IAML
Workplace law training since 1979

Workplace law training for better HR, benefits, and management decisions.

IAML helps HR, employee relations, benefits, legal, compliance, and management teams choose attorney-led training for the workplace decisions they need to get right.

Built for practical decisions
Program finder

Find the IAML program that fits your role, issue, and training goal.

Answer five quick questions and get a recommended program path, format, and next step.

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01Which area best matches your training need?
02How experienced are you in this area?
03Which workplace decision needs to improve?
04Individual seat, small group, or team?
05Preferred format or fastest available route?
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If you already know the workplace issue, start here. These paths connect common HR, benefits, employee relations, investigation, and manager training needs to the IAML program built for them.
New HR leaders

Build HR leadership judgment earlier in the role.

Best for: newer HR professionals and emerging HR leaders building practical confidence, credibility, and strategic influence.

Recommended pathStrategic HR LeadershipExplore HR Leadership →
Employee relations

Better decisions before workplace issues become claims.

Best for: HR, ER, legal-adjacent professionals, and manager advisors handling complaints, discipline, documentation, accommodations, retaliation, and escalation.

Recommended pathEmployee Relations LawExplore Employee Relations →
Investigations

Fair, defensible investigations from intake to findings.

Best for: teams responsible for intake, interviews, evidence review, credibility analysis, findings, and written reports.

Recommended pathWorkplace InvestigationsExplore Investigations →
Benefits law

Build the benefits-law foundation plans require.

Best for: benefits professionals who need ERISA, health and welfare, retirement plan, fiduciary, administration, and compliance grounding.

Recommended pathBenefits LawExplore Benefits Law →
Advanced employment law

Advanced judgment for complex employment decisions.

Best for: experienced HR, legal, compliance, and senior leaders handling higher-stakes employment-law strategy, risk, and advisory decisions.

Recommended pathAdvanced Strategic Employment LawExplore Advanced Employment Law →
Advanced benefits law

Advanced judgment for complex benefits decisions.

Best for: experienced benefits, legal, HR, and compliance leaders handling fiduciary, plan-risk, ERISA, and advanced benefits-law decisions.

Recommended pathAdvanced Benefits LawExplore Advanced Benefits Law →
Managers

Train managers for the moment before escalation.

Best for: frontline supervisors and manager groups who need issue spotting, documentation habits, retaliation awareness, and escalation discipline.

Recommended pathManagers & SupervisorsExplore Manager Training →
Need training for a group?

Need training for more than one person?

Use this route if you are comparing options for reserved seats, manager groups, or private training instead of choosing an individual program.

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Program directory

Compare program details before you choose.

Once you have a likely path, use this directory to compare the practical details: audience, level, time, delivery, and credential or credit options. Need dates first? View the program schedule.
Newer HR leaders

Strategic HR Leadership

Best when the need is broader HR leadership judgment, credibility, and strategic influence.

LevelFoundationTime4½ daysDeliveryIn person, virtual, on demand, or private trainingCredentialCertificate program
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HR, ER & manager advisors

Employee Relations Law

The broadest fit for discipline, documentation, accommodations, retaliation, and escalation issues.

LevelCore HRTime4½ daysDeliveryIn person, virtual, on demand, or private trainingCredentialCertificate program
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Investigators & complaint-response teams

Workplace Investigations

Use when intake, interviews, credibility, findings, and written reports are the central responsibility.

LevelFocused skillTime2 daysDeliveryIn person, virtual, on demand, or private trainingCredentialCertificate program
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Benefits professionals

Benefits Law

For ERISA, fiduciary, health and welfare, retirement, administration, and compliance fundamentals.

LevelFoundationTime4½ daysDeliveryLive program or private trainingCredentialCertificate program
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Experienced benefits leaders

Advanced Benefits Law

For deeper fiduciary, plan-risk, compliance, and complex benefits-law judgment.

LevelAdvancedTime2 daysDeliveryLive program or private trainingCredentialCertificate program
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Senior HR, legal & compliance leaders

Advanced Strategic Employment Law

For higher-risk employment-law decisions and senior advisory responsibility.

LevelAdvancedTime2 daysDeliveryLive program or private trainingCredentialCertificate program
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Managers & supervisors

Managers & Supervisors

For earlier issue spotting, documentation habits, retaliation awareness, and cleaner handoffs to HR.

LevelManager trainingTime4 hoursDeliveryVirtual program or private trainingCredentialCertificate program
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Why IAML

Attorney-led training for the decisions that rarely fit a script.

Workplace issues often arrive messy, incomplete, and time-sensitive. Whichever path you choose, IAML helps professionals connect legal concepts to the practical choices they have to make.

What participants practice
  • Issue spotting
  • Documentation habits
  • Escalation judgment
  • Practical workplace action
Attorney-led judgment
Learn how practicing attorneys think through risk.

Practicing attorneys and experienced workplace law faculty translate legal standards into the documentation, timing, escalation, and judgment calls professionals face at work.

Workplace application
Practice the moments that happen before escalation.

Programs connect law to complaints, discipline, accommodations, investigations, benefits issues, and manager conduct.

Credible paths
Choose training with institutional weight.

IAML combines decades of applied workplace law training with continuing credit, certificate, and team training options where applicable.

Social proof

Trusted by professionals and teams who need training they can use at work.

IAML has helped HR, benefits, legal, compliance, employee relations, and management professionals build practical workplace law judgment across individual and team training needs.

80,000+

Professionals have used IAML training to improve HR, benefits, employment-law, and workplace decision-making.

45+

Years of applied workplace law training since 1979.

Professional credits

SHRM, HRCI, CLE, and CE pathways are available for qualifying programs.

Participant voice

“The speakers presented each legal theory covered in the program with practical examples of how they apply to the workplace of today.”

Michael DaltonAssistant Chief, Baltimore City Fire Department

What participants consistently mention.

The strongest feedback is not just that the programs are well taught. It is that participants leave with clearer judgment for real workplace decisions.

  • Practical examples tied to current workplace issues
  • Attorney-led guidance translated into HR and manager decisions
  • Useful language for documentation, escalation, and defensible action

“Great update as always. I get more from these two days of interaction than in any other seminar. Will be sending many in my group to IAML offerings this year.”

David CurrieVice President, Human Resources, Dana Incorporated

“This well-balanced program of case review and discussion adds so much value to any business. I strongly recommend this program to any business wishing to mitigate potential risk.”

Allison DennisEmployee Relations Manager, Santee Cooper

“All three instructors were wonderful in their own way. Finding attorneys who can teach is a rarity. I found the information current and relevant.”

Heidi HillDirector, Training, Development and Engagement, C2 Solutions

“The classroom participation was excellent and allowed us to share situations and get other perspectives in a safe space.”

JoAnne GuerrantEmployee Relations Manager, Delta Community Credit Union

“The class was very useful to me. I was able to take what I learned and apply it back at my job.”

Stephanie CalhounVice President, People Strategist and Global Culture Transformation, Lumen Technologies

“The instructors did an excellent job with current workplace issues and their practical experience was enlightening.”

Barbara NaplesExecutive Director, Benefits, Baylor College of Medicine

“The instructor filled every segment of the conference with practical advice and the legal reasoning to support it.”

Roy ThrashChief Counsel, Labor and Employment, International Paper

“The instructors were outstanding. They know the law and they understand the day-to-day implications for managers and HR professionals.”

Wesley MastersHuman Resources Director, MONY Group

“I really enjoyed the engaging presence of your faculty. I took away a greater knowledge of conducting investigations and have quite a few things to share with my team.”

Marci BennettHuman Resources Generalist, Burning Man Project

“This well-balanced program of case review and discussion adds so much value to any business. I strongly recommend this program to any business wishing to mitigate potential risk.”

Allison DennisEmployee Relations Manager, Santee Cooper

“All three instructors were wonderful in their own way. Finding attorneys who can teach is a rarity. I found the information current and relevant.”

Heidi HillDirector, Training, Development and Engagement, C2 Solutions

“The classroom participation was excellent and allowed us to share situations and get other perspectives in a safe space.”

JoAnne GuerrantEmployee Relations Manager, Delta Community Credit Union

“The class was very useful to me. I was able to take what I learned and apply it back at my job.”

Stephanie CalhounVice President, People Strategist and Global Culture Transformation, Lumen Technologies

“The instructors did an excellent job with current workplace issues and their practical experience was enlightening.”

Barbara NaplesExecutive Director, Benefits, Baylor College of Medicine

“The instructor filled every segment of the conference with practical advice and the legal reasoning to support it.”

Roy ThrashChief Counsel, Labor and Employment, International Paper

“The instructors were outstanding. They know the law and they understand the day-to-day implications for managers and HR professionals.”

Wesley MastersHuman Resources Director, MONY Group

“I really enjoyed the engaging presence of your faculty. I took away a greater knowledge of conducting investigations and have quite a few things to share with my team.”

Marci BennettHuman Resources Generalist, Burning Man Project

“Great update as always. I get more from these two days of interaction than in any other seminar. Will be sending many in my group to IAML offerings this year.”

David CurrieVice President, Human Resources, Dana Incorporated
Team training

Reserve seats, train a group, or plan private training.

For HR, employee relations, benefits, compliance, legal, and manager teams that need practical workplace law training tied to real decisions.

Send participantsEnroll one or several people in an existing IAML program.
Reserve group seatsPlan training for HR, benefits, legal, compliance, or manager groups.
Plan private trainingAsk about private training for an internal team, delivered virtually or at your location.
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Not sure which format fits? IAML can help route the right program, delivery option, and approval details.

Quick answers

A few answers before you choose.

Use these to decide whether to start with a program, a team training conversation, or the finder.

If you are choosing for yourself, start with the finder. If you are choosing for others, start with team training.

I’m not sure which program fits. Where should I start?

Use the Program Finder for a quick recommendation. If you already know the workplace issue, browse by need. If you are planning for more than one person, start with Team Training.

Can I send more than one person?

Yes. IAML can help with individual seats, multiple participants, reserved group seats, and team training options.

Are programs available for individual seats, virtual delivery, or private training?

Some programs may be available as private training delivered virtually or at your location, depending on the audience, timing, and training need.

Who are IAML programs designed for?

IAML programs support HR, employee relations, benefits, legal, compliance, workplace investigation, managers and supervisors, and other management professionals.

Are programs attorney-led?

Yes. IAML programs are led by practicing attorneys and focus on practical workplace law judgment, not abstract legal theory.

Can participants receive professional credit?

SHRM, HRCI, CLE, and CE pathways are available for qualifying programs.

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