This seminar provides an overview of best practices in employment law for counsel representing nonprofit organizations and low income small businesses. These nonprofits and small businesses must adopt employment policies that are fair, understood by all employees, and that minimize disputes and litigation.

Topics covered will include: hiring and termination; employee evaluation and discipline; the proper classification of employees and independent contractors; wage and hour laws; and exempt versus nonexempt employees.

Special issues involving nonprofit organizations will also be examined, including the proper use of volunteers and the payment of stipends.

Faculty Chairs: Mark Robertson, Esq., Tony Dilello, Esq., and Sloane Giddon, Esq., O'Melveny & Myers LLP; Stephen Falla-Riff , Esq., The Legal Aid Society