'Spring Training' Seminar Sets New Attendance Record

More than 400 people attended McAfee & Taft's 'Spring Training' Labor & Employment and Employee Benefits Seminar on Wednesday, May 21st, at the Cox Business Services Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City. It set a new attendance record for the seminar, which has continually grown in popularity with each event.

Attendees filled to capacity the opening session to listen to the Employment Law Update presented by Nathan Whatley, McAfee & Taft shareholder and leader of the firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group.

Afterward, there were nine breakout sessions that attendees could choose from, including sessions about arbitration agreements, FMLA and USERRA issues, monitoring employees in the workplace and on the Internet, planning of workforce reductions, tracking changes to immigration laws, reducing workers' compensation claims, attracting and retaining key employees, auditing retirement plan products and fees, and what employers should know about health plan underwriting.

Sixteen McAfee & Taft attorneys presented at the seminar, including Tim Bomhoff, John Burkhardt, Jacque Brawner Dean, Bill Freudenrich, Sam Fulkerson, Dudley Hyde, Mike Lauderdale, Jim Prince, Tony Puckett, Tamara Schiffner Pullin, Natalie Ramsey, Paul Ross, Richard Salamy, Dara Wanzer, Nathan Whatley and Elizabeth Scott Wood. Special guest presenters included James Farris of James Farris Associates and Teah Corley of PremierSource along with Susan Clarke and Jeff Marchino of Aetna.

McAfee & Taft is one of the largest, most experienced law firms in the Southwest, serving clients throughout the region and nationally in the areas of aviation, business law, corporate and securities, employee benefits, environmental law, healthcare, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, oil and gas, real estate and tax and family wealth.  The firm employs 250 Oklahomans, including 140 attorneys.