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This paper explores the legal issues raised by the employee who is out on leave for a workers' compensation injury and either requests an indefinite leave or stays out on leave indefinitely. In many such cases, the employer is plunged into doubt and confusion as to how to handle such a situation, fearing a claim of retaliatory discharge under ADA, FMLA and state workers? compensation laws. The purpose of this article is to set out a basic structure for approaching this quandary.

Legal publications on mentoring. Articles on diversity and a list of bad ways to diversify.

Program Material: Sample Client Surveys (Deere & Co., Sears, International Paper Law Depts.)

Corporate counsel face continuing pressure to control the rising costs of litigation, regulatory compliance and advisory legal opinions. In addition, the onerous costs of noncompliance are an ongoing threat. Legal research can be crucial to avoiding these potential costs. Yet counsel must also control and minimize the cost of legal research to respond to the pressures on the law department budget.

Presented at ACC's Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Defining the IP Attorney’s Role in the E-Commerce Revolution

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Current Issues Faced by Nonprofit Organization Counsel

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Latest Trends in Strategic Alliances

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

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Averting Disaster: How to Turn Around a Run-Away Jury

Presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - A Comparative Analysis between U.S. and European Competition Laws

An overview of legal ethics for in-house counsel. Includes considerations related to licensing, multi-jurisdictional practice, lawyer mobility, client interests, conflict of interest, waivers of conflicts of interest, supervisory responsibilities, client/retaliatory discharge, confidentiality and privilege, and in-house counsel liability.

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.

Part two of this two-part program will teach you techniques and safeguards to employ when creating and testing your search terminology. It will also cover various technologies, and the pros and cons of each. Methodologies available to tackle this problem will be discussed, and the panel will review strategies and technologies to consider when faced with a large document review project. You will also learn the particular privacy and procedural concerns for EU litigation and ways in which you can adhere to privacy laws and be responsive to US litigation — or at least offer ways to explain your situation when you get stuck between the rock and the hard place.

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.

Milk. Toothpaste. Baby formula. Pet food. Toys. The list of contaminated products manufactured in China seems to grow daily. What can and should your company do? This program will address these problems and how to manage the risk of sourcing products from China. A panel of experts will discuss the "Action Plan for Import Safety" report to the president, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the FDA guidance for third-party certification programs and other steps your company can take to protect itself and its customers.

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.

This material covers legislation and regulations in Europe that focus on abuse of dominance in a marketplace.

Updated information regarding merger control in competition law 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.

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.