A strategic IP management program is essential to increasing the value of your company’s innovative power. How can your IP be used to invigorate the business and enhance your company’s competitive position? Using real-world experiences, our panel will share their perspectives on how to develop an effective strategy for leveraging and protecting your company’s IP assets.
For global companies operating across multiple jurisdictions, establishing a single set of compliance policies and guidelines that can be used around the world is a daunting challenge. With increased corporate focus on compliance activities comes a new need to coordinate with other corporate non-lawyer-led functions, such as a Chief Compliance Officer and staff, or internal controls/audit functions. Given the number of players on the field, differences in how each function understands the proper performance of their work, and increasing complexity of regulation, the reality is that there are growing opportunities for both structural confusion and compliance mandates falling through the cracks. Discuss how recognized compliance leaders at global companies are navigating this maze, and bring back ideas on strategies you can use immediately within your company.
Almost every private company is looking for an exit strategy for its investors — most often by means of an IPO or an acquisition by a much larger, usually public, company. Accordingly, most exit scenarios entail a transition into the public company realm. That transition can be rocky, or with some advance planning, you can make it smooth and look like a star. This session will look at public company regulations and best practices as they apply to private companies in transition. Our panel of seasoned corporate practitioners will provide the perspective of private companies preparing for exit scenarios, as well as public companies evaluating private companies as acquisition candidates. Topics covered will include board and committee governance, financial reporting infrastructure, executive and equity compensation, risk management, D&O insurance, employee policies, officer and employee education and others.
Annual Meeting 2006: If your company makes use of or develops free or open source software (FOSS), this session is for you. Our technology counsel will provide an overview of what FOSS is, legal issues concerning such software including litigation, patents, different licenses, warranties, and indemnification involved, where and how FOSS is generally used, and risks and benefits involved with licensing and using these types of software. You will also receive an update on proposed changes to the General Public License (GPL) and take home a list of the legal issues to be aware of to keep your company out of trouble.
As in-house counsel for your company, one of your many roles may be to provide support and guidance to the board. But you need to stay on top of the trends in order to provide the best legal advice possible. Here is your chance to get up to speed as this course will teach you about current best practices in board process, director communication, and on-boarding new directors. You’ll also take home practical tips on the hottest legal issues affecting directors today, including duties and liability, D&O insurance, and corporate governance.
Test your employment law knowledge as our distinguished expert panel highlights significant, interesting and weird employment & labor law decisions and legislative developments.
This program will explore what companies are required under SEC guidance, or may soon be required (by regulation or consumer demand), to disclose regarding how much carbon their products have generated, the chemicals used in their products, the origin of product materials and the well-being of the workers making their products. This may soon be required of the entire supply chain for products.
An overview of Chinese legal developments related to mergers and acquisitions and foreign invested enterprises.
Discover the critical factors to consider in deciding whether and how to form a joint venture with a Chinese partner or to invest in a wholly-owned foreign entity, including issues arising from Chinese foreign ownership restrictions, as well as issues relating to technology transfers, protecting IP, leasing property, hiring staff, dealing with local governments and establishing banking relationships in China.
A giveaway may be deemed to be a sweepstakes or contest; worse, it could end up being deemed an illegal raffle or lottery. Learn the differences between them, how to spot potential problems and how to help ensure that the campaign makes marketing, legal and customers happy.
Part 1 of a two-part Contract Drafting Program. This program will analyze and discuss warranty, epidemic failure and limitation of liability clauses. We will discuss how these clauses interrelate with each other in various types of commercial contracts and how they can be best drafted to suit your needs. The program will focus on drafting skills, and samples, good and bad, will be provided and discussed.
This program materials helps in-house counsel involved in M&As understand the ways in which tax issues might impact corporate transactions.
The 2012 proxy season will be surveyed for the most typical shareholder proposals that made it onto the ballots, and the underlying substantive merits of keeping the status quo versus adopting changes will be explored.
This program focuses on best practices regarding duties, compensation and independence of the lead director.
This interactive session will bring a complicated subject to life with many examples and case scenarios. Learn how the ADAAA has dramatically changed how employers must approach sick and injured employees.
This material includes a sensible and streamlined process for partnering with Information Technology counterparts to create and implement records retention rules and policies into a records management solution.
Learn how to coordinate with IT, human resources, legal department and business units; ensure employment policies and compliance program; acquire the necessary insurance, and work with law enforcement agencies.
Is your company unknowingly stealing the intellectual property of others? Are your employees stealing your company's IP? Are other companies stealing your IP? Learn what to look for and how to protect your company's IP, including building a trade secret protection process, confidentiality/NDA agreements, branding, assignment documents and work-for-hire agreements.
Learn how a legally defensible retention schedule can allow your organization to streamline its business by clearly identifying items that need to be kept and allowing for disposition of items that are not required to be kept by law or policy in the normal course of business.
Interested in starting and growing your compliance program to its "toddler" phase from a solid but immature origin? Listen as case/scenario-based examples illustrate policies and processes and furnish concrete to-do's. Two to three company examples illustrate and foster discussion about specific steps to get to the next level and how to leverage company culture to assist where funding or budget dollars may not be readily accessible.
A detailed presentation on what you need to know about 'meet and confer'.
An overview of the issues in-house counsel should consider when drafting a Code of Conduct. Includes discussion of Audience, Goals, Organization Specific Content, Practicality and Usability, Gifts and Entertainment Policy, Charitable Giving and Political Donations, Application Across an Organization, Business Function Participation, Enforcement, and Employee Discipline.
This Questionable Interview Questions training course will help you (1) avoid the interview questions that could get you and/or our organization into legal trouble, and (2) word your questions to obtain the information you need in an appropriate manner.
For more compliance and ethics training resources, visit ACC's new Compliance Training Portal at <a href=http://www.acc.com/compliance>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.<br/>
This document explains 7 ways to settle a lawsuit faster, better and cheaper.
The ten employment law issues employers should be most concerned about in early 2010.
Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - How to Start a Corporate Lawyering Course at Your Law School
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Examining the Impact of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act
This paper describes, from the point of view of a business software user, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) and discusses how it progressed from its status as a proposed addition to Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to adoption as a stand-alone model. It also describes the reasons for the controversy surrounding the UCITA, presents its current legislative enactment status and discusses opposition to the act.
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Environmental Management Systems
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Encryption and Beyond: Security, Privacy and the Internet
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