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This material gives an update on regulations surrounding cartels in Europe.

Coverage of the currant regime and the new regime which is set to take the lead in June 2010.

Given the compliance expectations of regulators and the increase in enforcement actions by BIS, DDTC and OFAC, it can be a challenge to stay safe in a global business environment. Should you monitor your international charitable grantees? Does your due diligence of business partners consider risks of trade sanctions or anti-terrorism laws? This program on legal compliance with the FCPA's under-recognized cousins seeks to provide an overview and general primer into trade sanctions, import-export and anti-boycott compliance -- for large and small companies. The program will explore the critical elements of a global compliance program -- including identifying your vulnerabilities, and monitoring the compliance of third parties -- and offer insight into recent enforcement actions.

Whether you already own ‘em or want to buy ‘em, what it the actual business value of a patent? This session will discuss how to value a particular patent, cost effective patent mining, and portfolio mapping strategies, techniques and tips.

This panel will review new trends in FCPA enforcement and how global organizations are handling anti-bribery compliance in an increasingly complex world. Our panel features diverse participation by in-house counsel, representatives from enforcement agencies and global organizations that deal with anti-bribery compliance. What lessons are emerging from the increasing aggressive enforcement of the FCPA? What are the emerging “best practices” in policy, due diligence, and training initiatives? What are the traps to avoid?

Join this session and learn the most recent employment law updates. Important employment-related case law and legislation will be discussed.

New economic realities demand that companies and brands act as good corporate citizens to connect with consumers. Traditional corporate philanthropy is increasingly eclipsed by “cause marketing” techniques, such as green marketing, donation-with-purchase, collecting contributions at checkout, online “voting” for charities, sale of donation cards and a myriad of others. Special charitable initiatives like Project Red have become global brands, themselves. In striving to do good while doing well, companies and brands need to be aware of the broad array of federal and state laws that can affect cause marketing efforts. These include commercial coventurer laws, professional fundraising regulation, IRS sponsorship and self-dealing guidelines, and general consumer protection laws prohibiting false or deceptive advertising. International campaigns introduce additional complications. This program will provide a structured overview and analytical framework for legal regulation of cause marketing programs, along with practical advice for compliance and best practices in this fast-growing field.

This EU Competition Law training course provides an overview of EU competition law and helps you recognize and deal with "red flags" — situations that present a risk of competition-law violations and legal liability.

After a summary of the most important laws and legal principles and a discussion of some situations that should trigger red flags, you'll play a game that presents situations for you to analyze. If you respond correctly, you will move through the game and earn a Certificate of Completion.

To access the EU Competition Law Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/37382-eu-competition-law>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.

This Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) training course will help you understand issues involving overtime, how "exempt" employees are classified, independent contractors, and FLSA record-keeping requirements, among other things.

To access the Fair Labor Standards Act Training Course, visit, <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35553-fair-labor-standards-act>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.

The U.S. Government, through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), uses economic sanctions and trade embargoes to protect the country's economy and enhance its security. Your Company must comply with all applicable sanction and embargo regulations or you — and in some cases the individual employees involved — will face substantial penalties. This 30-minute training course provides an overview of OFAC sanctions and their key provisions. It will help you recognize situations presenting a risk of legal violations and deal with them properly.

To access the Economic Sanctions and Trade Embargoes Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/37383-ofac-sanctions-and-embargoes>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.

Every in-house practitioner has negotiated between one and a million contracts in his career. But do you excel in this element of your job or cringe when the occasion presents itself? Here is your chance to refresh everything you learned in contract law and forgot. Unlike law school though, in addition to the law, we'll send you home with a set of practical tools to manage the contract process including those that are difficult to negotiate. Topics will include tips on managing the battle of the forms, responding to overreaching and inapplicable terms and conditions, and setting up internal contract management processes and controls.

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.

702 - 90 Tips in 90 Minutes: Law Department Best (and Worst) Practices

Brief overview of employment law developments as of 2003

This substantive overview will provide you with the information you need to provide an informed legal opinion about listing or delisting your company. You'll learn the legal requirements a public company must abide by in jurisdictions such as the U.K., France, Germany, and Japan, the trends toward consolidation in Europe, the economics of multiple listings as well as the arguments for delisting and the requirements to do so in several global jurisdictions. This program will also address delisting requirements and related registration issues faced by foreign private issuers in the U.S.

701 ABC's of Intellectual Property Due Diligence for M&A Transactions

Instead of shrinking in horror, let our panel of experts help you answer burning questions in the world of ediscovery including: Is that electronic evidence going to be authenticated and admissible in court? Isn’t there a better way to find the data I’m looking for? The court wants us to produce what? By when? How can you obtain an ediscovery order you can live with? How can you avoid discovery related sanctions? And, what was the judge thinking? A discussion of key cases since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which went into effect in January 2007 is included.

Given the cyclical nature of the insurance markets, which have compensated for recent disasters and increases in litigation by raising premiums substantially, numerous nonprofit organizations have struggled to better manage this process. Many have tried alternative arrangements such as insurance captives, which place the organization in an ownership position and more directly involved in the process. Other nonprofit organizations have reviewed their risk management practices and have come up with new ideas and concepts, including enterprise risk management. Join experienced counsel who have used these approaches for a survey of current risk management and captive trends, and determine whether such approaches may benefit your organization.

We all know there are new ediscovery provisions in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But how can a small law department determine the best records retention policy and then manage the records to efficiently respond to the inevitable ediscovery request? What are the basics you must be prepared to address? How do you protect yourself and your IT department from being overwhelmed by burdensome requests? We addressed these issues and more in this program and provided checklists to help you manage the process.

Whether your law department is large or small, general counsel can be pro bono and diversity leaders: enhancing the company’s commitment to socially responsible behavior, serving our profession’s highest goals, and increasing performance and job satisfaction for corporate counsel. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s CLO, and Laura Stein, ACC’s Board Chair and CLO of The Clorox Company (2008 Co-Chairs of the CPBO project), hosted this executive discussion exploring the effective implementation of pro bono and diversity initiatives in law departments. Open only to chief legal officers, the CLO Club was an interactive discussion that employed large and small group dialogue for sharing ideas on successful practices and advice on how to meet challenges.

An overview of intellectual property. Provides guides to trademarks, branding selection, trademark clearance searches, immediate elimination search, preliminary searches, filing considerations, the application process, and other issues related to copyright and patents.

Since the 2004 revisions to the US Sentencing Guidelines, many companies have invested significant time, energy and funds to enhance their internal ethics and compliance programs and infrastructures to ensure that they are effective at detecting and deterring criminal and unethical conduct. However, many US-based multinationals have found that when they attempt to "export" these programs to their foreign offices and subsidiaries, complications arise due to differences in US and local laws, standards of business conduct and accepted ways of dealing with government officials –– not to mention differences in language and culture. This session will explore ways to combat these problems and hurdles while maintaining a respectful, harmonious environment.

In-house counsel who have worked with great paralegals know that they save money, save time, and help an office run right. Come to this session and learn about the many benefits that the savvy use of paralegals can bestow. We'll cover how using paralegals lowers costs, increases productivity and enhances job satisfaction for the attorneys and the paralegals. We'll also present a number of successful models and engage in hands-on exercises. Don't miss this session –– the time that you save by using well-educated paralegals could be your own!

Many companies acquire real estate from time to time. This can range from acquisitions to meet the needs of a company's operational growth to acquisition of real estate in connection with mergers and acquisitions of other companies or business units. The real estate due diligence process can be time-consuming and costly. To a non-real estate lawyer, it can also involve arcane issues of real estate law (such as easements, rights of first refusal, liens and encroachments). This panel is designed to provide the audience with knowledge that they can use to perform real estate due diligence or manage outside law firms providing that service.

Gone global? More and more companies are stretching their operations across the world; in-house employment lawyers can no longer afford to be experts only in US employment law. Instead, those who work for multinational companies must be able to manage complex multijurisdictional human resources projects, as well as employment issues arising in many countries simultaneously. This panel will address some of the key challenges such as managing global reductions in force, and provide advice on best practices.

This panel will address developments since 2008, with emphasis on the repercussions of the US financial crisis for the European Union, Asian markets, and other global economies. Topics covered will include the Obama Administration's approach to the crisis, and related developments in the European Union, China, and Hong Kong economies. Panelists will also address proposed changes in legal and regulatory structures to respond to the crisis in the US, the European Union, China and Japan.

Under the Obama administration, companies should expect to see a shift in OSHA's emphasis toward greater standards enforcement and away from voluntary partnerships. Employers should prepare for the agency to focus on OSHA recordkeeping, new safety and health standards, a Federal ergonomics standard, and ongoing Congressional debate to the OSH Act. This session will also address actions that in-house counsel can take today to remain on top of the changes and assure compliance.

The company's subsidiary is being sold to a competitor. The CEO's daughter wants to buy a house. An employee confesses an inappropriate activity to you. Conflict can be tough to avoid for in-house counsel. This program will help you assess the critical issues of who your client is, what constitutes a conflict, how far you can go in providing advice to those who aren't your corporate client, and how you can avoid or extricate yourself from this logjam of issues.

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.