If you are responsible for litigation management, your initial reaction to new litigation can have an impact on the success of the litigation. What law and strategy do you need to know before sending the case to outside counsel? Learn strategies for spotting significant legal risks of specific types of litigation and receive guidance on how to quickly choose the best early defensive steps to protect your company's interests.
You're being asked to do more with less everyday. How can you best deploy the existing staff you have to maximize efficiency within your department? Attend this session to learn how to manage support staff more effectively, understand the proper mix between paralegals and administrative staff, learn the ethics of delegation, and gain insight into how technology affects your decisions.
Recent legal trends regarding e-discovery and dramatic shifts in the law regarding record retention policies have companies floundering. What guidance do you follow particularly when litigation is involved? Learn the status of the law and the no-nonsense solutions and best practices from your peers for how to deal with this hot issue including setting guidelines, understanding what is reasonable and what isn't, implementing processes for archiving data, and much more.
Your company's valuable proprietary information is at risk! What your employees may not know about what they can and cannot share may be costing you valuable business. What legal tools can you use to protect your company's IP? Our panel of IP and employment law experts will coach you through the methods to put a protective wall around those prized corporate assets. You'll take home detailed checklists and procedures to design and implement an enforceable IP protection program.
A perennial favorite every year, this year's program will include the latest and greatest developments in securities law. Senior SEC representatives along with corporate and securities experts will bring you up to date on corporate and securities law and share their insights on what to expect beyond this year's meeting
You won't want to miss this legal overview of the hottest issues in employee benefits. Our in-house employment specialists and government representatives will provide an update on such topics as employee privacy, stock options and other deferred compensation, and developments in ERISA and state laws.
A poll taken in 2003 by ACC and the National Association of Corporate Directors asked directors and general counsel "What would most improve corporate governance?" Seventy percent of members of boards of directors and 82% of general counsel replied, "Senior management creates and sustains an ethical business culture." This best-selling chapter program shares best practices in how to start and sustain a business ethics program in your company.
This hilarious and highly interactive session will have you thinking hard about your interactions with the media. How does communication with the press impact the law? In-house counsel at any level will be sure to take home at least one new piece of advice as we address such topics as how reporters and editors think, how to deal more effectively with them, the legal ethics involved in communicating with the press, the consequences of press communication on government investigations, and much more.
Program materials from ACC video conference in October
2005 regarding joint-ventures and intellectual property in
China.
Excerpt from article "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution for Lawyers."
Includes a questionnaire on assessing employee needs and creating a management action plan.
ACC Docket article and excerpts from the Conflicts and Waivers InfoPAK
907 Top 10 Environmental Enforcement Actions-Are You Prepared?
A look at taking your product to market and the intellectual property issues that arise.
This session will focus on customs laws, import/export laws and regulations, and World Trade Organization issues. What should you do when US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) penalizes you for a perceived violation? With the increasing convergence of government security regulations, corporate counsel should have a general understanding of both Department of Commerce and State Department's export regulations, including the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), the EAR (Export Administration Regulations) and other applicable government bodies' regulations. This 'primer' will help counsel to identify what they need to know about export compliance and how to set up a compliance program. In addition, the panelists will highlight recent changes in the laws with regard to WTO enforcement trends and discuss recent cases.
The financial crisis of 2008 unfolded like a tsunami. Left in tatters is an economy that continues to decline, and a fragile financial system. The government has stepped in with billions of dollars of direct investment and trillions of dollars of exposure for the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve. Congress has growing skepticism with rising home foreclosures and a lack of accountability by those companies who have received Federal money. All of this leads to broad, deep and comprehensive regulatory oversight and scrutiny and an overhaul of the current patchwork of regulatory institutions. This panel will provide an up-to-date review of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the implementation of TARP and the new regulatory structures. The oversight of every public company, its securities issuance, its debt structure and its risk management will all come under renewed scrutiny and potentially more oversight.
Join this mock training for your marketing department with committee members offering questions and with practical and useful course materials that you can use when you return to the office. Topics to be addressed include sweepstakes/promotions issues, Digital Millennium Copyright Act compliance with respect to user generated content promotions, advertising and claim substantiation, copyright clearance and licensing issues for stock images, policies and procedures for legal approval, and outsourcing to advertising agencies and marketing vendors.
2009 marks an unprecedented year for new regulatory and compliance practices: the federal bailout of 2008, this year's new administration, changes in the regulatory landscape, and new borrowing and lending practices with banks. Discover what experts are doing to ensure their organizations comply. Understand how regulatory changes are impacting bank operations across the nation, get suggestions on how your legal department can stay compliant and minimize the risk of enforcement actions, and hear experts' opinions on additional trends the next year could bring in the banking industry. There are solutions you can efficiently implement to reduce your legal risk. This session will focus on these as well as issues like TILA/Reg Z, BSA/AML/OFAC, Fair lending, Privacy/Information sharing, and overdraft rules (Regs E and DD).
Being in the global marketplace requires US companies to deal with the complexities of enforcing their rights under international contracts in jurisdictions outside the United States. The advantage of using arbitration to resolve disputes under international contracts has been frequently discussed in recent years. The panel members will focus on an aspect of international arbitration, which has received less attention: international arbitration and the enforcement of international arbitration awards in certain "difficult" jurisdictions, including countries in Europe, the Middle East and South America.
This power point presentation focuses on the trends of legal traps, tax issues, fundraising, social media, and e-mail marketing.
PowerPoint slides from Venable LLP's presentation on Thursday, November 12, 2009. The presentation provides information on due diligence considerations for nonprofit investment fiduciaries.
This material focuses on class actions in Europe, specifically nations in the European Union.
Crisis Management and dealing with regulators and the media is discussed further in this program material
This material discusses the relationship between the finance and legal departments and how to foster a better and more productive working union.
This material discusses the elements of successfully recalling a product including the crisis management and media aspect of such an event.
Tips on how to to set a creative tone in the law department. Learn pointers on how to be ambitious, seek small improvements, and harvest ideas no matter how big or small.
An introduction to risk management approaches such as ERM and integrated assurance. This material covers the nuts and bolts on what these approaches mean to the in-house counsel and his/her relationship to Integrated Assurance, Risk Management and Compliance.
This material explores the challenges and risks for in-house counsel in fast moving economies. It further focuses on the issues caused by political legacies and quick moving legal environments and answers if doing business in Central and Eastern European countries is a bigger challenge than doing business in Western Europe or if companies are simply exposed to a different mix of perils.
Case studies are presented that show how strategic risks have been identified and managed successfully in a preventative manner.
This PowerPoint presentation, which accompanied an ACC Europe Chapter webcast, begins with a Facebook-related hypothetical situation, and discusses the dangers of social media in the workplace, online bullying and harassment, and French and German statutory approaches to the issue.
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