Staffing Industry Survival Guide: Risk Management for the Modern Workplace

Who Should Attend

Staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry owners, principals, chief executive officers, presidents, and branch managers; recruiting professionals

Highlights

Staffing management personnel in the U.S. operate in a complicated legal environment. The reality of the modern workplace is that employers and executives face significant legal issues in administering employer–employee relationships. As a result, employment-related claims are constantly escalating, and monetary exposure is increasing.

In 2026, myriad factors shape legal risk and compliance strategies—from the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence tools to virtual workplaces and gig workers. In this webinar, attorney Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP will discuss how staffing industry executives can manage risk and reduce the likelihood of costly lawsuits.

During this webinar, attendees will learn
• How to build an effective AI compliance tool kit
• Personnel management strategies for virtual and hybrid workers
• Navigation tools for joint employment, co-employment, and independent contractor relationships

Presenter

Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Esq.

partner; chair, class action defense team, Duane Morris LLP

Maatman is a Chambers-recognized class action defense litigator, an eight-time Law 360 Employment Law MVP, a nine-time recipient of BTI Consulting Group’s distinguished Client Service All-Star Award, and a 2021 Legal 500 Hall of Fame inductee. He is a partner at Duane Morris LLP, where he chairs the firm’s class action defense team. Among his various cases, Jerry successfully defended the largest U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pattern or practice lawsuit ever prosecuted in the history of the commission, the largest age discrimination collective action ever brought in Illinois, the first sexual harassment class action brought by a state attorney general in the U.S., and the largest wage and hour class actions ever litigated in Florida, Illinois, and New York. A graduate of Washington and Lee University and the Northwestern University School of Law, where he has served as an adjunct professor for 35 years, Maatman is based out of the Duane Morris Chicago and New York offices. The author of eight books on the law, he is often consulted by major news organizations for his views on significant court rulings and legal issues. He has served as a legal commentator on the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio, MSNBC, CNBC, and USA Talk Radio, and his comments have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Business Insurance, USA Today, Fortune, and Forbes. In 2023, Business Today included Maatman in its rankings of the Top Eight Most Influential Labor and Employment Lawyers in the U.S. Further, Chambers selected him as one of the leading class action defense lawyers in its 2006 to 2025 rankings of U.S. lawyers. In its global rankings, Chambers stated that “Maatman is absolutely phenomenal,” and that he is “one of the top class action minds in the country.”

This webinar qualifies for 1.0 hour of CE toward maintaining your ASA credential.