Risk Management - Overview
Risk Management & Compliance Workshop
Gain timely knowledge and insight from SIA and marketplace legal experts. Discover and understand contingent workforce program and engagement risk management best practices, along with peer-to-peer perspectives on risk-related concerns and practices for leadership and support of CW programs.
Facilitators
Sr. Director, Contingent Workforce Strategies Knowledge and Research, Staffing Industry Analysts Stephen Clancy possesses over 25 years of experience in the HR and Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) services marketplace as a market research analyst, marketing consultant, industry speaker, and writer and developer of BPO solution partnerships. Before joining Staffing Industry Analysts, he held executive roles at SourceRight Solutions, the workforce solutions division of SFN Group. As a vice president at SourceRight Solutions, Clancy developed and sold business process outsourcing solutions (RPO &MSP) to Fortune 1000 companies. He developed multimillion dollar outsourcing engagements with leading industry organizations such as Verizon, Grainger, Citrix and Kodak. These workforce solutions delivered multi-faceted enhancements for these organizations over three- to five-year contract periods.Before joining SourceRight, Clancy was a member of Gartner’s Worldwide IT Services Group. Clancy holds a BS in finance from the University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, and a Black Belt and master certificate in Six Sigma from the University of Villanova. He is a past member of the Southeastern Massachusetts University Board of Trustees.
Staffing Industry Analysts
Dawn McCartney is the Vice President of Contingent Workforce Strategies (CWS) Council at SIA, leading and overseeing the CWS Council and SIA’s Certification & Training, including the Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP & SOW) accreditation program, and CW Workshops. Responsible for identifying, developing and implementing cutting-edge research and strategies for the end users of contingent labor, McCartney, who joined SIA in 2012, has been an integral part of the SIA team with ongoing contributions to the rapid development of the CWS Council and in her role advising CWS Council members—amounting to more than $100 billion in contingent spend—in managing their extended workforce programs.
Staffing Industry Analysts
Lori Telischak is Senior Manager of Contingent Workforce Strategies, Learning and Development for Staffing Industry Analyst (SIA). She supports SIA’s Certification & Training marketplace initiatives, including the Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP) accreditation programs and CW Program Management Workshops.
With more than 15 years of frontline experience working on both the supplier and buyer sides, Lori brings a unique perspective to CW industry best practices and engagement management trends. Her expertise includes contingent workforce policies & procedures, MSP and VMS implementations, supplier optimization, leading internally and externally managed programs, and services procurement knowledge and experience. Lori’s passion is to share her knowledge, and the many lessons learned along the way, with industry professionals and to help elevate and transform the contingent workforce profession.
Lori has a BS in Interpersonal Communications from Bowling Green State University and resides in sunny Saint Petersburg, FL. She is a proud mom to her daughter Zoey and rescue dog Olive and enjoys running and spending time at the beach.
Littler Mendelson
Thelma Akpan represents management in litigation in both state and federal court with a focus on discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract and defamation claims, including counseling and alternative dispute resolution.Before joining Littler, Thelma was a litigation associate at a national law firm with an emphasis on labor and employment, as well as products liability, premises liability and complex commercial litigation.During law school, she was the notes and executive editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law, and an extern at the NLRB, Region 34.
Michael Best
Luis represents employers in a range of labor and employment matters and has developed a significant practice focusing on employee defection and recruitment, including litigating injunction and damage actions relating to: covenants not to compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements, unfair competition, trade secrets, duty of loyalty, the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, and state trade secrets and unfair competition statutes.
Luis has represented clients in numerous industries including banking and securities brokerage, print media, software, medicine, automotive parts manufacturing, construction, commercial chemical, trucking, and industrial HVAC. In addition to litigating, he provides training to companies on such litigation, ways to avoid or succeed in such litigation, and assists clients with the drafting of non-compete agreements to meet the specific needs of their industry and state law. Luis also helps clients develop programs to protect competitive assets against employee defection, and to minimize risks when hiring from competitors.
Luis’ practice also includes traditional employment and labor cases, for both public and private sector clients regarding race, age, sex, national origin, disability claims, worker’s compensation claims, and unemployment compensation matters. He served as a Judicial Intern to Judge Jon P. Wilcox at the Wisconsin Supreme Court during law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Littler Mendelson
Michael represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment matters, including labor management relations. Mike’s practice includes employment litigation, employee leave and accommodation issues, wage and hour compliance, noncompete agreements and other restrictive covenants, independent contractor issues, and labor relations. He handles claims and issues under:
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- The Americans with Disabilities Act
- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- The Family and Medical Leave Act
- The Fair Labor Standards Act
- Wisconsin and Illinois state fair employment laws
- The National Labor Relations Act
- Collective bargaining
- Labor arbitration
- Union organizing campaigns
Mike has particular skill in responding to claims and issues surrounding joint and co-employment, the use of third party workers, independent contractors, and outsourced HR services. He has presented at national conferences, represented businesses at White House briefings, participated on expert panels and has been regularly interviewed and quoted as a result. Mike has also represented the staffing industry on a wide range of legal issues and legislative and regulatory matters. He played a key role in passage of the Wisconsin laws that regulate PEOs (professional employer organizations) and was recognized by the industry for his efforts.
Michael Best
Clients benefit from Elizabeth’s extensive experience with a variety of regulatory, cybersecurity compliance, and technology-specific privacy matters.
A former Chief Privacy Officer and General Counsel, she brings a unique and informed in-house perspective to her practice. Elizabeth routinely advises her clients on privacy and cyber risks and suggests practical risk mitigation steps that achieve business objectives.
Elizabeth focuses on issues including breach responses, privacy risk assessments, and enterprise-wide cybersecurity compliance frameworks across industries such as retail, health care, financial services, retail electric providers, education, and state and local governments. She devotes a significant portion of her practice to the energy sector, leading an internal cross-team of energy and cybersecurity attorneys, to assist the firm’s clients in the utility industry with their unique cybersecurity concerns.
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Eric Rumbaugh is a partner and represents management in all areas of labor and employment law. He represents management in employment matters in state and federal courts and in arbitration. He counsels management regarding employment policies and pre-litigation planning. In addition, Rumbaugh is coordinator of Michael Best’s trade secret and non-competition team. In this capacity, he is experienced counseling clients on non-competition and trade secret matters, in litigation and litigation prevention, contract drafting and review, and trade secret protection practices.
Fragomen
Ruth is a Partner with Fragomen’s San Diego office where she has worked since 2008. Ruth’s practice focuses on representing corporate clients across various industries in managing their nonimmigrant and immigrant visa programs and providing strategic guidance related to immigration policy decisions. She focuses on key aspects of business immigration law, including nonimmigrant visas, PERM based permanent residency, strategic compliance, travel and consular issues and immigration support for corporate restructuring.
Ruth is also a volunteer attorney for the Casa Cornelia Law Center where she assists with the preparation of VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) petitions for immigrant victims of domestic violence and U visa petitions to provide temporary immigration benefits to victims of qualifying criminal activity.
Littler Mendelson
Denise M. Visconti handles a broad variety of employment litigation matters, most often stemming from claims arising under the California Labor Code and the Fair Labor Standards Act, alleging overtime misclassification and other wage and hour violations. She also has experience with single-plaintiff claims involving:
- Wrongful termination
- Sexual harassment
- Employment discrimination
- Accommodation
A large portion of her practice involves the defense of clients in class action litigation, particularly in wage and hour matters, along with representative actions and private attorney general matters. Denise also has extensive experience conducting pay equity audits for all types of employers, from start-ups to Fortune50 companies, and helped develop the Littler Pay Equity Assessment™, including counseling employers on a broad range of state and federal issues related to pay equity, from compliance, to updating policies and job descriptions, to training managers and recruiters, and more. She appears in state and federal courts and has handled arbitrations in various forums, including the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Arbitration Association, and JAMS. She is particularly familiar with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and federal, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to gender identity and expression.
Fragomen
Karine serves as corporate immigration counsel to a wide range of clients, from small domestic entities to large multinational corporations in varying industries. She manages a growing legal team of attorneys and paralegals that provide cutting-edge immigration solutions to corporate clients and counsels them on all matters of U.S. immigration and nationality law, regulation, policy and compliance.
Karine immigrated from France in the 1980s and has practiced exclusively in the field of U.S. corporate immigration and nationality law for over 20 years. While in law school, Karine received the Grotius Award for Academic Excellence in International Law and was also on the Dean’s list honors. She was a member of the Jessup International Moot Court team and after graduation was awarded an International Advocacy Fellowship.
Karine’s pro bono work is extensive, having: provided legal counseling to the Center for Community Solutions, Healing & Preventing Sexual Assault & Relationship Violence, to ascertain whether VAWA cases could be filed; represented clients for Casa Cornelia, a non-profit organization in San Diego, California, that provides legal services to women and children who have been the victims of abuse and who qualify for immigration benefits to remain in the U.S.
