Chemical Engineering magazine has posted a free on-demand webinar on the distribution of shale across the globe and the enormous petroleum resources they represent.

The webinar will discuss what has been learned about the economics of drilling key shale plays in North America that might inform shale exploration and development elsewhere in the world. I also will address the areas around that world that represent “shale frontiers.”

Other topics include the important considerations for exploration, well planning and development in shale deposits and how they differ compared to those for conventional petroleum; the environmental implications of global shale development; the differences in data gathering and technical analyses for conventional versus unconventional petroleum deposits; products that are limited by the shift toward cracking lighter feedstocks; and the opportunities available for on-purpose production of those limited products.

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Norton Rose Fulbright will present a complimentary webinar on tax considerations that optimize after-tax returns in acquisitive transactions.

The webinar will be Thursday, Sept. 4, at noon Central time.

On its website, the firm says discussion will include acquisitive corporate nontaxable reorganizations, taxable asset and stock acquisitions using Internal Revenue Code Sections 336 and Section 338(h)(10), and the unique considerations that arise when either the buyer or seller is an S corporation.

Consideration will be given to the tax sections of the primary deal documents including the seller’s tax representations and tax indemnities and the importance to the buyer of tax due diligence on the target corporation, the firm says.

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Attorney Digital Marketing and James Publishing offer a free on-demand webinar on the best practices of marketing a law firm in the digital age.

The webinar discusses why content should be the lynchpin of any successful digital marketing effort and the centerpiece of attorney marketing fusion. It also covers how to leverage content to target an ever-growing long tail keyword base and capture a share of local search volume.

Other topics include the types of content can be used to increase Time on Site and influence the social media sphere; how SEO in 2014 calls for a different approach to content development, one not solely dependent upon keyword density and mere replication of key phrases; how to best research keywords in the modern SEO era; why developing content that is unique, relevant, helpful, and valuable will increase the response from an attorney’s client base; what “authorship” is and why content creators are valued by Google, and more.

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As a part of its ongoing webinar series “Understanding construction contract controls and construction audit best practices,” Baker Tilly will present a complimentary webinar on the use of testing and verification to help a development team deliver a successful project.

The webinar will be Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 12 p.m. Central time.

On its website, Baker Tilly says that through a series of case studies, presenters will illustrate effective and ineffective project control scenarios and how to verify that the project controls environment is performing as expected. Webinar participants will learn:

• Project controls fundamentals
• Audit red flags and under-performance indicators
• Audit program elements

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POWER magazine presents a complimentary on-demand webinar on environmental regulatory issues confronting the utility industry as the Environmental Protection Agency continues to ratchet down emission rates and discharge limits through rules involving air, water, and waste regulations.

On its website, POWER says this annual roundtable discussion by the industry’s leading authorities on environmental regulation will offer insight into the likely outcome of the greenhouse gas rulemaking process for existing plants; the likely regulatory timeframes and legal issues related to upcoming water, waste, and air rules; and the range of response strategies being implemented by the utility industry for surviving in the current regulatory environment.

Webinar attendees will learn the latest on water, air and carbon emission regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This discussion at ELECTRIC POWER 2014 offered an update on the EPA’s expected carbon emission rules for existing power plants, rules related to Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act, as well as ongoing compliance with a host of air emission rules, POWER says.

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A webinar presented by zlien will discuss how to secure lien rights and guarantee payment in the context of a bankruptcy involving a construction contract. The complimentary webinar will be Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 1 p.m. Central time.

On its website, zlien says the failure rates in the construction industry are some of the highest anywhere. Because of this, bankruptcies are an all-too-often occurrence. What happens when construction companies’ mechanics lien rights collide with the protections provided by the bankruptcy code?

This webinar will explore these issues and provide some answers to common questions regarding how mechanics liens fare in the face of a bankruptcy filing.

This webinar will cover:

• The “automatic stay” and how it relates to mechanics lien rights
• When a mechanics lien “attaches” for bankruptcy purposes
• Does the time period to enforce a lien get extended during bankruptcy?
• Can a mechanics lien be “stripped” by a bankruptcy filing?

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Bloomberg Government in partnership with the Coalition for Government Procurement offers a free on-demand webinar previewing the structure, scope and competitive landscape on OASIS multiple-award contracts.

On its website, Bloomberg says that in late May, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the final awardees on their long-awaited OASIS multiple-award contracts (MACs), expected to become the largest professional services program in the federal government. OASIS offers opportunities worth $60 billion in task orders during the next decade, but with significant uncertainty in the market where do we go from here?

Topics include:

• The structure of OASIS and its relation to other contract vehicles
• The type of work that is likely to shift towards OASIS
• Analysis of awardees and a preview of the competitive landscape
• Prospects for small businesses
• A preview of the top agencies that are likely to use OASIS

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Urjanet will present a complimentary webinar on how big data is becoming a must-have for multiple departments within an organization to achieve their distinct goals. The webinar will be Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

On its website, Urjanet says accounting teams are no longer the only ones hunting down utility bills in order to pay them.

Now, more than ever before, a growing list of departments within a single organization are asking for energy data for sustainability and CSR reporting, energy consumption benchmarking and forecasting, customer and investor transparency, among many other reasons, Urjanet says.

This webinar featuring NetApp, Powerhouse Dynamics, Cox Enterprises, Verdantix, and Urjanet will discuss how the industry has seen the need for energy data span across multiple departments within the enterprise, and how these end users are applying the data to achieve their departmental and organizational goals.

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Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C. has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar discussing compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Amendments to the ADA have expanded the law’s coverage and employers’ responsibilities under the law, the firm says on its website.

“This session will help you understand your responsibilities under the ADA,” according to the website. “During the session, we will focus on case studies and real world scenarios to help prepare you for ADA compliance.”

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Avvo will present a webinar discussing ways to help lawyers and law firms get comfortable with the rapid proliferation of online feedback and the most effective – and ethical – ways to respond.

The complimentary webinar will be Thursday, Sept. 11, beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

Josh King, General Counsel & VP of Business Development, will be the presenter.

Avvo says on its website that lawyers who attend this webinar will learn about:

– The spread of online feedback via social media and review sites, and the importance of this trend to professional services and reputation
– Why suing for defamation is the technique of last resort
– Avoid violating the ethics rules around misleading advertising and attorney-client confidences when responding to online feedback

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Inside Counsel lists some of the best practices that counsel can easily adopt that will help develop process standards to boost contracting efficiency.

In the piece, Cyndie Cox examines some practical ways that you can drive more efficiency into the creation, negotiation and review of contracts across your legal team. With this information, you can fight the stereotype that legal is an impediment to closing deals and make yourself a star with the sales team, she writes.

She says it is important to find a good balance between closing deals quickly and mitigating risk.

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Hatmaker Law Group presents free monthly employment law webinars, providing educational opportunities for employers, owners, managers, accountants, attorneys and human resource professionals to stay current with up-to-date information on important California employment law issues.

September’s topic is “How To Conduct Workplace Investigations That Hold Up In Court.”

The webinar will be Wednesday, Sept. 17, from noon until 1 p.m. Pacific time.

Register online at www.hatmakerlaw.com/events/.

Or Contact: Laura Dakin at (559) 374-0077 or email laura@hatmakerlaw.com

HR.com will present a complimentary webcast on verifying past employment and education and obtaining references. The webinar will be Thursday, Sept. 4, beginning at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Les Rosen, Attorney and CEO of Employment Screening Resources, will be the presenter.

On its website, HR.com says this workshop reviews legal and effective technique for the reference checking process and how to verify education and spot phony credentials. There are now even web sites where applicants can purchase very convincing fake eduction and employment histories, complete with authentic looking documentation and live operators who will verify the false information. New technologies and approaches will also be reviewed, as well as special issue involving international credentials and the role of Web 2.0 in the process, HR.com says.

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The Compliance Map will host a free webinar covering a demo of its enterprise software solution for the management of environmental compliance regulations, directives and product stewardship. The event will be Thursday, Sept. 4, from 10 am. to 11 a.m. PDT.

The presentation will cover how Compliance Map manages regulatory obligations arising from environmental compliance directives.

Other topics will include:

• Maintaining and building remittance reports for Extended Producer Responsibility Directives such as WEEE, Packaging, Battery, Beverage & Oil
• Conflict Minerals smelter & supplier management and reporting mechanisms using the EICC GeSI format
• Data collection management and report distribution using the Compliance Map supply chain management tools to facilitate data gathering as well as automatically responding to customer enquiries
• BOM tools to roll-up compliance verdicts such as RoHS, REACH SVHCs, Phthalates, EMC, MDD and aid in gap analysis and integration with ERP & PLM systems such as SAP, Agile, PTC, etc…
• Compliance & corporate governance including project and process management

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Faced with everything from unpredictable weather to changing renewable energy portfolios to volatile fuel prices, utilities can only be certain about one thing: uncertainty.

Energy Central will present a complimentary webinar Thursday, Sept. 4, beginning at noon Eastern time on the state of the utilities industry.

Energy Central’s Sierra Energy Group surveyed 70 utilities professionals in IT, finance, trading and risk management roles to better understand what keeps them awake at night.

Analyst Mike Smith of Sierra Energy Group and industry expert Corwin Moczygemba, Managing Director of Opportune’s Process and Technology practice, will discuss the top trends, challenges and best practices in the ttilities industry, including:

• Staying current with regulatory compliance
• How to improve trading and risk management processes to decrease costs and create efficiencies
• Insights on commodity price volatility, asset optimization and managing supply and demand
• Leveraging smart grid investments
• The convergence of utilities and natural gas

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HOMER Energy joins market partner Trojan Battery Company for an online educational presentation, followed by a live question and answer session on ways microgrid integrators and operators can develop top-performing systems using HOMER simulations and Trojan industrial batteries with Smart Carbon™ technology.

The event is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 2, beginning at 11 a.m. Central time.

The presentation will include a live demonstration on how HOMER users can optimize microgrid designs using HOMER and Trojan Industrial batteries, specifically designed to address the impact of PSOC on cycling batteries in solar microgrid applications.

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UBIC is making available a complimentary on-demand ARMA webinar on issues and solutions related to finding, transferring and reviewing digital evidence, through Sept. 30.

Business is increasingly global, and that inevitably brings disputes and regulatory investigations whose subject-matter and evidence crosses jurisdictional boundaries, says UBIC. The US approach to electronic discovery, whether in civil litigation or at the hands of regulators and criminal investigators, is much wider than is permitted elsewhere, even before questions of privacy and data protection arise.

The EU led the way with such restrictions, and now most other jurisdictions, including China, have followed. How can US courts, lawyers and regulators reconcile the proper demands of US proceedings with the equally proper restraints of other jurisdictions? Our panel will describe the problems and offer practical solutions for minimizing the conflicts.

Speakers are Chris Dale, eDisclosure Project, English Solicitor; Patrick Burke, Counsel, Reed Smith, LLP; Patrick Zeller; Corporate E-Discovery & Privacy Counsel, Gilead Sciences; Paul Starrett (Moderator); Counsel and Chief Global Risk Officer, UBIC, Inc.

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Equifax will present a complimentary webinar on the top risks in the I-9 and E-Verify process and how employers can avoid them. The webinar will be Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

Equifax says the Form I-9 isn’t long, but it’s jam-packed with risk. Additionally, E-Verify is auditing your data, conducting reviews of your E-Verify practices and when appropriate refers cases to the other agencies for audit. How can an HR professional make sure the entire hiring practice is compliant? In a world where audits are more frequent, penalties can be expensive, and brand recognition can be tarnished by even the smallest of irregularities, it’s wise to know the top errors to watch for in I-9 and E-Verify compliance. Even seemingly small errors can leave your company exposed to fines and penalties, Equifax says on its website.

This session will explore the Top 10 most common errors in I-9 and E-Verify compliance and offer compliance hints and remediation steps to help make sure your workplace avoids these lurking traps.

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Optimus BT will present a complimentary webinar for legal and contract teams looking to manage full contract lifecycle from drafting contracts, to approvals, eSignatures and contract administration.

The webinar will be Thursday, August 28, beginning at 11 a.m. Eastern time.

This webinar will show case how eContracts, a SharePoint and Office 365 based software, can be used to implement various contract management processes within the enterprise with a special focus on legal document collaboration and workflow processes related to managing contract reviews and approvals between various parts of the organization, Optimus BT says on its website.

The webinar also will demonstrate eSignature capabilities as part of this overall demonstration of automating enterprise contract processes.

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The Association of Corporate Counsel offers a free on-demand webcast focusing on advanced drafting and negotiating strategies that may be used in connection with virtually every type of contract. The webcast was sponsored by Arent Fox LLP.

The strategies discussed in this 90-minute webcast are useful for technology agreements, contracts concerning the provision of products and services to state and local governments, and agreements relating to mergers and acquisitions.  The presenters also discuss how to respond effectively to various drafting and negotiation strategies that the other party may employ.

Speakers are Alan Fishel, Partner, Arent Fox; and Jessica Lorden, Associate General Counsel, IBM Corporation.

Kendrick Royer, Assistant General Counsel, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, is moderator.

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