Benefits You've found yourself face-to-face with an easement … now what? You can get what you need from your real estate despite the intimidating complexity of easements. Whether you're looking to comply with one, fight one or draft one, our local experts will give you the know-how you need to succeed - without getting caught in exhausting and expensive legal battles. Come to this seminar and get the practical easements information you...

Benefits Save money by avoiding costly mistakes in storm water management. From recent litigation to changing permitting standards, failing to stay on top of current issues related to storm water regulation is risky. In this seminar, you will get answers to all your questions, such as: What new case and policy decisions impact my practices? What are the latest trends in the water quality arena? Here is your chance to learn - in just one day -...

SAS Government Leadership Summit 2012 The SAS Government Leadership Summit (#SASgov) is targeted at mid-tier to executive level decision makers in Government. This year's theme is "Analytics on Point: Sharpen the focus on brighter possibilities." Everybody is talking about big data, but what is it really, and how do you keep it from overwhelming you? As the amount of data pouring into your organization grows in volume, variety and velocity, ho...

Benefits Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. This results in significant time and expense preparing and justifying detailed cos...

Benefits Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. This results in significant time and expense preparing and justifying detailed cos...

In it's 8th consecutive year; the Government Contracting Accounting and Compliance Developments Conference will kick off Day One with opening keynote speaker: David Drabkin, Northrop Grumman Corporation, speaking on Current Trends being faced by government contractors right now. New this year- Cloud Computing Panel, as well as, a Business Systems/Oversight Panel discussion along with illuminating and insightful panels featuring CFOs, Internal...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual and enterprise FISMA resp...

Data security threats continue to increase in number and sophistication. The growing use of collaborative technologies – from mobile devices and social media to virtualization and cloud computing – will continue to be one of the most significant factors impacting the security landscape. For these reasons, the federal government has increased efforts to minimize and prevent cyber security attacks – including updating FISMA rul...

Benefits EPA used to hold all of the cards when it issued an administrative order. A recipient could not challenge the factual or legal basis: it could either perform the remedy or wait for EPA to file an enforcement action and bring these challenges in the context of that action. Such a course had significant risks, because the penalties could be doubled for failing to comply with an order. Just recently, however, in U.S. v. Sackett, the Supr...

Benefits EPA used to hold all of the cards when it issued an administrative order. A recipient could not challenge the factual or legal basis: it could either perform the remedy or wait for EPA to file an enforcement action and bring these challenges in the context of that action. Such a course had significant risks, because the penalties could be doubled for failing to comply with an order. Just recently, however, in U.S. v. Sackett, the Supr...