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Where does in-house counsel’s obligation to promote business interests meet the obligation to disclose bad news? Join experienced counsel as they address what actions to take during the first 24 hours after you are notified that your company is being investigated by the government, how to handle executives and employees who mistakenly press for in-house counsel to represent their interests (as opposed to the company’s), and how to handle communications with employees, the press, clients and suppliers. The program also will address ethical limits on government actions and appropriate means for invoking them.

Companies are increasingly looking at joint ventures as a way to develop products, bring products to market, increase market share and, hopefully, increase revenue. This session will explore the pros and cons of various legal structures and arrangements commonly referred to as “joint ventures,” including securities laws, valuation and exit strategies, protection of intellectual property, anti-trust concerns, tax and financial statement impacts, and management of human and other resources.

Lawyers are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for marketing and other purposes including gathering information about parties and witnesses in a case. In addition, sites like Legal OnRamp and Martindale-Hubbell Connected are specifically designed to facilitate communication between in-house and outside counsel. Many commentators believe that the use of social media is going to transform the practice of law much like email did years ago. While there is no doubt that these sites can be useful, they do raise numerous ethical issues for lawyers and other serious issues for their clients. This presentation will address "do's and don'ts" for you and your company to keep in mind when venturing into the world of social media.

Contract, document, matter management, electronic billing and electronic discovery: with all of the legal systems available, lawyers have never been so efficient...or so confused. Knowing where to store and find information, much less how to take action on the data, is becoming increasingly impossible and expensive. This session will illustrate a day in the life of an attorney attempting to find vital accountability metrics on a major case. Receive a checklist of advanced metrics and learn where to find the data needed to compile metrics in today’s technology landscape. With the problem identified, our panel will turn to solutions and discuss the ways in which legal departments can seamlessly bring together all of their disparate systems to more effectively communicate and share work product within their departments and with outside counsel.

Suboptimal drafting wastes everyone’s time. Can your company’s contracts be drafted more clearly, with fewer words, so they can be read and understood in less time? Do your company’s contracts create unnecessary risk? We will consider real-life examples of suboptimal drafting, and provide practical tips and solutions.

This program will provide an overview of critical international, federal and state laws governing your collection, use, and disclosure of private information, whether it’s from customers, other businesses, or your employees. Learn the types of privacy policies you should have in place, the nuts and bolts of building a privacy program, and what you should do in the event of different types of security or data breach.

Risk management has often been carried out by organizations in silos, with counsel responsible only for legal risks. Increasingly, though, systematic ERM will be imposed on corporations. This program will explore a number of issues related to ERM, including: What does ERM entail? What are the emerging ERM frameworks. such as ISO 31000, and how do they promote effective risk taking and help organizations maximize the opportunity for gain? What is ERM’s role in strategic planning? What is the appropriate role for the legal department in promoting an effective ERM program? The panel will share their experiences, demonstrating the critical contributions that ERM can make in management and in implementing an effective compliance program.

What is the current state of records management for most companies? What “best practice” trends are evident in those companies with an advanced records management maturity model? Panelists of this program will present an in-depth study of more than 3,500 participants that provides insight into how other organizations are doing when it comes to compliance. The insights you hear at this session will help you and your company: understand why it’s imperative for legal to be involved with your records management initiative; discover why the department to which your records management function reports impacts records management maturity; and learn why highly regulated and litigated companies lead the charge when it comes to having strength in key areas of records and information management.

A new administration means new regulatory initiatives, particularly when the presidency changes parties. As a result, federal agencies have been become a focal point of interest to corporate counsel seeking to ensure that their companies comply with increasingly complicated, and perhaps burdensome, new federal regulations. This session will provide corporate counsel with a toolbox for the next time a government agency gets on their company’s nerves.

This session will be focused on the most significant changes in trademarks, copyrights and patents over the past year. The session is ideal for attorneys with a basic level of IP understanding, and is an essential program for every attorney who has IP responsibility.

Energy practitioners will cover the top ten legal issues associated with lowering energy costs, including local, state and federal regulations, contract negotiations, tax advantages and funding opportunities for "going green." The program will educate in-house counsel on how to substantially reduce energy costs for assets, such as casinos, manufacturing plants, mining operations, retail stores, restaurants, commercial real estate operations (e.g., REITS) and hospital systems while understanding the legal, regulatory and policy issues associated with doing so. Learn how to capture demand-side efficiencies and supply-side pricing advantages, including aggregating load for better pricing and changing customer from retail to wholesale; managing price risk exposure and negotiating price lock-ins in current supply contracts, or negotiating derivatives to lock in the price based on power prices, or prices of related commodities used to generate power; and understanding the tax incentives and offset projects for going green or reducing the carbon footprint.

This Appropriate Internet Use training course will explain rules and guidelines that you must follow with the computers, phones and/or other electronic devices that you use for work.

To access the Appropriate Internet Use Training Course, visit www.acc.com/compliance.

This Code of Conduct training course will help you (1) recognize legal and ethical issues as they arise in the workplace, (2) respond appropriately to those issues, and (3) perform your job with the utmost integrity.

To access the Code of Conduct Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35529-code-of-conduct>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.

This Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) training course will help you recognize situations that raise FMLA issues and assist you in dealing with these issues effectively. At the end of this material, you'll play a game that presents hypothetical scenarios for you to analyze. As you answer the multiple-choice questions correctly, you'll move through the game and earn a Certificate of Completion.

To access the Family and Medical Leave Act Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35554-family-and-medical-leave-act>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.

These presentation materials discusses the factors that influence how governments make decisions, including timing and policy constraints. The document further explains how to make your case to the government.

This document provides an overview of employment regulations in Israel, including a discussion of key cases and important laws.

This document provides legal hypotheticals and and analyses regarding the courts, including judicial ethics.

This material presents statistics and facts about popular social media sites and ways that employers can use these sites in hiring and recruiting. Additionally, the material warns employers on the problems of using technology and social media as part of their business.

This resource discusses how to call a meeting to order, as well as the conduct of a board meeting. This includes who is entitled to chair a meeting and codes of conduct.

This resource explains the types, planning and structuring of joint ventures, as well as other important aspects, such as resolving disputes and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

A presentation which covers the important information you need to know about keeping personal information 'in the cloud'.

Legal Matter Management commonly describes the task of organizing and systematizing the daily workload of a corporate legal practice. Having a matter management in place is very important and also fundamental to further use and deploy IT solutions in the legal department. This program material addresses the advantages/disadvantages of a specialized legal matter management system.

This material focuses on globalization, meaning that clients expect us to deal with the complexities of employment law on transnational projects, providing integrated advice and a high level of responsiveness. Local knowledge is crucial to developing coherent HR strategies that work within a global framework.

Social media, if permitted or even encouraged by companies, creates great opportunities if the associated risks are properly managed. Have you defined internal policies to tackle issues, such as liability for user generated content or data privacy and confidentiality? Get familiar with other companies' best practices to evaluate your company's risk exposure or actively drive a new technology wave you will not be able to prevent.

This workshop examined some of the issues faced by companies in gathering and processing personal data and how to better ensure that your company complies with national regulations. It also focused on the European’s Commission’s upcoming review of the EU Data Protection Directive and recent developments in data protection statutes in other countries.

A presentation from the 2011 Corporate Counsel University discussing the details of how to change your interaction with outside counsel.

This presentation material includes ten tips for in-house counsel to consider when faced with ethical issues in the workplace.

Overview of issues facing data storage, including hacking, poor data management, relevant laws, and case studies of the issues.

This program will provide basic legal tips in foreign investment distribution agreements, dealer and agent relationships, labor agreements and antitrust and enforcement trends for doing business in Latin American countries. Other areas to be discussed are the challenges with the jointly and several liability in labor of distribution relationships and enforcement of foreign jurisdiction and foreign applicable law clauses in Latin American countries.

This program is designed to educate attendees unfamiliar with government contracts on recognizing common government contracting compliance issues and how compliance failures may result in organizational liability. Government contracts incorporate a myriad of legal practice areas, including employment, intellectual property, international law, ethics and accounting, to name but a few. In a complex legal arena where a breach of contract can result in civil or criminal fraud investigations, a firm understanding of compliance policies and procedures is a must for all corporate counsel.