Event Details

Join us to learn more on the latest legal updates and best practices to prepare your organization. The discussion will include a review of key developments in employment law and an overview of current concerns for employers and human resource professionals.  Topics to be reviewed may include:

• Enhanced local penalties for wage violations
• Recent cases on the ADA and FMLA
• Gender discrimination issues
• Current trends in employment litigation

About the presenter:

Mr. Matt Nieman represents employers in a broad spectrum of labor and employment law matters, including discrimination, wage and hour, questions related to the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 ("USERRA"), and workplace drug-testing issues. He has been actively involved in all phases of the litigation process on the full range of employment discrimination and employment-related tort and contract claims.

Mr. Nieman received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1998, along with a commission as a Distinguished Military Graduate of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After clerking for the Williamsburg/James City County, Virginia Commonwealth Attorney's Office throughout law school, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from the William & Mary School of Law in 2001.

Mr. Nieman is a past President and current Legislative Liaison of the Dulles Chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and a member of the Boards of Loudoun Literacy Council and the Cornell Club of Washington. He was selected for inclusion in Virginia Super Lawyers magazine as a "Rising Star" each year since 2010 and recognized in the Washington Post Magazine as a Washington D.C. Metro Area Outstanding Young Lawyer since 2013.

Meeting Agenda (Dinner)

• 5:30-6:00 Networking
• 6:00-6:10 Chapter announcements
• 6:10-6:35 Dinner
• 6:35-6:45 Sponsor announcements & Minute with M/M
• 6:45-7:45 Program
• 7:45-8:00 Closing remarks/raffles