This session will explore the new landscape now facing employers in understanding and applying the expanded definition of “disability” under the ADA.  In passing the ADAAA, Congress chose to overturn specific United States Supreme Court ADA decisions and interpretations, thereby expanding protections for disabled employees and limiting employer defenses.  We will address how old assumptions must change in order to ensure compliance with the ADAAA and limit employer liability.

Samuel M. First, Labor & Employment Department Chair, Jacobs Law Group
Samuel M. First serves as Labor & Employment Department Chair at Jacobs Law Group.  He has 16 years experience representing private and public sector employers in all aspects of labor and employment law.

Gene Linkmeyer, Associate, Jacobs Law Group
Gene Linkmeyer is an Associate with the Jacobs Law Group. He has 13 years of experience in commercial, labor and employment matters. Mr. Linkmeyer focuses his practice on commercial litigation and management-side employment issues.

Jared H. Reiss, Associate, Jacobs Law Group
Jared H. Reiss is an Associate with the Jacobs Law Group. He maintains an entrepreneurial law practice, providing a wide spectrum of legal services to emerging and established businesses focusing primarily on corporate/transactional matters, mergers and acquisitions, employment/labor law, commercial real estate, financing, and lender law.

TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications is the largest independent recruitment advertising agency and the only one recognized among the top 30 digital agencies by AdAge in 2008. We are a single source for companies to communicate their employment offerings in order to recruit and retain the best talent. Through online and traditional communications, ROI campaign management services, creative and brand management, diversity enrichment, and media planning, TMP delivers Solutions with an Interactive Edge, achieving industry-specific results across virtually every sector in business and government. Headquartered in New York City with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and affiliates around the globe, TMP continues to set the standard for measurable and cost-effective HR communications.