Test your employment law knowledge as our distinguished expert panel highlights significant, interesting and weird employment & labor law decisions and legislative developments.
How much information is enough? What your Board of Directors really needs to know about your compliance program, why they need to know it, and how to tell them. Leave this session with practical tools you can implement back in the office including, examples of reports, scorecards and other tools for Board reporting.
This program will explore what companies are required under SEC guidance, or may soon be required (by regulation or consumer demand), to disclose regarding how much carbon their products have generated, the chemicals used in their products, the origin of product materials and the well-being of the workers making their products. This may soon be required of the entire supply chain for products.
An overview of Chinese legal developments related to mergers and acquisitions and foreign invested enterprises.
An overview of the legal issues typically faced by a foreign investor looking to establish and do business in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with a particular emphasis on the UAE.
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) have been on the top of the agenda for management and in-house counsel during the last years and trade compliance may or may not be getting the attention merited by the current complexities of this area of law. This will certainly have an
implication on the current trade compliance landscape and how in-house counsel should respond to it. This session will bring more clarity to the current status and provide concrete recommendations for your daily
operations.
The recent high number of corporate bankruptcies points to the importance of strong risk management practices. No, you won’t have to wear a green eyeshade and crunch numbers. However, smart in-house counsel understand they must be knowledgeable about finance and accounting issues in a strong risk management framework. Increasingly companies need lawyers who can anticipate problem areas before they arise. We’ll introduce you to the basics of finance and accounting, risk management “best practices” and
help you identify what financial red flags look like, gain greater understanding of key financial documents including corporate financial statements, and enhance your risk management toolkit.
Overview of the changes made under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) and the new issues they present for in-house counsel.
Provides tips on preparing for and defending against securities litigation. Includes case studies of acquisitions gone wrong and issues that arise when companies go private.
An overview of the process involved when public companies merge or are acquired. Includes survey of M&A market trends, the use of tender offers, and common problems in public company M&A's.
Discover the critical factors to consider in deciding whether and how to form a joint venture with a Chinese partner or to invest in a wholly-owned foreign entity, including issues arising from Chinese foreign ownership restrictions, as well as issues relating to technology transfers, protecting IP, leasing property, hiring staff, dealing with local governments and establishing banking relationships in China.
Learn how to integrate the acquired management and workforce and the potential impact of local particularities on the timeline, and understand how to rationalize the combined business and reorganize the combined business's legal structure. Look at coordination of these various functions and the role of corporate and external counsel in preparing and implementing an integration plan.
This material teaches how to handle specific requests from foreign government officials, deal with due diligence red flags, manage travel expenses and per diems, and address charitable donations and community development initiatives.
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 materials includes an overview of nonverbal communication, which accounts for 93 percent of communication; how to prepare for superior results; how to handle conflicts and difficult individuals and how to avoid common mistakes even experienced negotiators make.
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 roundtable discussion on the latest in a long series of international corporate financial scandals that imposes new burdens and responsibilities on in-house counsel. MF Global Holdings, Madoff, Stanford, Lehman and many other smaller failures mean that corporate counsel for securities, brokerage and other companies who invest in Europe face heightened corporate and regulatory scrutiny. What are the minefields you have to avoid? Is there insurance for your losses? Is there insurance for your shareholders’ or investors’ losses? Will your management face criminal charges? What compliance measures can you implement to minimize your risks? A panel of distinguished attorneys will advise you of best practices.
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.
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