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In the post-SOX world, nonprofits are struggling to identify and adopt financial management best practices. Attorneys can no longer rely on the CFO to be solely responsible for financial management. Take this opportunity to learn what the law says about internal controls, internal auditors, audit and finance committees, reporting on your 990, reporting to watchdog groups, executive compensation, investment oversight, board and spouse travel, reasonable board perks, and much more.

How can you be sure that you and your staff gain the compensation and other rewards you need to keep you motivated and employed at your current company? Learn from our panel of experts from small, medium, and large departments how they worked with their managements and human resource professionals to address compensation issues including creative approaches when the money wasn't there. You will take home tools for assuring that your compensation program is legally compliant, competitiveness of compensation, increased appreciation for the value and selection of non-monetary rewards, how to educate your HR department to the unique needs of your department and what the pitfalls and strategies are that can lead to a more representative sampling of comparable positions.

Everyone likes to talk about "partnerships" with outside counsel, but often we do not focus on building effective and mutually beneficial relationships. Learn how. Topics will include ethical issues and requirements for engagements, billing, and legal work product.

Standards of business conduct are becoming increasingly important, as is getting acceptance and engagement across multiple jurisdictions. Why do some jurisdictions dislike the whistleblower phone line? How can a cross-border company manage local sensitivities? Our panel will examine how some of the largest companies tackle this on a global basis, with lessons and experiences for all to share.

As China becomes more integrated into the world economy, and both a major market and supplier, large and small companies from around the world are doing business with Chinese companies or in China. Your company may already be doing business in China or may be contemplating such a move. This program will offer a breakdown of the legal advantages and disadvantages to conducting business in China. We'll cover recent changes in Chinese laws, results of recent lawsuits, tips on opening relationships, and developing successful business strategies.

This refresher course will bring you back up to speed on common principles you will need to know when working on European contracts. Your international peers will cover such contract issues as terms and conditions, which rules of law apply, distribution and sales laws, governing law, remedies, and soft factors when negotiating contracts in Europe. Plus the panel will review the pertinent sections of SOX and provide examples of how companies have developed compliance programs to benefit their contracting efforts.

902 - Common Issues in Dealing with Sales & Marketing Reps and Distributors

808 - Challenges of the New Attorney Professional Conduct Standards

611 - Attorney-Client Privilege & Attorney Work-Product Doctrines in an In-house Setting

The images of lawyers in film impacts the professional behavior of lawyers and the perception of lawyers by the public.

Basic guidelines for developing a compliance program, taking into consideration changes to traditional programs due to the internet and sentencing guidelines. Also gives tips on training employees.

Discusses the evolving role of corporate counsel, adding and assessing the value of law departments, and communicating that value. Also discusses synchronizing business & legal priorities.

Discusses benefits of using intranets and what types of information to display on them.

General information and tips on getting up to speed as a new general counsel, including employment/HR issues, IP issues, and contracts.

Presented at ACCA/GCCA European chapter 2002 Annual Meeting. This presentation was part of the program on buying distressed companies.

Program Material: Sample Client Surveys (Deere & Co., Sears, International Paper Law Depts.)

Presented at ACC's Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Defining the IP Attorney’s Role in the E-Commerce Revolution

Program - Career Development: Marketing for the Mature Job Seeke Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Averting Disaster: How to Turn Around a Run-Away Jury

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - A Comparative Analysis between U.S. and European Competition Laws

With the increase of corporate globalization, potentially relevant evidence can reside in many countries. From foreign language and computer language barriers, to privacy laws and safe harbor issues, counsel encounter numerous challenges when litigation is anticipated. It’s critical to understand the rules and regulations that govern the access to and the use of foreign data. This session will examine ethical issues and practical solutions for cross-border e-discovery, including e-discovery vs. e-disclosure — managing conflicts between US and foreign laws and procedures, cross-border, multi-language e-discovery requirements — managing data from collection and translation through review and production, and cost containment — managing the costs of e-discovery while data volumes and legal complexities explode.

For those companies who embrace sustainable, eco-friendly and green (SEG) business practices, whether it's through the construction of LEED certified buildings, office waste recycling programs, electronic communications to customers in lieu of paper, or other climate actions taken to reduce the size of their carbon footprints, many challenges may arise. This program will explore the SEG programs offered at several different companies, including one with an internationally-based parent corporation, the legal issues associated with these corporate initiatives to be green, and the steps taken by in-house counsel to reduce any associated risks.

This program will discuss legal issues that arise in a tight credit market. Negotiating security arrangements, factoring defaults arising from failures of guarantors and back up credit arrangements, reductions in credit limits, are among the topics to be examined.

Have you ever wondered what are the roles and responsibilities of a corporate secretary? Experienced corporate secretaries and board counsel will offer tips and views, with a significant portion of the session devoted to Q&A. This session will be a great opportunity to get your questions answered and benchmark with your peers.

Part one of this two-part program will guide you through the steps you must take regarding records before litigation is foreseeable and once it has commenced in order to be prepared. The panel will describe effective practices in collection and production that will prepare your counsel for mandatory discovery conferences. During the program, you will grasp the details about some of the tools currently available to in-house practitioners and hear about some of the emerging technologies that may soon be available to help manage this process. Learn the tricks to managing discovery and combining the talents of your law firms and vendors to achieve better results and greater cost savings.

It's not possible to keep up with it all, but this session will help you stay up-to-date with changes that effect E-Verify, business ethics programs and mandatory disclosure requirements in 2009. Don't get caught off guard! This course will provide a summary of the new requirements for prime contractors and subcontractors as well as an up-to-date assessment of where things are headed after the first nine months.

Congress recently passed the most significant amendments to the federal consumer product safety laws in 30 years. These changes affect not just manufacturers of consumer products, but also importers, private labelers, distributors and retailers. This session will address how these sweeping changes impact consumer product companies, new legal risks, and new burdens that have been placed on sellers and manufacturers. Developments in consumer product safety, including recent Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations, federal, private, and international efforts to bolster import safety, and related best practices in the face of heightened visibility and enforcement of product safety matters, will also be addressed.

Milk. Toothpaste. Baby formula. Pet food. Toys. The list of contaminated products manufactured in China seems to grow daily. What can and should your company do? This program will address these problems and how to manage the risk of sourcing products from China. A panel of experts will discuss the "Action Plan for Import Safety" report to the president, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the FDA guidance for third-party certification programs and other steps your company can take to protect itself and its customers.

This material discusses the legal framework for managing the challenges of a security breach.

Developments in EU Verticals:
BER reform and online sales