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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.

Discuss what compliance issues the Feds are focused on right now, and what you can do to protect your company. Learn about companies and in-house counsel who have suffered the consequences of non-compliance and discover the best resources available to keep up with changes in the law.

This program includes an outline for a license agreement a fact sheet for negotiating, and sample license and service agreement.

Program Materials: Outline with sample model. Articles on business relationship

Whether you are an in-house counsel in a large legal department or a solo practitioner in a small corporation, chances are that at some point your company will get sued. What steps can you take to prepare for the potentiality of a lawsuit and how should you respond if the litigation process is triggered? This session provides some answers with topics including; how to manage paper and electronic document retention; whether to retain outside counsel; how to conduct the initial investigation; how to approach issues related to attorney-client privilege; and how to prepare for potential e-discovery and officer and employee depositions.

Just as the role of the in-house general counsel has evolved to keep pace with the changing legal and business landscape, the role of in-house paralegals has evolved as well. In-house paralegals are frequently called upon to perform diverse and multi-faceted tasks that reflect the dynamic responsibilities of in-house lawyers. This requires a deeper understanding of in-house responsibilities such as the conflict between giving legal advice and business advice. This program specifically tailored for paralegals presents new and emerging trends within the profession.

As intellectual property becomes increasingly important to a company's overall business strategy and performance, it is essential to understand the legal approaches to establishing a sophisticated IP regime through the efficient use of limited resources. This session discusses a variety of IP legal issues that your company is likely to face. It includes topics such as on-line IP asset management, practical approaches
to licensing IP, conducting business on the Web (Internet trademark and copyright issues), IP indemnification issues, and the implications of international IP law.

The employment relationship is a complex and knotty area of the law with a rapidly changing backdrop. With such a dizzying array of employee rights and workplace laws applicable to employers, do you have the necessary tools to protect your company from liability? Learn effective methods to manage employee leave, wage and hour compliance, practical considerations for pre-employment screening and employment verification, useful strategies in drafting employment manuals and non-competition
agreements, and the legal implications of employee benefits and other human resources matters.

A quick Internet search reveals that there are several paralegal organizations and places where you can earn a certificate or degree. If you want to be one, you can. But, where do you acquire good writing skills? How do you edit something a lawyer has written without straining the relationship? Who teaches those "soft skills" or tips on
improving "emotional intelligence"? Lawyers live by lists, so consequently, do you? Find out 20 ways to improve your communication skills with your boss
and your organization.

Learn the what, when, who and how of records retention in litigation and non-litigation settings. The discussion centers on when a records hold order should be issued; what the hold order contain, how it should be implemented, and processes to make sure that the hold order is being complied with throughout an organization. The panel discusses real-life scenarios and provides insight into the dangers of not having a records retention program.

This ACC CLO ThinkTank Executive Report highlights key takeaways and discussion highlights from a recent ACC CLO ThinkTank session on "Taking Charge of Escalating Law Firm Costs-Connecting Costs with Value."

This session will give you an introduction into the complexities of electronic discovery. It will provide you with some suggested practical tips and watch-outs. It will put E-discovery in the total context of document and data management in general within a global corporation. Following this session you should be able to identify most pitfalls if faced with E-discovery and know what to do and how to (proactively) minimize risk and efforts in dealing with it.

The Data Protection Directive requires anyone who handles personal information to comply with a number of important principles. Among them: ensure that the personal information is lawfully processed, accurate and up to date, processed in line with the individual’s rights, secure and not transferred to other countries without adequate protection.

Learn "best practices" from colleagues, how to build effective and mutually beneficial working relationship with outside counsel and perform strategic planning to control costs and align the law department with the company’s goals.

While Washington appears to have lost interest in pre-merger antitrust review, such reviews are intensifying in Brussels. Thanks to appeal judgments requiring the European Commission to justify its decisions more thoroughly, a new era of more lengthy and fact-intensive reviews has arrived. It seems that competitors are more easily able to create delays by exploiting this trend, which two case studies will illustrate.

Does your company have a compliance program? Do you know what to do in the event of a dawn raid from your national competition authority or from the EU? Is your company within the radar of competition rules? Should you be concerned about your current practices? Corporate attorneys practicing within the EU need to be intimately familiar with competition laws and how they could affect a company’s business.

This powerpoint presentation on Managing Competition Law Risk by the law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin was presented to the ACC Ontario Chapter on Thursday, Jan 31, 2008

Handout for June 21, 2023 webinar, Data Privacy in the Employment Context by ACC Chicago and Cozen O'Connor.

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 not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline. The outline is merely intended as a starting point to help you identify discussion topics and tee up your conversation. This material is a part of the ACC CLO ThinkTank Series.

Annual Meeting 2006: As China continues to integrate itself into the world market, it is likely your company will do (or already does) business there or with Chinese companies. Conducting business in China has a whole new set of rules you may never have encountered before. Take this opportunity to learn the legal climate in order to determine best practices for manufacturing and selling products in China and protecting your IP assets while doing so.

Are you versed in the requirements surrounding mandatory vs voluntary reporting of environmental releases and violations? It’s likely your company is relying on you to provide legal guidance on this issue, but are you prepared to answer the questions if/when they come up? If not, our panel will first detail the legal requirements triggering the mandatory reporting of environmental releases and violations and then focus on the more difficult situation of voluntary reporting or disclosure of releases and violations that are not covered by current reporting rules. Take home an interactive tool to determine if a release has occurred and what/how to report such a release or violation.

Annual Meeting 2006: This nuts and bolts session will provide a practical and ethical explanation of the do’s and don’ts of issuing opinions to third parties, outside auditors, lenders, and others. Plus our panel will provide guidance on properly drafting opinion letters, understanding current guidelines on rendering opinions, appropriate disclaimers, and reservations, and assessing if an in-house attorney is qualified and licensed to render such an opinion and how to do so in compliance with the lawyers code of ethics.

Annual Meeting 2006: In today’s challenging corporate governance and litigation climate, in-house practitioners must prepare bulletproof corporate minutes for meetings of the board and board committees. Memorializing substantive discussions and decisions of the board in a manner that protects the corporation and the independent members of the board is a mission-critical objective. Our panel will provide you with an overview of the law and best practices for preparing corporate minutes that help protect the corporation and share with you the full range of legal, corporate governance, and ethical issues that can arise.