Riker Danzig will present a complimentary morning seminar updating on Site Remediation Jan. 29, from 8 a.m. until 11:50 a.m. Eastern time. The live seminar will be at the Westin Governor Morris, Morristown, NJ.

Businesses, industry, developers and lenders — and their Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (“LSRPs”) — continue to face new challenges in remediation, redevelopment and financing, and litigation over contaminated sites, Riker Danzig says in its invitation to the seminar. Although practice under the Site Remediation Reform Act and LSRP Program is maturing, new issues continue to emerge and the regulatory landscape is evolving and changing.

The live seminar will include:

• Update on the NJDEP Site Remediation Program, Assistant Commissioner Mark Pedersen (invited)
• Developments at the LSRP Licensing Board
• Regulatory compliance and practice tips
• Discussion of the N.J. Spill Act, off-site and comingled plumes and recent litigation.

The attorneys in the firm’s Environmental Practice Group, among the foremost practitioners on these topics, will discuss these subjects and provide an ample question and answer session.

The program is being submitted for approval for CEC credit by the Site Remediation Professional Licensing Board and CPC credit by the State Board of Professional Engineers.

For practicing attorneys, this program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 3.6 hours of total CLE credit. This program has been approved for 3.5 New York CLE Credits.

Please call 973-538-7278 ext.7558 with any questions.

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Compliancy Group will present a complimentary webinar discussing the difficulty of reaching full compliance with HIPAA.

The webinar will be Wednesday, Jan. 28, from 2-3:30 p.m. CST.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers presents a free on-demand webinar on small modular reactors could be built in factories and shipped to wherever reliable low-emission electricity is needed.

The U.S. has nearly 100 nuclear reactors, and they are all big – and have a large capital cost, says the ASME on its website. But a new concept in nuclear power could make it easier to build and finance new reactors. Small modular reactors could be built and shipped  for less cost than conventional large nuclear plants.

Jose N. Reyes, Chief Technology Officer at NuScale Power, and Paul Murphy, special counsel at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, discuss the technological, economic and regulatory promises and challenges regarding small nuclear reactors.

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Opower has made available a complimentary on-demand webinar discussing how behavioral design can be a powerful tool across different industries including energy efficiency providers.

In the utility sector, behavior design can be instrumental in motivating customers to take action on saving energy and participate in efficiency programs at a higher rate, Opower says on its website. “Whether you’re working to encourage customers to turn down their thermostat, sign up for a new rate plan, or purchase a more efficient appliance, applying behavioral design to your communications is a proven strategy to help you achieve greater results,” the site says.

The webinar covers:

•    Behavioral design principles that are proven to influence consumer behavior
•    Learn why communications that look similar often yield different results and how you can achieve your desired outcomes
•    Dynamic, targeted user experience approaches will keep customers active and engaged
•    Best practices from behavioral design case stories from multiple industry types

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Ecova will present a free webinar to discuss the results of a survey of more than 500 energy and facility professionals. The webinar will be Thursday, Jan. 29, at 2 p.m. EST.

The goal, according to Ecova’s website, is to inform and share best practice expertise into the areas that represent the most opportunity and greatest challenges.

Topics wil linclude trends that illustrate the evolution of energy and sustainability management, insights into what your peers consider their biggest challenges and opportunities, and short- and long-term elements to include in 2015 planning.

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A free, Web-based seminar focusing on the recycling and disposal of fluids from oil and gas drilling will be offered by Penn State Extension’s Marcellus Education Team.

The webinar, from 1 to 2 p.m. EST Jan. 22, will feature Karen Johnson, chief of the Ground Water and Enforcement Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 3. She will discuss the Underground Injection Control program in Pennsylvania and current underground injection well activity.

While much of the fluid from oil and gas drilling is recycled, there still are residual fluids that must be disposed of properly,Penn State says on its website. One means of disposal has been underground injection wells. In Pennsylvania, injection wells of all types are regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act by the EPA.

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Epiq Systems has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar on using social media as evidence, and best practices for collecting from social media and mobile data types for use in electronic discovery. Kelley Drye & Warren lawyers participated in the event.

The event covers the preservation, authentication and collection of evidence related to social media, and its importance as it has become a big part of the evidentiary landscape in recent years.

The presentation also covers retention policies, cost concerns, technological limitations, possession, control or power, relevance, privacy, and more.

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Susan K. Hatmaker, Esq. of Hatmaker Law Group will present a free webinar discussing steps to take now to avoid employment claims in 2015.

The event will be Wednesday, Jan. 21, beginning at noon Pacific time.

Participants can join this webinar in their office or conference room with colleagues.

Hatmaker Law Group’s webinar serve as 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.

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A free on-demand webinar frames the history of the net neutrality debate and then explores the current proposed rules and the public response they have generated. The event is a Rocket Matter webinar with Michael Weinberg, a Vice President at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit digital advocacy group in Washington, D.C.

The webinar also puts the debate in the larger context of innovation on the internet and explain how you can get involved.

Over one million net neutrality comments have been filed with the Federal Communications Commission on the proposal that would allow cable companies to charge content providers extra fees to deliver faster service.

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Steptoe & Johnson has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar on the challenges in post-production costs related to shale gas development.

On its website, the firm says shale gas development in the U.S. has us moving through some rocky legal terrain to find a “safe” royalty clause or a “new” market at the well in regards to post-production costs. Challenges remain in post-production costs and approaches vary from majority to minority across the states.

In this webcast Karen Donnelly discusses:

• Allocation of post-production expenses in calculating royalties
• Case law update
• Can the market return to the wellhead?
• Title, measurement, and affiliate issues

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The Oil & Gas Journal will present its Forecast & Review/Worldwide Pipeline Construction 2015 Webcast, offering outlooks for the oil market and pipeline construction in a year of turbulence.

The webcast will be Friday, Jan. 30, at 10 a.m. Central time.

Based on two annual special reports, the webcast will be presented by OGJ Editor Bob Tippee and OGJ Managing Editor-Technology Chris Smith.

On its website, the Journal says the Forecast & Review portion of the webcast will identify forces underlying the collapse in crude oil prices and assess prospects for changes essential to recovery—all in the context of geopolitical pressures buffeting the market.

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Black & Veatch will present a free webinar highlighting key findings from the firm’s 2015 outlook on the integrated North American energy markets.

The one-hour complimentary webinar will be Wednesday, Jan. 28, beginning at noon Central time.

On its website, the firm says the webinar will cover:

– How oil prices and the oil industry will ultimately impact the natural gas and power industries

– The potential impacts the Clean Power Plan and other environmental regulations will have on the U.S. power market

– 25-year energy price forecasts that include projected natural gas, coal and oil prices, average electricity and capacity prices, and carbon emissions price

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A guide written by Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP partner Stanley Gibson helps the reader safely move contract or legal notices from certified mail, traditional fax, and courier delivery.

Readers will learn how to send notices by electronic means and receive irrefutable proof of compliance with notice requirements, essential to managing business risk. Readers will learn though example of common pitfalls and misconceptions with many electronic services, view a side-by-side comparison of technologies and service providers, and take away a scorecard that rates software, services, and methods across a list of best-practice requirements.

This Guide is designed to provide the detail legal professionals, contract managers, and technologists would need to implement an electronic delivery service that provides for all of the considerations and legal requirements essential to give electronic notices the highest evidential weight.

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Susan K. Hatmaker, Esq. of Hatmaker Law Group along with Alan Thaxter, Senior Client Consultant of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., will present a free webinar covering an update for 2015 on the Affordable Care Act.

The one-hour event will be Wednesday, Feb. 18, beginning at noon Pacific time.

Hatmaker Law Group’s webinars serve as educational opportunities for employers, owners, managers, accountants, attorneys and human resource professionals to stay current on up-to-date information on important California employment law issues, the firm said in a release about the upcoming event..

For more information contact Laura Dakin at (559) 374-0077 or email laura@hatmakerlaw.com or go to hatmakerlaw.com/events/

Jennifer Horn and Maria Panichelli presented the second webinar in their core construction curriculum series for Women Impacting Public Policy and Give Me 5%.

The free on-demand presentation, titled “Best Practices in Construction,” covers suggested best practices for before, during and after conclusion of a construction project, in the context of both state and federal contracts, the presenters say.

The presentation provides tips on contracting, documentation, compliance and claims prevention strategies.

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Squire Patton Boggs and NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions offer a complimentary on-demand webinar title “Shipping Oil and Gas – Ownership Implications and the Jones Act.”

Squire Patton Boggs Senior Partner John J. Reilly and NASDAQ OMX Managing Director of the Global, Tax and Regulatory team Juliane Keppler, lead the presentation.

The firm says on its website that the webinar teaches how to identify your global shareholder base and the implications maritime regulations have in a number of areas:

• Learn about Jones Act and the expanding Oil and Gas shipping industry
• Understand how the Tricor decision impacts the Jones Act
• Obtain best practices to identify your global shareholder base and if your company is meeting the Jones Act criteria or other regulatory guidelines

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Penn State Extension presents a complimentary webinar titled “What We Know and Don’t Know About Methane Gas Emissions Associated With Shale Gas Production.”

Dr. Kenneth Davis, professor of meteorology at Penn State University, is the presenter.

While the gas is a valuable energy source, it also is a potent greenhouse gas, says the moderator, Dave Messersmith.

The webinar discusses the methods used to measure the amount of methane gas emission from shale gas production, the current state of knowledge of these emissions and the current research led by Penn State to improve our knowledge of such emissions.

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Les Rosen of Employment Screening Resources offers expert tips for more effective employee background screening in a complimentary on-demand audio recording.

Among this year’s top trends, he says, are the new momentum for the ‘ban the box’ movement to eliminate criminal history questions from job applications, compliance with updated EEOC guidance and controversy over the use of commercial criminal databases.

In an interview about risk management and the latest screening trends, Rosen discusses:

• Highlights of the latest report;
• New views on the relevance of past criminal records;
• Emerging legal and compliance implications of background screening.

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Winstead has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar covering generally accepted negotiation conventions.

Whether settling a disputed claim or agreeing to a transaction, it is important to know the accepted ethical limits in negotiation strategies, the firm says on its website. For example, what is “material’ for purposes of Rule 4.01? This recorded webinar covers questions like this.

The target audience for the webinar are in-house counsel and other key decision-making litigation contacts at banks and financial institutions.

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Magnetic Forensics has posted a free on-demand webinar to help participants learn how to interpret Internet forensics to get answers to critical questions.

The webinar is presented by Rob Lee and Chad Tilbury from SANS Institute and Jad Saliba from Magnet Forensics.

On its website, Magnetic Forensics says the webinar demonstrates how to recover and analyze Internet forensic artifacts left behind in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. It also takes an in-depth look at techniques that can be used to find hidden artifacts even after the browsing history has been cleared.

The webinar starts with an overview of Internet forensics and then covers:

• Internet Explorer session recovery data
• Google Analytics cookies
• Flash cookies
• Firefox session restore data
• Firefox Private Browsing/Chrome Incognito

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