Breakfast Briefing for Busy HR Professionals: Understanding Important Employee Benefits Issues

The Employment and Labor Law Practice Group of Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier, LLC will present free breakfast briefings to help human resources professionals better understand and identify important employee benefits issues.

"This seminar will give employers a chance to learn how to better handle key benefits issues they see over and over again," says Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier attorney Mike Brittingham. "We'll also show employers how they can enhance current benefit offerings."

Brittingham, a Certified Tax Specialist, will lead the South Carolina seminars. He will be joined by Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier attorney Sue Odom, who also focuses her practice in the areas of employee benefits and tax law.

This briefing will include a discussion of such issues as:

• Important tips on how to address employee benefits issues when hiring, firing, or coordinating leaves of absence
• A discussion of your options to add a Roth 401(k) feature to your 401(k) Plan or add a 2½ month grace period to your flexible spending account plan
• A brief review of employee benefits notice requirements
  (COBRA, HIPAA, Medicare Part D)

TIME: 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. breakfast; 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. briefing

LOCATION: Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier offices or other locations designated (see below)

DATES: September 13, 2005 - Columbia, SC - 1441 Main Street, Suite 1500
September 15, 2005 - Charleston, SC - 205 King Street, Suite 400
September 15, 2005 - Greensboro, NC - 701 Green Valley Road, Suite 100
September 16, 2005 - Hilton Head, SC - 1 Chamber of Commerce Drive
September 20, 2005 - Greenville, SC - 201 W. McBee Ave., Suite 400

To register print and complete the form on nexsenpruet.com under the "Events" option in the toolbar. Email the form to Kim Stoudemire at KStoudemire@nexsenpruet.com or fax it to (803) 253-8277.

NEXSEN PRUET ADAMS KLEEMEIER, LLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 170 attorneys and offices in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C. Founded in 1945, Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues.