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907 Top 10 Environmental Enforcement Actions-Are You Prepared?

A look at taking your product to market and the intellectual property issues that arise.

This session will focus on customs laws, import/export laws and regulations, and World Trade Organization issues. What should you do when US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) penalizes you for a perceived violation? With the increasing convergence of government security regulations, corporate counsel should have a general understanding of both Department of Commerce and State Department's export regulations, including the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), the EAR (Export Administration Regulations) and other applicable government bodies' regulations. This 'primer' will help counsel to identify what they need to know about export compliance and how to set up a compliance program. In addition, the panelists will highlight recent changes in the laws with regard to WTO enforcement trends and discuss recent cases.

The financial crisis of 2008 unfolded like a tsunami. Left in tatters is an economy that continues to decline, and a fragile financial system. The government has stepped in with billions of dollars of direct investment and trillions of dollars of exposure for the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve. Congress has growing skepticism with rising home foreclosures and a lack of accountability by those companies who have received Federal money. All of this leads to broad, deep and comprehensive regulatory oversight and scrutiny and an overhaul of the current patchwork of regulatory institutions. This panel will provide an up-to-date review of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the implementation of TARP and the new regulatory structures. The oversight of every public company, its securities issuance, its debt structure and its risk management will all come under renewed scrutiny and potentially more oversight.

Join this mock training for your marketing department with committee members offering questions and with practical and useful course materials that you can use when you return to the office. Topics to be addressed include sweepstakes/promotions issues, Digital Millennium Copyright Act compliance with respect to user generated content promotions, advertising and claim substantiation, copyright clearance and licensing issues for stock images, policies and procedures for legal approval, and outsourcing to advertising agencies and marketing vendors.

2009 marks an unprecedented year for new regulatory and compliance practices: the federal bailout of 2008, this year's new administration, changes in the regulatory landscape, and new borrowing and lending practices with banks. Discover what experts are doing to ensure their organizations comply. Understand how regulatory changes are impacting bank operations across the nation, get suggestions on how your legal department can stay compliant and minimize the risk of enforcement actions, and hear experts' opinions on additional trends the next year could bring in the banking industry. There are solutions you can efficiently implement to reduce your legal risk. This session will focus on these as well as issues like TILA/Reg Z, BSA/AML/OFAC, Fair lending, Privacy/Information sharing, and overdraft rules (Regs E and DD).

Being in the global marketplace requires US companies to deal with the complexities of enforcing their rights under international contracts in jurisdictions outside the United States. The advantage of using arbitration to resolve disputes under international contracts has been frequently discussed in recent years. The panel members will focus on an aspect of international arbitration, which has received less attention: international arbitration and the enforcement of international arbitration awards in certain "difficult" jurisdictions, including countries in Europe, the Middle East and South America.

This power point presentation focuses on the trends of legal traps, tax issues, fundraising, social media, and e-mail marketing.

PowerPoint slides from Venable LLP's presentation on Thursday, November 12, 2009. The presentation provides information on due diligence considerations for nonprofit investment fiduciaries.

This covers the basics of banking for in-house counsel in Canada.

This extensive presentation contains information on the best ways at foiling fraudulent activity, including the key steps to discovering fraud, investigating it and gathering the right electronic evidence.

This material focuses on class actions in Europe, specifically nations in the European Union.

Crisis Management and dealing with regulators and the media is discussed further in this program material

This material discusses the relationship between the finance and legal departments and how to foster a better and more productive working union.

This material discusses the elements of successfully recalling a product including the crisis management and media aspect of such an event.

Competition law cases are discussed and outlines in useful flow charts.

Tips on how to to set a creative tone in the law department. Learn pointers on how to be ambitious, seek small improvements, and harvest ideas no matter how big or small.

How do our senior management colleagues see our role and our performance? How is the role of the in-house counsel widening and integrating with that of other functions such as internal audit and integrity and compliance? Read this program material to find out.

This PowerPoint presentation, which accompanied an ACC Europe Chapter webcast, begins with a Facebook-related hypothetical situation, and discusses the dangers of social media in the workplace, online bullying and harassment, and French and German statutory approaches to the issue.

Records management is not new. Litigation, efficiency and competitive edge drive organizations to manage and capitalize on information. With rapid technology changes and the increasing volume and complexity of information, management is difficult. But new problems call for new answers. Globalization changes the landscape — a global company is not a bigger, more spread out US company — it is a different organization altogether and requires different solutions. Panelists will discuss leading the development and implementation of enterprise-wide records management programs in various situations.

The SEC, IRS and FDIC have recently issued regulations governing equity and phantom equity plans that may result in clawback, change in control, valuation, accounting issues and other illnesses that may affect your plans. This panel will provide a checklist of known ailments, a method to diagnose your plan and treatment options to bring your plan into good health. In a town hall setting, participants will be asked to share their own "home remedies" with the group.

A key question in both the United States and Canada is whether infrastructure and other public projects should be structured as public-private partnerships (P3s). Explore the lessons learned from completed P3 projects, using examples from Canadian and US infrastructure projects and the approaches adopted by leading jurisdictions throughout the world. It will outline what private sector companies and their in-house counsel need to know to maximize their success. The program will also provide valuable insight to in-house counsel about design-build agreements, operating and management contracts and other infrastructure project documents.

Environmental issues no longer stop at the factory door. Even companies that do not manufacture anything face environmental issues for products they sell or even just use. This session will explore downstream environmental concerns for all companies and what corporate counsel can do to mitigate the risks. Topics will include the REACH rule, lifecycle-assessments, financial responsibility and “greenwash” marketing and advertising concerns.

What do you do when a recall, privacy breach or other crisis hits? Managing that crisis from a legal and reputational risk is much easier if you have prepared in advance on how to deal with insurers, regulators, suppliers, customers and the media. This session will feature practical advice from in-house counsel and their external counsel who have lived through a recall crisis. Both compliance officers and law department practitioners need to be involved in developing a crisis plan. Panelists will focus on what can be done ahead of time to facilitate navigation through the crisis. An interactional “preparedness quiz” will let participants gauge whether they are prepared for a recall, privacy breach or other crisis, and if they are not, will explain the measures they need to take or put in place to become prepared.

Panelists at this session will outline and discuss new internet and privacy regulatory requirements, both state and local, and legal developments (case law), including recent state and federal regulations and court decisions.

This interactive program will discuss how to prepare for a union campaign, including a discussion of manager training, solicitation rules and what a corporate campaign is.

Many businesses, especially those not in ‘technology’ industries, do not have significant IP assets and the in-house counsel may not live or breath IP issues. But that’s no reason to ignore fundamental practices that can help the business capture or protect the value of its trademarks, trade secrets, patentable innovations, web presence and other IP assets. Or, perhaps more importantly, practices can protect the business from exposure to the IP claims of others. What questions should you be asking to evaluate and improve the business’s IP sophistication?

The next level of learning for the new securities practitioner, this session will focus on the hot topics in SEC disclosure relating to enterprise risk and compensation disclosure, proxy and shareholder proposals, and disclosure while managing through crisis.

Companies that don’t comply with local labor and employment law regarding implementing workforce reductions expose themselves to significant legal liability. Each country’s laws are different and often times highly ambiguous. There are many legal landmines along the way. This session will answer questions such as: What are the biggest challenges for employers when making these decisions? What are the most common legal claims being asserted today on behalf of laid-off workers and how could they have been avoided? What are the legal challenges to implementing decisions around workforce reductions? What are the lessons learned from making bad personnel decisions during tough economic times?

Panelists will cover various strategies to help you manage all aspects of commercial loan restructuring including: loan modification and restructuring, commercial loan short sales, SBA loan settlement and restructuring, and lender strategies versus obligor’s strategies. They will also answer questions such as: What is the primary focus of an examiner's review of a commercial loan? What are the best methods for improving the collectability of a commercial loan? What is the role of the guarantors?