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American Bar Association's 13th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference

Name: American Bar Association's 13th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference
Start: 2019-11-06T00:00:00+0000
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside

When: November 6-9, 2019

People: Elizabeth Connellan Smith

Location:

Hilton New Orleans Riverside

New Orleans, Louisiana

Elizabeth Connellan Smith will be participated in the American Bar Association's 13th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference in New Orleans. Elizabeth moderated and presented, along with Daisy Gurdian Kane of Ochsner Health System and Robert L. Hendrix III of Morgan & Morgan, for the panel discussion, "Alphabet Soup and the Employment Lawyer: The Interplay of FMLA, ADA and WC."

To view the full agenda of the conference, click here.

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