The worldwide financial crisis has affected more than just stock markets and the economies of individual countries. It has significantly impacted where and how companies operate and make decisions about Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), particularly in Asia. This session will be conducted as a roundtable discussion of experts who have first-hand experiences in the region. They will discuss the short and long-term effects of the crisis on FDI. The roundtable will also highlight the risks and opportunities that now exist in China, India, Southeast Asia, Russia, Japan and Korea.
We may not all have to address complex environmental permitting issues, but we likely all have to deal with real estate issues. Imagine your company just bought 20 acres for a strip mall or moved into vacant commercial space. Suddenly, buried drums are discovered on the neighboring property and it is now being called a Superfund site. This session will cover issues on how to identify and avoid costly environmental liabilities. The panelists will offer practical insights into environmental terminology, due diligence and negotiating strategies that will help avoid costly expenditures.
Open source software is everywhere and whether you like it or not, your company is using it. It's one of the hottest areas of technology, both in terms of innovation and the ability to implement deep cost savings. This presentation will review the essentials in-house counsel need to know regarding their company's usage of open source software. The panel will also review the latest legal developments in this fast-moving area and what they mean in terms of how to represent your company.
Last year we presented you with a number of professionally acted hypotheticals that ask the audience to interactively navigate a series of ethical close calls. We got such good reviews and the discussion was so active that we are back again with more this year. Visit again with our in-house colleagues as they address a slew of ethical issues that arise in their practices and try to navigate the right course.
This session will focus on the experiences of the major business players in Latin America and their domestic and cross border product and services transactions, as well as financial operations, including raising capital (debt and equity) through the stock exchanges. Other issues to be addressed include; whether debt commitments are being met; whether the regulatory response is designed to provide incentives for better corporate performance, compliance, and governance; whether restructuring or liquidation is the best option to deal with insolvent debtors; and the effectiveness of procedures for restructuring insolvent debtors. Finally, we'll discuss what the future looks like.
This extensive powerpoint outlines competitor agreements, mergers, pricing and distribution agreements, as well as misleading advertising. In both English and French, this will help you decide if your company is ready for Canada's Competition Act.
This material will help the small legal department choose, manage, and work with outside counsel.
This material covers competition law in Switzerland with particular focus on issues of interest to in-house counsel, including useful charts and diagrams for review.
If your organization uses subsidiaries or related companies to carry on parts of its business (in or outside the US), this program will provide practical guidance about some of the legal issues that may arise in relationships between affiliated business entities. These include: issues relating to the creation and capitalization of subsidiary companies; discovery against a parent through its subsidiary; how affiliates can use intellectual property owned by a related company; jurisdictional issues and piercing the corporate veil. Let our panel of your small law peers teach you how to avoid legal liability in these and other related situations.
Climate change is a hot issue around the globe. If you aren’t up to date this session is for you. Our panel of experts will provide an overview of the numerous legal and business issues emerging from state, federal, international and voluntary initiatives aimed at mitigating the potential impacts of global climate change. Attendees will come away from the program with a benchmark of what U.S. companies are doing and a resource guide to better equip them to help guide their company's response to this enormous problem.
Developed with the transactional attorney or corporate generalist in mind, this session will provide you with the fundamentals to draft and negotiate legally enforceable environmental terms and conditions for the purchase of real property and the sale of an on-going concern with environmental liabilities. Our panel will focus, in particular, on environmental law including indemnification provisions, baselines, and related insurance. From this program, you will be able to draft and negotiate environmental terms in a contract without being forced to go to outside counsel for assistance.
ACC compiled the concerns and unresolved challenges identified scores of CLOs of the largest public and private companies in the US and Canada, culminating in a report to the in-house profession of the concerns that keep CLOs awake at night, as well as their vision for the solutions that should be pursued to address them. Look into our unique crystal ball to view the emerging challenges that will occupy your law department’s time and attention in the coming years. Find out what top in-house thought leaders believe is around the corner, and how to best prepare to meet those challenges.
A must for any in-house practitioner needing to stay up to speed on current employment law, this permanent fixture on the ACC Annual Meeting agenda will do just that. Join our panel to learn about new case law and legislation that affects employment and labor law issues. You will take away resources to draw from to help you understand these changes and how they might affect your company's employment practices.
By 2010, nearly one in three workers in the United States will be over the age of 50. As the relative proportion of younger workers declines, attracting and retaining experienced and reliable workers will become a core business strategy for all employers. Our panel discussed the impact that older workers are having on the workplace, legal issues related to phased retirement and nontraditional work arrangements as well as proposed and pending regulations relating to phased retirement.
When a dispute arises concerning the sale of a business, your clever lawyering and intricate draftsmanship can get lost in front of judge and jury. How can you draft your contract to insure the intention of the parties is enforced as well as maximize the protection to your client? Our panel of your litigation peers will share their 20-20 hindsight on the M&A deal and what M&A practitioners should know about how your contracts are received and interpreted, and what you can do to help in case the business deal ends up in the courtroom or arbitration.
Corporations operating internationally take legal and other risks in sending employees abroad. The dangers of international travel are very real for corporate travelers, often deemed ideal targets for criminals. Kidnappings are a daily occurrence, even in cities once thought to be safe. Here is your opportunity to explore the role of in-house counsel in managing the risks and liabilities associated with international business travel including how to identify and analyze travel risks, how best to avoid a crisis, what international law and treaties can do in these situations, and how to be properly prepared should an abduction or ransom situation occur.
ACC Chicago and Greenberg Traurig MCLE program handout for June 28, 2023, Do Tell…Pay Transparency and Equity Trends Every Employer Should Master.
Real estate is a basic part of doing business, whether your employer owns, leases or subleases facilities. Learn the law from your in-house peers who have of necessity become real estate law experts, and discover the key considerations and potential traps that every in-house attorney must know for basic real estate transactions and managing your companies' real property assets.
The counselor to a smaller business is often asked to take on duties for which law school has not prepared her; functions such as human resources, risk management, real estate, media response, or government relations. How does she successfully fulfill these roles without compromising her primary responsibility as legal counsel? This program will focus on the unique opportunities presented in becoming the go to person in taking on non-lawyer roles, as well as the potential issues to consider, such as liabilities being assumed, how the additional roles will affect coverage under the company's D&O policy, the impact on attorney-client privilege, etc.
More than ever, CEOs are looking to their general counsel to run the law department like a business. Typically a cost-center, the legal function in many companies often faces particularly stringent standards for efficiency and sometimes-outright skepticism from CEOs and boards about bottom-line orientation. How are leading GCs and department managers responding to this pressure and demonstrating creative, proactive, and business-savvy leadership in managing the legal function? This stellar panel of CLOs will share their approaches to creative approaches to outside counsel spend, alternative hiring strategies, methods to reducing the general complexity of budgeting and forecasting, and much more.
Give your company a competitive advantage while positioning your department as a proactive business partner by building an effective government relations program without adding additional staff. How you say? Learn the law of lobbying. Join your in-house peers to learn how to develop a national (or state) strategy, how to find and hire lobbyists, and how to launch a legally compliant grassroots effort and create, manage, and evaluate a successful PAC. You will take home tools to identify regulatory trends that may affect your business and learn how to seize legislative opportunities to create competitive advantages for your organization.
Canadian CCU 2007: Companies have to walk the walk. If a company does not have a culture that is committed to ethical conduct and compliance with all applicable laws and regulation, all the talk in the world will be o f no use. After all, Enron had an excellent code of conduct on the books; the problem was that no one paid any attention to it. Learn more about what constitutes a culture of compliance and why it is so important that it exists at your company.
Canadian CCU 2007: Whether you are brand new to in-house practice, or have spent a few years working for a company, your career depends upon some basic skills. Learn how to provide the legal support your client needs, including how to set priorities, communicate legal concepts with management, and understand the legal issues relevant to all businesses.
This Briefing Book includes a discussion outline and suggested resources on the topic of strategic practices in outside counsel management from the inaugural meeting of ACC's Law Department Executive Leadership group.
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 conducted a comparative review of employment law in various jurisdictions and examined 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.
In the session, attendees will be divided into groups led by counsel of varying jurisdictions and will conduct the stages of investigating employee misconduct through a case study. The various stages of an investigation will be covered, including: planning the investigation, determining the scope, gathering the evidence, conducting witness interviews and reaching findings.
This material covers updates on developments in copyright, trademark and patent law.
Learn about open business models that license and develop IP across organizational, industrial and national boundaries.
Gain an overview of what needs to be cleared, how to clear it and whom to contact about movie, music and photo rights, as well as the risks of not doing so.
Discover the importance of legal hold language and preservation techniques.
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