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The 2011 Hospitality Law Conference is set for Wednesday, February 9, 2010 - Friday, February 11, 2010.

What?

The annual Hospitality Law Conference is the only hotel law and restaurant law conference of its kind.  Industry leaders offer in-depth analysis and insight into the latest international legal, safety, and security trends and issues affecting the hospitality industry.   

Who Should Attend?

Hotel and restaurant in-house counsel and private attorneys practicing in the hospitality industry who want the most current, in-depth legal developments should attend. 

Executives of lodging, real estate, restaurant, and club operations will be interested in our Lodging, Real Estate, and Food & Beverage Tracks. 

Hotel risk managers and hotel loss prevention directors won’t want to miss the Loss Prevention & Risk Management Track. 

For IT professionals, comptrollers, accountants, and CFOs, the conference offers the only Information Protection and Privacy (including PCI-DSS) Workshop for hotels, restaurants, and country clubs.

Where?

The Hospitality Law Conference will be held at the Omni Houston Hotel, Houston, Texas

Details and Speaking Opportunities

This year’s conference begins with the Preconference Workshop on Wednesday, February 9.  The two-day Hospitality Law Conference begins on February 10.   

Attend the conference and receive opportunities to win a $1000.00 American Express gift card and a $500.00 American Express gift card.  If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please email HospitalityLawyer@hospitalitylawyer.com or call (713) 963-8800.

For updates please visit, www.hospitalitylawconference.com. 

On Monday, March 1, the Massachusetts Privacy Law went into effect. Chris Zoladz, Founder of Navigate LLC, says, “This law is applicable to any company dealing with the personal information of a Massachusetts resident…. The regulation requires that certain policies, procedures and technology controls be in place to protect personal information on a continuous basis.” For more information on the law, please click here.

HospitalityLawyer.com, the industry’s web-based resource for legal, safety, and security solutions, today announced that the 2010 Hospitality Law Conference was an incredible success, receiving excellent reviews from attendees.

Three hundred attendees from across the country and around the world attended this one-of-a-kind conference in Houston, Texas. The two-and-a-half-day conference focused on the following core topics:

• Current Real Estate Issues in the Industry
• Information Privacy & Protection, including PCI-DSS
• Lodging & Fundamentals of Hospitality Law
• Food & Beverage
• Labor & Employment; and
• Loss Prevention & Risk Management. 

“The conference gives attendees the information and resources they need to stay ahead of the fast-changing laws pertinent to our industry,” said Stephen Barth, founder of HospitalityLawyer.com, noting conference attendees include hotel and restaurant in-house counsel, hotel and restaurant lawyers, loss-prevention personnel, risk managers, and hospitality owners and operators.

For the complete release on the conference, please click here.

Couldn’t make it to the 2010 Hospitality Law Conference? To purchase conference materials (Conference Summary Notebook and USB Drive with papers and PowerPoints) for $199.00, please contact Claudia Aslin.

Early registration for the 2010 Hospitality Law Conference ends January 11. Don’t miss the only program devoted exclusively to legal, safety and security issues impacting the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries. Register Now to take advantage of discounted rates!

The 2010 Conference will kick off on Wednesday, February 3, with a Pre-Conference Workshop and will feature the following sessions:

• Information Protection and Privacy, including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Workshop – including PCI compliance, forensic investigations, and data security
• Hospitality Real Estate Transactions Workshop – including workouts, special service providers and how recent economic events have affected the real estate industry.
• Hotel & Restaurant In-House Counsel Workshop – including bargaining with credit card companies, protecting proprietary data, unions, and antitrust issues

The Hospitality Law Conference will shift into full gear on Thursday, February 4, with breakout sessions on a host of relevant and timely topics:

• Lodging and Fundamentals of Hospitality Law - including management contracts, OTAs, taxation issues, and more
• Food & Beverage – including the tip credit, Truth in Menu, selling alcohol, and alcohol sponsorship issues
• Human Resources and Labor Relations – including wage and hour issues, sexual harassment, OSHA, and the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Loss Prevention & Risk Management – including bed bugs, insurance litigation, claims, and various liability issues

Don’t miss the Wine Tasting & Product Showcase on Thursday, February 4, to be eligible to win a $1,000 American Express gift card. Stay until the end of the conference to be eligible to win a $500 American Express gift card, which will be drawn during the Closing Remarks on Friday, February 5.

Accreditation:

MCLE accreditation for up to 16.0 hours (including 1 hour of ethics) is available.

This program has been approved for 4 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

Helpful Links:

• Online Registration
• Conference Brochure
• Conference Website
• Conference Agenda

Navigate LLC will contribute information protection and privacy expertise to HospitalityLawyer.com on-line products, webinars, and conference offerings.

Chris Zoladz, Founder of Navigate LLC, announces a new business alliance between Navigate and Hospitality Lawyer. The alliance is formed to expand the scope of issues currently addressed by HospitalityLawyer to now include information protection & privacy legal and business issues relevant to the hospitality industry. About the new alliance, Mr. Zoladz says, “I am excited to begin collaboration with HospitalityLawyer and provide information protection and privacy expertise in this increasingly important and challenging area.”

The first webinar highlighting the expanded offering will be on November 11. The featured topic is “Avoid Becoming the Next Headline – How to Avoid a Data Breach” and will address steps to prevent a costly data breach. The topic for a second webinar on November 18 is “Your Company Just Experienced a Data Breach - Now What?” Mr. Stephen Barth, founder of HospitalityLawyer.com said, “We are delighted to create an alliance with Navigate. Information protection and privacy is an area of competency important to our hospitality audience. Mr. Zoladz brings to HospitalityLawyer.com a wealth of experience and insight about information protection and privacy in the hospitality industry. He is a recognized leader in the field and will broaden immensely our offerings to the industry.”

Navigate LLC provides strategic and tactical information protection and privacy consulting services to commercial and government organizations with a specialty in hospitality. Navigate LLC was founded by Mr. Chris Zoladz, former Vice President of Information Protection & Privacy at Marriott International, and a recognized pioneer and industry leader in the area of Information Protection and Privacy. Navigate was formed to assist organizations pragmatically address their information protection and privacy business needs and legal obligations in a cost effective and efficient manner.

For more information please contact:

Mr. Chris Zoladz, Founder, Navigate LLC
12 Milestone Manor Court
Germantown, MD 20876
PH: 240.475.3640
FAX: 888.284.7309
www.navigatellc.net
Info@navigatellc.net

Mr. Stephen Barth, Founder, HospitalityLawyer.com
P. O. Box 22888
Houston, TX 77227
PH: 713.963.8800
FAX: 713.627.9934
www.hospitalitylawyer.com
SBarth@hospitalitylawyer.com