialists in areas like IT, legal and valuations to help them understand these complexities. Estep started her career as one of those IT specialist at a Big Four firm. Now as an academic she researches how specialists can...
2024-03-0625 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Being A Legislative Lawyer and Taking Risks (Part II)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 AbilityOne Commission and a workplace consultant.“Even when everything seems fine, I still think in terms of having a fun life and career, it’s...
2024-03-0618 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Copyright and Transformative Use (Part I)Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with professor Ann Bartow. In this interview, Bartow discusses intellectual property law, copyright infringement, Campbell vs. Acuff-Rose, Weird Al Yankovic and questions of parody versus satire. Bartow is especially interested in the long-term consequences of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and how 2 Live Crew’s version of “Oh, Pretty Woman” became an important pivot point for musicians making creative works.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve...
2024-02-2819 min
AccelPro | AuditOn Evolving Regulations Around ESG ReportingWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Bob Hirth, Senior Managing Director at Protiviti. As KPMG audit partner at KPMG Anita Chan explained when she spoke to AccelAudit Pro, one of the biggest challenges facing companies in regards to ESG reporting is the “alphabet soup” of different regulations and standards out there. Protiviti Senior Managing Director is the ideal guide auditors through this tangle. Hirth previously served as co-chair of SASB, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, and is currently a member...
2024-02-2819 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn the ADA and LGBTQ+ Laws (Part I)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 variables must operate in synergistic fashion: law, policies and practice, and social norms.”---AccelPro’s interviews and pr...
2024-02-2820 min
AccelPro | AuditOn the Talent Pipeline in Internal AuditWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Christopher Calvin, Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Dayton.Calvin, a former Deloitte employee, digs into the diverse skills that auditors need today, and the challenges offinding and retaining talent in the field. We discuss the challenges of an aging profession, the importance of DEI initiatives and how and why the perception of internal audit has gone from corporate watchdog to trusted advisor.---AccelPro’s interviews and prod...
2024-02-2125 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn the Unified Patent CourtWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Rolf Claessen, Equity partner at Michalski, Hüttermann & Partner.In this interview, Claessen discusses the European Union’s Unified Patent Court and how the court’s establishment changes the patent law landscape in Europe for different industries. One of Claessen’s primary areas of focus in this conversation is the opportunities that the Unified Patent Court offers to companies that operate in Europe.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your profes...
2024-02-2119 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn the EEOC and AI in the WorkplaceWelcome 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 time keeping up.Keaney says “the main takeaway is for employers to talk to the sof...
2024-02-2121 min
AccelPro | AuditOn the New Global Internal Audit StandardsWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we’re featuring a conversation with J. Michael Peppers, Chief Audit Executive for The University of Texas System. Peppers, the most recent Chair of the Institute of Internal Auditors, recently worked on the historic project to evolve the Global Internal Audit Standards. The new standards were released on January 9, 2024 and will become effective January 9, 2025.Having served as the Chair of The IIA’s Global Board in 2017, and inducted into The IIA’s American Hall of Distinguished Audit Practitioners in 2019, Peppers brough...
2024-02-1425 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Loneliness in the WorkplaceWelcome to AccelPro IP 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 of connection in the workplace, including anxiety, substance abuse, burnout, etc., and how this widespread issue has sharply increased with the recent rise of remote work. The lac...
2024-02-1422 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Loneliness in the WorkplaceWelcome 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 of connection in the workplace, including anxiety, substance abuse, burnout, etc., and how this widespread issue has sharply increased with the recent rise of remote work. The lac...
2024-02-1422 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Predatory Infringement and Patent LawWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Kristen Osenga, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at University of Richmond School of Law.In this conversation, Osenga explains her view of predatory infringement as compared to efficient infringement in patent law, which specific circumstances encourage predatory infringement, the long-term ramifications of eBay versus MercExchange, strategies for smaller patent portfolio holders, patent pools, and her path to academia.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is t...
2024-02-0723 min
AccelPro | AuditOn the Past, Present and Future of Internal AuditWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Richard Chambers, CEO of Richard F. Chambers and Associates and Auditboard senior internal audit advisor. Audit as a profession is only around 100 years old. Chambers has been around for nearly half of that time. Starting out as an internal auditor in the private sector, he later moved to government roles, rising to become the Director of Internal Review for the Army, Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service, and Director General of the...
2024-02-0725 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Creating a Workplace Immune to Union OrganizationThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome 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 is to forge a workplace with wages, benefits and policies strong enough that employees see no reason to...
2024-02-0707 min
AccelPro | AuditOn the Role of Audit at Tech CompaniesWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Danielle Ritter, VP Internal Audit at Instacart. In her early career as at PwC in Silicon Valley and now as head of audit at delivery tech company Instacart, Danielle Ritter has had a front row seat to how emerging technologies are changing the audit profession. In this interview she talks about her best tips for collaborating with engineers, her approach to the AI boom, and the need to balance speed and innovation with controls and...
2024-01-3124 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn AI and Copyrightable AuthorshipWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Matthew Carey, Partner at Marshall Gerstein. In this interview, Carey discusses artificial intelligence image generation and copyright, artificial intelligence and the patent system, the impact of AI on legal decisions, his career path and transition from computer engineering to IP law, and the responsibilities of being a hiring partner at a law firm. One of Carey’s main areas of focus in this conversation is evaluating the different ways that AI-generated content interacts with...
2024-01-3122 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Crafting Effective and Enforceable Noncompete AgreementsWelcome 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 changing workplace norms in the post-Covid world. The FTC and NLRB also have hinted they will pursue nationwide bans.Zweig says the key to...
2024-01-3124 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn the Server Test and the Ninth CircuitWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Joshua L. Simmons, Partner at Kirkland & Ellis.In this interview, Simmons discusses the Server Test and the Ninth Circuit Court in the context of Perfect 10 v. Amazon, copyright and fair use, Supreme Court cases involving fair use and his path to copyright and intellectual property law. One of Simmons’ primary areas of focus in this conversation is precedents in copyright law and how they impact planning around digital content.___Acce...
2024-01-2425 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Workplace Investigations and Hiring Outside InvestigatorsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace investigations. Our guest is Bernadette Sargeant, a partner at Stinson. A veteran of investigations both in private practice and government work, Sargeant walks us through how HR should decide when to hire an outside investigator to look into claims.She names three specific times—when the complaint is against someone above you in the...
2024-01-2408 min
AccelPro | AuditOn How Companies Should Get Started With ESG ReportingWelcome to AccelPro Audit, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Anita Chan, an Audit Partner at KPMG Companies looking to get started with ESG reporting and, potentially, assurance face a series of daunting obstacles, including a constantly shifting tangle of competing state, national, and even international regulations. Given this regulatory uncertainty, how should organizations get started? Few are better positioned to answer this question than Anita Chan. She’s a partner at KPMG with a focus on ESG reporting, but she also spent...
2024-01-2425 min
AccelPro | AuditWelcome to AccelPro | AuditThank you for joining the AccelPro community. Our mission is to improve your day to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable. We'll be sharing insights about critical audit issues we know are top of mind for you. You’ll also get the chance to connect with peers and discuss how to navigate this evolving field.We’re thrilled to have you as part of the AccelPro Audit community. And we want to hear about your experience: please send any questions or comments to questions@joinaccelpro.com.---AccelPro’s interviews and products ac...
2024-01-2301 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Remote Employees and the Latest Issues in Life SciencesWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Anne Elise Herold Li, partner at Crowell & Moring.In this interview, Li discusses the transition from epidemiology (with a sideline as the “Rat Queen” of the New York City Department of Health) to intellectual property law, changes in intellectual property law related to both remote employees and independent contractors, long-term consequences from Amgen vs. Sanofi and more. One of Li’s primary areas of focus in this conversation is how the increasing number of remot...
2024-01-1725 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn AI, DEI and Emotional Intelligence Training - Employment Law Trends in 2024Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about employment law trends in 2024. Our guest is Lakeisha Robichaux, the owner and founder of Chief of Minds, a human resources outsourcing company. We asked Robichaux to pick three trends in employment law in 2024, and she named artificial intelligence, DEI and emotional intelligence as issues that will be front and center for HR executives and employment attorneys all year.Each brings unique challenges. With AI, the key issue is trust—HR executives must...
2024-01-1722 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn AI, Inventions and Abstract IdeasWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Michael S. Borella, Chair of MBHB’s Software and Business Methods Practice Group, and co-Chair of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.Artificial intelligence, patent reform and ambiguity in the patent process are creating new challenges for legal practitioners. In this conversation, we explore Borella’s roots in the tech world and his transition to patent law, while detailing the potential–and potential hazards–of leveraging generative AI to assist with legal work. We als...
2024-01-1024 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Pregnancy AccommodationThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and other pregnancy accommodation laws. Our guest is Kameron Dawson, the senior staff attorney for A Better Balance, a legal advocacy organization.A Better Balance produced a report called Long Overdue, which lays out the growing number of states that have passed pregnancy accommodations laws, many of them with bi...
2024-01-1008 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Pay Discrimination (AccelPro Live)Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a previously live-recorded conversation, including audience Q&A, with Jessica Stender, Policy Director and Deputy Legal Director, Equal Rights Advocates. We discuss pay discrimination, which she describes as “pervasive, persistent, pernicious.”Stender offers tips to companies on how to spot, and get rid of, pay discrimination within their payroll, including conducting a pay audit, not asking about salary histories and ensuring that you have a diverse workforce in high-paying jobs.---AccelPro’s interv...
2024-01-0332 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Copyright, Trademarks and Due DiligenceWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Bobby Ghajar, Partner, Cooley LLP.In this interview, Ghajar discusses copyright issues brands face on social media, street art and copyright, intellectual property strategies surrounding IPOs, generative artificial intelligence and copyright and more. Ghajar is especially interested in consequences surrounding the use of generative intelligence by brands, as well as on issues of intellectual property in the advertising world and ways that legal teams can use intellectual property due diligence to help organizations be...
2024-01-0321 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Worker Classification and Small BusinessesWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about worker classification. Our guest is Beth Milito. She’s the executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business’s Small Business Legal Center. It sounds simple: You’re an employee, or you’re not. But the truth is determining who should be an employee and who should be an independent contractor is exceedingly difficult, especially considering the standards for making that decision vary from state to state and sometimes even within each state.
2023-12-1326 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Patent Litigation and the Importance of StorytellingWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jonas McDavit, partner at Desmarais LLP. In this episode, we discuss the importance of patent law and patent litigation, differences on how patents are viewed by inventors and by lawyers and the importance of a scientific background when working with patents from a legal standpoint. We also discuss McDavit’s military service and time in the Navy, and his transition from military service to the legal world.___AccelPro’s intervi...
2023-12-1319 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Licensing and TrademarksWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Chad Gottlieb, partner and Chief Growth Officer at DarrowEverett. Protecting brands and trademarks on the internet and social media requires monitoring and planning for when things go wrong. The rise of the internet has led to a set of unintentional consequences for trademark and licensing protection.In this interview, Gottlieb discusses naked licensing, third party improper use, protecting trademarks on the internet and more.___AccelPro’s interviews and...
2023-12-0618 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Workplace Investigations, the Metaverse and Career Development (Part II)Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace investigations, the metaverse, and, of course, dolphins. Our guest is Lindsey Wagner, who founded Moxie, which offers workplace training and investigations to deter costly investigations and provide creative resolutions (when possible/needed) through mediation.Workplace investigations have changed rapidly in the last decade, and more changes are coming, perhaps nowhere more challenging than in the metaverse. Preparing for such changes, both as an intellectual exercise and as a way to help clients, is part of...
2023-12-0619 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Copyright, Generative AI and Frontier Technologies - Establishing PrecedentsWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with advisor, attorney and author Liz Rothman. Artificial intelligence remains a hot topic with the rise of generative tools leading to new conversations regarding copyright. Precedent for generative AI and intellectual property law is increasingly being called into question.In this episode, Rothman explores generative AI and frontier technologies and the impact and relationships with copyright and legal precedent. ___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our...
2023-11-2922 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Workplace Training, Investigations and Mediation (Part I)This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace investigations, training and arbitration. Our guest is Lindsey Wagner, who founded Moxie, which offers workplace training and investigations to deter costly investigations and provide creative resolutions (when possible/needed) through mediation.Wagner says the best way to handle a workplace investigation is to be ready for it before it happens. That means having policies in...
2023-11-2908 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Title VII and Protected ClassesWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the 60th anniversary of the passage of Title VII and the past, present and future of protected classes in the workplace. Our guest is Hnin Khaing, the director of the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights.Khaing sees the history of Title VII as a mixed bag. Our court and regulatory systems are still swamped with allegations of discrimination, so the problem of inequality remains firmly entrenched in American workplace culture. But at...
2023-11-1524 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Artificial Intelligence and Copyright - Understanding New TechnologiesWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Mark McKenna, faculty co-director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy.Artificial intelligence is transforming academia, business and entertainment. The rise of generative tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney are leading to new questions surrounding copyright and artificial intelligence. Precedent for generative AI and intellectual property law is being established on a regular basis.Mark McKenna is co-dean of Faculty & Intellectual Life and a professor at UCLA Law School. He is...
2023-11-1524 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Building A Valuable Patent PortfolioWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Eli Mazour, partner at Harrity & Harrity LLP and host of the Clause 8 podcast. He leads Harrity’s patent prosecution team with a focus on helping large technology companies build valuable, high-quality patent portfolios in an efficient manner.Patent prosecution for large corporations involves many steps. Public perception of patent prosecution is complicated by the “patent troll” and “efficient infringement” narratives, while the stance of Congress and the Executive branch towards patents continues to shift.
2023-11-0820 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Labor Negotiations Viewed from Both SidesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about labor negotiations with Stephanie Sloggett-O’Dell, whose background uniquely qualifies her for this conversation.She’s been a member of a union, an attorney for a union and a corporate vice president negotiating contracts on the management side. In other words, she’s seen every side of contract negotiations and lived to tell about it.And...
2023-11-0807 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Patent Eligibility, Diagnostics and BiotechWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jeannie Boettler, Partner at Stinson LLP.As a registered patent attorney, Boettler secures and protects intellectual property rights for biotechnology and life sciences companies, including private corporations, universities and government agencies. She blends her experience in life sciences and patent law to prepare and prosecute patent applications and protect clients’ valuable intellectual property assets, and counsel clients on aspects of patentability, invalidity, freedom-to-operate and other due diligence issuesIn this interview, Boet...
2023-11-0125 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Worker Classification, Apps and the Future of WorkWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about worker classification, a world-wide issue that goes far beyond Uber, freelance work and other aspects of the gig economy.Joining us to explain all the nuances of this complicated issue is Samantha Prince, an assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law. She says “uncertainty and volume of lawsuits” related to this issue is not sustainable, and that it’s not just a financial or book-keeping issue, it’s a health issue.People w...
2023-11-0122 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn the Supreme Court, College Admissions and the Future of Workplace DiversityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about what the recent ruling in the Harvard-UNC Supreme Court case means for workplace diversity. Our guest is Stacy Hawkins, a professor at Rutgers who speaks and writes often about diversity, hiring and college admissions.She walks us through key concepts to understand the differences and similarities between race-conscious college admissions and workplace diversity hiring efforts, discusses th...
2023-10-2507 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Standard Essential Patents and TransportationWelcome to AccelPro Intellectual Property Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about standard essential patents and the transportation industry. Our guest is Chris Storm, Legal Director, Intellectual Property at Uber.Standard essential patents (SEPs) play an essential role in the transportation ecosystem. These patents, which cover innovations fundamental to achieving technical standards, help ensure interoperability and consistency across diverse technologies. Due to their importance, a set of legal and economic frameworks have grown around SEPs.Chris Storm is Uber’s Legal Director, Intellectual Prop...
2023-10-2521 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Wellness and Seeking Help in the WorkplaceWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products 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 about wellness and seeking help in the workplace. Our guest is Bree Buchanan, senior advisor at Krill Strategies and former Board President at the Institute for Well-Being in Law.At firms, there may be an expectation of 24-7 availability for clients an...
2023-10-1823 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Wellness and Seeking Help in the WorkplaceWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products 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 about wellness and seeking help in the workplace. Our guest is Bree Buchanan, senior advisor at Krill Strategies and former Board President at the Institute for Well-Being in Law.At firms, there may be an expectation of 24-7 availability for clients an...
2023-10-1823 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Cannabis Law and the WorkplaceThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about cannabis and the workplace. Our guest is Narcisa Przulj. She is a partner at Sandberg Phoenix who counsels employers as they wrestle with these changing laws.Cannabis law is an emerging field in employment law. Marijuana is now legal for recreational use in more than 20 states, and that number will continue to grow. Employers fac...
2023-10-1107 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn AI Output And Training - Evolving EnvironmentsWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re talking with Sandra Aistars. Generative artificial intelligence is continuing to transform business, entertainment and digital life. Questions of ownership around AI-generated output and training AI using copyrighted data continue to keep experts busy around the world. The rise of generative artificial intelligence tools is leading to new copyright and IP questions for creators, rights-holders and judges alike. Aistars is a clinical professor at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and leads the law school’s Arts...
2023-10-1117 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Cancer, Covid and the WorkplaceThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about cancer, covid and the workplace. Our guest is Ann Hodges, a professor emerita at the University of Richmond and 30-year cancer survivor. She co-founded an organization called CancerLINC, and through that she has helped countless people with cancer navigate myriad issues, including those related to employment law.In this interview, she explains the complicated legal landscape th...
2023-10-0407 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn IP, Copyright, Social Media and Small BusinessesWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re talking with Autumn Witt Boyd.Small businesses operate in a world of constant self-promotion. Social media has drastically lowered the cost and difficulty of marketing and advertising while infinitely expanding reach. However, the rise of social media has led to a host of new IP and copyright questions for small businesses.Boyd is a Tennessee-based lawyer whose firm specializes in working with online creators and other small businesses. In this interview, Boyd discusses copyright and social me...
2023-10-0424 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Entertainment And IP Law - Industry Developments Around Franchise MediaWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re talking with Simon Pulman, a partner at Pryor Cashman and Co-Chair of the firm’s Media + Entertainment group. Video games, comic books and book franchises remain fundamentally important in the media landscape. Intellectual property lawyers and their clients have been keeping up with a staggering array of changes and developments in the way rights to these properties are handled and negotiated.In this conversation, we discuss entertainment deals for IP rights holders, IP issues in building prope...
2023-09-2724 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Patents in Bioinformatics and BiologicsWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to talk with Jamaica Szeliga, a partner at Seyfarth specializing in IP litigation, patent prosecution and corporate IP matters.In this interview, Szeliga discusses patent issues for bioinformatics and biologics, patent eligibility and patent reform.Jamaica graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and received her B.S. in Chemistry, with a minor in Biology, with distinction, from Stanford University.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our miss...
2023-09-2024 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Workplace Discrimination - Harassment and Proper TrainingWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about workplace harassment and training. Our guest is Andew Adams, the practice leader in DarrowEverett’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. He regularly advises clients ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations regarding compliance with state and federal regulations and human resources matters, including personnel policies, day-to-day employment issues and internal investigations.He frequently trains companies on best practices to spot harassment, how employers can avoid it, and how supervisors are the first...
2023-09-2024 min
AccelPro | Intellectual Property LawOn Artificial Intelligence and AuthorshipWelcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to talk with Ryan Abbott about emerging legal perspectives around artificial intelligence and authorship.Ryan is a Professor of Law & Health Sciences at University of Surrey School of Law & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. And he is the author of The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. The rise of generative artificial intelligence tools is leading to new copyright and IP questions for creators, rights-holders and jud...
2023-09-1322 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn the At-Will Employment Regime - Part IIWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to continue talking about our country’s employment at-will regime and the power imbalance it creates between employers and employees.Our guest is Cynthia Estlund, a leading scholar of labor and employment law and workplace governance. Currently a professor at NYU’s Law School, she has also taught at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Texas. We dove so deep on this issue that we turned it into two episodes. This is part two, in which we explore...
2023-09-1325 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn the At-Will Employment Regime - Part IThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development.Today we’re going to talk about our country’s at-will employment regime and how it favors employers over employees. Our guest is Cynthia Estlund. She is a leading and wide ranging scholar of labor and employment law and workplace governance. Currently a professor at NYU’s Law School, she has also taught at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Texas. We dove...
2023-09-0608 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Noncompete Clauses and When They’re NecessaryThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about non-compete clauses. Our guest to discuss the best ways to please both parties is Nefertari Rigsby, the Executive Director, Human Resources and Employment Law Partner for Kaplan North America.Non-competes are a necessary, if also controversial, part of the modern employment landscape. Employees dislike them because they may hinder the ability to land a better job. Bu...
2023-08-0907 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Worker Classification in the Entertainment WorldThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about worker classification in the entertainment world. Our guest is Anthony Panebianco, a senior associate at DarrowEverett.Classifying workers is complicated enough.In the entertainment world, it is made more difficult because many performers would rather be classified as independent contractors even though the law says they should be employees.Panebianco has a good deal of personal ex...
2023-08-0206 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Discrimination, Harassment and RetaliationThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Our guest is Carla Brown, a partner at Charlson Bredehoft Cohen Brown & Nadelhaft.A little-known secret: Most employees, if they are victims of discrimination, harassment or retaliation, don’t want to sue. They want to keep their jobs. They want their issues resolved, not litigated. One of the best ways to do...
2023-07-2607 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Starbucks and the Changing Labor LandscapeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the changing union landscape. Our guest is Cristina Gallo, a partner at Cohen, Weiss and Simon.Unions are creeping into new industries, the National Labor Relations Board is increasingly favoring workers’ rights, and some companies are fighting more aggressively once organization efforts start.Having grown up in a union family and worked as a camp...
2023-07-1907 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Pay TransparencyThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comWelcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we offer interviews and products to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Maria Papasevastos.Pay transparency is one of the most vexing issues faced by employment attorneys, companies and human resources executives. The rules vary from state to state, which is confusing enough on its own. It’s made doubly difficult because remote work means employers may be subject to laws in states in which they don’t oper...
2023-07-0507 min
AccelPro | Employment LawOn Unfair Labor Practice ChargesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit insights.joinaccelpro.comIt’s common for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to change its approach when a new presidential administration takes office, especially when the new administration also represents a change of political parties.But the degree of change in the last few years has surprised experts in the employment law space. Add that to an ever-changing work environment, and it’s never been more important for employers, human resources executives and employment attorneys to be on top of unfair labo...
2023-06-2806 min
AccelPro | Employment LawWelcome to AccelPro | Employment LawTo learn more about the AccelPro Employment Law community, click here.Remember to send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235. That’s 614-64-ACCEL.If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com/sub...
2023-06-2301 min