UT-Battelle Labor and Employment Training August 27, 2026
(Tennessee Conference Rooms A and B)
Hosted by the UT-Battelle Office of General Counsel
| Track A | Agenda |
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Check-in |
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m. | Working Breakfast | Welcome and Opening Remarks Steve Ventura, Associate General Counsel, UT-Battelle, LLC |
| 8:10 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. | Tennessee Ethics Update 2026 Alex Long, University of Tennessee College of Law |
| 9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Reasonable Accommodations under Title VII and the ADAAA Laura Mallory, Maynard Nexen PC |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. | Break |
| 10:25 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. | Hot Topics in Employee Benefits Lyndsey Barnett, Bricker Graydon Wyatt LLP |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Conducting Effective Internal Investigations Najmah James, Jackson Lewis PC |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Working Lunch | Managers are Not HR, but They Should be Able to Issue Spot Tim McConnell, Maynard Nexsen PC |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. | Break |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace Janet Hayes, Lewis Thomason |
| 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. | Hot Topics in Wage & Hour Laws, Including Worker Classification Issues Justin Barnes, Jackson Lewis PC |
| 3:55 p.m. – 4:55 p.m. | Labor Law in Transition: Tracking Recent NLRB and Labor Relations Updates David Broderdorf Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP |
| 4:55 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| Track B | Agenda |
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Check-in |
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m. | Working Breakfast | Welcome and Opening Remarks Steve Ventura, Associate General Counsel, UT-Battelle, LLC |
| 8:10 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. | Keeping Compliant: Immigration Enforcement Trends and Best Practices for Employers Bernhard Mueller, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. |
| 9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Using AI to Streamline Employee Transition and Knowledge Transfer Andy Pulliam, Bricker Graydon Wyatt LLP |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. | Break |
| 10:25 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. | Is this Really an Adverse Employment Action? Jack Burgin, Kramer Rayson LLP |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Remote Workers – HR and State Tax Traps and Best Practices Harassment in the Workplace? You be the Judge Stephen Jasper and Mary Leigh Pirtle, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Working Lunch | Managers are Not HR, but They Should be Able to Issue Spot Tim McConnell, Maynard Nexsen PC |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. | Break |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Retaliation and Litigation Avoidance Ali M. Kliment, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP |
| 2:50 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. | What Employment Litigation Really Looks Like …! John E. Winters, Kramer Rayson LLP |
| 3:55 p.m. – 4:55 p.m. | FMLA – From Full Leave to Intermittent to Retaliation Chris McCarty, Lewis Thomason |
| 4:55 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |