The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management presents a free webinar designed to help participants establish contract management as a business competence. The webinar is offered through Seal Software.

The pressure for improved business controls continues to grow and contract management is increasingly seen as a critical discipline, Seal Software says on its website. However, short-term measures tend to focus on control and compliance and these inhibit – even undermine – longer-term value.

Topics include:

• The drivers of change transforming approaches to control and compliance
• Key steps in developing commercial competence
• How to improve quality in commercial judgment
• Gaining understanding of the critical tools
• From reactive to proactive – recognizing the indicators of failure

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NeoSystems Corp. has posted a free on-demand webinar on how to forecast, plan and optimize cash flow and cash management for government contractors.

Whether you’re looking to fund your growth or just meet payroll, every government contractor – big and small – needs to manage cash, NeoSystems says on its website.

“Consider the cash flow challenges of managing your contracts:  the timeline for paying your employees versus the timeline of billing your clients and waiting for your invoice to be paid can stress anyone’s cash reserves.  Add additional contract wins to the mix and many companies find themselves cash constrained at best.  Not to fear – these challenges can be overcome by effectively managing your cash flow,” NeoSystems says.

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Baker Tilly presents a complimentary on-demand webinar discussing how to analyze an engineer-procure-construct contract for risk and plan to audit EPC projects.

The list of objectives for the webinar begins with understanding the fundamental delivery differences betweenEngineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) and Architect-Procure-Construction (APC).

Other objectives include: how to learn to identify the unique contract audit risks of EPC, and how to learn to identify EPC contract audit red flags.

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Wolfsdorf Rosenthal presents a free webinar explaining President’s Obama’s executive immigration actions.

On its website, the firm says this webinar will clarify and explain the variety of executive actions initiated by President Obama as outlined in his Nov. 20, 2014, speech announcing new steps his administration is taking in light of Congressional inaction to address the broken immigration system.

The webinar will cover enforcement priorities, border security, Deferred Action for Parents, pending proceedings, immigration court feforms, U/T visas , worksite enforcement and more.

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The Network for Public Health Law presents a free on-demand webinar discussing the international public health community’s response to the Ebola crisis.

Global health law leader Lawrence O. Gostin also will discuss vulnerabilities in the United States and examine the gaps and challenges currently existing in global preparedness and response systems.

This webinar is a part of the Public Health Law Webinar Series, focused on providing the public health community with practical knowledge on emerging topics. The series is sponsored by American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics; Network for Public Health Law; and Public Health Law Research Program.

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Avvo has posted a complimentary on-demand 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.

Josh King, Avvo’s General Counsel and VP of Business Development, is the presenter.

Avvo says participants 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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Navigant Research presents a free on-demand webinar on the development and deployment of nanogrids on the nation’s electrical system.

While microgrids are multiplying rapidly, substantial deployments of nanogrids – defined as systems of 100 kilowatts (kW) for grid-tied systems and 5 kW for remote systems not interconnected with a utility grid – already exist, Navigant says on its website.

Nanogrids offer flexible, modular building blocks for energy services that support applications ranging from emergency power for commercial buildings to the provision of basic electricity services for people living in extreme poverty.

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The Washington Legal Foundation presents a complimentary webinar on the clash between statutes and the Constitution in non-injury class actions.

The event also discusses a pending petition for certiorari that urges Supreme Court intervention in such a case.

Business enterprises increasingly face lawsuits in which plaintiffs have suffered no actual “injury-in-fact,” but are able to seek damages under federal and state laws that create private rights of action, the WLF says on its website. Though such statutorily-created harm clashes with Article III’s constitutional requirement of standing to sue, federal courts of appeals are split on whether this lawyer-driven litigation is permissible.

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KPMG has made available a free on-demand webinar on the latest tax developments affecting companies in the oil and gas industry including legislative update, transfer pricing – state considerations, oil and gas current developments and year-end planning issues.

Speakers for the Webcast include:

John Gimigliano, Principal in Charge, Federal Legislative and Regulatory Services practice, KPMG LLP (U.S.)

Doug Maziur, Principal, SALT Income Franchise, KPMG LLP (U.S.)

Bob Swiech, Director, Washington National Tax, KPMG LLP (U.S.)

Mike Terracina, National Tax Leader, Oil and Gas practice, KPMG LLP (U.S.)

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Oil & Gas Journal presents a complimentary on-demand webinar on using predictive analytics to help an oil and gas organization maximize productivity, operational performance and associated processes to drive enterprise wide productivity and profitability.

On its website, the Journal says that in today’s asset-intensive marketplace, operating, maintaining and managing  oil and gas operations’ assets throughout their lifecycle can be costly on many fronts.  The benefits associated with preventing asset down time can be huge.

“Even small delays in detecting an issue can result in large costs from process & quality deviation, spare part costs, process down time, product quality issues and much more,” the Journal says.

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Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. (IPXI), the world’s first financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property (IP) rights, will conduct three public webinar presentations on Dec. 16 to provide important details on its recently announced Unit License Right™ (ULR™) offering of patents essential to the world’s most widely adopted standard protocol for wireless technology.

The WFN1 offering of ULR contracts includes patent rights owned by eight leading organizations whose patents have been independently determined to be essential to the IEEE 802.11n standard used in wireless local area network (WLAN) communications.

To accommodate potential purchasers in multiple regions, IPXI will host three free webinars at 9 a.m., 2 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, Dec. 16. To register, visit https://www.ipxi.com/wfn1/webinar.

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ICF International presents a complimentary on-demand webinar featuring its gas experts discussing the outlook for the coming winter in the context of last year’s polar vortex and the subsequent performance of the North American natural gas market.

After exiting last winter with relatively low working gas levels, gas supply systems seem poised to enter the winter season in relatively good form, ICF says on its website.

Topics for the webinar include:

• What could a rerun of last winter mean this year?
• What lessons, if any, have been learned?
• In the longer run, how is the outlook for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports shaping up, and what other factors will drive the gas market going forward?

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Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner presents a free on-demand webinar on the importance of adequate preparation in patent infringement litigation.

Advanced preparation and strategic planning among business leaders, technical and regulatory personnel, inside counsel, and outside counsel can be essential to position your company for a successful outcome, the firm says on its website.

Webinar topics include:

• Using best practices to obtain patent claims that maximize your chances of proving patent infringement and defending against patentability challenges;
• Investigating the potential issues, important documents, and major players that will provide key information during discovery and at trial;
• Developing litigation themes to ensure that the litigation proceeds on the correct path;
• Coordinating company communications to ensure that representations are accurate and consistent with the company’s litigation positions; and
• Using proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to strengthen your portfolio or to avoid potentially expensive and disruptive litigation.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology offers a free complimentary webinar on setting a value for intellectual property after the acquisition of a patent, copyright or trademark.

On its website, NIST says viewers of the webinar can hear from experienced professionals on the true value of your IP and how much it is worth from both ROI and NPV viewpoints.

Knowing the value of intellectual property can be important when a company is being considered for acquisition or when venture capitalists are considering making investments in an operation, webinar speakers explain.

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Equifax Workforce Solutions will present a complimentary webinar details on President Obama’s immigration plan and methods to help an organization gauge the potential impact on the hiring processes and procedures as well as retention procedures.

The 60-minute webinar will be Tuesday, Dec. 16, beginning at noon Central time.

Speakers will be Montserrat Miller, Partner, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP; Jason Fry, Senior Director, Equifax Workforce Solutions; and Chad Whittenberg, Sr. Director, Product Management – I-9 & E-Verify, Equifax Workforce Solutions.

Topics to be covered include:

–What and who is included in the President’s executive action
–What it means to affected populations
–What it means to the business community
–What it means for the Form I-9 and E-Verify
–What impact it may have short-term and long-term for comprehensive immigration reform

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Urjanet presents a complimentary webinar about accessing timely, accurate, and high-quality energy data as the first step for making smarter, more profitable, and eco-friendly energy decisions.

“Acquiring energy data, with its large volumes and disparate formats, is a daunting task because there are no standards in the industry,” said Urjanet’s Vice President of Sales, Erik Becker, who moderates the panel discussion. “In this webinar we discuss how essential it is to have good data to make informed decisions related to energy.”

On its website, Urjanet says attendees will learn what causes good energy data to go bad, why bad data leads to missed opportunities and poor capital investments, and how automating energy data can help reduce energy costs and carbon emissions. For this session, Urjanet partnered with energy management industry experts including Joseph Aamidor, Product Manager for JCI, and Alisdair McDougall of the leading research analyst firm Verdantix.

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ABB has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar on planning for electrical grid stability and reliability.

While weather events like Hurricane Sandy grab national headlines, they aren’t the only threat to transmission grids, ABB says on its website. The shift in generation caused by the integration of renewables and coal plant closures has also created issues with grid stability and reliability. Add in aging infrastructure, and stresses on the transmission grid are only going to get worse.

Preparing the system to withstand and recover from these failures and events requires proper planning and optimization of investments.

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Compliancy Group will host a complimentary webinar to help health care organizations manage patient receivables in a more efficient, profitable way.

The 90-minute webinar will be Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

IBM offers a complimentary on-demand webinar on how to optimize proper contract governance across the global organization.

Contracts are the foundation of every business relationship, IBM says on its website. But today, most businesses can’t ensure that the proper protections are contained in each and every agreement, as many legal departments don’t have the staff or resources to examine every single contract under management.

This webinar covers: Why flexibility matters to contracting for your people, your processes and the supporting technology, how to leverage contract management solutions to fit the ever-changing landscape of your enterprise, and what your peers are doing today to keep extending the value of contracting.

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The Center for Resource Solutions has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar outlining guidelines for states to use existing renewable energy certificate (REC) tracking systems as an integral part of state compliance for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

The webinar is titled “Tracking Renewable Energy for the U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Guidelines for States to Use Existing REC Tracking Systems to Comply with 111(d).”

These REC tracking systems, together with state policies designed to increase the production and use of renewable electricity, will be critical to states looking to use renewable energy like wind and solar to reduce the carbon intensity of their power sector, CRS says on its website.

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