Past Events

On December 11, 2024, members of our Health Law team offered their thoughts about the legal implications of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and the Inpatient and Outpatient Prospective Payment System rules, as well as recent case law and regulatory developments that will be important in the new year.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, our Government Relations Group hosted its annual Session Outlook event that provided an early opportunity to hear from legislative leadership.

On December 3, 2024, our Immigration webinar provided academics, scholars, researchers and students with an overview of options to obtain permanent residency based on employment in the United States.

On November 13, 2024, this webinar explored the latest Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule addressing fake reviews, misleading testimonials, and other deceptive advertising practices.

On October 22 & 24, 2024, attorneys in Fredrikson’s Employment, Labor & Benefits Group presented the 2024 Employment & Labor Law Seminar in an online format.

For October’s Health Law Webinar, Fredrikson Attorney, David Glaser, offered insights in the basics of health law, including Stark, the antikickback, basics of licensure and credentialling, the regulatory hierarchy and more. This webinar was designed specifically for new lawyers and compliance professionals, or for people would like to hear clear, easy to understand explanations of the core health care laws.

On October 15, 2024, attorneys in Fredrikson’s Employment, Labor & Benefits Group presented the 2024 Fargo Employment Law Seminar

On October 14, 2024, attorneys in Fredrikson’s Employment, Labor & Benefits Group presented the 2024 Bismarck Employment Law Seminar.

Please join us for a unique event tailored for Minnesota’s top corporate leaders, featuring a fireside chat with SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda. 

On September 18, Fredrikson hosted a conversation with professionals in C-Suite positions who discussed their experiences in the role.

On Thursday, September 12, 2024, Fredrikson’s International Group in partnership with Global Minnesota and Minnesota International Business Council hosted a webinar focused on critical issues under forced labor and human trafficking laws.

For our August Health Law Webinar, Fredrikson attorneys David Glaser and Manda Sertich discuss the successes and failures they have seen during interviews. Gathering information during an internal investigation creates opportunity and risk.

On August 22, Fredrikson attorneys discussed what every International Medical Graduate Resident and Fellow needs to know about Immigration Pathways in the United States.

For our August Health Law Webinar, Fredrikson attorneys featured concise answers to many of the questions we get all the time.

On July 10, Fredrikson attorney David Glaser presented a webinar on Morbidity and Mortality conferences. Conventions where health care professionals candidly discuss care with an eye to learning from poor outcomes. The webinar discussed lessons we have learned both from our own errors, and those we have seen others make.

On Thursday June 27, 2024, our Litigation Group hosted a webinar that examined recent decisions in trade-secret law, strategies for litigating trade-secret cases, and the impact of technological trends like artificial intelligence on trade-secret law.

On June 25, 2024, Fredrikson attorneys Janet Dorr and Erin Edgerton Hall presented a webinar about employee handbooks, including required and recommended policies, practical guidance for wording policies frequently tested in litigation, and legal risks that arise from handbook policies.

Our June 12 Health Law Webinar focused mainly on the Part 2 updates, which are intended to make Part 2 more closely align with HIPAA requirements, especially regarding patient consent, notices and redisclosure of SUD records.

Fredrikson, Minnesota Women Lawyers and Twin Cities Diversity in Practice presented the ninth annual Women of Color in the Law: Lifting as We Climb. Women lawyers of color, indigenous women lawyers and allies came together to learn from each other and our experiences.

On Wednesday, May 15, 2024, Fredrikson’s Tax Disputes & Litigation Group hosted its third annual Let’s Talk About Tax–An Annual Sampler event where attendees sampled information on a variety of tax topics.

On May 15, our panel of seasoned health care transaction attorneys provided an in-depth discussion of advanced issues in structuring and negotiating various health care transactions.

During April’s Health Law Webinar on April 10, Fredrikson attorneys offered suggestions for making those interactions as productive and painless as possible. We discussed interactions with Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) state and private survey agencies, the police, Office of Inspector General, FBI, state regulators and private insurers.

On Tuesday, April 9, Loan Huynh and Matthew Webster discussed I-9 and E-Verify requirements, best practices for preparing and maintaining I-9 Forms, recent updates on the new I-9 Form and remote inspection rule. They also discussed trends in immigration and worksite compliance and enforcement.

On March 21, 2024, Fredrikson’s Environmental Law team reviewed recent PFAS regulatory and litigation developments, looked at pending regulatory efforts and discussed how businesses can best position themselves to respond to these trends.

On March 19, 2024, Fredrikson’s Environmental Law Group reviewed recent PFAS regulatory and litigation developments, looked at pending regulatory efforts and discussed how businesses can best position themselves to respond to these trends.

On March 13, three of our health and technology attorneys provided an overview of the key issues and shared best practices for taking advantage of AI and Big Data in healthcare.

On February 22, 2024, Fredrikson attorneys presented a webinar on how the emergence of artificial intelligence has a unique and constantly-evolving impact on the employment relationship. They discussed legal updates relating to regulation of AI in the employment setting, considerations regarding employee use of AI, and the use of generative AI in employment decisions.

On February 15, 2024, Fredrikson’s Immigration Group held a webinar on preparing for the upcoming H-1B lottery season and new developments and trends in business immigration.

Is there a better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than talking about Stark? Our February webinar, structured like an advice column/podcast, will offer practical answers to queries like “Because of a crisis, physicians provided more call coverage than described in our written agreement, can they get paid for it?” “Can we pay physicians for every case they perform at our ASC?”

On Tuesday January 30, 2024, our Government Relations Group hosted its annual Session Outlook event that provided an early opportunity to hear from legislative leadership.  

In January’s Health Law Webinar, we will cover a host of medical staff topics with advice geared toward in-house counsel and medical staff advisors. We will discuss must-have medical staff bylaws language, credentialing pitfalls, how to maintain peer review protection and tips for handling medical staff disputes and formal hearings. We will also cover recent case law developments in the medical staff area.

On December 13, we hosted our Annual Regulatory update webinar. We discussed the state of telehealth, the new DEA prescription limitations, shared visits and much more.

On December 7, 2023, our employment attorneys presented a webinar covering compliance with Minnesota’s paid sick and safe leave law going into effect on January 1, 2024.

Our November webinar covered two topics connected by the letter “p,” pricing and pixels.

Navigate the maze of today’s employment landscape with a clearer vision of what’s ahead. Gain elevated insight and practical next steps at Fredrikson’s 39^th Annual Employment & Labor Law Seminar.

This discussion features Francis Bassolino, Founder and Managing Partner of Alaris Consulting, along with Fredrikson attorneys Michael Meagher and Robert Oberlies.

This year, we’re devoting our entire October Health Law Webinar to addressing frequently asked HIPAA and health privacy questions. We’ll cover common HIPAA violations and how to address them, pain points in the breach analysis process, security risk assessments, recent guidance and upcoming changes.

This webinar will provide an overview of immigration recruitment and retention strategies for international physicians from J-1 waivers to H-1B or O-1 status through permanent residence (PERM or Physician National Interest Waiver).

As a part of Twin Cities Startup Week, Fredrikson’s Start Up & Rapid Growth Enterprises Group (SURGE) hosted a discussion-format presentation that explored revenue-based financing as a dynamic capital structure for emerging and growing enterprises.

Did you know that there can be significant negative consequences to over-labelling documents “work-product?” Do you think that if a lawyer is copied on an email, that means it is protected? Our September Health Law Webinar will feature an interview with white collar lawyer and Fredrikson firm counsel, Lousene Hoppe.

On August 9, 2023, our Health Law team addressed the questions they get most often in our annual FAQ Health Law Webinar.

Join Fredrikson for its next Opportunity to Lead Event: Women Making Change – How to Approach Becoming a “Value-Add” Leader and Community Member.

When it comes to employment law and human resources, there is no summer break! Our July 26, 2023 webinar was all about getting you what you need to stay on track given the rapidly changing employment law universe. This presentation addressed the numerous and extensive changes in the recent Minnesota legislative session, as well as updates from other states and the federal government.

On July 12, 2023, our attorneys discussed the many considerations (and myths) surrounding ancillary services. Ancillary services, particularly diagnostic tests, tend to be particularly highly regulated. Whether it is Stark limits on how to divide designated health services revenue, Medicare’s diagnostic test supervision requirement, the so-called (and misnamed) 72 hour rule applied to diagnostic tests performed by an entity owned or operated by a hospital or state law, there are plethora of provisions to consider.

This hybrid seminar will present a brief overview of the history of looting and the destruction of art and archaeology from antiquity to the present, the relationship of cultural property to human rights, as well as the challenges and potential solutions to this ongoing problem.  We will also explore a sampling of laws and cases related to looting and art crime.

On June 28, 2023, Braun Intertec and Fredrikson presented a discussion of the recent Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency Supreme Court decision.

Our June Health Law Webinar featured Katie Douglas, Ryan Johnson and John Soshnik for a discussion of key legal and strategic issues in structuring and negotiating various health system transactions.

On June 14, 2023, Fredrikson attorney Janet Olawsky Dorr discussed Minnesota’s recently passed CROWN Act, which expands the definition of “race” under the Minnesota Human Rights Act.

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, Fredrikson’s Tax Disputes & Litigation Group hosted its second annual Let’s Talk About Tax–An Annual Sampler event where attendees sampled information on a variety of tax topics.

During our May Health Law Webinar, attorneys from our Data Protection & Cybersecurity Group will discuss ethical obligations and considerations for in-house counsel relating to data security and technology.