Corporate Conversations
Corporate Conversations is a new-format webinar and podcast (both live and available-on-demand) that combines the best of the “fireside chat” format with the utility of the ‘ask me anything’ (AMA) presentation. Designed to dive deep into the topic in question and deliver contextualised, relevant and up-to-date information on critical issues in a concise 30-minute format, the Corporate Conversations series will build into a resource library of crucial discussion of the most pertinent contemporary legal topics.
Corporate Conversations
Corporate Conversations: Episode 9 – The Blunt Facts: Are Federal Drug Laws Fit-For-Purpose in Modern America?
In episode 9 of Corporate Conversations, The Legal 500’s head of research for the GC Powerlist, Joe Boswell, speaks with Lisa Ann Cooney, General Counsel of Philadelphia-headquartered construction company Day & Zimmermann.
With a growing increase in state, but not federal, legislative support for the use of medical and recreational marijuana, more and more U.S. employers have questions on whether they need to relax their drug-testing policies. This is even more challenging for “U.S. government contractors”, who often have clauses in their contracts with the federal government that require drug-free workplaces or drug-free employees providing contracted services.
This discussion unpacks the hot-button issue and ask whether current requirements are fit-for-purpose in a changing United States.