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Isaac Mamaysky
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Partner
Potomac Law Group PLLC
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Isaac Mamaysky is a partner in Potomac Law Group PLLC where he provides employment law, commercial contracts, and compliance guidance to management teams, in-house attorneys, and HR professionals across industries. His clients include multinational corporations, large educational institutions, national nonprofits, and privately held startups. Isaac regularly conducts internal investigations, writes employee handbooks, drafts commercial contracts, leads complex negotiations, advises on ethics/compliance matters, and counsels clients on every phase of the employment lifecycle.  

In addition to his practice, Isaac is an adjunct professor of law and teaches classes at the intersection of employment law, ethics/compliance, and human resources. He has published and been quoted in dozens of articles on these topics, including in Fortune Magazine, Lexis Nexis’ Law360, SHRM, and various academic journals.  

Isaac began his career at an AmLaw 100 law firm and has extensive in-house experience. He is also the cofounder of a large 501(c)(3) corporation that has employed more than 1,000 people over the past decade. He approaches clients’ legal needs with a business mindset and especially enjoys serving as outside general counsel to leadership teams, bringing together his management background and legal experience to help achieve their goals. 

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Jay M. Kirschbaum
Benefits Compliance - Director and Sr. V.P.
World Insurance Associates
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Jay has more than 30 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in employee benefits.  Prior to joining World, Jay was a Sr. VP and Senior ERISA Attorney with Lockton was previously the national practice leader for the legal and research team at WT.W

Jay served as a Peace Corps volunteer and business consultant from 1979 to 1982. 

He has an LL.M.  in taxation from New York University School of Law, J.D. with distinction from the University of Arizona College of Law and a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis.  Jay is the former Chair of the American Benefits Council, an adjunct professor of employee benefits in the LL.M. program at Washington University School of Law.

 

 

 

 

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Jay M. Kirschbaum
Benefits Compliance - Director and Sr. V.P.
World Insurance Associates
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Jay has more than 30 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in employee benefits.  Prior to joining World, Jay was a Sr. VP and Senior ERISA Attorney with Lockton was previously the national practice leader for the legal and research team at WT.W

Jay served as a Peace Corps volunteer and business consultant from 1979 to 1982. 

He has an LL.M.  in taxation from New York University School of Law, J.D. with distinction from the University of Arizona College of Law and a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis.  Jay is the former Chair of the American Benefits Council, an adjunct professor of employee benefits in the LL.M. program at Washington University School of Law.

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Mario R. Bordogna, Esquire
Partner
Bowles Rice, LLP
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Mario Bordogna is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Practice at the law firm of Bowles Rice, LLP working with employers nationwide on the front end to keep them in legal compliance with labor and employment laws and on the back end if they need a strong and experienced litigation advocate.  For 25 years, Mario has represented employers in sectors like health care, education, energy, hospitality, manufacturing, and others in the areas of HR/employment counseling, employment litigation, wage and hour, harassment, trade secret and non-competition matters, labor-management relations, accommodation, policy development and investigations, and much more.

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Anne-Marie Welch, Esquire
Member
Clark Hill PLC
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Anne-Marie Welch is Member in Clark Hill’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, defending employers nationwide in claims alleging wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and more.  She also prosecutes/defends matters involving non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements.

To prevent lawsuits, Anne-Marie routinely conducts internal audits and advises management and HR regarding labor and employment law compliance and best practices. She also serves as a trainer and independent investigator for employers, especially in the higher education, automotive, manufacturing, and cannabis industries.

Anne-Marie is the Labor & Employment leader of the firm’s Automotive and Manufacturing Industry Team.

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Marcia Lang, Psy.D., LCSW-C, CEAP, MAC
Reasonable Accommodations Manager
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Marcia "Marcie" Lang, holds a doctoral degree in Addiction Psychology, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional. Her clinical mental health career spans over 30 years, specializing in workplace consultations, including workplace behavioral and performance issues.  She is the author of the book Hidden Disabilities in the Workplace, which delivers a straightforward, non-nonsense approach to managing employees with non-obvious disabilities in the workplace.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 1:15pm to 2:30pm
Alberto Ruisanchez
Chief of the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
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Alberto Ruisanchez is the Chief of the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.  IER enforces a law that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of citizenship and national origin, educates the public about the law, and engages in policy work to advance the office’s mission.  For two years, he served as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General overseeing several of the Sections in the Civil Rights Division, including the Employment Litigation Section and the Disability Rights Section.  Prior to serving as IER’s Chief, Mr. Ruisanchez served as a Deputy Chief in the Disability Rights Section and a trial attorney in the Voting Section and Housing & Civil Enforcement Section.  Mr. Ruisanchez clerked for the Honorable Juan Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and he graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. 

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Jonathan A. Segal
Partner
Duane Morris, LLP
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Jonathan is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in its Employment Group.  He also is the Founder and managing principal of the Duane Morris Institute, which provides training on employment issues to HR professionals, in-house counsel and other leaders.

The core of Jonathan’s practice is helping employers maximize legal compliance and minimize legal risk with regard to harassment, discrimination, retaliation and reasonable accommodations.
Over the past few years, Jonathan has focused on religion in general and antisemitism in particular. In addition to helping clients, Jonathan has delivered a number of talks on antisemitism on behalf of the EEOC as well as to field directors of the EEOC.
 
Jonathan has provided training to federal judges and other members of the federal judiciary on various employment issues for more than 20 years.

 

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Eric Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Vice President, Employment and Litigation Services
DCI Consulting Group
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Eric M. Dunleavy, Ph.D., is a Principal Consultant at DCI Consulting Group, where he is involved in equal employment opportunity audit and litigation consulting. He also serves on staff with the Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), which is a national nonprofit employer and research association based in Washington, DC, whose mission is to promote proactive affirmative action, equal employment regulatory compliance, and other human resource management strategies to create diverse organizations free from workplace bias. Eric's primary areas of expertise are in employee selection, employment testing, validation research, adverse impact analyses and other quantitative methods. His most recent work has focused on advanced quantitative analyses for assessing adverse impact and on selection procedure validation research in the context of OFCCP enforcement. Eric received his M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2004) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a concentration in data analysis from the University of Houston. He received an Honors B.A. (2000) in Psychology from St. Anselm College.
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Victoria Lipnic
Lead of Human Capital Strategy Group
Resolution Economics
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Victoria A. Lipnic is a Partner at Resolution Economics. She leads the Company’s Human Capital Strategy Group. The Human Capital Strategy Group combines the Company’s expertise in data analytics and deep knowledge of regulatory requirements with an interdisciplinary approach to advise organizations on the full range of their human capital needs and reporting requirements including recruitment, selection, promotions, DE&I, pay equity, and ESG, especially as to equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination issues.

Ms. Lipnic joined Resolution Economics in 2021. She has broad experience in the full range of human capital, labor and employment issues, especially from the regulatory enforcement perspective. Prior to joining the Company she served as Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) from 2010 to 2020 and Acting Chair from 2017 to 2019. She was appointed to the EEOC by President Barack Obama and confirmed by unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate. At the EEOC she worked on policy, cases, and regulations falling under all of the statutes enforced by the Commission including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Equal Pay Act (EPA), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). While at the EEOC she participated in numerous agency regulatory initiatives including the final GINA regulations, the ADA, as amended, regulations, and the revisions to the EEO-1 form to include pay data reporting. She organized the agency’s first public meeting on Big Data in Employment, created its Chief Data Officer position, oversaw development of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics and published a significant report on age discrimination. She co-chaired the EEOC’s Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace, and co-authored its seminal report, issued in 2016, before the #MeToo movement. Prior to the EEOC, she practiced law with Seyfarth Shaw.  She also served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards from 2002-2008, appointed by President George W. Bush, where, among other regulatory enforcement agencies, she oversaw the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and the Wage and Hour Division. In 2021-22 she chaired the Artificial Intelligence – Technical Advisory Committee for the Institute for Workplace Equality.

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Monday, August 15, 2022 - 7:55am to 8:00am
 
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - 10:15am