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This webcast transcript discusses important opinions on patent law and provides practical guidance on patent litigation, opinions, prosecution, and licensing.

This webcast transcript focuses on the key issues that corporate counsel should be addressing with senior management team and board of directors on a proactive basis to help meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities created by the current unprecedented conditions in our financial markets.

Discusses the acquisition and divestiture process, focusing on three phases: preparing for a transaction, completing a transaction, and integrating a transaction. Also includes practical tips for a successful transaction.

This webcast transcript addresses issues applicable to the pre-employment screening process and onboarding. Some specific topics include FCRA compliance and state law tangents, the legality of different types of background checks, and issues with using public source checks such as google and myspace.

Discusses what role corporate counsel should play in preparing the corporation to meet its information security obligations under the law, a corporation's obligations when not regulated under laws such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley or HIPAA, and how to prevent information security breaches.

Analyzes how unions succeed in pressuring employers to agree to neutrality agreements, recognition on the basis of authorization card checks, and corporate campaigns and discusses how to develop strategies that anticipate and respond to these and other union tactics that are trademarks of the movement to unionize without NLRB elections.

Identifies four significant challenges that companies are facing in managing their records and addresses practical steps towards corporate records compliance and enforcement.

In this webcast, participants learned preventative strategies for dealing with today's Top 10 emerging workplace trends in California. Read this transcript to learn about urgent topics such as disability leave management, wage and hour compliance, class action litigation, immigration law compliance and much more.

Discussion highlights key copyright issues for in-house counsel and emphasizes the use of copyrighted text materials and music for business purposes.

Handout for ACC Chicago and Charles River Associates February 8, 2023 MCLE program, Corporate Compliance: Monaco Memo and Key Regulatory Development.

Examines the history of FTC's guidance on green marketing claims, and potential changes as a result of the workshops that the FTC is conducting in 2008.

This webcast transcript addresses how to prepare for and respond to corporate crises.

This webcast addresses the legal issues relating to wind farm development in Canada, including environmental, aboriginal and regulatory considerations, along with benefits and challenges of financing renewable energy projects in Canada.

Topics include: finding the minimal standard expected with risk assessment, the role of in-house counsel in the increasingly common corporate social responsibility efforts, the trends emerging in compliance and ethical leadership efforts, and how much information a company should release to the public about its efforts in a culture of ethics and compliance.

Targets issues regarding wage and hour compliance and how corporate counsel can be prepared by building effective compliance and auditing programs.

The webcast explains: how to comply with section 409A's documentation requirement; what to do with good faith positions that extend beyond December 31, 2007; the liberalized rules in key areas, e.g., stock options, severance, reimbursement arrangements and more; how to deal with key problem areas, including employment agreements, plans distinguishing between different separations from service, and payments tied to recovery from disability; and strategies for the final months of the transition period.

Analyzes issues with managing workforce reductions in certain key jurisdictions in Europe and seeks to identify some practical tips for the management of multi-jurisdictional workforce reduction programs where problems around timing and consistency arise.

This webcast transcript discusses broad proxy voting and corporate governance trends believed to dominate the 2006 proxy season and their possible impact over the next decade.

A webcast discussion of the practical impact of the new Office of Federal Contract Compliance and EEOC regulations defining "Internet Applicant".

This webcast includes a panel of in-house counsel from small, medium, and large departments sharing strategies used in tracking outside counsel performance.

Covers issues regarding new environmental disclosure obligations where the concerns about disclosure have been heightened in light of the Sarbanes-Oxley law, the FIN 47 guidance, as well as recent SEC enforcement action that was taken against Ashland. Discusses new environmental due diligence rules that are going into effect as a result of the Brownfields Amendments of 2002 and EPA's final all-appropriate inquiry rule.

This webcast provided insights into the opportunities for doing business with companies in chapter 11 proceedings, key indicators of pitfalls for technology and software due diligence, creative ways to limit credit exposures, how to avoid and defend preference and fraudulent transfer suits and acquiring assets from troubled companies.

This webcast discussed the goals of effective training, how to differentiate learning from remembering, the importance of reinforcing the messages periodically and how effective training can satisfy a judge or prosecutor should a compliance issue arise.

Discusses key insurance coverage issues that insureds face after Hurricane Katrina.