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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

List of signatories to the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods and the dates on which those countries became signatories.

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

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.

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.

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

Developments in EU Verticals:
BER reform and online sales

A very comprehensive presentation on The Dutch Competition Act.

This material covers the 'abuse of dominance' in recent EC developments.

This material gives an update on regulations surrounding cartels in Europe.

Coverage of the currant regime and the new regime which is set to take the lead in June 2010.

Certain simple principles will help you know where to start and how to be successful if you are called upon to implement an integrity management program. This material provides practical, implementable suggestions that will allow you to lead this process confidently.

This panel will examine how companies can best handle issues surrounding international dispute resolution, including how to leverage bilateral investment treaties in jurisdictions that have a tendency to favor local businesses and investors, and enforcing arbitration in difficult jurisdictions.

Given the compliance expectations of regulators and the increase in enforcement actions by BIS, DDTC and OFAC, it can be a challenge to stay safe in a global business environment. Should you monitor your international charitable grantees? Does your due diligence of business partners consider risks of trade sanctions or anti-terrorism laws? This program on legal compliance with the FCPA's under-recognized cousins seeks to provide an overview and general primer into trade sanctions, import-export and anti-boycott compliance -- for large and small companies. The program will explore the critical elements of a global compliance program -- including identifying your vulnerabilities, and monitoring the compliance of third parties -- and offer insight into recent enforcement actions.

Whether you already own ‘em or want to buy ‘em, what it the actual business value of a patent? This session will discuss how to value a particular patent, cost effective patent mining, and portfolio mapping strategies, techniques and tips.

This panel will review new trends in FCPA enforcement and how global organizations are handling anti-bribery compliance in an increasingly complex world. Our panel features diverse participation by in-house counsel, representatives from enforcement agencies and global organizations that deal with anti-bribery compliance. What lessons are emerging from the increasing aggressive enforcement of the FCPA? What are the emerging “best practices” in policy, due diligence, and training initiatives? What are the traps to avoid?

Companies need to take risk to gain return. This is the golden rule of business and holds true across virtually all industries. The Great Credit Crisis of 2008 was also a stark reminder that finance and risk management practices need to be closely linked. Companies rely on finance principles to seek profit and on risk management techniques to adequately measure, monitor and control undesirable risks. In the last two years corporate bankruptcies have reached record numbers further demonstrating that the delicate balance between finance and risk management has not been maintained. Participants in this session will learn the core building blocks of financial theory and risk management theory and best practices. Various case studies will be used to foster learning and reinforce key concepts. Lawyers that understand these essential building blocks will be better positioned to assist their own companies avoid costly financial mistakes.

Join this session and learn the most recent employment law updates. Important employment-related case law and legislation will be discussed.

New economic realities demand that companies and brands act as good corporate citizens to connect with consumers. Traditional corporate philanthropy is increasingly eclipsed by “cause marketing” techniques, such as green marketing, donation-with-purchase, collecting contributions at checkout, online “voting” for charities, sale of donation cards and a myriad of others. Special charitable initiatives like Project Red have become global brands, themselves. In striving to do good while doing well, companies and brands need to be aware of the broad array of federal and state laws that can affect cause marketing efforts. These include commercial coventurer laws, professional fundraising regulation, IRS sponsorship and self-dealing guidelines, and general consumer protection laws prohibiting false or deceptive advertising. International campaigns introduce additional complications. This program will provide a structured overview and analytical framework for legal regulation of cause marketing programs, along with practical advice for compliance and best practices in this fast-growing field.

This EU Competition Law training course provides an overview of EU competition law and helps you recognize and deal with "red flags" — situations that present a risk of competition-law violations and legal liability.

After a summary of the most important laws and legal principles and a discussion of some situations that should trigger red flags, you'll play a game that presents situations for you to analyze. If you respond correctly, you will move through the game and earn a Certificate of Completion.

To access the EU Competition Law Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/37382-eu-competition-law>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.

This Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) training course will help you understand issues involving overtime, how "exempt" employees are classified, independent contractors, and FLSA record-keeping requirements, among other things.

To access the Fair Labor Standards Act Training Course, visit, <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35553-fair-labor-standards-act>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.

The U.S. Government, through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), uses economic sanctions and trade embargoes to protect the country's economy and enhance its security. Your Company must comply with all applicable sanction and embargo regulations or you — and in some cases the individual employees involved — will face substantial penalties. This 30-minute training course provides an overview of OFAC sanctions and their key provisions. It will help you recognize situations presenting a risk of legal violations and deal with them properly.

To access the Economic Sanctions and Trade Embargoes Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/37383-ofac-sanctions-and-embargoes>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.