A two-day IAML conference for HR, employee relations, compliance, and legal leaders who need current legal judgment for high-risk workplace decisions, shifting enforcement priorities, and complex employee issues.
Advanced employment law is less about memorizing isolated rules and more about recognizing how new cases, agency priorities, workplace politics, technology, accommodations, retaliation, and documentation choices interact in real decisions.
This two-day advanced certificate helps experienced HR and legal-adjacent professionals translate current employment law developments into practical judgment, policy choices, and risk-sensitive workplace action.
Work through recent decisions, enforcement priorities, and emerging issues that affect employment decisions now.
Connect legal developments to documentation, manager guidance, policy language, investigations, accommodations, and litigation exposure.
Use attorney-led discussion to sharpen how you advise leaders before high-risk decisions become claims.
The curriculum concentrates on the issues HR and legal teams are most likely to face when policy, people decisions, enforcement priorities, and workplace conflict collide.
DOL, EEOC, NLRB, FTC, and related agency activity that changes how employment decisions are reviewed.
Anticipate where agency priorities may affect policy, classification, investigations, and worker mobility decisions.
Recent and pending decisions affecting discrimination, religious accommodation, DEI, agency authority, and HR policy.
Translate court developments into practical guidance for leaders, managers, and internal decision records.
AI tools, political speech, off-duty conduct, social media, workplace polarization, and conduct-rule drafting.
Identify when technology and expression issues create legal, employee relations, or policy-design risk.
High-risk complaint handling, investigation choices, credibility, confidentiality, corrective action, and retaliation defense.
Strengthen the decision trail before employment actions are challenged.
ADA, FMLA, PWFA, pregnancy and reproductive health issues, telework accommodations, and return-to-office risk.
Handle overlapping obligations without relying on one-size-fits-all scripts.
FLSA disputes, remote work timekeeping, non-competes, non-solicits, cannabis, psychedelics, and related policy choices.
Spot where routine employment practices may need review as rules and state laws shift.
This is an advanced program for professionals who already work with employment law issues and need current, practical judgment for complex workplace decisions.
People who guide policy, documentation, investigations, accommodations, discipline, and escalations.
Professionals who help the organization understand employment law exposure and make defensible decisions.
Teams that need a shared view of current employment law developments and operational risk.
Current Advanced Employment Law sessions are delivered in person, with each session covering the full two-day conference curriculum.
Full two-day in-person advanced conference, including materials and certificate documentation.
Professional continuing education credits, subject to applicable approval and reporting rules.
Send one participant or a small HR, employee relations, compliance, legal, or manager group.
These employment law practitioners connect current legal developments, policy choices, workplace disputes, and executive-level HR decisions to practical classroom discussion.
Experience advising employers and defending workplace decisions.
Instruction connects changing law to higher-risk HR, ER, compliance, and counsel decisions.
Participants work through current developments and practical decision points.
Partner, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Ray has represented management in labor and employment disputes for over 40 years, winning the vast majority of his federal and state jury trials. He arbitrates 50+ cases annually and is twice named Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" for Labor Law in Denver.
Partner, Thompson Hine LLP
John represents public and private sector employers in discrimination, wage-and-hour, labor negotiations, and ERISA disputes. He regularly appears before federal courts, the NLRB, EEOC, and Department of Labor—and co-authors The Developing Labor Law.
Participants repeatedly describe the advanced program as current, practical, discussion-rich, and immediately useful for real workplace decisions.
Professionals have completed IAML certificate and employment law programs.
Years helping HR, legal, compliance, and management teams navigate workplace law.
Experienced employment law attorneys connect legal changes to practical workplace decisions.
“The Advanced Certificate in Employment Law presented by Ray Deeny is by far the best conference I have attended. Ray's in-depth knowledge of all aspects of employment law is amazing. I have never walked out of an IAML program without learning something that I could apply immediately. Hands-down the best value for your money. If you can choose only one employment law conference, this is the one!”
Laura Massa
SVP, Human ResourcesSun Communities & Sun RV Resorts
“This conference is one of the best methods to stay up-to-date in the ever-changing world of employment law.”
Jeff Herring
Chief Human Resources OfficerUniversity of Utah
“The Advanced Certificate in Employment Law Conference was simply outstanding! 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 Dennis
Employee Relations ManagerSantee Cooper
“Great update as always. I get more from these 2 days of interaction than in any other seminar. Will be sending many in my group to IAML offerings this year. Ray has amazing knowledge and his style allows for great interactive discussions and debates.”
David Currie
Vice President, Human ResourcesDana Incorporated
“This was the fifth Advanced Certificate in Employment Law Conference I've attended and, as usual, it was GREAT. I attend other HR related conferences from time to time and I have to say, IAML sets the standard. None of the others come close. Keep up the great work.”
Merle Voigt
Human Resources DirectorCorporate Systems, Inc.
“I thought the conference was a great way to get the latest information. I also appreciate the fact that this is an advanced course that doesn't spend time going over the basics of employment law.”
Leslie Shaunty
General CounselSkyward Specialty Insurance Group
“This is the third IAML Advanced Conference I have attended and they have all been outstanding. The instructors continue to provide an excellent program with valuable information.”
Michael Nuckles
Human Resources GeneralistRolls-Royce Corporation
“Excellent as usual! The instructors do a great job of covering recent court cases that may impact our decision making.”
Janet Larson
Corporate Employee Relations ManagerT-Mobile
“Frankly, this was one of the most informative continuing legal education seminars that I have attended.”
Julian McQueen
Director of Employee & Labor RelationsStanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Get clear answers on the advanced level, audience fit, credits, in-person sessions, team attendance, and conference outcome.
The program assumes participants already understand the basics of employment law and want a higher-level update on current decisions, enforcement trends, policy choices, and complex workplace issues.
The program is built for senior HR leaders, employee relations professionals, in-house counsel, compliance partners, labor relations leaders, and experienced HRBPs who advise on higher-risk employment decisions.
Tuition is $1,575 and includes the two-day in-person program, materials, certificate documentation, and 13 professional credits, subject to applicable approval and reporting rules.
Current scheduled sessions are in-person two-day certificate programs in Chicago, Scottsdale, Nashville, and Washington, D.C.
Yes. Participants who complete the two-day program receive a certificate of completion for the Advanced Strategic Employment Law Conference.
Yes. Organizations often send HR, employee relations, legal, or compliance partners together so they can apply the same current legal framework internally.