2022 Educational Conference

John P. Boggs, esq.
Managing Partner, Fine Boggs & Perkins LLP
Founder and Principal, HR Hotlink, Inc.

John P. Boggs, esq. received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and
received his Juris Doctorate from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he
graduated with great distinction and was selected Order of the Coif. During law school, Mr.
Boggs served as Primary Editor of the Transnational Lawyer. Prior to establishing Fine, Boggs
& Perkins llp, Mr. Boggs was with a national law firm representing management in all aspects of
labor and employment law. Among various other responsibilities, Mr. Boggs was in charge of
civil litigation for a nationwide insurance company underwriting auto dealers, as well as various
other insurance carriers offering employment practices liability insurance to auto dealers and
other clients.

Mr. Boggs has defended numerous large class-action employment lawsuits as well as numerous
other litigation matters. He provides preventive training to numerous businesses, as well as trade
organizations such as the California New Car Dealers Association and CNCDA FormSource. He
also advises clients on a wide variety of employment issues, including, pre-employment
screening, employee terminations, employment agreements, discrimination and harassment, the
Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, wage and hour laws,
collective bargaining negotiations, drug and alcohol testing, workers’ compensation issues, and
various other employment-related state and federal laws. He has assisted employers in
developing, implementing, and analyzing employee handbooks, personnel policies, such as
sexual harassment policies, and discipline and discharge procedures. He has been lead counsel
in briefing and arguing various cutting-edge employment arbitration appellate decisions, as well
as both California and United States Supreme Court Amicus Briefs.
Mr. Boggs is also currently a professor of Employment Law at the University of Nevada Las
Vegas.

Nikki Champagne

Manager of State Operations, CDK Global/AVRS

Nikki Champagne, Manager of State Operations, Western Region for CVR/AVRS, brings nearly 25 years practical experience working in Automotive; half of that time has been involved in the Electronic Vehicle Registration (EVR) arena. Prior to working in EVR, Nikki worked in multiple dealerships, learning various aspects Dealership Operations, including Contracts & Title Clerk. While doing so, Nikki completed her Bachelor of Science in Child & Adolescent Development, with the intent to teach, which served her well when she took her experience and education to a national Dealer Management System. There, she was an Installer/Trainer and Subject Matter Expert, training dealer staff in the areas of Sales, Finance and Accounting. Nikki became familiar with various jurisdictional practices as she traveled the country. Her next adventure brought her full circle to her time as a Title Clerk, as she began training EVR for a national provider. She soon brought her skills and experience to AVRS, later acquired by CDK Global/CVR, where she has been the last nine years.

Throughout her journey, Nikki strives to provide excellence to her team and to their dealer partners. She looks for ways to grow personally and professionally, which currently includes working on her Master’s in Business Administration. Nikki enjoys helping others find success through their own development, working to instill in her team knowledge and passion they can share with others.

Meet Evelyn Eccard

Training Consultant, CDK Global/AVRS

Evelyn Eccard is a coach and trainer and has lead Sales and Operation team for over 25 years. She has a history managing large, multi-regional sales teams by developing and implementing improved management practices, trainings, and incentive programs. Evelyn has experience utilizing Six Sigma methodologies to update operating procedures that have led to increased productivity and revenue. She specialized in sales, training, and operations developing those teams by customizing coaching, training, and mentor programs. Evelyn has a proven history establishing and maintaining productive teams that have added tens-of-millions of dollars in revenue. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree from University of Illinois at Chicago.

Throughout her career, Evelyn has chosen positions in which she has positively impacted the company’s culture by training and developing executives, management, and frontline employees. She has trained everything imaginable, but her passion is leadership. When starting, she applies the leadership principles with her sales team and saw first-hand, the positive impact: increased engagement, retention and productivity. Soon after, her team was sought after by other departments as well as corporate headquarters. They wanted leaders who had the experience of sales and operation and had the soft skills that are needed to lead.

Osvaldo Del Bosque

Director

Treasury Sales Officer

Seattle-Tacoma and Eastern Washington Area

Dealer Financial Services- West Coast

Osvaldo Del Bosque is a Director – Treasury Officer who leads a team of financial specialists to deliver tailored deposit and robust cash management solutions for Auto Dealerships and RVs.

He works with Relationship Managers, FX, Credit, Trade, Fraud Prevention Crews and Liquidity partners across the enterprise to drive US and international solutions for his client base.

Osvaldo joined Bank of America in May 2005 and has held roles in Commercial Banking and Retail Consumer Banking; he has a strong acumen around risk mitigation and fraud prevention.

Osvaldo is an active member of the HOLA Network (Hispanic Organization for Leadership Advancement), His volunteer efforts include hunger relief, and soccer youth sport access and youth financial literacy.

Osvaldo currently resides in Seattle and supports clients across the West Coast

Zaylore Stout, Esq.

Biography

Zaylore Stout is an attorney, historian, and author. He received his B.A. from Cal State Fullerton in International Business Management and his J.D. from the University of St. Thomas School of Law. He founded his own law firm, Zaylore Stout & Associates (ZSA) which handles employment and business law matters including, but not limited to, sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, wage & hour, real estate, and contract disputes.

Over his 22 years of experience in the HR/employment law arena, Zaylore has handled 15,000+ HR-related consultation calls, represented clients in 4,000+ unemployment hearings, conducted 2,000+ manager/supervisor training seminars, reviewed 100s of employee handbooks, and countless mediations, arbitrations, workplace investigations and litigation matter in both state and federal court in virtually every industry. His firm also served as general counsel for over ten companies across the country including Potts & Associates.

ZSA has locations in both Pasadena, California, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was an inaugural recipient of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Business of Pride Award in 2018. Zaylore’s advocacy outside of the courtroom has also been noticeable. His first book Our Gay History in Fifty States is a multi-domestic and international award winner and his second book Our Black History in Fifty States is schedule for release during Black History Month 2024.

Christian Scali has a diverse practice that includes advice and counsel and complex and high stakes litigation. His clients are in a variety of industries, including restaurant and hospitality, property management, entertainment, clothing manufacturing and ecommerce, but the majority of them are in the retail automotive industry. Mr. Scali is known throughout the state of California for his work on behalf of the retail automotive industry in a series of advertising lawsuits brought against it under California’s Unfair Competition Law resulting, among other things, in the disbarment of consumer advocates, Trevor Law Group, and for his work on the Defense Steering Committee in the massive automobile consumer leasing lawsuit against the entire California retail automotive leasing industry, In re Vehicle Lease Document Cases. He also regularly assists clients with their mergers and acquisitions. While he is always a fierce advocate for his clients, when he is engaged on a buy/sell, his focus is on making the deal. Years of litigating buy/sell and commercial lease disputes on behalf of his clients have made him an effective transactional attorney. His ability to recognize the
difference between an important or consequential deal point and one that has no real practical advantage or disadvantage, avoids pointless disputes and allows the parties to more quickly get to a deal. Finally, Mr. Scali also creates effective corporate compliance and ethics programs for his clients and represents clients in regulatory enforcement actions and requests for information. Mr. Scali is on the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) Litigation Section Executive Committee. And he is a delegate for the Board of Directors of the Independent Auto Dealers Association of California (IADAC). He co-authored the chapter on confidentiality agreements and non-competes in PLI's 2015 Healthcare Law Handbook. Mr. Scali also authored the California New Car Dealer Association’s Advertising Law Manual in 2015 and 2017.

•  Los Angeles Business Journal Names Christian Scali of Scali Rasmussen a 2019 Top Litigator
•  Scali Rasmussen’s Christian Scali Named as a Los Angeles Business Journal Leader in Law Nominee 2019
• Christian Scali named Los Angeles’ “Most Influential Minority Lawyers” by the Los Angeles Business Journal 2019