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.
All employers need to know when their employees are eligible for an excused protected leave. Now there are so many different types of protected and unprotected leaves for employees. This presentation will help you understand an overview of state and federal laws covering leaves such as: FMLA, disability accommodations, and USERRA. Learn how best to deal with FMLA intermittent leave, employees who have been called up for active military duty, employees requesting extended periods of leave, and leave as an accommodation. Plus our employment specialists will provide a list of possible tools you can make use of to manage disability, wellness and attendance. This program is designed for both the generalist and the employment law specialist.
By mid-century, China, the world’s fastest-growing economy and the second largest behind the United States, is expected to be number one. Business can no longer avoid the Chinese market. The keys to a successful business in China are a clear Chinese strategy, sound business and legal policies, effective implementation plans and performance goals that are updated on a continuous basis. Our panel of seasoned international counsel will address such issues as challenges in contract enforcement, protections for intellectual property rights, anti-corruption efforts, challenges in transactional due diligence, changes in the government’s economic growth. policy, trends in trade remedies and much more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As companies expand into new markets, move production facilities abroad, and deal with counterparties based in other countries, they can find their legal liabilities globalized. A straightforward domestic litigation can be complicated by an aggressive party filing countersuits in a variety of jurisdictions. Attend this session to explore the challenges to resolving a transnational dispute.
Guiding principles and pragmatic solutions to dealing with a C-Suite scandal.
Energy companies are required to comply with myriad laws, rules and regulations. With increased penalty authority for many regulators, staying in compliance is a necessity. Explore several hypothetical compliance cases, participate in determining whether they present compliance problems and suggest how companies should respond to those problems, in collaboration with the speakers.
This material addresses the most significant risk management issues facing in-house lawyers involved in energy transportation, storage and trading, including discussion of best practices and potential pitfalls in identification of risk and risk control (including counterparty and credit risk), contract negotiation and drafting, insurance and indemnity.
This material covers global privacy issue, major privacy laws and how they differ from country to country.
The objective of this presentation was to determine whether your existing compliance program is working, take away benchmarks and statistics that help convince executives to act before it's too late, and to understand that a compliance program doesn't have to be costly to be effective.
Learn how to actually implement the program you’ve structured; Discuss who in your organization should and should NOT be involved; Identify interactive training tactics that make compliance training more engaging and memorable for trainees; Learn about technological aids that can assist with overcoming compliance-training obstacles, including budgetary issues, and learn how to adapt to changes in the law and keep your program up-to-date.
Discuss what compliance issues the Feds are focused on right now, and what you can do to protect your company. Learn about companies and in-house counsel who have suffered the consequences of non-compliance and discover the best resources available to keep up with changes in the law.
Program Materials: Outline with sample model. Articles on business relationship
Whether you are an in-house counsel in a large legal department or a solo practitioner in a small corporation, chances are that at some point your company will get sued. What steps can you take to prepare for the potentiality of a lawsuit and how should you respond if the litigation process is triggered? This session provides some answers with topics including; how to manage paper and electronic document retention; whether to retain outside counsel; how to conduct the initial investigation; how to approach issues related to attorney-client privilege; and how to prepare for potential e-discovery and officer and employee depositions.
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