What makes one in-house counsel more successful than another? Why do some get recognition and others get overlooked? How can you be sure that you're in tune with your organization and are making the best of the resources at your disposal? Your corporate counsel peers will share strategies and tools you can employ to achieve greater professional satisfaction and effectiveness.
Compliance with multijurisdictional laws and regulations and observance of industry codes of conduct can be quite challenging in today's global economy. Our panel will discuss the practical aspects of developing a corporate code of conduct, dealing with the challenges of different regional norms of doing business and cultural differences, effective training and communication, and preserving your good corporate name and reputation.
Conducting commercial business involves a multitude of risks, and rendering in-house services as a legal professional involves responsibility for decisions that affect the risk profile of your company. This session will examine significant areas of direct corporate risk: regulatory, product/service performance, compliance, reputation and financial, among others, as well as mechanisms for effectively managing such risks.
Overseeing a multinational legal department can present many challenges. Join with your legal peers as they examine and explain various management models including centralized vs. decentralized, matrix and others, reporting lines, control and consistency issues, and use of external lawyers among other relevant subtopics.
Presented for ACC Europe. This material contains program slides regarding compliance with EU employment law. There are also charts that compare differing country rules regarding business transactions, collective dismissals, and the comparative difficulty of regulatory compliance.
Regulators and experts tell us that in-house counsel are expected to help their companies do the right thing. Our closing session will help you think about what that really means. Be among the first to experience a dynamic new ACC ethics program. First you will watch the story unfold: a corporate counsel gets caught in an ethical dilemma not of his making; then you will hear from leading in-house counsel as they discuss how they would have reacted if placed in the same situation. This interactive session, originally produced by ACC's Greater New York Chapter, will send you home with advice on how your company can improve its own professional responsibility compliance program.
Want to get into the government contracting business but don't know how? Our contracting experts will give you all the law you need to fill your personal toolbox. You will learn how to distinguish between a do-it-yourself project and when you need to hire a specialist, how the law of contracting with federal agencies, state governments, and government-owned companies differs from the law of contracting with any other customer, how to determine which statutes and regulations apply to your contract, and how signing a public contract can alter how you do business and may affect your property rights.
What do in-house counsel need to know about the accounting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, Section 404? Are the SOX 404 requirements, strictly an accounting function or do in-house counsel have an interest? This session will provide you with up-to-date information on SOX 404 as well as FASB, public exchange, and the law involving other accounting guidelines effecting publicly traded companies. A focused discussion among your in-house peers will also provide a listing of practical problems and issues which have arisen since these regulations were set in place and possible solutions (including implementing compliance programs) and offer a forward looking perspective for what is to come in future months.
Join the general counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a Capital Hill insider and your in-house peers as they review the executive and legislative priorities that are driving the national environmental agenda. This well-informed panel will highlight the policy and program initiatives that are affecting pollution control, public lands, and enforcement practices and help you advise your company or organization on how best to respond.
What are the legal issues presented by the use of volunteers? Can volunteers collect workers compensation, sue for discrimination, or bind the company? Our panel of experts will share tips on these and other volunteer issues including writing policies, conducting liability audits, implementing proper insurance, and gaining a clear understanding of the Volunteer Protection Act.
ACC Chicago and Epstein Becker Green handout for July 18 & 20, 2023 MCLE programs, AI Advancements in the Workplace.
Occupational safety poses one of the largest threats to a company while it may also be among the most preventable of workplace legal problems. Using an entertaining approach to a serious subject, our panel will identify warning signals that rouse OSHA's attention, recommend how best to respond to workplace safety crises and advise you on the latest OSHA compliance issues you should be considering.
Your company's tax-exempt status is valuable. Do you know the law well enough to protect it? Here you will learn the top ten things a tax-exempt organization's legal department should do to obtain and maintain its tax exemption and minimize liability for unrelated business income (UBI). Topics to be covered include how the nonprofit community has internalized the intermediate sanctions ten years after their release, fundamentals of the tax on UBI and UBI tax planning, legal prohibitions for charities and other tax exempt organizations, challenges to the tax exemptions of health care organizations, lessons learned by the IRS as a result of its recent tax exempt organization audit initiative, and revisions to the tax code being proposed in Congress.
Learn the fundamentals of disclosure required under the federal securities laws and relevant stock exchange rules from a panel of your in-house peers. This back to basics session will teach you about disclosures required in Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K, proxy statements, and Section 16 reports. Plus you will learn how the SEC staff conducts reviews and what shareholders expect in these disclosures.
Whether your company has lawyers outside the U.S. or not, there will come a time when you may need to deal with litigation, government investigations, commercial claims, or employment matters in another country. What are the best practices you should employ when working with outside counsel or your own legal staff outside of the U.S.? Our legal managers will share their lessons learned from the trenches and send you home with practical approaches to dealing with international legal issues.
This back to basics refresher course will update you on best practices for preventing litigation. Review the list of actions you can take as your organization's legal superhero, including current early response initiatives and after action reviews.
Our panel of expert in-house counsel will provide a sound introduction to the methodologies for doing business in Mexico, Latin, and South America. The panel includes counsel who represent companies that regularly do business in these regions. Included in their presentation will be ideas for establishing a foothold, cultural considerations, advantages to the locations, and general contracting provisions, sending you home with a solid checklist of steps to follow to make inroads into the regions.
So your company wants to branch out and start selling its products outside of the U.S. As legal counsel for your company, you must advise your client on the best way to move forward and the laws and regulations which may apply. Don't know the first thing about where to start? Then, be sure to attend this session where you will receive an overview of legal and regulatory issues and the common pitfalls you could encounter. We'll send you home with a checklist of solutions to use when the time comes to start licensing your technology outside of the U.S.
Companies and their law departments grow and change. What worked in the past may no longer work when a company changes, or when a department grows. Learn how the growth and change of the company and law department itself can affect the way in which you deliver services to your client. Our panel of experts will send you home with practical approaches to dealing with growth and change in your legal department (including how to develop a basic strategic plan to address day-to-day priorities) so you can maximize the delivery of high-quality service to your company.
Entering into a joint venture with a company outside of the U.S. is one way to expand distribution of your company's products. The legal requirements of joint ventures can be tricky anywhere, and unexpected rules may apply in the international arena. This session will cover the pitfalls of doing business via a joint venture in other countries including how to test the waters before committing, and forming strategic business alliances. Our panelists will provide a review of legal aspects of tax issues, internal pricing methodologies, and permanent establishment criteria.
Regardless of your company's line of business, you will have to negotiate IP agreements. We will send you home with the legal skills you need to know when negotiating your IP contracts. The program will include substance and strategy for both buyers and sellers. Learn to negotiate a broad range of legal agreements from both sides of the table including licensing, service, technology service, and much more.
Almost every company in the world these days maintains a website. Whether for informational purposes, or to engage in commerce beyond its traditional geographic region or customer base, ecommerce is growing. As the novelty of maintaining an ecommerce website wears off and with the ever growing acceptance of the internet as a mode of doing business, today's companies cannot afford to ignore the many online pitfalls they face if the legal department is not a part of the web team. The increasing number of laws and regulations aimed at ecommerce websites must be on the forefront of every ecommerce lawyer's mind. If you need a refresher on the issues involved or are just starting out, this session will provide you with a basic checklist of the do's and don'ts. More importantly, we'll send you home with a list of solutions to solve these issues should they arise on your company's site.
Lawsuits filed against corporations and their present and former directors and officers for purported misconduct have been on the rise in recent years. With claims alleging civil and criminal violations, breach of fiduciary duty, or internal business misconduct against the company or individual, how does an organization maximize insurance coverage for attorneys' fees and liabilities? This session will go beyond the 101 insurance issues you've heard before and focus on specialized insurance policies (including D&O) companies can obtain that provide coverage for such far-reaching claims.
Where are companies legally required to draw the line in workplace privacy? If you don't know the answer to this question then this session is for you! Our presenters will examine the many legal issues surrounding employee privacy in today's workplace including employee monitoring, email and internet use, employee confidentiality, conduct outside the workplace, employee testing, personnel records, and much more.
Few cases rise to the level of catastrophic, but when they do they require a more customized, unified, and expensive effort from the outset. The audience will learn why catastrophic litigation should be handled differently from litigation that's just important. When the consequences of the litigation may include the demise of the company or its business model, in-house counsel's every move can be second guessed, and everything is on the table. This program will assist the audience in every phase of catastrophic litigation, from selecting the right team to setting an initial, proactive game plan to execution late in the game. The panel, comprised solely of in-house veterans of catastrophic litigation, will share the strategies, tools, and techniques they employ for identifying these cases and the various steps they have taken, from initial receipt of a demand to a final jury decision in the case.
If your company is privately held, it may not be legally required to implement certain risk management procedures, but it still needs protection. Risk management now means much more than buying insurance, and private companies face special challenges to handle these modern problems. Learn about the most common risks facing privately held companies, how to avoid these risks, and how to make sure your company is covered if something does go wrong.
Do you understand the legal significance of provisions that are included in your product distribution agreements? If not, join with your in-house peers as they conduct a mock negotiation demonstrating the legal impact of principal clauses and share information on antitrust issues arising from these negotiations. Take home proven, effective, and exhaustive strategies for negotiating sound product distribution agreements, including sample language agreements, to use in your daily practice.
With new laws and regulations looming on the horizon, the merger between the internet, broadcast technology, and telecommunications industries could have significant impact on how companies do business in the future. Hear from a senior governmental official and then join with our panel of technology experts to learn more on the complex legal and regulatory issues these changes present and understand the significance these regulatory decisions could have on your business.
The role of audit committees in corporate governance is continuing to evolve. We'll examine audit committee responsibilities and requirements, including independence and financial literacy requirements, oversight of the auditor, receipt of complaints, and development of audit committee charters. We will also consider the role of audit committees in crisis situations and issues related to audit committee member liability. During the program you'll also gain a broader understanding of the SEC's expectations of audit committees in corporate governance.
Smart companies measure results. In an era increasingly driven by metrics, it is essential for law departments to find or develop tools that provide some measure of the value of the work being accomplished. Our law management authorities will explain key performance indicators and benchmarking data for in-house counsel that can be used to measure and track the performance of a law department and how you can apply these tools to the performance of your own department.
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