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.
Environmental issues no longer stop at the factory door. Even companies that do not manufacture anything face environmental issues for products they sell or even just use. This session will explore downstream environmental concerns for all companies and what corporate counsel can do to mitigate the risks. Topics will include the REACH rule, lifecycle-assessments, financial responsibility and “greenwash” marketing and advertising concerns.
A key question in both the United States and Canada is whether infrastructure and other public projects should be structured as public-private partnerships (P3s). Explore the lessons learned from completed P3 projects, using examples from Canadian and US infrastructure projects and the approaches adopted by leading jurisdictions throughout the world. It will outline what private sector companies and their in-house counsel need to know to maximize their success.
The SEC, IRS and FDIC have recently issued regulations governing equity and phantom equity plans that may result in clawback, change in control, valuation, accounting issues and other illnesses that may affect your plans. This panel will provide a checklist of known ailments, a method to diagnose your plan and treatment options to bring your plan into good health. In a town hall setting, participants will be asked to share their own "home remedies" with the group.
Records management is not new. Litigation, efficiency and competitive edge drive organizations to manage and capitalize on information. With rapid technology changes and the increasing volume and complexity of information, management is difficult. But new problems call for new answers. Globalization changes the landscape — a global company is not a bigger, more spread out US company — it is a different organization altogether and requires different solutions.
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.
An introduction to risk management approaches such as ERM and integrated assurance. This material covers the nuts and bolts on what these approaches mean to the in-house counsel and his/her relationship to Integrated Assurance, Risk Management and Compliance.
How do our senior management colleagues see our role and our performance? How is the role of the in-house counsel widening and integrating with that of other functions such as internal audit and integrity and compliance? Read this program material to find out.
Tips on how to to set a creative tone in the law department. Learn pointers on how to be ambitious, seek small improvements, and harvest ideas no matter how big or small.