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Every pathology practice and clinical laboratory has key assets
that drive the value of the business. The importance of these
assets is reflected in contracts and agreements on trade secrets,
in non-compete covenants with executives and sales reps, and in
employee handbooks. These are all designed to protect and maximize
the value of the group practice or lab on behalf of its partners
and owners.
But are you confident that your laboratory is fully protected
whenever partner-pathologists, managers, or sales reps move to
competing companies? Can your laboratory defend its client list
and trade secrets when a key employee defects to a competitor?
Does your pathology group and lab have non-compete agreements
that are updated to include new federal regulations? And do those
same non-compete agreements comply with the unique requirements
of each state where your lab does business?
If you answered no to any of the preceding questions, your lab
is vulnerable to significant loss or erosion of its most valuable
assets—the very assets that could affect the price a buyer
would pay or would support the funding required to cash out retiring
partner-pathologists.
Find out how to protect your pathology group or lab’s assets
when you join THE DARK REPORT and DarkDAILY.com for this very
special audio conference recording “How to Protect
Your Laboratory’s Most Important Business Assets from Internal
and External Threats” that took place on Thursday,
June 24, 2010. This one-of-a-kind event is the first to
ever address this issue specifically for the laboratory industry.
Listen
to the recordings as two experts on this subject—attorneys
James J. Boutrous II and James J. Giszczak,
Co-Chairs of the Unfair Competition and Trade Secret Practice
Team at McDonald Hopkins, LLC in Cleveland—describe the
three primary issues that can undermine the value of your pathology
practice and clinical laboratory. And offer possible solutions.
Trade secret protection: Learn how to identify
which trade secrets in your lab should be guarded. Boutrous and
Giszczak will lay out the legal strategies you’ll want to
employ to fully protect these valuable business assets. You’ll
also hear about the most common issues that surface when a partner,
a key manager, or a sales rep leaves your lab for a competitor.
Non-compete agreements: Gain insights into the
current status of the federal laws that govern non-compete agreements
and how these agreements should be structured for pathologists,
management, and sales staff. It’s probably one of the most
misunderstood areas of contract law in the laboratory testing
industry. You’ll be surprised at how unprotected your laboratory
is with its current non-compete agreements.
But the biggest shock may come when you find out that your lab’s
non-compete agreements probably don’t meet the requirements
of all the states in which your sales reps operate. Our experts
will provide case-study examples that show you how to avoid the
mistakes made by other labs. And why a one-size-fits-all approach
to non-compete agreements isn’t enough to protect your lab
when top-performing sales reps skip over to your competition.
Employee handbooks: Find out just how important a well-crafted
employee handbook can be—no matter how many people you employ.
Boutrous and Giszczak explain why every pathology group and laboratory
should have one. And which topics it should cover, including:
• Nature of the employment relationship.
• Discrimination, harassment and retaliation policies.
• Leave of absence policies.
• Privacy/confidentiality requirements.
• Code of conduct/disciplinary procedures.
• Time-off policies.
• Specific state law requirements.
The razor-sharp focus of this audio conference on trade secrets,
non-compete agreements, and employee handbooks will go a long
way to helping you mitigate threats to your laboratory’s
business assets. You’ll get the most up-to-date information
on the changes to federal law, important court decisions that
establish new precedents, and why state law matters.
Whether you’re a pathologist with business responsibility
for your group, a pathology practice administrator, clinical laboratory
administrator, laboratory compliance manager, or lab executive,
this is one session you won’t want to miss. You may even
want to invite your legal counsel to sit in and listen with you.
THE
DARK REPORT AUDIO CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
COST: $245 per LIVE CD Recording
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CD.
Here's just some of what you’ll learn during this in-depth
90-minute conference:
How
to find and fix the clauses in your lab’s employment contracts
that may have been invalidated by new laws and court rulings.
How to ensure that your laboratory’s non-compete agreements
don’t violate state laws.
Identifying the employee-handbook essentials that will give
your lab the lock-tight protection it needs.
The do’s and don’ts of sales and executive non-compete
contracts.
How your lab can actively protect its most valuable trade secrets.
Reducing your lab’s risk of unfair competition and loss
of market/patient share.
What potential buyers and retiring partners want: Essential
steps you can take now that will pay big dividends later.
...and much more!
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Distinguished
Faculty:
James
Boutrous is Co-Chair of the Unfair Competition
and Trade Secret Practice Team at McDonald Hopkins
LLC. He has extensive non-compete and trade secret
experience that includes counseling, auditing
and drafting agreements. Mr. Boutrous’ national
practice involves both prosecuting and defending
employers in non-competition and trade secret
litigation, with significant injunction hearing
experience. He regularly advises healthcare clients
on restrictive covenant, trade secret and employment
issues related to physicians, sales representatives,
customer account representatives, key administrators,
and technical and clinical personnel. He is a
member of the Non-Compete/Trade Secrets Subcommittee
of the American Bar Association’s Labor
and Employment Law Section. Mr. Boutrous is also
a skilled employment litigator, with trial experience
in employment discrimination matters, defending
employers in labor arbitrations, as well as labor
and employment counseling.
James Giszczak is Co-Chair of the Unfair
Competition and Trade Secret Practice Team at
McDonald Hopkins LLC. His extensive non-compete,
non-disclosure and trade secret expertise includes
advising, auditing and litigation. He has nationwide
experience prosecuting and defending employers
and employees in non-compete, non-disclosure and
trade secret litigation, with considerable injunction
hearing experience. Mr. Giszczak regularly advises
healthcare clients regarding restrictive covenant,
trade secret and employment issues related to
physicians, sales representatives, customer account
representatives, key administrators, and technical
and clinical personnel. His practice also focuses
on business and commercial litigation with trial,
litigation and consultation expertise in sales
representative and business disputes. He regularly
advises clients on data security measures and
responding to security breaches that involve sensitive
personal information. Mr. Giszczak has successfully
tried cases in state and federal courts, and arbitrated
cases before the American Arbitration Association.
In addition, he has represented clients in both
state and federal appellate courts.
ACCENT®
Continuing Education Credit
The American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) designates
this program for a maximum of 1.5 ACCENT® credit hours
towards the AACC Clinical Chemist’s Recognition Award.
AACC is an approved provider of continuing education for
clinical laboratory scientists in the states of California,
Florida, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Rhode
Island, and West Virginia.
