Seminar handout from my presentation on 5/12/10 for BNC’s Entrepreneur’s Committee. Just click on the hyperlink HERE–Handout is 21 pages and in PDF format.

On Friday, August 21, 2009, from 7:30AM-9:30AM, I’ll be presenting an assessing business liabilities workshop along with 3 other attorneys & a CPA. This is at the Silver Stallion Restaurant, 1274 Lee Street, Des Plaines, IL (breakfast will be served).  The seminar is free.

The focus of this seminar is assessing a business’ liabilities from the legal & accounting perspectives. Attendees will be able to ask questions about your their own business’ situation.

Topics will include:

• Reducing Income Tax Liabilities
• Real Estate Assessment & Taxes
• Employee Problems & Human Resources
• Intellectual Property – Value & Potential Problems
• Partner Agreements – Dispute Resolution

Speakers are:

• Frederick R. Dempsey – Real Estate Tax Appeals Attorney
• Leon Edelson – Intellectual Property Attorney
• Scott Greenberg – CPA
• Me
• Barry Mortge – Attorney for Closely Held Businesses

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED AS SPACE IS LIMITED; RSVP By AUGUST 14th

For more information and to register, please call Ivey at 847-299-9901 or e-mail her at i.compall@hgaltd1.com; you can also contact me.

Presented by Hirsch Greenberg Accounting Ltd
950 Lee St
Des Plaines IL

I’ve posted my seminar materials from my 7/22/09 seminar on labor & employment law at the City of Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs at City Hall.  The seminar ran about 2 hours & approximately 40 people attended.  This was my 6th seminar for the Department & their clients.  The 21 page comprehensive handout is Here (PDF) & the 10 slide PowerPoint is Here.  You can also go to my LinkedIn profile or SlideShare & get them over there too.  Below is the table of contents of the long handout.  The PowerPoint is a summary statement regarding some of the same topics.

1) WHAT IS HUMAN RESOURCES & WHY IT MATTERS

2) EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS–to Use or Not to Use?

3) HOW MUCH DOES AN EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE COST & WHAT’S YOUR LIKELIHOOD OF GETTING INTO AN EMPLOYMENT RELATED DISPUTE?

4) WHAT’S APPROPRIATE TO ASK JOB CANDIDATES?

5) JOB CANDIDATE APPLICATION & SELECTION SUMMARY

6) EMPLOYEE SCREENING & RISK ASSESSMENT

7) INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR VS EMPLOYEE:  CLASSIFICATION ISSUES

8) OVERTIME—EXEMPT VS NONEXEMPT CLASSIFICATIONS

9) UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

10) ILLINOIS EMPLOYMENT LAWS, Some Laws Likely to be Encountered by Businesses

11) FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT LAWS, Some Laws Likely to be Encountered by Businesses

12) SAMPLE DOCUMENTATION FORM—EMPLOYEE ACTION REPORT

13) FREE RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH

14) INFORMATION ABOUT CHARLES KRUGEL, Practice & Background Summary

Michael Zolno, a Chicago-based law practice marketing consultant, is a co-organizer and presenter at the following seminar (press release is below) taking place in San Diego, CA, on October 23 and 24 of this year. If you’d like more information, you may contact Michael at MZolno@aol.com.

Industry Experts to Offer Strategies for Law Firm Success – Creating Opportunities From the Recession

SAN DIEGO, June 23 /PRNewswire/ — Nationally recognized experts within the legal community are coming to San Diego on October 23rd & 24th with the message that law firms must change now in order to be competitive in the future. The conference titled “Inside the Law Firm of the Future” is a rare opportunity for attendees to meet key industry experts all in one place to discuss this broad range of topics.

For two days, industry experts such as author Ron Baker, legal strategist, Peter Zeughauser, CEO Chris Marston, Womble-Carlyle’s Director of Sales, Steve Bell and others, will convene and discuss the trends and changes affecting the business of law, and why change is necessary.

“No longer do we have the ‘business as usual’ attitude,” says Chris Marston, CEO of Boston based, Exemplar Law. “One good thing that has come out of our poor economy is that inherently defective business models have proven to be unworkable.” Marston also added, “Our goal is to jump-start those firms that want to get the competitive advantage while others are running for cover. We are there to show them the way.”

Peter Zeughauser of The Zeughauser group in Newport Beach, CA, advises firms to invest during the recession in developing their brands; a recession provides opportunities to build a brand even more quickly, because as many firms retrench from brandbuilding activities as a cost-saving measure.

Zeughauser’s final bit of advice is that we are certain that the best firms will lead the industry out of the recession by seeing and seizing opportunity in change.

This conference will be of vital interest to firms that are ready, willing, and able to shift gears into a more productive business model. With the experts advice, the transition should be easier. Attendance is limited and advance registration is required. See www.insidethefirmofthefuture.com for more details.

Inside The Firm of the Future is a presentation of The Catalyst Effect, Inc. A legal education conference company that focuses on providing advice for law firms. Founded in 2009 with offices in San Diego and Chicago. The website for the conference is: www.insidethefirmofthefuture.com . For more information

about this conference, or to schedule an interview, please contact: Bryan Weaver, 501 West Broadway, #1770, San Diego 619-544-0086 ext105, or bryan@insidethefirmofthefuture.com.

SOURCE The Catalyst Effect, Inc.

Bryan Weaver, +1-619-544-0086, ext. 105, bryan@insidethefirmofthefuture.com,

for The Catalyst Effect, Inc.

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On Saturday May 2, I presented to a group of about 40 clients of Chicago’s Woodlawn Community Service Corporation’s annual “Law Day” at the Bessie Coleman Public Library, 731 E. 63rd Street.  Here’s some photos of me at work.  Thanks to photographer Hurley Green III, of Chicago, hgiii@comcast.net, 312-296-9484, for the photos.  Click on any of them to enlarge.

Chuck Krugel Speaking @ Chicago Woodlawn CSC's 2009 Law Day

Chuck Krugel Speaking @ Chicago's Woodlawn CSC's 2009 Law Day