Consider this session Labor Law 101 as your employment specialist peers provide an update on what is happening in the labor scene throughout the country and how this affects your business. Learn about the absolute essentials to maintain a union free workplace and how best to manage your work place when you are partially or fully unionized. Take this opportunity to really focus in on your business needs based on the make up of your work force.
Privilege is one of the hottest topics on the minds of corporate practitioners these days. With the internet used as a primary means of communication in today’s fast-paced business environment, in-house lawyers may find themselves in ethical and legal trouble as they do deals all over the world without knowledge of the laws relating to privilege. This comparison of solicitor client privilege in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia will provide in-house counsel with a solid overview of the laws they should consider when doing deals outside of their jurisdiction and send you home with a checklist to use in future activities.
Annual Meeting 2006: Let's face it. Being corporate counsel is probably the toughest job in the legal profession. The demands of dealing with executives, staff, and outside attorneys can make even the most balanced person want to go ‘legal.’ In this light-hearted approach to a very serious topic, we’ll teach you about the harmful effects of stress on your physical and emotional well-being and share the three steps to a more stress-free career including how to get a clue, get a grip, and get a life!
Presented by Bass, Berry & Sims, a Lex Mundi member firm for the ACC Tennessee Chapter.
Our outstanding panel of in-house counsel will share their list of things they were glad they knew-or wished they'd known-when starting out. Gain guidance in such key areas as employment law, intellectual property issues, corporate governance, securities law, and litigation. Plus here’s your chance to ask questions about issues not covered during the meeting’s other sessions.
It's all a numbers game. The business people often complain that the lawyers do not understand the numbers, so come learn how to prove them wrong. Using real-world examples, this session will provide a review of legal accounting requirements, an overview of the basic financial principles of running a corporation and a checklist to become more proficient when dealing with financial matters.
Corporate attorneys practicing within the EU need to be intimately familiar with competition laws and how they could affect a company's business. This overview of the trends EU competition is following will provide you with a clear understanding of the laws and guidance on how best to counsel your corporate client.
You've taken the plunge and are determined to build a dedicated compliance function. Explore key strategies and tactics for structuring and maintaining a compliance program that fosters ethical, legal, and productive operations while also minimizing business risk. Review the impact of recent legal and business developments on compliance strategy. Learn how to maintain leadership buy-in and commitment, and avoid common pitfalls that make a compliance program difficult to maintain.
Recent cases have made the news, even gone all the way to the Supreme Court, about what must be kept, what can be shredded, and when. Discovery orders during litigation and government investigations complicate the issue. We all know some of the theory, but hear from our experts some practical tips about how to develop, implement and maintain an effective recordkeeping policy and how to comply with the growing burden of record retention.
Everyone likes to talk about "partnerships" with outside counsel, but often we do not focus on building effective and mutually beneficial relationships. Learn how to work effectively with your outside counsel. Topics will include ethical issues and requirements for engagements, billing, and legal work product.
How can you get the best out of your IT? Where should you invest for the future? What technological advances can provide real working efficiencies? What are the risks when you rely on computer systems for legal work? Some legal departments have put IT at the center of their world, but others are more wary. Can machines do a lawyer’s job? Join us for a discussion on the best in class use of technology to drive savings and free up time.
What does it mean to be a business leader? What are the necessary skills and competencies? Are lawyers well suited to this role or should these functions be kept separate? What makes a good lawyer become an exceptional leader? How can you make the transition? Our panel of distinguished speakers will share their invaluable experiences and observations on the role and potential of the in-house lawyer.
The dynamics of today's global economy affect virtually every employer. The issues a company must face are similar from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but the solutions often are quite different. Our in-house experts will examine such labor topics as integrating the workforce after a merger or acquisition, hiring and firing, obtaining work authorizations, and understanding foreign jurisdiction workplace laws and regulations. Explore these and other matters a global workforce presents and take home real world solutions to apply to your own employment challenges.
What does a sensible company do about document retention? This question is on the minds of corporate practitioners around the world as recent legal developments have put these corporate policies in the spotlight. Join your peers to learn what you should keep, what you can happily destroy, policies on saving emails and other strategic retention procedures.
A must-attend for any in-house employment and labor practitioner. Leaders in the employment and labor legal arena will update you on the most important federal and state court decisions as well as legislative initiatives impacting in-house practitioners and their companies.
No domestic company doing business internationally wants to be subjected to the risk of litigating in a foreign court, yet many are. Arbitration can be a useful and more predictable mechanism to resolve international disputes. Do you want to learn how to influence procedure and obtain a decision that is enforceable around the world? If so, go to this program. This interactive panel of your peers will focus on the material aspects of drafting a legally enforceable international arbitration agreement including clause selection, and choice of forum, and will cover actual handling of the arbitration once it begins.
Even if you can fly, dealing with business units around the world is tough for a compliance superhero. Learn how to help your company use compliance as a competitive advantage internationally. This program will examine leading multinational compliance programs, including a discussion about the tensions between compliance and decentralized international management structures, types of international risks, and tools that are available to assist you.
Public company communications are complex and fraught with risk. Recent regulation FD and similar legislation in Canada and the EU precludes selective disclosure of material information. What guidance should you give your CEO and CFO in their dealings with the press, analysts, rating agencies, and investors while protecting your corporate officers and directors? Experienced general counsel will share how to ethically, legally, and proactively manage public company communications by identifying and resolving disclosure issues before they cost the company time and money.
You have just provided your comptroller with a list of litigation matters that may require a reserve. How do you know when and under what circumstances must a reserve be set? Our panel of financial experts and corporate practitioners will discuss the controlling financial accounting standards, the impact of insurance coverage, and compliance requirements, and apply those standards to a variety of litigation matters most importantly, when you set a reserve. We'll show you how best to protect that information and comply with pretrial discovery rules. Plus, we'll send you home with real world examples and practical tips for setting reserves and managing them that you can apply immediately once returning to the office.
Many companies expect the law department to handle compliance. The reality is that an effective compliance program involves many players, both inside and outside the company. In this session, your in-house peers will explore examples of how organizations have creatively managed the relationship between the law department, compliance function, and auditors to enhance the process of improving the compliance effort with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies. Take home practical solutions to achieving an integrated compliance effort within your organization.
Legal e-billing can provide a vehicle for benchmarking and measuring the success of your outside legal counsel. These metrics can help you to better forecast and budget legal expenses, but how? You'll hear how leading companies are assessing outside counsel performance, and take home new ideas and strategies your department can put in place immediately to begin managing your outside legal costs more efficiently and effectively.
You've taken the plunge and are determined to build a dedicated compliance function. Explore key strategies and tactics for implementing and maintaining a compliance program that fosters ethical, legal, and productive operations while also minimizing business risk. Review the impact of recent legal and business developments on compliance strategy. Learn how to maintain leadership buy-in and commitment, and avoid common pitfalls that make a compliance program difficult to maintain.
If you are responsible for litigation management, your initial reaction to new litigation can have an impact on the success of the litigation. What law and strategy do you need to know before sending the case to outside counsel? Learn strategies for spotting significant legal risks of specific types of litigation and receive guidance on how to quickly choose the best early defensive steps to protect your company's interests.
You're being asked to do more with less everyday. How can you best deploy the existing staff you have to maximize efficiency within your department? Attend this session to learn how to manage support staff more effectively, understand the proper mix between paralegals and administrative staff, learn the ethics of delegation, and gain insight into how technology affects your decisions.
A perennial favorite every year, this year's program will include the latest and greatest developments in securities law. Senior SEC representatives along with corporate and securities experts will bring you up to date on corporate and securities law and share their insights on what to expect beyond this year's meeting
A poll taken in 2003 by ACC and the National Association of Corporate Directors asked directors and general counsel "What would most improve corporate governance?" Seventy percent of members of boards of directors and 82% of general counsel replied, "Senior management creates and sustains an ethical business culture." This best-selling chapter program shares best practices in how to start and sustain a business ethics program in your company.
Program materials from ACC video conference in October
2005 regarding joint-ventures and intellectual property in
China.
Excerpt from article "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution for Lawyers."
Includes a questionnaire on assessing employee needs and creating a management action plan.
ACC Docket article and excerpts from the Conflicts and Waivers InfoPAK
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