CCU 2007: This interactive workshop will provide busy in-house paralegals with the skills to balance professional and personal demands, gain clarity to set goals and priorities, make choices to use time efficiently, and most importantly, draft a personal time management action plan. During the session, you will receive focused information interspersed with hands-on exercises to allow for immediate feedback, so you can return home with a clear understanding of the concepts and use these skills to your benefit.
CCU 2007: Our panel of seasoned labor and employment specialists highlight serious mistakes that could cost your company money, but could have otherwise been avoided with prior warning. Learn how to uncover these prevalent employment law mistakes in your organization, how to fix them, and how to prevent them from becoming serious legal problems.
This Executive Report highlights key issues and takeaways discussed by General Counsel during a session in Atlanta on 'Managing the Global Law Department.'
Annual Meeting 2006: 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.
Annual Meeting 2006: Managing risk is an important part of every in-house lawyer’s portfolio. How do you balance the negotiations of limitations of liability and indemnification provisions without risking the deal? What can your company live with, and what can you recommend and still sleep at night? What leverage can you exert against a party that is a Goliath when you are David? Learn about legal strategies, and take home best practice methods to apply in your own company.
Learn how leading departments deal with the complexity of managing intellectual property in today's global marketplace. What management approaches work? What technology tools and business processes lead to success or to failure? How can communications be best focused to draw from the strengths of the in-house and outside lawyers, subject matter experts, and business team? Our panel of corporate IP specialists will share with you successful models for managing a global patent portfolio, including successful techniques and pitfalls to avoid.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and a variety of state anti-discrimination laws prohibit bias based on sex, color, race, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, disability and sexual orientation, among others. Image discrimination can be linked to any of these characteristics, and whether a characteristic is ‘mutable’ and ‘immutable’ becomes important in determining whether an individual has suffered from such bias. In this session, participants will explore the concepts, legal underpinnings, and recent developments involved in recognizing and eliminating image discrimination in the counsel’s office and in the wider corporate environment.
Annual Meeting 2006: The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry faces a unique and daunting set of statutory and regulatory issues, including, but not limited to, the handling and disposal of radioactive materials, employee health & safety procedures involving unique and exotic compounds, NRC licensing, and good laboratory practices. Smaller companies in this industry also face unique challenges such as developing sound EH&S programs in-house as well as negotiating leases with landlords unfamiliar with biotech research operations. Our panelists will explore the legal foundations of these issues, discuss the regulatory framework in which their respective companies operate, and lay down a suggested path for both large and small companies in this industry to follow.
Annual Meeting 2006: Don't know a copyright from a trademark, or just looking for a refresher to help you spot issues? This program will cover the fundamental issues in intellectual property law, including copyrights, trademarks, and patents. You will learn how to spot major issues and avoid common mistakes.
Program Materials: Sample retention letter, evaluation, new matter form, case studies, and outline for counsel proposal, conflicts of interest waiver language.
Articles on risk management, charts and outline focusing on indeminity/insurance with Louisana and New Mexico law and conflict of law.
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Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Intellectual Property Year in Review
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Domestic and International Corruption: Protect Your Construction Project
Guide on using the internet to connect to investors and shareholders. Includes advice on controlling online content, disclaimers, shareholder relations, and the limitations of electronic communication.
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Current Securities Regulation in the E-Commerce World
Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Current Issues Faced by Nonprofit Organization Counsel
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - The Internet Age Redefines the Workplace
Presented at ACC's Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Technology Tools for Small Law Departments
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Technology Tools for Small Law Departments
Handout for "Roll With the Changes: An Update on Five New Employment Laws Enacted in Illinois in 2021" webinar on September 23, 2021 by ACC Chicago and Epstein Becker Green.
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