By 2010, nearly one in three workers in the United States will be over the age of 50. As the relative proportion of younger workers declines, attracting and retaining experienced and reliable workers will become a core business strategy for all employers. Our panel discussed the impact that older workers are having on the workplace, legal issues related to phased retirement and nontraditional work arrangements as well as proposed and pending regulations relating to phased retirement.
When a dispute arises concerning the sale of a business, your clever lawyering and intricate draftsmanship can get lost in front of judge and jury. How can you draft your contract to insure the intention of the parties is enforced as well as maximize the protection to your client? Our panel of your litigation peers will share their 20-20 hindsight on the M&A deal and what M&A practitioners should know about how your contracts are received and interpreted, and what you can do to help in case the business deal ends up in the courtroom or arbitration.
Corporations operating internationally take legal and other risks in sending employees abroad. The dangers of international travel are very real for corporate travelers, often deemed ideal targets for criminals. Kidnappings are a daily occurrence, even in cities once thought to be safe. Here is your opportunity to explore the role of in-house counsel in managing the risks and liabilities associated with international business travel including how to identify and analyze travel risks, how best to avoid a crisis, what international law and treaties can do in these situations, and how to be properly prepared should an abduction or ransom situation occur.
The greatest challenge for corporate counsel is to reconcile the dual, and sometimes contradictory role, of being both a productive business partner and guardian of the corporation's integrity and reputation. Successfully resolving this tension is essential if a company is to attain the two fundamental goals of contemporary capitalism: high performance and high integrity. We are most fortunate to have Ben W. Heineman Jr., share his thoughts and observations about this dilemma with us. Under Heineman, the former senior vice-president-general counsel to General Electric, the GE legal department became well known for its innovativeness and excellence as well as the important role its attorneys play in management and business. Heineman is currently a distinguished senior fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession, senior fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and senior counsel at WilmerHale. Special thanks to Lex Mundi for sponsoring today's lunch.
ACC Chicago and Greenberg Traurig MCLE program handout for June 28, 2023, Do Tell…Pay Transparency and Equity Trends Every Employer Should Master.
Real estate is a basic part of doing business, whether your employer owns, leases or subleases facilities. Learn the law from your in-house peers who have of necessity become real estate law experts, and discover the key considerations and potential traps that every in-house attorney must know for basic real estate transactions and managing your companies' real property assets.
Looking for optimal work flow, organization, and productivity in your legal department? Who isn’t! Here is a thought provoking, effective session on how to apply top down and bottom up principles in conjunction with Six Sigma practices to turn a disorganized legal department with circular work patterns and other inefficiencies into a highly productive team with quality on-time deliverables.
The counselor to a smaller business is often asked to take on duties for which law school has not prepared her; functions such as human resources, risk management, real estate, media response, or government relations. How does she successfully fulfill these roles without compromising her primary responsibility as legal counsel? This program will focus on the unique opportunities presented in becoming the go to person in taking on non-lawyer roles, as well as the potential issues to consider, such as liabilities being assumed, how the additional roles will affect coverage under the company's D&O policy, the impact on attorney-client privilege, etc.
More than ever, CEOs are looking to their general counsel to run the law department like a business. Typically a cost-center, the legal function in many companies often faces particularly stringent standards for efficiency and sometimes-outright skepticism from CEOs and boards about bottom-line orientation. How are leading GCs and department managers responding to this pressure and demonstrating creative, proactive, and business-savvy leadership in managing the legal function? This stellar panel of CLOs will share their approaches to creative approaches to outside counsel spend, alternative hiring strategies, methods to reducing the general complexity of budgeting and forecasting, and much more.
Give your company a competitive advantage while positioning your department as a proactive business partner by building an effective government relations program without adding additional staff. How you say? Learn the law of lobbying. Join your in-house peers to learn how to develop a national (or state) strategy, how to find and hire lobbyists, and how to launch a legally compliant grassroots effort and create, manage, and evaluate a successful PAC. You will take home tools to identify regulatory trends that may affect your business and learn how to seize legislative opportunities to create competitive advantages for your organization.
Canadian CCU 2007: Companies have to walk the walk. If a company does not have a culture that is committed to ethical conduct and compliance with all applicable laws and regulation, all the talk in the world will be o f no use. After all, Enron had an excellent code of conduct on the books; the problem was that no one paid any attention to it. Learn more about what constitutes a culture of compliance and why it is so important that it exists at your company.
Canadian CCU 2007: Whether you are brand new to in-house practice, or have spent a few years working for a company, your career depends upon some basic skills. Learn how to provide the legal support your client needs, including how to set priorities, communicate legal concepts with management, and understand the legal issues relevant to all businesses.
Presented at the NJCCA Chapter Meeting on October 16, 2007.
Examines the key changes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office Rules
Developing and Implementing Law Department Metrics that Work. Hosted by David Reid, Managing Partner — Legal and Corporate Affairs, Senior Vice-President, Associate General Counsel, Pfizer. This Participants' Briefing Book includes a discussion outline and suggested resources on the topic of strategic practices in developing and implementing law department metrics from ACC's Law Department Executive Leadership group.
This Briefing Book includes a discussion outline and suggested resources on the topic of strategic practices in outside counsel management from the inaugural meeting of ACC's Law Department Executive Leadership group.
The following outline is intended to provide a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of this discussion topic. There may be other issues we’ve not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline: you should feel free to raise these additional thoughts, as you like.
2007 ACCE Annual Conference: Finance, legal – both have their roles, but when it comes to interfacing is each department getting what they need. How do you bridge the gap between the finance world where everything is tangible and the legal environment where things sometimes aren’t. Is there a growing need for more legal support from within the finance function? What does the CFO expect from the legal department? Is there a conflict of interest between the 2 roles? Where do you draw the line between an accounting or legal issue?
In the session, attendees will be divided into groups led by counsel of varying jurisdictions and will conduct the stages of investigating employee misconduct through a case study. The various stages of an investigation will be covered, including: planning the investigation, determining the scope, gathering the evidence, conducting witness interviews and reaching findings.
This material covers updates on developments in copyright, trademark and patent law.
Learn about open business models that license and develop IP across organizational, industrial and national boundaries.
Gain an overview of what needs to be cleared, how to clear it and whom to contact about movie, music and photo rights, as well as the risks of not doing so.
Discover the importance of legal hold language and preservation techniques.
As companies expand into new markets, move production facilities abroad, and deal with counterparties based in other countries, they can find their legal liabilities globalized. A straightforward domestic litigation can be complicated by an aggressive party filing countersuits in a variety of jurisdictions. Attend this session to explore the challenges to resolving a transnational dispute.
Guiding principles and pragmatic solutions to dealing with a C-Suite scandal.
Energy companies are required to comply with myriad laws, rules and regulations. With increased penalty authority for many regulators, staying in compliance is a necessity. Explore several hypothetical compliance cases, participate in determining whether they present compliance problems and suggest how companies should respond to those problems, in collaboration with the speakers.
This material addresses the most significant risk management issues facing in-house lawyers involved in energy transportation, storage and trading, including discussion of best practices and potential pitfalls in identification of risk and risk control (including counterparty and credit risk), contract negotiation and drafting, insurance and indemnity.
This material covers global privacy issue, major privacy laws and how they differ from country to country.
This material covers what corporate counsel are doing and can do to drive down the cost and up the speed and efficiency of ADR.
The objective of this presentation was to determine whether your existing compliance program is working, take away benchmarks and statistics that help convince executives to act before it's too late, and to understand that a compliance program doesn't have to be costly to be effective.
Learn how to actually implement the program you’ve structured; Discuss who in your organization should and should NOT be involved; Identify interactive training tactics that make compliance training more engaging and memorable for trainees; Learn about technological aids that can assist with overcoming compliance-training obstacles, including budgetary issues, and learn how to adapt to changes in the law and keep your program up-to-date.
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