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 PowerPoint of the February 28, 2006 program on Key Competition/Antitrust Issues in Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Merger Notification and Review.
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.
The lawyers and accountants made a treaty in 1976 that forms the basis on which attorneys can respond to audit letters inquiring about loss contingencies (particularly pending or threatened litigation) in a way that provides the accountants information needed for financial statements while protecting the attorney-client privilege. Recent corporate disclosure scandals have resulted in increasing pressure for additional disclosures. This session will examine the current legal and accounting requirements in this area, including management and lawyer responses to auditor requests for information, Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 303, and other touchy issues.
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.
This interactive presentation will provide you with insight into valuable strategies to prepare for and respond to employment related government audits and compliance with current agency initiatives. Our panel will explore best practices for avoiding auditing issues when that inevitable knock on the door comes.
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.
The use of free and open source software (FOSS) has been hotly debated in recent months and issues about its uses, benefits, and risks are still unclear. If your company makes use of or develops free or open source software, 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, including pollution. We'll also send you home with a list of some of the legal issues to be aware of to keep your company out of trouble.
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.
Your company's valuable proprietary information is at risk! What your employees may not know about what they can and cannot share may be costing you valuable business. What legal tools can you use to protect your company's IP? Our panel of IP and employment law experts will coach you through the methods to put a protective wall around those prized corporate assets. You'll take home detailed checklists and procedures to design and implement an enforceable IP protection program.
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
You won't want to miss this legal overview of the hottest issues in employee benefits. Our in-house employment specialists and government representatives will provide an update on such topics as employee privacy, stock options and other deferred compensation, and developments in ERISA and state laws.
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.
This hilarious and highly interactive session will have you thinking hard about your interactions with the media. How does communication with the press impact the law? In-house counsel at any level will be sure to take home at least one new piece of advice as we address such topics as how reporters and editors think, how to deal more effectively with them, the legal ethics involved in communicating with the press, the consequences of press communication on government investigations, and much more.
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
907 Top 10 Environmental Enforcement Actions-Are You Prepared?
A look at taking your product to market and the intellectual property issues that arise.
This session will focus on customs laws, import/export laws and regulations, and World Trade Organization issues. What should you do when US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) penalizes you for a perceived violation? With the increasing convergence of government security regulations, corporate counsel should have a general understanding of both Department of Commerce and State Department's export regulations, including the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), the EAR (Export Administration Regulations) and other applicable government bodies' regulations. This 'primer' will help counsel to identify what they need to know about export compliance and how to set up a compliance program. In addition, the panelists will highlight recent changes in the laws with regard to WTO enforcement trends and discuss recent cases.
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