Conrad O'Brien Speakers Bureau

Our attorneys are available for speaking engagements, presentations and panel participation for a range of topics.

Recent topics include:

• State Physician Payment Disclosure Trends: Is Your Company in Compliance or Is It Exposed to Potential Government Investigations?
  Discusses new state-enacted payment and gift disclosure laws and similar trends as they relate to improving transparency between medical professionals and drug or device companies.  Integrated into the discussion are the panelists' view and experiences as they relate to actual and foreseeable investigations, other similar trends and potential new areas of investigation
  
  
• Indemnifying Public Officials
  Discusses issues of interest to lawyers who work with municipalities, school boards, boroughs, solicitors and more.
  • Can state or county entities indemnify their public officials?
  • Should they? Must they?
  • Pennsylvania Law - what does it dictate?
  • Best Practices governmental entities should follow.

• Are You Ready for the Friday Afternoon S.E.C. or D.O.J. Subpoena?
  Discusses best practices for handling a government inquiry from the first moment a subpoena is received through the process of grand jury proceedings.

• Defending Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secret Cases
  Discusses best practices for structuring new hires to avoid restrictive covenant liability and for prosecuting a successful defense when litigation ensues.
  • Pre-hire review and counseling
  • Game plan for defending restrictive covenant litigation
  • Discovery pointers
  • Remedies and settlement

• The ABC's of a Public Corruption Internal Investigation
  Discusses the best practices for lawyers in private practice and solicitors who may be called upon to defend a public official in response to an investigation of allegations of public corruption.
  • What to do in the first 24-48 hours?
  • The basics of the Pennsylvania ethics
  • Other relevant federal and state criminal statutes
  • The law on indemnifying and advancing defense costs to public officials accused of wrongdoing in their official capacity.

• Top 5 Tips for Avoiding Malpractice Claims
  Discusses best practices for avoiding a malpractice claim, including: client selection, client communication, file documentation, case management, and conflicts of interest. Topics covered include:
  • Client selection
  • Client communication
  • File documentation
  • Case management
  • Conflicts of interest

• Successful Hires: Acquiring Talent, Not Lawsuits
  Discusses mistakes that employment candidates make that create liabilities for new employers. Topics covered include:
  • Typical mistakes of the departing employee
  • Duty of loyalty
  • Good practices

• Representing a Company that has Given its Employees a Blackberry and/or Internet Access
  Discusses basic principles lawyers need to know to advise employers about the kinds of data, communications and information employees can be storing in places that they and their IT head know nothing about.
  • What places an employer must check in his company's network to collect needed information or evidence
  • Microsoft Exchange Servers/Blackberry Enterprise Servers - You will be shocked to see what information employees can hide in them.
  • Ways blackberries and the internet are being used for illicit purposes by employees.
  • How to avoid valuable data from being inadvertently destroyed.
  • Civil and criminal repercussions.
  • A checklist to prevent problems.

For more information or to schedule a speaker for your event, please contact Patricia Hamill at phamill@conradobrien.com.