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A giveaway may be deemed to be a sweepstakes or contest; worse, it could end up being deemed an illegal raffle or lottery. Learn the differences between them, how to spot potential problems and how to help ensure that the campaign makes marketing, legal and customers happy.

Part 1 of a two-part Contract Drafting Program. This program will analyze and discuss warranty, epidemic failure and limitation of liability clauses. We will discuss how these clauses interrelate with each other in various types of commercial contracts and how they can be best drafted to suit your needs. The program will focus on drafting skills, and samples, good and bad, will be provided and discussed.

This program materials helps in-house counsel involved in M&As understand the ways in which tax issues might impact corporate transactions.

The 2012 proxy season will be surveyed for the most typical shareholder proposals that made it onto the ballots, and the underlying substantive merits of keeping the status quo versus adopting changes will be explored.

This program focuses on best practices regarding duties, compensation and independence of the lead director.

This interactive session will bring a complicated subject to life with many examples and case scenarios. Learn how the ADAAA has dramatically changed how employers must approach sick and injured employees.

This material includes a sensible and streamlined process for partnering with Information Technology counterparts to create and implement records retention rules and policies into a records management solution.

Learn how to coordinate with IT, human resources, legal department and business units; ensure employment policies and compliance program; acquire the necessary insurance, and work with law enforcement agencies.

Is your company unknowingly stealing the intellectual property of others? Are your employees stealing your company's IP? Are other companies stealing your IP? Learn what to look for and how to protect your company's IP, including building a trade secret protection process, confidentiality/NDA agreements, branding, assignment documents and work-for-hire agreements.

Learn how to set up an international licensing program for patents, copyrights and trademarks, focusing on key provisions. Take away model license agreements and checklists for use in your organization.

Learn how a legally defensible retention schedule can allow your organization to streamline its business by clearly identifying items that need to be kept and allowing for disposition of items that are not required to be kept by law or policy in the normal course of business.

Interested in starting and growing your compliance program to its "toddler" phase from a solid but immature origin? Listen as case/scenario-based examples illustrate policies and processes and furnish concrete to-do's. Two to three company examples illustrate and foster discussion about specific steps to get to the next level and how to leverage company culture to assist where funding or budget dollars may not be readily accessible.

A detailed presentation on what you need to know about 'meet and confer'.

This program will examine advanced issues that US companies face when managing legal operations abroad or when they have subsidiaries operating in foreign jurisdictions, with a specific emphasis on Asia.

Learn how US companies can mitigate FCPA and other risks -- including the safety of your employees -- in frontier markets, and what unique challenges you will face in conducting investigations there. Focus on issues of employment, privacy and other laws in countries with immature legal systems, security considerations and political interference. This part of the presentation focused on Africa.

Clearly define information governance (IG) and understand why companies are creating IG programs. Review the specific compliance risks companies face in governing information, as well as the professional ethical responsibilities of which in-house must keep abreast. Discuss effective messaging strategies that get key stakeholders outside the law department to join in supporting these initiatives. Detail key strategies to employ when creating a cross-functional steering committee, and receive a sample steering committee charter. Walk away with a project plan outlining seven key steps in launching an IG program. Learn the productivity, cost-reduction, compliance and other business benefits these programs offer, as well as quantifying these benefits. Receive an outline and checklist of key Do’s and Don’ts for presenting your business case to senior management.

An in-depth look at what real legal project management consists of in Canada.

An overview of the issues in-house counsel should consider when drafting a Code of Conduct. Includes discussion of Audience, Goals, Organization Specific Content, Practicality and Usability, Gifts and Entertainment Policy, Charitable Giving and Political Donations, Application Across an Organization, Business Function Participation, Enforcement, and Employee Discipline.

This resource discusses the proper way to run a meeting, including the authority to call a meeting and notice requirements.

This resource explains injunctions and restraining orders and the relevant federal and state standards. The document then discusses how to protect your business when employees leave.

This resource discusses the history of gambling, the state and federal regulatory frameworks, and other important legals aspects of gaming in the United States.

This resource explains the sections of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act regarding corporate governance, executive compensation, disclosure, and other provisions that apply to public companies generally.

This Questionable Interview Questions training course will help you (1) avoid the interview questions that could get you and/or our organization into legal trouble, and (2) word your questions to obtain the information you need in an appropriate manner.

For more compliance and ethics training resources, visit ACC's new Compliance Training Portal at <a href=http://www.acc.com/compliance>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.<br/>

This document explains 7 ways to settle a lawsuit faster, better and cheaper.

The ten employment law issues employers should be most concerned about in early 2010.

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Ideas for Launching Local Chapter-based Pro Bono Efforts

Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Ideas for Launching Local Chapter-based Pro Bono Efforts

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - How to Start a Corporate Lawyering Course at Your Law School

Presented at ACC's Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Flexible and Contingent: Watchwords for a Changing Workforce

Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Examining the Impact of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act