Whether facing the imminent bankruptcy of your own organization or that of a supplier or customer, this program will provide you with the basics you need to navigate the world of insolvency.
During this session, a distinguished panel will discuss the recent developments and emerging trends in liability issues for directors and officers, focusing on different liability issues posed by class action litigation, derivative litigation and regulatory action.
This session will give a detailed presentation on negotiating an IP deal with a German company, covering the initial business model and strategy, a brief summary of US and European/German commercial and IP law, contract examples, and tips for closing the agreement.
This session will give a detailed presentation on negotiating an IP deal with a Chinese (PRC) company, covering the initial business model and strategy, a brief summary of US and Chinese commercial and IP law, contract examples, and tips for closing the agreement.
This Avoiding Insider Trading training course will help you understand the law and avoid the serious civil and criminal penalties that can result if you trade (or help others trade) in stock based on "inside" information.
To access the Avoiding Insider Trading Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35536-insider-trading-regulation-fd>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.
This Canadian Competition Law training course provides an overview of Canadian competition law and helps you recognize and deal with "red flags" — situations that present a risk of competition violations and legal liability.
To access the Canadian Competition Law Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35560-canadian-eu-competition-law>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.
This Conflicts of Interest training course will explain what conflicts of interest are and how to avoid them. It will also help you maintain the highest levels of integrity and fairness in the way you conduct business on behalf of our organization. After reading the material, you'll have a chance to play an online game that presents hypothetical scenarios for you to analyze. As you answer the multiple-choice questions correctly, you'll move through the game and earn a Certificate of Completion.
To access the Conflicts of Interest Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35530-conflicts-of-interest>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.
This document presents lessons from the litigation battlefield on commercial contract clauses, including the risks posed by boilerplate language and ways to limit liability.
An overview of computer viruses, email phishing scams, and other risks posed by hackers. Includes tips on how general counsel can protect their company.
This materials covers new regulations, including the new rules on misconduct in science and financial conflicts of interest and other developments; acquire best practices and good resources for management policies and procedures; and discuss what to do when something goes wrong with your organization's federal funding.
Find out what executives say about etiquette in the workplace, and learn how to tend to your network in just five minutes a day. You will gain better insight into your social networking style through interaction with panelists, including an engaging quiz.
In this session panelists discuss how to effectively manage risk in a cloud computing contract and provide you with a due diligence checklist to choose your company's cloud provider wisely.
The genesis of the vast majority of corporate scandals erupting over the last decade has been financial bad behavior. Thus, it behooves in-house counsel to understand the basic how, what, when, where, and why of financial statements, balance sheets, and accounting principles. Otherwise even in the best-case scenario in-house counsel might find himself/herself fiddling while Rome burns, or worse, active or passive participants in financial mismanagement. The good news is that you don't have to become an accountant to understand these concepts, but you do have to educate yourself. Financial Immersion does just that. This knowledge will make you a better partner to your clients and a more informed guardian of the corporation's reputation.
The ability to effectively manage outside counsel is essential to the success of in-house lawyers. Learn how to select, evaluate, compare, and retain the outside counsel that best suits the organizational
needs of your company; develop lists and criteria for preferred legal service providers and specialized firms; understand key terms and provisions of engagement letters and firm guidelines; conduct conflict checks and handle outside counsel waiver requests; implement alternative billing models; and how to optimize the use of technology and knowledge management with your outside counsel.
This panel discussion provides insight in how to plan, prepare, coordinate, and implement a document collection no matter the size or scope. The program covers how to collect and process hard copy information, electronically stored information, and other types of data. It also covers what paralegals need to consider in order to process and get the information their team needs from the data set after the document collection is complete. The paralegal is the front line of defense when finding, collecting, and processing documents. This panel provides insight for the new paralegal to the senior paralegal when confronted with having to collect documents in litigation and non-litigation settings.
This Participants' Briefing Book includes a discussion outline and suggested resources on the topic of FCPA enforcement - success strategies.
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.
Interview with Thomas Wardell of McKenna, Long & Aldridge on in-house counsel' role in encouraging corporate compliance.
Reviews how companies can maintain an ethical corporate culture. Includes advice on how corporate organization can help, the role of the CLO, the benefits to a company's reputation, and conducting internal investigations.
Designed for small law practitioners, this program asks CLO Club participants to work within groups of ten to respond to a hypothetical problem: the CEO and CFO have asked the CLO to develop a plan for taking a more proactive role in ensuring financial compliance and they want advice on spotting and preventing financial fraud, how to better manage the audit process and auditor contract negotiation, and what to do to ensure that the board is properly engaged in reviewing the company’s financial processes. After developing a plan to respond to this request, each table will report its proposed game plan for the consideration of the group. A general discussion of the groups' reported best practices will ensue.
The highly regulated nature of financial services firms poses unique legal issues for the in-house lawyer charged with ensuring the adequacy of directors and officers insurance. Here is your opportunity to issue spot challenges and identify new insurance product offerings and trends with your peers. Benchmark the most important elements to look for and negotiate in D&O insurance for a financial services firm.
Corporate governance scandals have heightened the prominence of the in-house counsel role in recent years. Yet, in organizations of all shapes and sizes, regardless of your functional area, there is an increased need to make yourself a trusted business advisor. Effective corporate counsel must compete with other C-level leaders in their organizations who are all seeking to do the same. In-house counsel must shape and lead a legal team of strategic thinkers who, collectively, are a true business asset to the organization and its leadership. Against this backdrop, our panel will offer practical advice for in-house counsel seeking to add greater value and build influence within their organization. Real-life examples from seasoned leaders will demonstrate how to hone management skills to achieve desired outcomes, sharpen communication skills to clearly articulate point of view, and navigate the constant change inherent with today’s competitive marketplace.
Do you know everything you need to analyze for hiring purposes when considering candidates under a non-compete and what you should have in your own non-competition agreements? What process do you have in place to ensure a prospective candidate is even eligible to be hired: she or he might not be if he is under an active non-competition agreement? Are you properly protecting your own company's business, confidentiality, competition, and trademark interests? Is your company's non-compete agreement enforceable? If you want help with any of these answers, this is a must-attend program for you. Our panel will cover the laws governing non-compete agreements and the duty of loyalty. Plus you will learn about enforcement trends and drafting tips in light of recent court cases and legislation, how to avoid litigation when potential employees are subject to covenants to not compete with or solicit from their previous employer, and the ethical issues surrounding lawyers signing NCAs.
Feel like you are in the old Abbott & Costello, "Who’s on First" routine when conducting international negotiations? Well you aren’t alone. This updated version of the popular 2004 program will teach you new tips to minimize communication misunderstandings during the negotation process. Our panel of international experts will engage in an interactive role-play of negotiations in varying countries and provide tips for translation issues when working in dual language contracts, tactics to expedite/delay negotiations, options or selective disclosure/protection of intellectual property, methods to disagree without killing the deal, interpretation of body language, and variations of "yes", "no", "it’s not my decision to make", and "you’re wasting my/your time".
The European Union has been preparing new rules on the provision of financial services across EU borders, called MiFid, that will apply broadly across Europe and allow easier and broader access to European financial markets through a common set of rules. At the same time, outside financial services firms are advancing at a fast pace in China, taking advantage of continuing liberalization efforts there. Take this opportunity to learn about the legal issues that corporate counsel and compliance staff should be most concerned about when it comes to expansion efforts in the E.U. and Asia including expansion opportunities and the related legal risks for financial firms looking to expand into these arenas.
Is arbitration too expensive? Does mediation prior to litigation simply delay the inevitable? Are executive escalation clauses just a waste of time? Not necessarily. A skillfully worded ADR clause in your contract - drafted before any dispute arises - can address these and virtually any other objection any party might have to alternative dispute resolution. This panel will draw on years of experience with ADR clauses, effective and otherwise, to provide you with broad negotiation strategies and specific contract clauses to help you save you time, money and effort in your next dispute.
A year after the new electronic discovery rules were enacted, many companies and their counsel are seeking better answers to the ever-evolving problem of electronic discovery. This panel will explore best practices in all three segments of the electronic discovery minefield, from securing documents and other information before it's too late to gathering what's needed when it must be gathered to analyzing information efficiently and effectively.
The corporate ""cybersmear,"" in which a false and disparaging rumor about a company, its products, services, management or stock is posted to the internet, is a serious problem that is likely to get worse. Competitors, disgruntled ex-employees, and sometimes even current ones may have the motive, and the opportunity is present due to the current ease of setting up blogs and websites. Do you have a plan for how to deal with these situations? When you get the email from your CEO that says ""take a look at this website about our company and tell me what we can do,"" you need to be ready. Our expert panel will provide some case studies for discussion and will also lay out a plan that will help you be prepared for the day when you get the call to take a look at www.yourcompanystinks.com.
As in-house counsel for your company, one of your many roles may be to provide corporate secretarial and governance support to your company and its subsidiaries. This panel discussion will help you stay on top of the trends in order to provide the best legal advice possible. Here is your chance to get up to speed on the current best practices in board and committee processes. In addition, you will learn practical tips on how to accurately prepare minutes that memorialize substantive discussions and decisions of these groups in a manner that protects your corporation client and independent board and committee members.
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