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Would you like to move up, either within your current company or at another company? Maybe become a senior lawyer at a large organization or a general counsel of an any-size corporation? You work hard and charting your advancement is always on your to-do list, but somehow it always stays at the bottom, thanks to company meetings and more. This panel of career specialists will discuss meaningful ways for you to approach advancement in the in-house profession and show you ways to build your skill set so that when the next big position comes along, your resume and you will get in the door.

It is a competitive hiring world out there. Once you’ve hired just the right team, your job isn’t over. As a manager you are expected to encourage your employees to excel, allow them opportunity to grow, and maintain an open dialogue to promote sharing of ideas. Our panel will share practical advice on how to hire the staff you need and insights on how to manage and motivate your most valuable resource, your staff.

As a small law department practitioner, your typical day could involve anything from addressing a trademark infringement, reviewing a confidentiality agreement to handling an employment dispute. The list is endless. Benchmark with this panel of small department experts who will share practical tips for maximizing your resources and share thoughts on how to prioritize issues, use technology effectively, and partner successfully with outside counsel to provide your company with the best possible legal solutions.

All assumptions should be checked at the door for this engaging session where our panel of experts will provide an overview perspective on commercial and IP litigation procedure in various jurisdictions, including the UK, Germany France, and the US. Pan-European in-house counsel should plan to attend in order to learn how to reduce the often surprising, and sometimes frustrating, process of suing or being sued in foreign jurisdictions. Topics to be covered include discovery, timing, the appeals process, and enforcement issues.

Your CEO is charged with professional misconduct-what do you do to ensure a thorough and impartial investigation? Through review of case studies, our panel will review the legal, ethical, and practical considerations when allegations involving your senior executives require immediate and intense investigation. Topics for review will include internal and external reporting of allegations and conclusions, attorney-client privilege, intimidation by the senior executive and his team, and implementation of corrective action.

Real estate is a subject about which most in-house counsel will be required to provide advice at some point in their careers. Understanding and managing the law and insurance related to real estate can help minimize the risks, especially as they relate to acquisition, ownership and management, leasing, and construction issues. Take home a checklist of real estate risks, strategies regarding environmental, health, and litigation risks, and how to shift the risk of loss onto others.

If your company enters into commercial agreements with other organizations and you don't understand the law surrounding the insurance issues relating to them, this session is for you! Join us as we look at the various insurance clauses that should be included in your agreements and their legal impact.

This advanced level session will provide you an overview of negotiating international license agreements in the context of a variety of property types (trademarks, patents, copyrights, and databases). Included in the list of topics to be covered will be defining the nature of the properties, licensing fees and payment issues, identifying the role of licensing representatives, choosing the applicable law, choosing the appropriate entity to receive the license, and much more.

We've all seen movies where a smoking gun document surfaces late in a crisis. While this can be entertaining when it is someone else's problem, most of us would prefer to avoid this scenario with our own companies. The best way to avoid smoking guns is to implement sound document retention policies. Topics to be covered include education and document retention challenges, proper maintenance of files, teaching law to non-lawyers and making the law relevant, encouraging non-lawyers to use proper document creation processes, and much more.

Despite limited budgets and unique organizational challenges, smaller companies face many of the same drivers with respect to implementing effective ethics and compliance programs as do large public companies. At the same time, smaller companies face additional challenges because the in-house counsel must wear multiple hats including lawyer, business advisor, price analyst, proposal developer, contract administrator, facility security officer-just to name a few. This program will offer a workplan and specific solutions for in-house counsel who must implement an effective ethics and compliance program with limited financial and staff resources, including a look at some of the conflicts when counsel also wears a business hat.

Since the 1990s, there has been a substantial increase in the number of class action lawsuits filed in federal and state courts. Often these suits are developed in collaboration with plaintiffs' counsel from multiple jurisdictions, and after testing on mock juries. Many of these suits are coordinated with requests for government action against the company and launched with a media blitz. How can you prepare for such an assault, and how should you respond once a complaint is filed? Your legal peers who have survived this new class-action game will identify the plaintiffs' tactics and offer suggestions for early responses as well as long-term strategies in defending class actions. Plus you'll learn strategies on how to reduce risk from such actions and coordinate the activities of your legal department and public relations.

This training course explains the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Standards of Conduct in simple, understandable terms. It includes pop quizzes, news clippings and a final quiz highlighting real-world compliance issues that employees should learn to recognize and respond to appropriately.

To access the FERC Standards of Conduct Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/53519-ferc-standards-of-conduct>www.ACC.com/compliance</a>

Discussion of the ethical and professional issues facing in-house counsel in e-discovery and document retention.

Overview of public relations issues that pharmaceutical companies may encounter. Provides examples of some worst-case scenarios, crisis management tips, constituencies to consider, and tips on how to react to crises.

It has been almost a year since the adoption of the most significant financial reform legislation in recent history. Find out what has been happening on the regulatory and legislative fronts, and what still needs to be done.

Learn techniques to become a more effective negotiator. Gain insights into different approaches to the major legal issues that arise, and discover the cultural “soft skills” you need to navigate successfully across the cultural divide while keeping a firm hold on your ethical compass.

This article is an update on the pharmaceutical, medical device and health care marketplace. This year and last have brought many changes in fraud and abuse regulations, corporate integrity agreements, reporting under the Federal Sunshine Act and the impact of the Mensing decision. Experts from different industries will discuss how they are implementing these changes within their organizations.

This materials covers the elements and process of drafting and ensuring maximum enforcement of noncompetition, nonsolicitation, nondisclosure and assignment of inventions agreements for US-headquartered multinational organizations, with employees and service providers resident and performing services in multiple jurisdictions worldwide.

Part 2 of the Contract Drafting Program. Did you know that most attorneys only have a vague idea of what an indemnification provision does and how to determine if it does what you think it does? This program will dissect indemnification provisions in commercial contracts for both goods and services. Learn what indemnification provisions mean and how you can spot problems/risks and draft a good provision. We will also cover intellectual property indemnities and the interaction of indemnity and insurance provisions.

Examine the differing antitrust/competition and other legal requirements of the European Union that govern cross-border sales distribution arrangements in multiple jurisdictions and take away practical insights on how various legal systems impact a supplier's approach to resale price maintenance, exclusivity, brand integrity, bundling, payment, terminating and/or replacing agents and distributors and conducting online marketing and sales.

The relationship between human resources and the legal department can be fraught with challenge. The boundaries often overlap, especially in difficult or high-profile employee matters. This material, prepared by a seasoned panel of experts, offers tips on how to navigate this challenge and forge effective client relationships.

This program will examine advanced issues that United States companies face when managing legal operations abroad or when they have subsidiaries operating in foreign jurisdictions.

This material addresses trends and best practices in Code of Conduct drafting, based on recent benchmarking, studies of codes of public companies and the use of risk assessments. Learn how to implement an effective risk assessment process.

Includes: Centralized Law Department Model, Decentralized Law Department Model, Hybrid Model

Handout for April 26, 2023 MCLE program by ACC Chicago and Faegre Drinker, Dealing with Distressed Entities: A Primer for the Healthy!

Outlines and charts on international IP & treaties; Madrid vs EU system; international members list; website and cost

Overview of legal options to combat cyber crimes such as libelous comment board posts and website degradation.

Tips for in-house counsel on how to better their career prospects within a company. Includes suggestions on how to structure the employment relationship and stand out among your colleagues.

Collection of relevant legislation related to bankruptcy litigation.

Program Material: SEC regulations; sample letters to shareholders; sample audit committee letters; proxy statements; outline of regulation development.