Speakers & Presenters

Featuring Presentations and Q&A by:


 
  McCaulie Feusahrens, Chief, Home Care Services Bureau, Community Care Licensing Division 




Liz Murphy, Attorney, Jackson Lewis

Elizabeth “Liz” Murphy is a Principal in the Los Angeles, California, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She focuses her practice in employment law, representing a wide variety of California and national employers in various industries, including accounting, retail, banking, manufacturing, and hospitality. Ms. Murphy also specializes in the field of home healthcare through her extensive lecturing and advising work in support of home care employers throughout the state of California. She is also a frequent contributor to Home Health Line, a subscription-only industry publication that helps home health agencies provide excellent patient care and increase profitability.

Ms. Murphy’s experience includes advising employers in day-to-day management and decision making issues, such as handling sensitive terminations, preparing and negotiating employment and severance agreements, preparing and revising employee handbooks, training management and staff, and administering leaves of absence; and representing employers in wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour, and other employment-related litigation in state and federal court, arbitration, and before various governmental agencies such as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Employment Development Department, and the Department of Labor.


Bob King, Attorney, Legally Nanny
Bob King is an attorney and founder of Legally Nanny, the leading law firm representing homecare and nanny agencies and household employers.  A graduate of Georgetown University and The University of Chicago Law School, Bob has practiced law for 19 years and focuses exclusively on household employment legal matters.

Bob is a wage and hour specialist, defending clients in Labor Commissioner claims, audits, litigation and class actions.  Bob also regularly drafts client contracts and employee handbooks and other documents for homecare agency clients.

Bob previously served on the Board of Directors of the Home Care Association of America, and has spoken at ABHC, CAHSAH, HCAOA, NAHC and Decision Health conferences.  His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC News and USA Today. Bob is an acclaimed conference speaker for his knowledge, humor and engaging presentations.



Chad Richter is Office Managing Principa l of the Omaha, Nebraska, office of Jackson Lew is P.C. and is a member of the firm's Board of Directors.

Mr. Richter's practice is divided  into three areas: (1) preventive counseling and training; (2) traditional labor law; and (3) workplace litigation. With regard to Mr. Richter's preventive practice, he routinely provides day-to-day advice and counseling to management on a variety of employment law matters including human  resource  management, traditional  labor relations, employment  discrimination, wage and hour, privacy, disability leave management, and reductions in force. Mr. Richter routinely assists management  in workplace  audits, preparing contracts and workplace  policies, complex employment investigations and  developing  and  presenting  training curriculums on numerous employment  and labor law topics.Mr. Richter has developed  and facilitated  hundreds  of management  training seminars educating all levels of management from front-line supervisors to the most senior executives and board members i n  organizations. Mr. Richter develops training that is highly interactive, engaging and educational.

Mr. Richter also assists organizations during labor organizing campaigns, labor negotiations and routinely represents management in labor arbitration proceedings nationally. Provided litigation arises, Mr. Richter also defends management before federal and state administrative agencies and before federal and state courts throughout Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa.

Mr. Richter is a frequent speaker to local and national organizations on a variety of employment and labor related topics. Most recently, Mr. Richter spoke at the annual convention for the Society of Human Resource Management in New Orleans and Washington DC in 2016 and 2017, the client forum for Equifax Workforce Solutions in Scottsdale in 2017 and the Montana Healthcare Association in Helena Montana in 2017.