• Availability of long-term care for Baby Boomers in North Carolina
• Bank privacy laws
• Bank security breaches
• Closely-held businesses and succession issues
• Companies that have funded 401K match programs (how to encourage employees to save)
• Contested wills
• Emerging technology companies
• Employees caring for sick relatives
• Employees on active military duty
• Employer requirements under OSHA and jobsite safety
• Employers dealing with revisions to the Family Medical Leave Act
• Enforceable non-compete agreements
• Green/environmentally-friendly initiatives
• Health care privacy law (HIPAA)
• How employers should handle employees taking intermittent leave
• Immigration
• Long-term care facilities in trouble for fraud and abuse
• Long-term care licensing
• Medicare reimbursement (state or facility level)
• Notable trends in entertainment law in North Carolina
• Employer's obligations to secure private information, including performance reviews and medical records
• Employee blogging
• Online Internet security – employer blogging – pros and cons of
• Privacy and information security
• Protecting intellectual property on the Internet
• Repeal of the estate tax
• Residential foreclosures
• Strategies for businesses to reduce litigation costs
• Sustainability
• Tax issues, corporate or manufacturing
• Tax incentives for entertainment companies
• Tax incentives for relocating companies
• Time management (from an employee and employer perspective)
• What companies can do to protect copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property
• Wills and blended families
• An employer’s right to review employee emails, use of the computer and mobile devices – from both an employer and an employee perspective
• Employers’ responsibilities when politics are discussed at the office (free speech)
• Estate planning issues, including:
• Privacy issues in the workplace
• Right to videotape the workplace
• Strategies for employers to stay out of court
• White collar criminal defense

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