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This fast-paced overview of everything you need to know to provide legal advice to your marketing and advertising departments and will cover legal issues such as regulators and their hot-button issues, how to run a sweepstakes, how to challenge a competitor's ad, claim substantiation and comparative advertising, dealing with emerging mediums such as branded entertainment and blogs, and email and web advertising. Walk away from this boot camp exercise with the legal knowledge you need to handle a wide variety of circumstances and the ability to trouble-spot issues before they can become problematic for your company.

The fundamental responsibility of the Board of Directors is to promote the best interests of the Company and its shareholders by overseeing the management of the Company’s business and affairs. In doing so, directors have two basic obligations to the Company and its shareholders: (1) the duty of care, which generally requires that directors exercise appropriate diligence in making decisions and in overseeing management of the Company, and (2) the duty
of loyalty, which generally requires that directors make decisions based on the best interests of the Company and its shareholders and without regard to any personal interest.

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.

It's back and it's better than ever. In 2001, the list was begun with only 10 things you should know as in-house counsel. Not just for general counsel, these issues have not gone away, and now the list has grown to 250 things. 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.

Discusses which works are copyrightable and which works are not, when copyrights attach to works, and the pros and cons of registering a copyright. Also discusses how to protect copyrightable works using best corporate practices and how to avoid violation of others' copyrights associated with advertising, images, formulas, websites, and music.

This webcast transcript addresses the impact of business "green" claims, greenwashing, the latest trends, and how companies can minimize risks related to greenwashing.

ACC Chicago and Faegre Drinker handout for January 18, 2023 MCLE Event, "Navigating the 2023 Annual Report and Proxy Season - Governance, Executive Compensation, ESG and SEC Updates."

Addresses recent developments in the anti-money laundering world, the current AML regulatory requirements for financial institutions, and the major issues involved in outsourcing AML compliance and other BPO transactions.

It's back and it's better than ever. In 2001, the list was begun with only 10 things you should know as in-house counsel. Not just for general counsel, these issues have not gone away, and now the list has grown to 250 things. 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.

The role of the general counsel in a nonprofit organization.

This perennial Annual Meeting favorite is sure to deliver in 2007! Our expert panelists will continue the tradition of providing updates on the latest securities law developments. Learn what policies have been adopted and what is under construction. Plus take home practical advice on how you and your organization can comply with changes in the law and regulations.

This article details the requirements for "reasonable accommodations" under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Canadian CCU 2007: More and more the legal department is viewed as a valued member of the business team. That means you, too! But what role do you play and, equally as important, what role COULD you play? Hear from your peers who have fully established themselves as business partners, how they achieved this status
and what things you can do within your own organization to firmly establish yourself as part of the business team.

A bibliography of resources related to trends in liabilities and responsibilities of in-house counsel

ACC Chicago and Eversheds Sutherland Handout Materials for Global Pay Transparency and Your Workforce webinar on April 4, 2024.

This material helps your company improve its policies regarding new technologies and social media. The document also discusses important cases regarding intellectual property rights and trademark infringement.

Companies with server networks to bring "infrastructure on demand" to their customers provide cloud computing. In busy times, customers can dramatically ramp up their computer usage without investing in equipment and software, and then quickly ramp down when the extra capacity is no longer needed. This session will address challenges faced by companies that use or provide cloud computing services. Discussion topics will include: service standards and reliability measurements, confidential information and trade secrets, data privacy, security and encryption, liability limitations, indemnification, and risk allocation and international regulatory issues.

The successful small law department practitioner must be part lawyer, but in this day and age, also part tech guru in order to appropriately represent her company. Limited resources available cause small law departments to rely heavily on the wide variety of external technological resources on the internet and through other technology tools. But what are the best tools and sites? Can your company afford them? In an era of budget constraints, practitioners must learn to invest in, leverage and maximize the benefits from all available resources, especially their technology resources.

This interactive presentation will address recent cases attempting to limit claims of communication privilege by and with in house counsel. It will also include a discussion of communications between counsel for related corporate entities after Allied Irish Bank and Parmalat.

A panel of electronic discovery’s foremost judicial thought leaders will share their views on the future of ediscovery practice as applicable to corporate law departments seeking to establish defensible in-house processes. Topics to be discussed include the Sedona Cooperation Proclamation, the impact of recent decisions and judicial trends in managing ediscovery, judicial perspective on how much protection Rule 502 offers, what judges care most about when litigators present ediscovery conflicts, and the sanctions for failure to meet ediscovery obligations.

Intellectual property is critical to every business and is the most important asset of many businesses. It remains challenging, however, to deal safely and successfully with all of the IP that may be implicated in business transactions — from sales of a few assets, through tax-driven reorganizations, to sales of entire businesses. Patents may not move; IP licenses (such as software licenses) may not survive a reorganization; trademark rights may be tarnished or lost; IP enforcement rights can be impaired. In this session, IP and business transaction pros will identify opportunities, pitfalls and strategies for success in dealing with these IP and transactions issues.

The commencement of a class action in the United States frequently results in “copycat” actions in Canada and other jurisdictions. These opportunities are often bought and sold by class counsel looking to leverage their US investment, but the strategies for managing US class actions are not always the right ones in other countries. An experienced panel of US and other counsel will look at key class action management issues from inception, through to certification and ultimate disposition, and discuss different strategies that may be dictated by the law and legal culture of other jurisdictions. Attendees will take away a better understanding of how different jurisdictions demand different class action management strategies notwithstanding that the underlying claims may be the same.