The Energy Collective has posted a free on-demand webinar about the potential for countries around the world to develop their natural gas production from shale formations and the implications that development could have for developers in the United States.

On its website, the Energy Collective says countries across the globe are now looking to the United States to see if they should develop their shale gas resources. Cheaper natural gas is shifting the geopolitical power balance between the EU and Russia. China’s shale reserves are supposedly larger than those in the US, with Argentina not far behind. Countries like Mexico, South Africa and Australia could also benefit. But will the myriad risks, from increased carbon emissions to water contamination and potential earthquakes, outweigh the benefits?

With the political, social and economic fallout still up in the air, The Energy Collective hosted a webcast focused on exploring what this means.

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International law firm Eversheds offers a free on-demand webinar on the use of contract law in emerging markets during a time of unrest and political upheaval.

On its website, Eversheds says emerging markets hold opportunities but carry greater risk. Those risks include political change, civil unrest/instability, supply chain/contractor issues, sanctions, and an immature/unreliable legal system.

Contract law issues in this environment include the doctrine of frustration and force majeure clauses.

These risks can be minized at the contract drafting stage, the firm says, through investment structuring and proper drafting of contractual provisions.

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The State and Local Legal Center has posted a free on-demand webinar on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s interpretation of the Clean Air Act.

The court held that the Act neither compels nor permits the EPA to adopt an interpretation of the Clean Air Act requiring a stationary source of pollution to obtain a “Prevention of Significant Deterioration” or Title V permit on the sole basis of its potential greenhouse-gas emission. However, as reported in SCOTUSblog, EPA reasonably interpreted the Clean Air Act to require sources that would need permits based on their emission of conventional pollutants to comply with “best available control technology” for greenhouse gases.

In the webinar, Roger Martella of Sidley Austin and former EPA General Counsel, discusses the implications of Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA for state and local government and how this case may affect EPA regulating greenhouse gases in the future.

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The Network for Public Health Law has made available a complimentary on-demand webinar providing an overview of the current public health and legal landscape of medical marijuana.

On its website, The Network for Public Health Law says 21 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana and eight other states are considering legislation in 2014. As medical marijuana laws expand, state governments and health departments have the daunting task of developing and implementing rules and regulations.

This webinar provides an overview of the current public health and legal landscape of medical marijuana; examines patient registries, product testing, adolescent use, drugged driving and other health and policy concerns; and explores the evaluation of current laws and possible evidence-based strategies to protect public health, the Network says.

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Navigant Research offers a complimentary on-demand webinar on the state of the global wind energy industry, including a market update, market shares and an installation forecast for 2014-2018.

Key topics are: wind turbines, wind energy power plants, wind and renewable energy policy, wind turbine vendor market shares, wind turbine technology trends, and offshore wind energy.

The webinar also examines the underlying policy and market trends that are driving these forecasts, Navigant says on its website.  The latest advances in wind turbine technology trends and the status of the global offshore wind market are also covered, along with market share data for the major wind turbine manufacturers.

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Hirschfeld Kraemer will present a free webinar designed to help employers seeking an LGBT-inclusive workplace and the challenges they face.

The 90-minute webinar will be Tuesday, Sept. 9, beginning at noon Pacific time.

The webinar will include an update on the status of the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act; ERISA compliance issues and tax implications for employers and employees with respect to benefits provided to employees in same-sex marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; coverage of non-discrimination laws for LGBT employees; and policies and practices in the everyday life of a workplace (harassment and bullying, confidentiality, restrooms, employee) that H.R. departments need to know.

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The American Society of Retina Specialists will present a webinar on practices to develop a process for continuously evaluating payer contracts in order to ensure maximum reimbursement in Medicare Advantage contract cases.

The webinar will be Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time.

On its website, the Society says that, too commonly, physicians do not have an overall strategy for negotiating contracts in order to obtain the best possible rates for private and Medicare Advantage Plans.

The webinar will address: managing policies that restrict access to physicians’ choice of drugs – prior authorization, etc.; understanding the fee schedule for J codes; how to review IPAs; and how to handle disputes when they arise.

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EnergyCAP has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar featuring 20 key tests for auditing utility bills.

Steve Heinz, a Professional Engineer and Certified Energy Manager and the Founder and CEO of EnergyCAP, Inc., is the webinar presenter.

On its website, EnergyCAP says Heinz discusses the importance of date audits for energy analysis, challenges and solutions for consumption audits in swing seasons, advantages of cost per day audits, and billed demand and load factor audits and explanations.

EnergyCAP, Inc. publishes energy management software to help organizations get value from utility bills. Over the past 30 years, more than 10,000 energy managers in 3,000 organizations have tracked $25 billion in energy spending using EnergyCAP software, the firm says.

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Opower offers a complimentary on-demand webinar providing best practices for including smart thermostats in existing utility efficiency programs.

Energy efficiency resource standards consistently demand that utilities deliver additional verified efficiency, with some of the most robust standards ratcheting up by over 2percent annually, the company says on its website. To meet these demands, many utilities have developed robust programs for marketing efficient technology to customers. Some of the most successful deliver efficient products to tens of thousands of homes every year.

Donna Wells, of United Illuminating, Kara Saul Rinaldi of the Home Performance Coalition, and Nick Payton of Opower are presenters in the webinar.

They discuss best practices for upgrading existing utility portfolios with new technologies like smart thermostats.

They also cover national trends for efficiency portfolios, advantages of enhancing existing efficiency programs with new technologies, and best practices for scaling the adoption of thermostats cost effectively.

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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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