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Agenda:
7:30 Announcements
8:00-9:00am Presentation
Topic: Policy with Purpose: A Strategic Approach to Handbook Updates
Updating your employee handbook is more than a compliance exercise — it’s a strategic opportunity to reinforce your company’s mission, manage risk, and stay ahead of legal shifts. This session offers a practical, forward-looking approach to handbook revisions, with insights on crafting policy language that provides clarity for your managers and employees, supports decision-making, drives consistency, and minimizes legal exposure.
Speaker: Christine Nentwig
Christine E. Nentwig, Esq. is the founder and principal attorney at Excelist Law, a boutique law firm dedicated to helping employers and businesses achieve their goals with practical, business-focused legal solutions. With experience in both business and law, Ms. Nentwig specializes in providing effective guidance to address complex legal challenges.
Ms. Nentwig partners with clients to proactively address potential legal issues, offering strategic support in areas such as developing clear policies, navigating employee relations, conducting confidential workplace investigations, mediating disputes, and providing informative training for managers and employees on diverse topics related to business, employment, and labor law. When legal 
challenges do arise, Ms. Nentwig provides efficient representation to help her clients identify and implement prompt, practical, and cost- effective solutions.
Ms. Nentwig holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of Maryland School of Law and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She also holds a Professional Mediation Certificate from Cornell University’s ILR Scheinman Institute and is certified as a federal court mediator in Labor and Employment Law for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Additionally, Ms. Nentwig is an Association of Workplace Investigators Certificate Holder (AWI-CH), demonstrating her expertise in conducting impartial workplace investigations.
Beyond her practice, Ms. Nentwig is an active community leader and educator, currently serving on the Board of the Appell Center for the Performing Arts, leading seminars covering key legal topics, and teaching Employment Law as an adjunct professor at York College of Pennsylvania.
https://excelistlaw.com/
Sponsor: TBD
Certification: Pending certification credit through HRCI and SHRM.
All attendees MUST register by December 11.
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If you register and circumstances change that prevent you from attending, you MUST send an email to YorkSHRM@yahoo.com by December 11, 2025. No credits or refunds will be issued if the cancellation is received after December 11, 2025.
