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.
This covers the basics of banking for in-house counsel in Canada.
This extensive presentation contains information on the best ways at foiling fraudulent activity, including the key steps to discovering fraud, investigating it and gathering the right electronic evidence.
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.
The SEC, IRS and FDIC have recently issued regulations governing equity and phantom equity plans that may result in clawback, change in control, valuation, accounting issues and other illnesses that may affect your plans. This panel will provide a checklist of known ailments, a method to diagnose your plan and treatment options to bring your plan into good health. In a town hall setting, participants will be asked to share their own "home remedies" with the group.
A key question in both the United States and Canada is whether infrastructure and other public projects should be structured as public-private partnerships (P3s). Explore the lessons learned from completed P3 projects, using examples from Canadian and US infrastructure projects and the approaches adopted by leading jurisdictions throughout the world. It will outline what private sector companies and their in-house counsel need to know to maximize their success. The program will also provide valuable insight to in-house counsel about design-build agreements, operating and management contracts and other infrastructure project documents.
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 that don’t comply with local labor and employment law regarding implementing workforce reductions expose themselves to significant legal liability. Each country’s laws are different and often times highly ambiguous. There are many legal landmines along the way. This session will answer questions such as: What are the biggest challenges for employers when making these decisions? What are the most common legal claims being asserted today on behalf of laid-off workers and how could they have been avoided? What are the legal challenges to implementing decisions around workforce reductions? What are the lessons learned from making bad personnel decisions during tough economic times?
Panelists will cover various strategies to help you manage all aspects of commercial loan restructuring including: loan modification and restructuring, commercial loan short sales, SBA loan settlement and restructuring, and lender strategies versus obligor’s strategies. They will also answer questions such as: What is the primary focus of an examiner's review of a commercial loan? What are the best methods for improving the collectability of a commercial loan? What is the role of the guarantors?
Where does in-house counsel’s obligation to promote business interests meet the obligation to disclose bad news? Join experienced counsel as they address what actions to take during the first 24 hours after you are notified that your company is being investigated by the government, how to handle executives and employees who mistakenly press for in-house counsel to represent their interests (as opposed to the company’s), and how to handle communications with employees, the press, clients and suppliers. The program also will address ethical limits on government actions and appropriate means for invoking them.
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.
What is the current state of records management for most companies? What “best practice” trends are evident in those companies with an advanced records management maturity model? Panelists of this program will present an in-depth study of more than 3,500 participants that provides insight into how other organizations are doing when it comes to compliance. The insights you hear at this session will help you and your company: understand why it’s imperative for legal to be involved with your records management initiative; discover why the department to which your records management function reports impacts records management maturity; and learn why highly regulated and litigated companies lead the charge when it comes to having strength in key areas of records and information management.
A new administration means new regulatory initiatives, particularly when the presidency changes parties. As a result, federal agencies have been become a focal point of interest to corporate counsel seeking to ensure that their companies comply with increasingly complicated, and perhaps burdensome, new federal regulations. This session will provide corporate counsel with a toolbox for the next time a government agency gets on their company’s nerves.
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.
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