Learn why corporate form is important for environmental sustainability as well as traditional economic goals. Uncover the realities based on the California and Delaware Corporations Codes and case law beyond the marketing and PR interpretation dominating the press.
Learn how to train employees on traditional antitrust violations, including privilege issues that arise during training, as well as more subtle compliance questions involving collaborations with rivals.
It's been another busy year in employment law! Come hear what's new -- and what challenges your organization now faces -- in the expanding laws and regulations governing the workplace. The focus will be on US employment law, but the speakers will be sure to cover any hot cross-border issues.
Learn how social media affects health care providers, group practices, pharmaceutical and medical devices companies. Discover what technology is used in the hospital and health care settings, and be advised of new guidance provided by the FDA with regard to social media.
Learn to have productive conversations with your IT department when acquiring new IT assets.
This material provides you with various intellectual property tools, attributes of different types of IP, emerging issues checklists and issue-spotting checklists and best practices.
Learn about the current and evolving IP landscape in China, and explore the reasons for the recent growth in IP protection and cases started in China.
This material covers environmental laws that affect multinational companies in the US and the EU, and uncover suggested approaches and best practices to ensure that your company is compliant on both sides of the Atlantic. Panelists provide best practices and case studies, including sample compliance programs.
In the current construction climate, there are few low-risk, low-cost ways to enhance financial performance. One proven method is to increase the rate of payment on projects; yet many otherwise successful construction industry players are achieving less than optimal recovery. Learn how businesses can adjust internal practices to increase, potentially dramatically, the real value of their lien and bond portfolios while reducing legal risk. Explore balancing the use of outside counsel and in-house resources, adopting effective mechanisms to capture and process critical information and realizing efficient and cost-effective enforcement.
Learn how US companies can mitigate FCPA and other risks -- including the safety of your employees -- in frontier markets, and what unique challenges you will face in conducting investigations there. Focus on issues of employment, privacy and other laws in countries with immature legal systems, security considerations and political interference.
Learn how to design a compliance program from risk assessment (including GAP analysis) to implementation and learn about successful tactics and how to avoid compliance program pitfalls. This material discusses the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and FCPA/international compliance considerations and their effect on your program.
Understand how to manage your CEOs expectations and deliver positive results. Learn what to do with the data you’ve collected and identify signs that your compliance program is or is not working. Learn what to do if you smell trouble brewing and learn how to handle violations that may arise despite your precautions, both legally and with your CEO.
A four-part series in which Oracle Associate General Counsel Suchitra Narayen, QuisLex CEO Ram Vasudevan and consultant Rees Morrison will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing a global legal department.
In-house practice raises ethical issues and real-life dilemmas every day that are different from the concerns you may have encountered representing corporate clients in another industry or as an outside counsel.
This program starts with the basics: identifying "the client" when you're not sure who¹s actually personifying the company's interests or acting with proper authority; we then move to a discussion of some of the daily professional challenges of working with employees you counsel, but don't have a formal client relationship with, and give you a heads up on top hot topics such as privilege protection, conflicts, problems that arise due to increased lawyer "mobility," and more.
In this era of corporate scandal associated with financial mismanagement, the accuracy and appropriateness of any organization's financial documents, disclosures, and accounting practices, public company or non-profit, is of paramount importance. You can't learn it all, but there are some things you should know. This informative overview tells you what they are.
Taking advantage of career enhancement and professional development opportunities can be critical to lasting success at work. Across all fields and at all levels of the work force, finding motivational purpose and greater skill training can translate into heightened job satisfaction. The in-house paralegal profession is no
exception. Discover dynamic opportunities to increase your level of on-the-job learning and professional development, gain a deeper
understanding of a legal specialty area, obtain additional formal training, or take steps toward an advanced degree.
Questions and answers from the program addressing issues such as due diligence, agency relationships, payments, scope of work, domain names and more.
Increasingly, companies move labor intensive activities to inexpensive countries or enter into franchise agreements or comparable arrangements, while keeping the ownership of rights, brands and other intellectual property. Apart from already existing brand piracy issues, these arrangements increasingly lead to suspicions and litigation that call for independent fact finding. In this session key aspects of utilizing outside investigative fraud and litigation expertise in brand protection situations were covered.
This Participants' Briefing Book includes a discussion outline and suggested resources on the topic of strategic implementation of law department technologies from ACC's Law Department Executive Leadership group.
Reviews the role of the audit committee, best practices in selecting members, guidelines for committee action, and future concerns about audit committees.
Brief outline on how to promote strong business ethics within a multi-national corporation.
You receive a high profile assignment to work closely with the CFO and other senior management to prepare your company for an IPO. If you don't know where to start or what's in store for you, this panel is for you! This program will cover the laws related to the Form S-1, working with underwriters, setting up your company for 34 Act, SOX and stock exchange compliance, pre-IPO publicity and road show mechanics. You will take home a valuable checklist, resource list and forms to use in your own IPO, plus practical compliance tips, a better understanding of the process, and insights to help avoid pitfalls and panic along the way.
"Patent litigation" - unfamiliar venues, strange procedures, and crippling potential downsides often come to mind with these words, and companies’ patent dockets continue to expand. This panel of patent litigation veterans will draw from their experiences to help you better address your next patent case, from practical tips to new case law that will drive the cutting edge of this important topic.
The web is no longer the exclusive domain of techies and start-up companies and as in-house counsel for your company, it's your responsibility to ensure that as you branch out to do business online, you are compliant with any trademark or copyright regulations. This overview will give you the legal knowledge you need to successfully provide the legal advice your corporation needs to effectively do business on the web. Specific topics to be addressed include Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices, IP implications of purchasing search keywords, copyright violations and third party liability, buying and selling domain names, cybersquatting, UDRP proceedings and much more.
If you’re the CLO of a private company, you know that your job is to balance the increasingly difficult demands of how to be effective in an entrepreneurial or closed/family environment with less public compliance regulation but increasingly high expectations from financiers/investors, banks, insurers, suppliers, customers, regulators, and other stakeholders. This program will help CLOs for private companies become more astute risk managers, discuss strategies for sensitizing the board and senior management to the need for a "public company-type" compliance focus, and offer ideas for improving the relationship between board, management, lawyers and those who regulate the company.
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.
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