Our outstanding panel of in-house counsel will share their list of things they were glad they knew-or wished they'd known-when starting out. Gain guidance in such key areas as employment law, intellectual property issues, corporate governance, securities law, and litigation. Plus here’s your chance to ask questions about issues not covered during the meeting’s other sessions.
It's all a numbers game. The business people often complain that the lawyers do not understand the numbers, so come learn how to prove them wrong. Using real-world examples, this session will provide a review of legal accounting requirements, an overview of the basic financial principles of running a corporation and a checklist to become more proficient when dealing with financial matters.
Corporate attorneys practicing within the EU need to be intimately familiar with competition laws and how they could affect a company's business. This overview of the trends EU competition is following will provide you with a clear understanding of the laws and guidance on how best to counsel your corporate client.
Lunchtime Session on networking for career success.
You've taken the plunge and are determined to build a dedicated compliance function. Explore key strategies and tactics for structuring and maintaining a compliance program that fosters ethical, legal, and productive operations while also minimizing business risk. Review the impact of recent legal and business developments on compliance strategy. Learn how to maintain leadership buy-in and commitment, and avoid common pitfalls that make a compliance program difficult to maintain.
Recent cases have made the news, even gone all the way to the Supreme Court, about what must be kept, what can be shredded, and when. Discovery orders during litigation and government investigations complicate the issue. We all know some of the theory, but hear from our experts some practical tips about how to develop, implement and maintain an effective recordkeeping policy and how to comply with the growing burden of record retention.
Everyone likes to talk about "partnerships" with outside counsel, but often we do not focus on building effective and mutually beneficial relationships. Learn how to work effectively with your outside counsel. Topics will include ethical issues and requirements for engagements, billing, and legal work product.
How does your company manage dispute resolution? Likely your process is vastly different from the next company’s particularly in a multijurisdictional environment. Learn from your peers successful ways to manage for establishing and maintaining a successful, cost-effective program at your organisation.
How can you get the best out of your IT? Where should you invest for the future? What technological advances can provide real working efficiencies? What are the risks when you rely on computer systems for legal work? Some legal departments have put IT at the center of their world, but others are more wary. Can machines do a lawyer’s job? Join us for a discussion on the best in class use of technology to drive savings and free up time.
What does it mean to be a business leader? What are the necessary skills and competencies? Are lawyers well suited to this role or should these functions be kept separate? What makes a good lawyer become an exceptional leader? How can you make the transition? Our panel of distinguished speakers will share their invaluable experiences and observations on the role and potential of the in-house lawyer.
The dynamics of today's global economy affect virtually every employer. The issues a company must face are similar from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but the solutions often are quite different. Our in-house experts will examine such labor topics as integrating the workforce after a merger or acquisition, hiring and firing, obtaining work authorizations, and understanding foreign jurisdiction workplace laws and regulations. Explore these and other matters a global workforce presents and take home real world solutions to apply to your own employment challenges.
What does a sensible company do about document retention? This question is on the minds of corporate practitioners around the world as recent legal developments have put these corporate policies in the spotlight. Join your peers to learn what you should keep, what you can happily destroy, policies on saving emails and other strategic retention procedures.
A PowerPoint of the February 28, 2006 program on Key Competition/Antitrust Issues in Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Merger Notification and Review.
A must-attend for any in-house employment and labor practitioner. Leaders in the employment and labor legal arena will update you on the most important federal and state court decisions as well as legislative initiatives impacting in-house practitioners and their companies.
Risk assessment is an ongoing and vital part of any compliance program. You can't control risk until you identify it and measure it. As part of your company's compliance process, your legal department needs to develop and monitor a comprehensive listing of potential risks. Hear from our in-house experts as they share their best practices for assessing corporate risks, and learn the tips and tools on how to implement a control-testing process at your company.
If your company sells products or services to customers outside the U.S., the company is subject to an array of export, customs, and other regulations. These regulations are broader than most organizations realize. If you don't understand the terms "dual use" or "deemed export," you may be violating export control laws. This basics program will update you on the rules you need to know to protect your company from exposure. Our panel of export experts will provide a refresher on what exactly is considered to be an export, remind you that exporting isn't necessarily shipping products overseas, and teach you how to establish a proper compliance program to provide training to your corporate management.
Every in-house practitioner has negotiated between one and a million contracts in his career. But do you excel in this element of your job or cringe when the occasion presents itself? Here is your chance to refresh everything you learned in contract law and forgot. Unlike law school though, in addition to the law, we'll send you home with a set of practical tools to manage the contract process including those that are difficult to negotiate. Topics will include tips on managing the battle of the forms, responding to overreaching and inapplicable terms and conditions, and setting up internal contract management processes and controls.
The lawyers and accountants made a treaty in 1976 that forms the basis on which attorneys can respond to audit letters inquiring about loss contingencies (particularly pending or threatened litigation) in a way that provides the accountants information needed for financial statements while protecting the attorney-client privilege. Recent corporate disclosure scandals have resulted in increasing pressure for additional disclosures. This session will examine the current legal and accounting requirements in this area, including management and lawyer responses to auditor requests for information, Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 303, and other touchy issues.
No domestic company doing business internationally wants to be subjected to the risk of litigating in a foreign court, yet many are. Arbitration can be a useful and more predictable mechanism to resolve international disputes. Do you want to learn how to influence procedure and obtain a decision that is enforceable around the world? If so, go to this program. This interactive panel of your peers will focus on the material aspects of drafting a legally enforceable international arbitration agreement including clause selection, and choice of forum, and will cover actual handling of the arbitration once it begins.
Even if you can fly, dealing with business units around the world is tough for a compliance superhero. Learn how to help your company use compliance as a competitive advantage internationally. This program will examine leading multinational compliance programs, including a discussion about the tensions between compliance and decentralized international management structures, types of international risks, and tools that are available to assist you.
This session will provide unique solutions both at home and abroad. Successfully doing business in other countries requires knowledge of the differences among various regulatory schemes, understanding the worldwide web of MOU's, mutual assistance and cooperation agreements amongst international regulators, and working constructively with them. This session will examine regulatory aspects of doing business in various jurisdictions, with an emphasis on practical advice about dealing with the local regulators, information swapping amongst regulators, and lessons from other jurisdictions that may be applicable in yours. Learn from these international representatives the legal do's and don'ts of working with regulators to achieve success for your company on a global scale.
More often than not, litigation is the least desirable (not to mention the most unpredictable) vehicle for resolution of patent disputes, whether you are asserting or defending against a patent infringement claim. So what kind of pre-litigation activity can reduce the risk of having to engage in litigation? Our IP litigation specialists will discuss strategies they believe can assist in resolving patent disputes without resorting to litigation.
Public company communications are complex and fraught with risk. Recent regulation FD and similar legislation in Canada and the EU precludes selective disclosure of material information. What guidance should you give your CEO and CFO in their dealings with the press, analysts, rating agencies, and investors while protecting your corporate officers and directors? Experienced general counsel will share how to ethically, legally, and proactively manage public company communications by identifying and resolving disclosure issues before they cost the company time and money.
This interactive presentation will provide you with insight into valuable strategies to prepare for and respond to employment related government audits and compliance with current agency initiatives. Our panel will explore best practices for avoiding auditing issues when that inevitable knock on the door comes.
You have just provided your comptroller with a list of litigation matters that may require a reserve. How do you know when and under what circumstances must a reserve be set? Our panel of financial experts and corporate practitioners will discuss the controlling financial accounting standards, the impact of insurance coverage, and compliance requirements, and apply those standards to a variety of litigation matters most importantly, when you set a reserve. We'll show you how best to protect that information and comply with pretrial discovery rules. Plus, we'll send you home with real world examples and practical tips for setting reserves and managing them that you can apply immediately once returning to the office.
Many companies expect the law department to handle compliance. The reality is that an effective compliance program involves many players, both inside and outside the company. In this session, your in-house peers will explore examples of how organizations have creatively managed the relationship between the law department, compliance function, and auditors to enhance the process of improving the compliance effort with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies. Take home practical solutions to achieving an integrated compliance effort within your organization.
Legal e-billing can provide a vehicle for benchmarking and measuring the success of your outside legal counsel. These metrics can help you to better forecast and budget legal expenses, but how? You'll hear how leading companies are assessing outside counsel performance, and take home new ideas and strategies your department can put in place immediately to begin managing your outside legal costs more efficiently and effectively.
Many companies rely on distributor networks or outside agencies to sell their products. The laws in many jurisdictions limit the ability to terminate such agreements. This session will provide the tools and legal resources to help guide you through the process of terminating such contracts. Our panel of international law specialists will teach you how to draft such agreements to avoid termination headaches, and the steps required to terminate such agreements in various jurisdictions. Topics will include recovering intellectual property, and other financial and contractual considerations.
The use of free and open source software (FOSS) has been hotly debated in recent months and issues about its uses, benefits, and risks are still unclear. If your company makes use of or develops free or open source software, this session is for you. Our technology counsel will provide an overview of what FOSS is, legal issues concerning such software (including litigation), patents, different licenses, warranties, and indemnification involved, where and how FOSS is generally used, and risks and benefits involved with licensing and using these types of software, including pollution. We'll also send you home with a list of some of the legal issues to be aware of to keep your company out of trouble.
You've taken the plunge and are determined to build a dedicated compliance function. Explore key strategies and tactics for implementing and maintaining a compliance program that fosters ethical, legal, and productive operations while also minimizing business risk. Review the impact of recent legal and business developments on compliance strategy. Learn how to maintain leadership buy-in and commitment, and avoid common pitfalls that make a compliance program difficult to maintain.
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