Promoting and enhancing the quality of impartial workplace investigations.™
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Total Credits: 1.0 CA MCLE, 1.0 HRCI Credits, 1.0 SHRM
The Legal Update will address the past year’s key employment decisions, legislation, and their impact on workplace misconduct investigations. We will review significant cases that enable participants to identify and understand how to best apply new laws and legal principles in their professional work.
Participants will be able to:
All registrants will have acces to a recording of the webinar 48 hours after the live program.
Disclaimer:
The contents of this webinar and the positions taken are those of the presenter only, may be time-sensitive, and are not warranted, endorsed or otherwise recommended by AWI and are not intended to provide legal advice.
California MCLEs: 1.0
HR (General) Credits: 1.0
SHRM PDCs: 1.0
Shelline Bennett is a highly experienced labor and employment attorney with more than 30 years of dedicated service representing management in both the public and private sectors. Her practice combines extensive litigation, collective bargaining, and workplace investigations expertise, allowing her to provide strategic and practical guidance to employers. As an experienced trainer, and leader within her firm’s Investigation Practice Group, Shelline is widely recognized for her skill in conducting, overseeing, and advising on complex workplace investigations.
Rachel Ablin is the founder of Ablin Law, PC, a firm that specializes in providing employers with expert, professional and confidential workplace investigation solutions in the areas of harassment, discrimination, policy and employee code of conduct violations and other legal violations. Ms. Ablin has extensive employment law experience working with both employers and employees. Prior to starting Ablin Law, she worked for over 19 years as in-house employment counsel for Walgreens. She is on the Webinar Committee for the Association of Workplace Investigations.
Dr. Dwayne E. Smith, AWI-CH is an External Attorney Investigator and Founder of Workplace Law Solutions.
Workplace Law Solutions specializes in providing comprehensive legal services and consulting in areas such as workplace investigations, education consulting, and collegiate athlete representation.
Workplace Law Solutions provides independent workplace investigations on behalf of employers regarding allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and professional misconduct.
Dwayne was the Director of Compliance with Liberty Public Schools (LPS) from 2018-2024. He was the district designee for Civil Rights Investigations, for Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, Section 504 and ADA for purposes of ensuring compliance with federal and state law as well as board policy. Dwayne conducted over one hundred (100) internal investigations during his time at LPS.
Dwayne spent ten years as a high school administrator and prior to becoming an educator, eighteen years in the private sector in the areas of Product Management and Contract Negotiations and a former Jackson County (Missouri), Assistant Prosecuting Attorney.
Dwayne is an adjunct professor at Saint Louis University, School of Education, teaching Advanced School Law. He is licensed to practice law in Missouri and Kansas.
Dwayne is a member of the Society of Human Resources (SHRM – SCP) and the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI-CH) and holds certificates with both organizations.