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New Video Seminar Briefs Lawyers on the Complexities of Coastal Security and Environmental Compliance Issues in the Post 9/11 World

Posted on: Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 12:00 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c48097) has announced the addition of Video Leadership Seminars: Coastal and Maritime Security and Environmental Compliance in the Post 9/11 World with Harlan Doliner of Keegan Werlin, LLP to their offering.

The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide lawyers with current information on the complexities involved in coastal security and environmental compliance issues in the post 9/11 world. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 90 minutes of live video with Harlan Doliner of Keegan Werlin LLP sharing his knowledge of recent provisions and laws surrounding coastal security and environmental compliance issues. The Video Leadership Seminar provides essential information for handling situations arising from recent security and compliance regulations, including the steps to take and what to avoid, as well as an overall framework and timeline for how to proceed.

Topics covered in the Video Leadership Seminar include:

- Negotiation and settlement strategies

- Most prevalent maritime and security issues today

- Financial considerations for seafaring nations when implementing maritime security requirements

- Laws governing maritime security and environmental compliance

- Case Studies of specific situations and what you can learn from them

Questions answered in this Video Leadership Seminar include:

- What are the most prevalent maritime and coastal security issues you encounter in your practice?

- What strategies have you developed personally to help executives and companies with environmental compliance issues?

- If you had 5 minutes to explain to a client the basics of the current status of coastal and maritime security issues, how would you articulate it?

- How would you break it into 5-7 steps to help a client understand what needs to happen, and what their role is, how would you explain it?

- How would you break down, into 5-7 steps, the ways in which your client can ensure they remain in environmental compliance while performing their duties of coastal and maritime security?

- What issues are likely to arise between security and environmental compliance? How do you ensure that the goals of the first are met without compromising the second?

- How would you articulate your personal negotiation strategy when issues of environmental compliance arise?

- What are the 2-3 items most often negotiated when dealing with environmental compliance issues?

- What is your strategy with regard to developing and implementing progressive laws and regulations for maritime and coastal security?

- What are the most significant laws and regulations affecting maritime and coastal security? How have these laws grown since September 11th?

- How have maritime and coastal security laws and regulations changed since September 11th? In what ways have they changed the most?

- How have laws impacting environmental compliance requirements changed since September 11th?

- What changes do you anticipate over the upcoming years? Do you think these will be beneficial or harmful?

- What are the biggest financial considerations that must be taken into account when developing and attempting to implement new marine and coastal security laws and regulations?

- How can clients ensure environmental compliance while remaining within the budget? How much does environmental compliance add to the budget stretch?

- What are the potential ramifications of lack of compliance? What is the worst case scenario? Who would prosecute such a violation?

- What are the roles of the environmental compliance players? Who are these players, and how do they work with those furthering the security?

About Harlan Doliner:

Harlan Doliner is a partner in the Environmental Group at the Boston law firm Keegan Werlin LLP. He has over twenty-nine years of experience in environmental law and policy, regulatory compliance, land use and litigation. Mr. Doliner has participated in major appellate and other cases which helped shape the law of environmental impact reporting, coastal project development, water quality, and wetlands protection. His diverse practice currently focuses on providing leading-edge advice in maritime security/environment, complex facility siting, regulatory compliance, strategic environmental management, transaction risk evaluation and support, and the full spectrum of land use and conservation issues. Mr. Doliner is the author of the Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife Law chapter in the MCLE Massachusetts Environmental Law treatise.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c48097

Source: Business Wire

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