The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
Many companies rely on distributor networks or outside agencies to sell their products. The laws in many jurisdictions limit the ability to terminate such agreements. This session will provide the tools and legal resources to help guide you through the process of terminating such contracts. Our panel of international law specialists will teach you how to draft such agreements to avoid termination headaches, and the steps required to terminate such agreements in various jurisdictions.
What does a sensible company do about document retention? This question is on the minds of corporate practitioners around the world as recent legal developments have put these corporate policies in the spotlight. Join your peers to learn what you should keep, what you can happily destroy, policies on saving emails and other strategic retention procedures.
Corporate attorneys practicing within the EU need to be intimately familiar with competition laws and how they could affect a company's business. This overview of the trends EU competition is following will provide you with a clear understanding of the laws and guidance on how best to counsel your corporate client.
Globalization has resulted in greatly increased business activity across borders. Many companies that have never practiced international trade are now planning or have already begun to import and export products and materials. The US government is hardening its enforcement stance on trade laws. Fines and penalties are increasing, as are companies' obligations under the law. Every company engaged in international trade should have internal controls in place sufficient to manage the risks inherent in trade.
This program will provide a broad overview of the privacy laws and requirements in key global jurisdictions with a focus on data and security concerns. Learn the fundamentals of global privacy law, including enforcement under the EU Privacy Directive, the APEC Framework and recent proposals for a US framework to supplement the current federal and state sectoral approach. This session will also emphasize key issues in the context of new media.
This workshop examined some of the issues faced by companies in gathering and processing personal data and how to better ensure that your company complies with national regulations. It also focused on the European’s Commission’s upcoming review of the EU Data Protection Directive and recent developments in data protection statutes in other countries.
Legal Matter Management commonly describes the task of organizing and systematizing the daily workload of a corporate legal practice. Having a matter management in place is very important and also fundamental to further use and deploy IT solutions in the legal department. This program material addresses the advantages/disadvantages of a specialized legal matter management system.
This PowerPoint presentation, which accompanied an ACC Europe Chapter webcast, begins with a Facebook-related hypothetical situation, and discusses the dangers of social media in the workplace, online bullying and harassment, and French and German statutory approaches to the issue.
This material explores the challenges and risks for in-house counsel in fast moving economies. It further focuses on the issues caused by political legacies and quick moving legal environments and answers if doing business in Central and Eastern European countries is a bigger challenge than doing business in Western Europe or if companies are simply exposed to a different mix of perils.