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.
How to move away from a "check the box" approach to due diligence, and target your efforts to focus in on the areas of highest risk. The program will include an update on the latest settlements, deferred prosecution agreements and case law regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
It’s hardly possible to do business without one, or both, parties requiring an confidentiality agreement. How can you streamline NDA contract review and still provide maximum protection? This course will provide practical tips for managing the onslaught of NDA requests including drafting tips, educating the business, and technology solutions. Promoting enterprise competitive capability. Pluses and minuses of Confidentiality Agreements, how to conduct internal training, streamlining the NDA contract review while still providing maximum protection.
How do you protect your company from IP theft? What is a trade secret and how do you protect it? What laws are applicable to trade secrets? How do you protect them? What do you do if you think they’ve been misappropriated? If they have been misappropriated, what if it’s by an employee? This course provides a basic introduction to law governing the protection of IP, with a focus on trade secrets.
This presentation covers the Dood-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Clawback Restrictions, clawbacks linked to non-compensation restrictive covenants, clawbacks linked to non-solicitation restrictive covenants, and special financial institutions' clawbacks or forfeiture provisions.
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.
Is your company aware of all the different data-breach-notification laws in the US? This session will focus on what constitutes a security breach with electronic transfers, the steps to take following such breach, the obligation to the National Provider Identifier, how insurance coverage is considered, and the differences in the state laws.
This session will address the various tracking technologies used and data collected in connection with online advertising, social media and mobile applications including geolocation data and provide guidance with respect to how to support in-house clients in implementing these technologies in a manner that complies with law as well as developing best practices.
As courts have become more burdened and short of funds, they have increasingly turned to private judges, referees, or special masters to resolve discovery disputes. This panel will address the pluses and minuses of this trend, including the consequences of having a parallel system of justice for well-heeled parties, the consequences of having cutting-edge issues of, for example, e-discovery, resolved in private, the advantages and disadvantages of having discovery motions carefully considered and extensively litigated, how to work effectively with a referee, and so on.
So you have a records retention plan, somewhere, and think it is effective. But are you sure? When was the last time you took a hard look at it? This program will offer concrete suggestions for the design, maintenance, and improvements for a legally defensible records retention plan, from an in-house perspective.
All too often, attorneys tasked with the preparation of a non-compete agreement jump head-first into the drafting process without much forethought or planning. In this proposed presentation, faculty will discuss five important things for a would-be drafter of a non-compete agreement to do before starting the drafting process. These action items are important for optimized enforceability of the resulting non-compete. Likewise, faculty will discuss five critical things to keep in mind while the agreement takes shape.<br />Help create an interactive dynamic session.