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This webcast was held to orient members with energy legislation policy and examine the context in which the 2005 energy bill is being considered. It also discusses the legislation's potential business consequences.

This webcast involved a discussion by in-house counsel and administrator panelists from small, medium and large law departments who shared their insights regarding electronic billing systems. After a brief presentation, significant time was devoted to answering questions about this rapidly growing new technology.

Provides practical examples of how a legal department can engage with its information technology group to address risk from regulatory compliance and litigation while delivering real business value.

Discusses the threat of organized labor to your organization, your industry, your geographic location, and your workforce.

A webcast that provides the answers to common questions related to the benefits of an ACC membership such as getting CLE credit, finding out what other departments are doing, and information to help respond to a client request, and more.

This webcast transcript discusses ethical issues you may not realize you are confronting, from both the in-house perspective as well as outside counsel's defense after the violations are prosecuted, and how to find resources that offer guidance on the applicable ethics rules.

With compliance and records retention becoming such a high priority, this webcast uses a diverse group of speakers to suggest ways of improving these areas and making the retention and compliance less of a headache.

Discusses practical career progression tips including how to rise through the ranks of the law department and how to maintain and enhance your skills.

This webcast transcript focuses on strategic business issues for general counsel including executive compensation practices, tax structuring, and shareholder communications.

Includes technology and terminology basics that will make the in-house counsel more effective in handling meet and confer conferences and as well as reducing a company's electronic discovery costs.

The webcast provides an introduction to key aspects of the Chinese environmental regulatory system and clarify the more confusing aspects of this system.

Program Materials for Majmudar & Partners CLE Program

Discusses recent legislation in the U.K. and how U.S. parents may protect themselves from its U.K. defined benefit pension plan.

Provides the fundamentals of technology escrow. Covers key issues to address in minimizing client risk when licensing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, the challenges or risks surrounding off-shore development and licensing, challenges or risks surrounding exclusive supply agreements, verification of the content of escrow deposits, and escrow and verification service case studies.

This webcast addresses the range of issues arising from the subprime/credit crisis, including the emerging wave of private securities litigation and enforcement actions, as well as lessons learned by boards and management and the attorneys advising them.

Discusses recent trends involving noncompetes and other restrictive covenants for multi-jurisdictional employers.

Discusses the latest DOL guidance on Form 5500 Annual Return/Reports of Employee Benefit Plans regarding service provider fee disclosures, the status of proposed amendments to DOL regulation regarding statutory services exemption, disclosure of fees to participants and DOL’s position on gifts, gratuities and entertainment directed to plan fiduciaries.

Focuses on the practical and legal
implications of the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as they relate to litigation holds.

Addresses the theories supporting toxic tort lawsuits, potential defenses that can be raised including standards of proof causation under expert testimony text, and provides practical pointers for handling large caseloads in multiple jurisdictions with numerous plaintiffs.

In-house counsel and career management advisors discuss measures law department heads can employ to assist career in-house lawyers in their professional growth, viable options for those departments where there is not much opportunity for upward mobility, types of rewards and training methods that can be used to increase job satisfaction and positively impact staff retention.

Provides an overview of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

AB 1825, the Government Code requiring employers to train supervisors on sexual harassment every two years, was signed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in September of 2004. This webcast is intended to bring people up to speed on the code's current regulations and to help identify potential gaps in compliance.

This webcast detailed proven leading-edge uses of technology that could improve the way you do your job-without busting your budget.

This webcast transcript addresses what IP corporations are protecting, why they are protecting it, and provides cost-effective strategies to maximize corporate IP protection programs.

This webcast transcript examines a few key areas of eDiscovery that can help attorneys take a strategic approach to solving challenges, including how analytical tools can be used for early case assessment to help minimize risk and develop effective legal strategy, how to increase review productivity, accuracy and consistency to reduce the total cost of review, as well as strategies for unified matter management and workflow to enhance processing, review and production efficiencies.

In enacting the ADAAA, Congress expressly overturned several landmark ADA Supreme Court decisions and directed courts to interpret the term “disability” very broadly. Employers and corporate counsel should prepare to defend their judgment on issues including the scope and meaning of reasonable accommodation and undue hardship; essential job functions; whether performance or conduct standards are "job-related and consistent with business necessity"; that workplace risks satisfy the ADA's "direct threat" standard; and that "reassignment”has been explored as a reasonable accommodation.

This webcast transcript explores a different perspective for reviewing contracts that will help in-house counsel catch subtle problems and issues that might otherwise be missed.