This seminar will cover: getting the company ready for an IPO; the key items necessary for an efficient, risk-minimized offering, including tips, traps and lessons learned from GCs; and the IPO process.
This session will highlight key considerations in deciding how to handle a range of employment disputes and include special discussion about whether and how to participate in the government agency processes, including fact-finding and agency mediation.
This session will discuss key decisions issued by the NLRB, its rule-making and other agency actions that could have a critical impact on employers, particularly those who are non-union.
This issue-spotting seminar will give you a high-level overview of key issues and trends relating to employee benefits plans. The goal is to enable you to spot potential problems, understand the framework and clarify the murky benefits plan language. Learn when to call in an expert.
A practical guide to dealing with security and privacy breaches, this session will reveal how to address incident response procedures. The presenters will serve as actors in a hypothetical scenario of a company breach.
Learn which approaches are practical and cost effective; and what to include in the agreement, especially with regard IP ownership and data security. Learn such new vocabulary as “9s,” “SLAs,” “response times” and “penalties”? Prepare yourself for efficient negotiations with providers and customers.
Learn the difference between traditional and non-traditional advertising, rules governing who can object to an advertisement and why you should comply with advertising law guidelines. This material discusses the role the FTC plays in advertising, rules for advertising substantiation and materiality, and how intellectual property rights affect such hot topics in advertising law as online behavioral advertising, endorsements and testimonials.
Deep within the Dodd-Frank Act lies a surprise for companies that use tin, gold, tungsten or tantalum in their products: a requirement to disclose whether you use these minerals and, if so, whether they come from conflict mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo or surrounding countries. An unrelated but similar requirement is found in California's Transparency in Supply Chain Act: a requirement to disclose efforts to
combat human trafficking. This session will explore these new forms of compliance requirements and how your program must respond to and manage these new obligations.
Learn lessons from the EPA, OSHA, the Clean Air Act and more. A panel of experts will share their experiences in compliance programs and the tools and techniques they have successfully used. They'll discuss who should be at the table, effective interview and fact-gathering techniques, what risk assessments can and should produce, assessing risks created by third parties, avoiding risks from risk assessments and considering ethical consequences.
The goals of this presentation are to demonstrate department’s value with compelling law department management reports, build presentations that effectively tell your story, and ensure current/accurate data for your reports.
A presentation on corporate legal ROI.
908 Sarbanes-Oxley: Why Should Privately Held Companies Care?
906 - Evaluating a Discrimination/Employment Termination Lawsuit
811 REPEAT PERFORMANCE: You Have a Code of Conduct - Now What? Running an Effective Compliance Program
Learn the suggested approaches to selling your nonprofit board on governance practices and the rationale behind it all.
711 New Ideas in Compliance Strategies: Educating Nonlegal Managers About Their Legal Responsibilities. Document includes an OFCCP Compliance Evaluation Checklist.
706 Managing Employee Performance & Attendance Issues. A discussion on employee evaluations, leave, and dealing with misconduct.
The financial crisis of 2008 will have repercussions for years to come. In addition to the mega—bankruptcies, there will be panoply of solvency issues for companies of all sizes. An array of ethical issues for in-house counsel will be associated with these unordinary events. Are there special professional rules that will apply? To whom is responsibility owed? Will there be special problems with public companies? Will creditors have special responsibilities? This session will address possible solutions and seek answers to the many solvency issues that lie ahead.
Ever wondered about your potential malpractice liability? This session will address these concerns using real-life litigation and investigation examples. Potential areas for discussion include traditional exposures arising out of employment, corporate governance, international, and privacy practice areas. Non-traditional exposures will also be addressed, including potential malpractice arising out of pro bono work, moonlighting, and the provision of personal legal services to employer personnel. Issues will be discussed by a panel consisting of a mock general counsel and in-house counsel who raise the matters with their boss.
Faced with increasing budget constraints, legal departments are looking at technology solutions to help them do more with less. But, how do you find answers to the questions you have about maximizing usage of the systems you already have, or about new systems you may be considering? The session will address prevalent questions collected through ACC listservs and spontaneous questions and comments from the audience, which will allow for candid feedback from industry experts. The panel will help you sort through issues and solutions regarding available technologies — including integrations between and among systems — involving matter management, e-billing, contract management, digital signatures, and document management systems.
This detailed powerpoint presentation discusses the risks corporate counsel face in a changing world. Learn how to avoid these risks with solid techniques outlined here.
Learn the right tips for dealing with contract negotiation in Eastern Europe.
This material focuses on the product safety requirements now being enforced in the EU.
This material covers emerging trends in private damages actions and
Commission White Paper on private
damages actions.
This material highlights differences within the region, addressing litigation in local courts vs. arbitration, validity and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards or judgments, and costs of duration of proceedings.
This session will offer in-house counsel the opportunity to bolster their skill in drafting settlement agreements, whether for “simple” two-party civil disputes or more complex litigation covering a variety of practice areas. In particular, focus will be on releases, use of conditional promises, confidentiality provisions and interaction with court filings.
As we approach a new decade, how can legal departments help their companies navigate the issues that arise in this ever-evolving industry? With many companies acting as both providers and purchasers of software solutions, this session will explore how in-house counsel have had to grapple with significant changes in the legal and business landscape facing the software industry, and how these changes have impacted countless business decisions and revenue generation.
So your company is considering or is involved in an M&A transaction, either as buyer, seller or as part of a merger. You know that each party has a complex technology infrastructure that will need to be understood and either transitioned out or combined. This program will provide a step-by-step approach to addressing this matter.
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