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A powerpoint presentation on 'Understanding Licensing Agreements' which includes basic information on copyright, licensing and trademarks.

An overview of risk management from the in-house counsel perspective. Includes tips on prioritizing enterprise risk, advising the board on risk, and the role of in-house counsel in risk mitigation.

Effective support of a company’s sales function requires striking the right balance between making it easy and efficient for the company and its customers to contract with each other, while appropriately protecting the company against key risks. Legal departments are required to do more with less, so the approach taken to supporting the sales function must be efficient. The panelists will discuss strategies for achieving these goals, including identification of different customer types and approaches for each type, clear identification of key risks and tolerances, contract simplification and the use of plain English, sales force training and self-help tools, and processes to streamline the collection of information, drafting, negotiation, authorization and tracking of contracts.

This program will be a roundtable discussion of real-life corporate depositions which went terribly wrong. It will begin with a three minute video segment from the popular television series, "The Office," which depicts a disastrous corporate deposition in action. From there, attendees will develop critical skills in learning to avoid common deposition pitfalls while simultaneously developing strategy and technique in both the preparation and execution of 30(b(6) depositions. Attendees will learn how to get the attention of senior management to ensure proper preparation and maximum tactical advantage, how to select appropriate witnesses and post-deposition affidavits, and how to take advantages of the nuances contained within Rule 30(b)(6) regarding corporate officer depositions.

Designed for in-house counsel who find themselves engaged in two roles, this course will focus on the inherent conflicts of meeting varying expectations while continuing to provide diligent and ethical representation. In today's regulatory mire, counsel are often being asked to weigh in on compliance issues, but getting started in the right direction is definite challenge. Attendees will learn how to get up to speed on compliance issues when they're already buried in e-discovery, contracts, and related matters. An outline of the liability issues will be presented, along with a discussion of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines' requirements for corporate compliance and ethics programs

If you’ve been a litigator on the<br />outside, welcome to a whole new ball game. As in-house counsel, your focus is not just on getting those pleadings filed, but also<br />implementing litigation holds, managing outside counsel, conducting investigations, analyzing your position, determining strategy, and much more. And it is not just about conducting the litigation. It is also about taking steps and creating programs to avoid litigation, performing cost benefit analysis and risk assessment to determine whether to get in, stay in, or get out, and conducting a thorough post mortem of each case so that you acquire a very long educational list of “lessons learned” that will direct you in the future. Come learn from our panel of experts who have “been there, done that.”

Two law department leaders' presentation on implementing value-based fees with a focus on defining value, measuring law firm performance and demonstrating success.

Learn what training and information your law department should provide to its business-side clients so they can do their jobs and minimize the time the law department spends on routine, reactive issues. Learn also how to teach your attorneys to train their clients.

Learn how human review and advanced technology can be harnessed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of document review; how the marriage of people and processes can reduce the total cost of discovery; and how the combination of all of these components—human reviewers, advanced analytical technology, and robust review processes and protocols—can strengthen rather than sacrifice defensibility.

Discover: top five technology tools to make small law departments run smoothly; SLD benchmarks for legal budgets and how to leverage other functions such as sales to minimize legal legwork; what to outsource in a small legal department; how to tell when it's time to increase your staff; and how developing a legal wiki can help your department capture knowledge and avoid reinventing the wheel.