Annual Meeting 2006: So your marketing department wants to promote your products online, including holding a contest or sweepstakes. As legal counsel for your company, everyone is looking to you to ensure that the promotion goes off without a hitch, but your obligation is to ensure that the promotion is conducted legally and the company is protected. Using statutes and case studies as a basis, along with hand on tips and useful contractual terms, we will provide you with the necessary information you need to expertly advise your client and stay in compliance with state and federal laws. You will receive an overview of the legal requirements applicable to online advertising with an emphasis on the regulations involved with running a prize promotion, and including joint promotions with a vendor or affiliate, advertising the promotion in non-internet based media, and generally protecting your brand when advertising online.
US companies with foreign subsidiaries face numerous legal and practical challenges from a corporate governance perspective. A panel of experts outlined the legal issues and gave practical advice on managing your foreign subsidiaries in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. They also discussed how to manage foreign subsidiary issues, such as the liabilities and responsibilities of local officers and directors, working effectively with local counsel, and building a process that enables adequate involvement of the legal department in local operations.
A panel of leading in-house counsel and international enforcement officials engaged in a fast-paced discussion of current antitrust issues that impact multinational companies in today’s increasingly global business environment. Antitrust and competition policy issues were in the cross-hairs of this panel’s rapid-fire analysis that included merger review, pricing policies, treatment of joint ventures, and exclusionary conduct. These experienced practitioners shared their insights and practical advice from jurisdictions around the world.
Technology has vastly expanded the universe of sweepstakes and contests that may be offered, as well as the entries that may be submitted by consumers. In addition, the recent explosion of social and viral marketing elements in these types of initiatives has made them far more complex from a legal perspective. Jumping into this arena without the proper foresight can cause a variety of legal and regulatory problems for a company. Rules and regulations vary from state-to-state and country-to-country. This session served as an overview of the various regulatory schemes, and a practical guide on how to avoid the most common pitfalls.
Law departments continue to face unique challenges resulting from Sarbanes-Oxley. As new regulations are introduced, the list of requirements that businesses must satisfy becomes more complex and exhaustive. Simultaneously, law departments face budget constraints, competitive pressures requiring rapid-fire responses, and the risks created by internal “silos.” Today, a law department’s structure directly impacts the ability of supervising attorneys to manage operations and deliver quality client service. This interactive workshop addressed the challenges faced by in-house counsel and shared best practices for successfully managing a law department.
Outsourcing of legal services to non-US entities is a significant trend. Corporate counsel must understand how this will affect their role and services to their clients and be prepared to address questions raised by senior management as this practice becomes more widespread. Topics covered included outsourcing legal services to non-US entities, relevant ethical considerations, practical considerations such as monitoring and controlling quality, types of matters that can or even should be outsourced to non-US counsel, and privilege and confidentiality issues.
Increasingly, law departments are responsible for more than just practicing law — they are also responsible for efficient and fiscally responsible operations. Managing costs, reducing risk, and improving productivity are all priorities for corporate counsel because law departments are being evaluated against the same standards as other departments within their companies. To meet this challenge, law departments need new tools for measuring value and results. This session shared best practices on using metrics to manage or control costs, evaluate outside counsel performance, increase efficiencies, and communicate the value of the law department to company management.
As sports and entertainment based marketing grows, many companies have opted to engage athletes, entertainers, teams and leagues. This program will cover the basics of sponsorship agreements from both the team/talent side and the sponsor perspective. Special consideration will be paid to points such as league subservience, exclusivities, indemnity, morals clauses and labor stoppages. This program will cater to the novice lawyer to an experienced contractual negotiator in both the for-profit and nonprofit arenas.
This presentation covers EU and the data privacy and security movement, as well as it's history, and the comparison between the EU and the APEC.
This session will discuss monitoring and protecting intellectual property assets around the globe. Learn the risks and challenges other companies are facing, and how they are combating IP infringement. The topics addressed will include: identifying and protecting against risks to your brand; strategies for monitoring your brand name; tackling domain squatters and combating other brand abuse; developing strategies for protecting your brand on a global scale; and how counterfeit goods and piracy impact brands and the best practices for targeting suppliers of counterfeit goods.
Raising capital in private transactions is big business, for new, small and large companies alike. If this hasn’t been your practice are before and is now, join us at this session to explore with experienced practitioners the basic legal and regulatory framework for raising capital privately – covering the Securities Act exemption and Regulation D and changes to that framework made by the Dodd-Frank Act. We’ll also introduce you to the key concepts and jargon (e.g., bad boy investors) you’ll need to get through a capital raising with comfort. The session will cover finding (soliciting) investors, what the offering materials need to cover and look like, state blue sky (another piece of jargon we’ll cover), restricted stock and who the regulators are.
This material comes from a program for those with established international practices, as companies need to constantly evaluate in a tight market if resources are being properly deployed.
A review of the year’s IP legal developments including patent, trademark and copyright primarily.
An overview of the process of licensing music, videos, and photos. Includes a discussion of basic copyright law, the Fair Use Doctrine, and other intellectual property issues.
Examine today's most meaningful metrics and acquire the tools to determine which metrics matter most for you and your organization.
With its rapidly growing economy and expanding middle class, India has become an increasingly attractive market in which to invest and do business. While there has been a liberalization of the Indian economy, regulatory constraints and other challenges remain. Learn about the key bureaucratic, regulatory and legal considerations of making investments, creating joint ventures and distributing products in India, including protecting technology transfers to India and selecting suitable dispute resolution mechanisms.
Discover what happens behind closed doors during settlement negotiations with the SEC. Hypothetical scenarios and role-playing will facilitate a model face-to-face “negotiation” with the SEC, providing insight into negotiating the terms and the language of a settlement order, including penalties, charges, mitigation language, and whether employees are named as defendants or respondents.
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - International Distribution from A-Z
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Internal Marketing of Legal Services for Insurance Staff Counsel
Handout for ACC Chicago and Mayer Brown webinar, Negotiating Technology Deals, on May 24, 2023.
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Copyright Protection in Cyberspace: IP on the ’Net
Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Conducting Business Online - What General Counsel Need to Know
Presented at ACC's Annual Meeting 2000; Program - A Global Overview of Product Content Rules, etc.
Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - A Comparative Analysis between U.S. and European Competition Laws
An outline providing guidance on how to structure international strategic alliances. Includes tips on framing relationships and complying with U.S. and Foreign laws.
America’s increasingly graying workforce means that a growing number of employees have protected status under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and parallel state provisions. However, a declining economy may cause corporate downsizing and other related measures--activities which can significantly affect these employees. And because of the declining economy, older employees may be uninterested in retirement and even seeking new employment. All of these and other factors may create a legal minefield for your organization when it comes to dealing with protected older workers. What to do? Our experienced panel shared their solutions.
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover have created uniform data security standards for any business that accepts credit cards. This program provided an overview of these requirements, how they evolved, what is required, who is impacted, what happens if there is a breach, drafting suggestions for agreements with vendors impacted by PCI, suggestions for making sure your business is compliant, and a look at the future direction of the standards. Compliance is challenging and costly, but noncompliance can result in intense negative publicity, huge fines, and a loss of consumer confidence.
Trademarks are an area of legal practice that many corporate counsel seek to bring in-house to reduce fees for outside counsel. In this program, a panel of in-house trademark attorneys provided a detailed overview of trademark practice in-house, including a review of global trademark clearance processes, when and how to file for federal registration rights, and how to file for foreign trademark rights. The panel also highlighted important updates in US and foreign trademark laws.
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