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Includes a questionnaire on assessing employee needs and creating a management action plan.

ACC Docket article and excerpts from the Conflicts and Waivers InfoPAK

907 Top 10 Environmental Enforcement Actions-Are You Prepared?

A look at taking your product to market and the intellectual property issues that arise.

This session will focus on customs laws, import/export laws and regulations, and World Trade Organization issues. What should you do when US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) penalizes you for a perceived violation? With the increasing convergence of government security regulations, corporate counsel should have a general understanding of both Department of Commerce and State Department's export regulations, including the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), the EAR (Export Administration Regulations) and other applicable government bodies' regulations. This 'primer' will help counsel to identify what they need to know about export compliance and how to set up a compliance program. In addition, the panelists will highlight recent changes in the laws with regard to WTO enforcement trends and discuss recent cases.

The financial crisis of 2008 unfolded like a tsunami. Left in tatters is an economy that continues to decline, and a fragile financial system. The government has stepped in with billions of dollars of direct investment and trillions of dollars of exposure for the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve. Congress has growing skepticism with rising home foreclosures and a lack of accountability by those companies who have received Federal money. All of this leads to broad, deep and comprehensive regulatory oversight and scrutiny and an overhaul of the current patchwork of regulatory institutions. This panel will provide an up-to-date review of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the implementation of TARP and the new regulatory structures. The oversight of every public company, its securities issuance, its debt structure and its risk management will all come under renewed scrutiny and potentially more oversight.

Join this mock training for your marketing department with committee members offering questions and with practical and useful course materials that you can use when you return to the office. Topics to be addressed include sweepstakes/promotions issues, Digital Millennium Copyright Act compliance with respect to user generated content promotions, advertising and claim substantiation, copyright clearance and licensing issues for stock images, policies and procedures for legal approval, and outsourcing to advertising agencies and marketing vendors.

2009 marks an unprecedented year for new regulatory and compliance practices: the federal bailout of 2008, this year's new administration, changes in the regulatory landscape, and new borrowing and lending practices with banks. Discover what experts are doing to ensure their organizations comply. Understand how regulatory changes are impacting bank operations across the nation, get suggestions on how your legal department can stay compliant and minimize the risk of enforcement actions, and hear experts' opinions on additional trends the next year could bring in the banking industry. There are solutions you can efficiently implement to reduce your legal risk. This session will focus on these as well as issues like TILA/Reg Z, BSA/AML/OFAC, Fair lending, Privacy/Information sharing, and overdraft rules (Regs E and DD).

This power point presentation focuses on the trends of legal traps, tax issues, fundraising, social media, and e-mail marketing.

PowerPoint slides from Venable LLP's presentation on Thursday, November 12, 2009. The presentation provides information on due diligence considerations for nonprofit investment fiduciaries.

Crisis Management and dealing with regulators and the media is discussed further in this program material

This material discusses the relationship between the finance and legal departments and how to foster a better and more productive working union.

This material discusses the elements of successfully recalling a product including the crisis management and media aspect of such an event.

Tips on how to to set a creative tone in the law department. Learn pointers on how to be ambitious, seek small improvements, and harvest ideas no matter how big or small.

This PowerPoint presentation, which accompanied an ACC Europe Chapter webcast, begins with a Facebook-related hypothetical situation, and discusses the dangers of social media in the workplace, online bullying and harassment, and French and German statutory approaches to the issue.

Records management is not new. Litigation, efficiency and competitive edge drive organizations to manage and capitalize on information. With rapid technology changes and the increasing volume and complexity of information, management is difficult. But new problems call for new answers. Globalization changes the landscape — a global company is not a bigger, more spread out US company — it is a different organization altogether and requires different solutions. Panelists will discuss leading the development and implementation of enterprise-wide records management programs in various situations.

Environmental issues no longer stop at the factory door. Even companies that do not manufacture anything face environmental issues for products they sell or even just use. This session will explore downstream environmental concerns for all companies and what corporate counsel can do to mitigate the risks. Topics will include the REACH rule, lifecycle-assessments, financial responsibility and “greenwash” marketing and advertising concerns.

What do you do when a recall, privacy breach or other crisis hits? Managing that crisis from a legal and reputational risk is much easier if you have prepared in advance on how to deal with insurers, regulators, suppliers, customers and the media. This session will feature practical advice from in-house counsel and their external counsel who have lived through a recall crisis. Both compliance officers and law department practitioners need to be involved in developing a crisis plan. Panelists will focus on what can be done ahead of time to facilitate navigation through the crisis. An interactional “preparedness quiz” will let participants gauge whether they are prepared for a recall, privacy breach or other crisis, and if they are not, will explain the measures they need to take or put in place to become prepared.

Panelists at this session will outline and discuss new internet and privacy regulatory requirements, both state and local, and legal developments (case law), including recent state and federal regulations and court decisions.

This interactive program will discuss how to prepare for a union campaign, including a discussion of manager training, solicitation rules and what a corporate campaign is.

Many businesses, especially those not in ‘technology’ industries, do not have significant IP assets and the in-house counsel may not live or breath IP issues. But that’s no reason to ignore fundamental practices that can help the business capture or protect the value of its trademarks, trade secrets, patentable innovations, web presence and other IP assets. Or, perhaps more importantly, practices can protect the business from exposure to the IP claims of others. What questions should you be asking to evaluate and improve the business’s IP sophistication?

The next level of learning for the new securities practitioner, this session will focus on the hot topics in SEC disclosure relating to enterprise risk and compensation disclosure, proxy and shareholder proposals, and disclosure while managing through crisis.

Companies are increasingly looking at joint ventures as a way to develop products, bring products to market, increase market share and, hopefully, increase revenue. This session will explore the pros and cons of various legal structures and arrangements commonly referred to as “joint ventures,” including securities laws, valuation and exit strategies, protection of intellectual property, anti-trust concerns, tax and financial statement impacts, and management of human and other resources.

Lawyers are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for marketing and other purposes including gathering information about parties and witnesses in a case. In addition, sites like Legal OnRamp and Martindale-Hubbell Connected are specifically designed to facilitate communication between in-house and outside counsel. Many commentators believe that the use of social media is going to transform the practice of law much like email did years ago. While there is no doubt that these sites can be useful, they do raise numerous ethical issues for lawyers and other serious issues for their clients. This presentation will address "do's and don'ts" for you and your company to keep in mind when venturing into the world of social media.

Contract, document, matter management, electronic billing and electronic discovery: with all of the legal systems available, lawyers have never been so efficient...or so confused. Knowing where to store and find information, much less how to take action on the data, is becoming increasingly impossible and expensive. This session will illustrate a day in the life of an attorney attempting to find vital accountability metrics on a major case. Receive a checklist of advanced metrics and learn where to find the data needed to compile metrics in today’s technology landscape. With the problem identified, our panel will turn to solutions and discuss the ways in which legal departments can seamlessly bring together all of their disparate systems to more effectively communicate and share work product within their departments and with outside counsel.

Suboptimal drafting wastes everyone’s time. Can your company’s contracts be drafted more clearly, with fewer words, so they can be read and understood in less time? Do your company’s contracts create unnecessary risk? We will consider real-life examples of suboptimal drafting, and provide practical tips and solutions.

This program will provide an overview of critical international, federal and state laws governing your collection, use, and disclosure of private information, whether it’s from customers, other businesses, or your employees. Learn the types of privacy policies you should have in place, the nuts and bolts of building a privacy program, and what you should do in the event of different types of security or data breach.

Risk management has often been carried out by organizations in silos, with counsel responsible only for legal risks. Increasingly, though, systematic ERM will be imposed on corporations. This program will explore a number of issues related to ERM, including: What does ERM entail? What are the emerging ERM frameworks. such as ISO 31000, and how do they promote effective risk taking and help organizations maximize the opportunity for gain? What is ERM’s role in strategic planning? What is the appropriate role for the legal department in promoting an effective ERM program? The panel will share their experiences, demonstrating the critical contributions that ERM can make in management and in implementing an effective compliance program.

This session will be focused on the most significant changes in trademarks, copyrights and patents over the past year. The session is ideal for attorneys with a basic level of IP understanding, and is an essential program for every attorney who has IP responsibility.

Energy practitioners will cover the top ten legal issues associated with lowering energy costs, including local, state and federal regulations, contract negotiations, tax advantages and funding opportunities for "going green." The program will educate in-house counsel on how to substantially reduce energy costs for assets, such as casinos, manufacturing plants, mining operations, retail stores, restaurants, commercial real estate operations (e.g., REITS) and hospital systems while understanding the legal, regulatory and policy issues associated with doing so. Learn how to capture demand-side efficiencies and supply-side pricing advantages, including aggregating load for better pricing and changing customer from retail to wholesale; managing price risk exposure and negotiating price lock-ins in current supply contracts, or negotiating derivatives to lock in the price based on power prices, or prices of related commodities used to generate power; and understanding the tax incentives and offset projects for going green or reducing the carbon footprint.