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October 2009 • Vol IV, Issue 10
The 2010 Hospitality Law Conference - Focusing on Worldwide Legal, Safety, & Security Solutions
February 3-5, 2010
Omni Hotel in Houston, Texas
Register now to take advantage of the Early Registration Discount!
Don't miss the only conference devoted exclusively to legal, safety and security issues impacting the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries.
Associate General Counsel for Buffalo Wild Wings said the 2009 conference was "the best conference I attended this year."
The following general sessions are slated for Thursday, February 4:
- Information Protection & Privacy: The New High Stakes Game, presented by Chris Zoladz with Navigate LLC
- Critical Issues in Payment Card/Merchant Relations, presented by Steve Cannon, with Constantine Cannon
- It's Not Easy Being Green, presented by Patricia Foster, with Frost Brown Todd
- The Franchise Debate, presented by Andrew Loewinger with Nixon Peabody
Attend the Wine Tasting & Product Showcase on Thursday, February 4, and enter for a chance to win $1000.00. Stay until the end of the conference and enter a drawing for a chance to win $500.00.
Management Contracts
The Importance of Contract Management Systems: Renewed and Revisited
by James Crolle, Eckert Seamans
Today, more than ever, every dollar counts, and even the smallest operational inefficiencies at the properties, sometimes referred to as “operational leakage,” can be magnified and take on even greater importance. But at properties where staffing has been cut to the bone (and, in some cases, beyond), where else can owners and operators look for ways to reduce costs, minimize operational leakage and maximize revenue? One often overlooked source of possible cost savings – and even increased revenue – is through the use of an effective Contract Management System (CMS). A CMS is simply an organized approach to centralizing and integrating all the many agreements that an organization enters into or uses during the course of operating its business in order to better manage the negotiation, execution, compliance, evaluation, and refinement or amendment of such agreements or contracts.
What's New at HospitalityLawyer.com!
We are excited to announce hotel and restaurant law, safety, and security webinars.
Upcoming 2009 Webinars:
- October 21st, Stephen Barth will present Positive Leadership for Positive Performance sponsored by HospitalityLawyer.com
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October 28th, Mike Mitchell will present Immigration: Where are we Today? sponsored by Fisher Phillips
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November 4th, Elizabeth DeConti will present Developing a Responsible Alcohol Service Policy sponsored by Gray Robinson
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November 11th, Chris Zoladz will present Avoid Becoming the Next Headline - How to avoid a data breach sponsored by Navigate.
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November 18th, Chris Zoladz will present Your Company Just Experienced a Data Breach - Now What? sponsored by Navigate.
Register Now! The first 20 registrants pay only $39.00!
HospitalityLawyer.com also offers on-demand legal, safety, and security webinars, including:
- Protecting Your Investment, Part I, presented by Stephen Barth
- Protecting Your Investment, Part II, presented by Stephen Barth
- Being Prepared for H1N1 presented by Stephen Barth
- Disaster Response Planning, Including the Claims Process presented by Rob Sanderson, Jeff Chester, and Stan Szpytek, sponsored by Advanced Catastrophe Technologies, Inc.
Visit our Solutions Store for forms and checklists.
New to the Solutions Store is a sample policy for hotels when youth sports teams stay the property. Purchase for only $7.50!
Technology
Company “Trash-Talk” Websites & The Stored Communications Act: The Internet As The “Office Water Cooler” Of The 21st Century
by Shain Khoshbin, Clouse Dunn Khoshbin LLP
Member of the Global Alliance of Hospitality Attorneys
If an employee was fired back in the 1950’s for making derogatory remarks overheard by his boss at the water cooler, it is unlikely that employee would have claimed violation of his privacy rights. But what about derogatory remarks made on a “restricted” social networking site concerning events at (or, more often, gossip or complaints about) the workplace?
Just this Summer, the jury in Pietrylo v. Hillstone Restaurant Group d/b/a Houston’s found that Houston’s restaurant violated the federal Stored Communications Act and the New Jersey Wiretapping and Electronic & Electronic Surveillance Control Act (collectively, the “Acts”) when it used an employee’s password to “intentionally” access such a site “without authorization.”
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