ICF International will present a webinar on how North American natural gas liquids (NGL) markets find a new balance in the era of shale-gas associated production boom.

The webinar will be Tuesday, Sept. 30, beginning at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.

On its website, ICF says the rapid turnaround in the region’s fortunes — from a significant importer to the world’s largest exporter — has resulted in great opportunities for some market participants and daunting challenges for others. As the shakeout continues, ICF experts have continued to work with the industry to address these key issues.

Additional webinar discussion topics include:

• How does the market balance the needs of retail consumers, petchems, and exporters?
• How does planned export capacity align with available supply?
• How are changes in infrastructure impacting propane markets?
• What is the need and the outlook for propane storage?
• Where will butane and pentane production find a home?
• What is the outlook for prices?

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office will present a complimentary webinar on the Patent Litigation Online Tool Kit, a web site designed to assist consumers and small business owners who receive letters accusing them of patent infringement.

The webinar will be Thursday, Sept. 18, beginning at noon Eastern time.

The webinar will discuss the litigation tool kit, which answers common questions about patent litigation such as:

• What are my options for responding to the suit?
• How can I tell whether or not I’m infringing?
• How do I find a lawyer?
• How can I challenge a patent or patent application?

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Anaqua  will present an IAM Leadership webinar will discussing the importance of building a strategic patenting process for companies of any size.

The complimentary webinar will be Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 11 a.m. Eastern time.

Barry Brager, Managing Partner of Perception Partners, will be the presenter.

He will outline the near-term, mid-term, and long-term strategies and goals to consider when starting the inventive process. This webinar will outline concrete steps to build a cohesive portfolio that will enable freedom to operate, a powerful defensive signal, licensable assets, and an opportunity to monetize in the future

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DLA Piper offers a free on-demand webinar discussing the relative merits of various contract forms and approaches and discusses what the firm considers to represent best practice in agile contracting.

The firm says on its website that evidence of robust contracting around agile software development projects is still relatively thin on the ground. There are some examples of template contracts, particularly in Scandinavia (Danish K03 and similar examples in Norway and Sweden), but these are as yet little known and little used.

There are also developing hybrid contract forms which mix elements of traditional waterfall with agile contracting to try to balance agility with risk control and certainty, the firm says on its website.

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Crowell & Moring will present a complimentary webinar titled “Federal Contracting Policy By Executive Order: What Does It Mean for Contractors?” The webinar will be Thursday, Sept. 11, beginning at 11 a.m. Eastern time.

Attorneys making the presentation have experience in government contracts, public policy, and employment law will discuss the use of Executive Orders by the Obama Administration and its predecessors, evaluate several recent EOs targeting contractor labor law compliance, including the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Executive Order.

On its website, the firm says the panel will also discuss potential new EOs on the horizon, and talk about what, if any, measures contractors and other interested parties can take to influence or challenge the substantive provisions of recent Executive Orders.

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Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP will host a free webinar covering hot topics in the EB-5 Visa Immigrant Investor Program.

The webinar will be Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time.

Congress created the EB-5 program in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors.

This free webinar will cover the hottest topics in EB-5, including the trends and ever-changing landscape of EB-5 projects; an update on adjudication centralization in Washington, D.C.; and the China visa backlog that will occur for investors born in China in Fiscal Year 2015, according to Wolfsdorf Rosenthal.

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Convercent will host a free webinar to unveil its new Risk Management Global Compliance Solution module on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

On its website, Convercent says the software is “a significant product enhancement that weaves risk throughout the Convercent platform to better prioritize compliance and risk management efforts. Convercent offers a single software solution for compliance tools and data to work together to address an organization’s most pressing risks, enabling compliance professionals to design a risk-based program; implement initiatives; and measure and enhance the effectiveness of those efforts.”

Joe LeBas, Chief Strategy Officer for Convercent, will present the webinar to provide attendees a look at the latest additions to Convercent’s software, including risk heat maps and risk-based program dashboards.

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DocuSign and Selectica participated in a webinar on the effective use of contracts to manage increasing amounts of information and unstructured data across business processes including compliance, legal, procurement, and sales.

That webinar is now available for free viewing on-demand.

Presenters explainthe impact of digital on businesses, so participants can understand why and how corporate law, strategic sourcing, procurement, and IT teams collaborate to utilize contract management solutions to address C-level strategic imperatives including regulatory compliance, driving process efficiencies, and accelerating revenue growth.

They also help participants gain insights on industry trends with research via Selectica, DocuSign, Gartner, Forrester Research, and Spend Matters. Presenters also cover how eSignature enables remote approval on mobile devices, lowers costs, and improves the experience for requesters, approvers, and vendors alike.

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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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