Session
Mock EEOC/Internal Investigation Analysis
This session will provide legal and EEOC agency insight about how employers and HR professionals should prepare for and respond to the EEOC charge and handle related internal investigation presented in the morning session.
Key Objectives
1. Learn Best Practices for addressing complaints in the workplace. 2. Gain insight from different perspectives and opinions presented. 3. Obtain knowledge about EEOC charge processing.
HRCI Credits:
1.00 Business HRCI Recertification credits available.
This program has been approved for 1.00 recertification credit hours through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). Please be sure to note the program ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI website at www.hrci.org.
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SHRM Credits:
1.00 SHRM Recertification credits available.
ELLA is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®. This program is valid for 1.00 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit shrmcertification.org.
William Cash
Director - Little Rock Area Office at EEOC
William A. Cash Jr. serves as Director of the EEOC’s Little Rock Area Office and Systemic Coordinator for the EEOC Memphis District. He began with EEOC in 1992 as a trial attorney and later served as a Supervisory Trial Attorney. He has a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the U of A in Fayetteville and a Juris Doctorate from UALR. Before working for EEOC, Cash worked as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Oren Harris (Western District of Arkansas). Prior to working for Judge Harris, Cash had a private law practice in Little Rock. Cash served as a government fellow to the EEO Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association. Cash appeared on ABC’s 20/20 program discussing an EEOC case seeking relief for teenagers subjected to sexual assault in the workplace. Cash is a frequent presenter on Workplace Discrimination and Employment Law at CLE programs and Human Resources seminars.
Abtin Mehdizadegan
Partner at Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Abtin Mehdizadegan is a Partner in Hall Booth Smith, P.C.’s Little Rock, Arkansas office and he represents employers in traditional labor and employment law matters. He has extensive experience defending businesses in high-stakes class and collective action lawsuits, employment and wage and hour claims, labor grievance and arbitration proceedings, individual and systemic proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), federal wage and hour audits involving the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL/WHD), unemployment appeals, business disputes, products liability defense, and constitutional law litigation. He has successfully handled appeals before the Supreme Court of Arkansas and the Fifth and Eighth Circuit Courts of Appeal; dozens of lawsuits in federal district court; and he serves as an Adjunct Professor teaching Employment Law.