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Maslon Offers Speaker Series to Clients  

First Seminar:
The Blogging Rage
How blogs can help or hurt your organization, and how you can be in control.

Thursday, March 2, 2006, Noon - 1:30 p.m.

In the first of several firm-sponsored seminars, Maslon's Labor & Employment practice group will discuss employee blogs and their effects on businesses. 

TOPICS

• Legal and practical issues raised by blogging
• Can you or should you control employee bloggers?
• Risks of terminating or refusing to hire a blogger
• Should you have a blogging policy?
• GM and Microsoft have them - should your organization launch a blog?

PRESENTERS

Tom Sipkins is a senior trial lawyer with 33 years experience in employment and commercial litigation. He has been named a Super Lawyer since 1996 by Law and Politics, and a Labor and Employment Top 40 Lawyer since 2002. He focuses on the defense of discrimination, wrongful termination, defamation, whistleblower and qui tam/government contracts fraud cases on behalf of management.

Jennifer Hopeman Wood has nearly ten years of experience representing employers in federal and state courts, as well as before the EEOC and various state administrative agencies. Her experience also includes advising employers on discrimination and harassment issues, wage and hour compliance, disability accommodation, family and medical leave, military leave, enforcement of non-compete and confidentiality agreements, reductions in force, drug testing, background checks, privacy, defamation, hiring, performance evaluations, discipline and terminations.

Catherine Ahlin-Halverson practices in the areas of litigation and labor and employment, representing companies in a wide range of commercial disputes. She has represented employers in federal and state court in cases alleging breach of contract and race, gender, pregnancy, age, and disability discrimination. Catherine has appeared before the California Labor Commissioner, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

CONTACT
Karolyn Thompson
Client Relations Management Coordinator
612.672.8253 or karolyn.thompson@maslon.com