Effectively Managing Public Relations for High-Profile Litigation. Includes a checklist designed to help in-house counsel consider steps to improve management of media-involved legal matters, talking points, as well as a discussion on public relations management.
710 - Is Open OK? Managing New Open Sources, Resources, Risks, & Rules
707 Environmental Incidents: Preparation, Response, & Investigation. A discussion of how to deal with an environmental incident based off a detailed hypothetical.
A discussion on risks faced by not-for-profits and how to analyze and insure the risks of your not-for-profit.
603 - Sarbanes-Oxley One Year Later: The Impact on Foreign Issuers
506 Establishing & Maintaining an Effect Best Employment Practices Audit Program
Annual Meeting 2006: Short on staff, short on funds? How can a small law department leverage technology and manage knowledge to be successful, stay legally compliant, and handle work flow? A panel of your small department peers will share with you the benefits of using intranets and other available technology to its fullest potential and gain efficient and economical results.
Annual Meeting 2006: Increasingly, officers, directors, and employees are being named as individuals in litigation and enforcement proceedings. This session is designed to give you legal knowledge on when and how to indemnify these individuals. Our panel of experts will explain the law and work through the plethora of issues that need to be considered.
Annual Meeting 2006: You may have heard that everything about bankruptcy changed this year. While the reality is a little less drastic, there were major changes to the code. Are you prepared? If you want to keep up with recent legislative changes and the constant barrage of judicial decisions this is the session for you. This session will cover the basics of the new code provisions and significant changes. It is a basic level course for non-bankruptcy lawyers to help you spot issues and know what to look out for.
Annual Meeting 2006: Many US employees have no idea of the exposure they are facing by managing overseas business dealings, or worse, being registered as officers or managers of non-US companies. Not only do numerous US and non- US laws hold an employee personally liable for certain statutes occurring outside the US, but civil law countries do not recognize a business judgment rule defense to personal liability. Think you or others in your organization might be exposed but don’t know how to proceed? This comprehensive discussion will use hypothetical scenarios to teach you how to counsel your staff about personal liability issues, how to set up legal safeguards to avoid those liabilities, and how to deal with ethical issues related to employees’ personal liability issues vs. your duty as counsel to the company.
Corporate generalists will benefit from this update on the law regarding advertising in established and emerging marketing channels. Learn the status of regulation at the state and federal levels on such issues as telemarketing, direct mail, fax, internet/e-mail, and television. Attendees will also hear from a representative from the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection on its enforcement priorities for the year ahead.
Ranging from key technology licenses central to a business model to operational IT licenses for office software, every company’s counsel must advise on inbound licensing. This nuts and bolts course will take the perspective of and focus on the legal issues involved in licensing including coordinating licensed rights from different vendors with the licensee’s business model, impact of standard provisions on the licensee’s operations, and must-have contract clauses for licensees.
Fear drives much of the agenda for internal investigations particularly in the post-SOX world. Whistleblowing has become a common office cooler topic at many companies. Whether from a whistleblowing event or normal review process, investigation findings can be a valuable source of business intelligence, risk management, and quality improvement, but how do you conduct your investigations properly? Learn how to establish an effective process for receiving and evaluating whistleblower reports, your ethical obligation when faced with whistleblower reports, how to use whistleblower reports to meet your legal obligations and how to deal with SEC while maintaining your legal ethics and your loyalty to your client.
A key issue for in-house counsel, this subject is probably raised on a daily basis in many law departments. Are you aware of all the options, benefits, and drawbacks? If not, you will want to stick around for this session where leading practitioners on the subject will discuss the negotiation, implementation, and management of fixed fee and other alternative billing arrangements from the perspective of both in-house and outside counsel. Specifically you will learn about the different types of fixed fee and alternative billing arrangements, how best to negotiate such agreements including which services, fees, and costs should be included, the pros and cons of these billing arrangements, and how to manage these arrangements successfully so that both the client and outside counsel benefit.
Should the law department take the lead role in compliance? What is the impact of the legal codes of ethics on attorneys working in the compliance function? Our corporate practitioner panel will share with you their insights to understand the relationships among law, internal audit, finance, external auditors, and any independent compliance departments and their outside advisors, appreciate the legal and ethical issues that can arise among parties involved, and propose viable solutions to making the effort work. We will take a particular look at the ethical obligations of lawyers and relate these to the working relationships lawyers have with other staff departments.
This basics course will provide an essential overview for anyone thinking about doing business in India. Corporate counsel with expertise in the region will share with you their insights into the Indian legal and governmental system, compliance challenges, corruption and the FCPA, US export controls on sales to specific Indian entities, complying with Indian competition law, obtaining approvals for foreign ownership of an Indian company, and much more.
California has long had a reputation for heavily regulating its businesses and companies, particularly with respect to the environment. As long as you sell a product in the Golden State, you should know about the state’s environmental labeling and disclosure laws, such as Proposition 65. Our panel of EH&S experts will provide a survey of overlapping laws and regulations, as well as discuss the best ways for companies to find their way through this wild and wicked maze.
In-house lawyers looking for an update on the fundamentals of employee benefits law, this program is for you. Our panel of labor specialists will provide you with a comprehensive look at the basic laws and regulations governing employee pension and welfare benefit plans. You will gain a basic knowledge of the rules that apply to both qualified and nonqualified plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and get an update on recent legislation affecting plans.
Annual Meeting 2006: This perennial Annual Meeting favorite is sure to deliver in 2006! Our expert panelists will continue the tradition of providing updates on the latest securities law developments. Learn what policies have been adopted and what is under construction. Plus take home practical advice on how you and your organization can comply with changes in the law and regulations.
Annual Meeting 2006: The Fair Labor Standards Act imposes stringent requirements on employers to classify employees properly, and then to treat both exempt and non-exempt employees appropriately. With class action suits under the FLSA on the rise in recent years, you need to review your company’s pay practices to ensure that your company is not in violation of these guidelines. Take this opportunity to receive an overview of the wage and hour laws that result in the most class action suits and learn how to proactively conduct wage and hour audits to uncover errors and correct them before plaintiffs attorneys come knocking.
Annual Meeting 2006: As quantitative management approaches become more common, we hear that it’s all about the numbers! How do you translate the value and worth of your small law department into something quantifiable? Better yet, how can you use the numbers to your benefit? Come and share your thoughts with our panel of experienced veterans on how to communicate your results in a way that the number crunchers will understand.
Annual Meeting 2006: So you’ve gone in-house. This is an exciting change, but it is only the beginning. Early impressions are important. Your in-house success will be affected by the impression you make with your colleagues, boss, and management during your first year. This program will include practical advice from in-house counsel who have lived through that first year. Learn from their wins and their mistakes how to make a great impression your first year.
Annual Meeting 2006: Have employees who work in California? Then you know the list of employment regulations the state imposes on businesses operating within its borders can be daunting to the uninitiated. Our panel of seasoned CA labor counsel will present their list of the top 10 things an employer should know when doing business in the state including quirky provisions of the CA Labor Code, wage and hour laws, who are protected parties under CA discrimination laws, and much more.
Annual Meeting 2006: New international conventions and an increase in the number of prosecutions, record-breaking fines, ethical investigations, and jail terms all mean that you and your company cannot afford not to understand the laws that operate in this area. Don’t let your company get into a questionable position. Learn the law you need now in order to properly counsel your client. Our international experts versed in corrupt practice dealings will provide an overview of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, OECD Convention on Corrupt Practices, and the UN Convention Against Corruption and guidance on due diligence of contractors and agents, and doing business in high risk countries. There will also be a discussion of the intricate ethical issues lawyers face when operating in the global arena.
Annual Meeting 2006: In-house counsel are charged with assessing and managing legal risks. How do you work with the organization’s sales team to meet your goal and theirs? In other words, how do you avoid becoming the sales prevention department? Issue spotting and good communication up will save you time in the end. Learn methods to manage the sales contract process, teach your clients to use your expertise more efficiently, and maintain contract integrity.
Annual Meeting 2006: Alternative work arrangements are growing in popularity in the business world as a means of addressing quality of life issues, environmental concerns, employee retention, and gaining a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. One the other hand, telecommuting arrangements create a whole new set of legal issues. Our panel of in-house will explore the various issues relating to alternative work arrangements including telecommuting, job sharing, and part-time work. Learn the ins and outs so you can intelligently address the questions should your company wish to offer alternative work arrangements including the pros and cons of such arrangements, both for the employer as well as the employee.
Annual Meeting 2006: Whether you are new to in-house or new to the field of technology law, this program will address the essential legal issues you must be able to spot in order to protect your company. Our panel of experts will discuss the hottest topics including doing business online, consumer privacy, developing and protecting IP, licensing, and implementing complex technology systems. Take home a basic checklist of the do's and don'ts and more importantly, a list of solutions to address these issues.
The following outline is intended to provide a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of this discussion topic. There may be other issues we’ve not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline: you should feel free to raise these additional thoughts, as you like.
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