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ACC Mid-America and Lathrop GPM
JOINTLY PRESENT

Ethical Implications of AI Governance

Presented by: Tedrick Housh, Partner, Lathrop GPM &
Steve Hengeli, Senior Counsel at Garmin International, Inc.

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM via Zoom Webinar
The Zoom link for the meeting will be included in your registration confirmation email.

  Program Description:

Organizations are urgently adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) in all facets of their business.  This will enable organizations to do more in a shorter amount of time, which also likely means more contracts, more compliance obligations, and more disputes.  In-house counsel will need to leverage AI tools to keep up – using these tools to draft briefs, review contracts, respond to emails, and so on.  Despite these changes in technology, the central role of ethics remains a constant.  In this presentation, we will discuss the exciting possibilities that AI brings to the legal profession, while explaining how the Rules of Professional Conduct are as relevant as ever.  We will then discuss how AI governance can help legal departments – as well as organizations as a whole – to better use AI in an ethical and responsible manner.

 Topics Include:

• Background on AI – what it is, why it is important, and how it promises to revolutionize the legal practice (10 minutes)

• Ethical issues for using AI in legal practice (20 minutes), including: 
  • Maintaining competence in use of new technologies (Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8)
  • Managing workload and prompt responsiveness in the age of generative AI (Model Rule 1.3)
  • Keeping your AI prompts secret -- attorney-client confidentiality (Model Rule 1.6) and privilege/work product issues when using generative AI
  • Exercising care when using AI-generated content – the duty of candor (Model 3.3)
  • Avoiding unauthorized practice of law (Model Rule 5.5)
• AI governance (20 minutes)
  • Oversight
  • Developing policies and procedures to prevent misuse of AI (for legal departments and, more broadly, for the company)
  • Training and awareness
  • Contracts with vendors
• Questions and answers (10 minutes)

We encourage members to invite an associate or colleague that may be interested in joining the ACC Mid-America Chapter. The Association of Corporate Counsel offers numerous benefits and resources to in-house counsel including CLE offerings and networking opportunities and we look forward to sharing that information with others in the field.

Please click HERE to register by December 11, 2023
*Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri Continuing Legal Education Credits pending.

Trouble with the Link? Copy & paste this link into a new browser to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GMN7lex0Q3W74XhqBRm_qg

ACC Mid-America Chapter

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Husch Blackwell, LLP

JOINTLY PRESENT

Double Jeopardy: A Game Show of Legal Ethics

Presented by:
Grant Leach, Attorney

Thursday, December 7, 2023

2:00PM to 4:30PM
Check-in begins at 2:00PM. This is an in-person event only.
Prize drawing will be held at 2:30PM
CLE Presentation begins at 2:30PM to 4:30PM
Networking with appetizers and drinks will begin at the conclusion of the meeting.

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Husch Blackwell, LLP
14606 Branch Street, Suite 200
Omaha, NE 68154

Please note: Husch Blackwell’s offices have changed location since the last ACC and Husch Blackwell hosted this event. Please make sure to join us at
the new address listed above (a/k/a “The Carson Wealth Building”).

Nebraska CLE Approval Pending

Presentation Description: Join us for a fun, but informative, CLE ethics seminar in the format of a panel game show. Contestants answer and discuss legal ethics questions, hypotheticals and dilemmas posed by our Legal Ethics Hosts, who will involve the audience in competition with the panel as well as lively discussion on current legal ethics issues and rules of professional practice. Contestants and the audience may be asked to select the true ethics story from among fictional hypotheticals, guess the ending to bizarre ethics sagas provide the final lines of a poem that describes an ethics controversy or simply answer a traditional true/false or multiple-choice questions.  Discussion will follow each question wherein the Legal Ethics Hosts will provide references to relevant rules, cases and ethics opinions.

Topics include:

• The use of social media                                                             
• Electronic discovery
• Conflicts of interest
• Reporting misconduct and breaches of ethical rules
• Expert witness issues
• Spousal conflicts and other relative-related conflicts
• Whistleblowing
• Reporting legal misconduct of counsel
• Negotiation tactics
• Litigation tactics v. ethnical misconduct
• Multi-jurisdictional practice issues
• Communication and disclosure dilemmas
• Lying witnesses
• Threats and coercive tactics
• Attorney-client privilege
• And much, much more . . .

We encourage members to bring an associate, colleague or friend who may benefit from learning more about this topic, or who might be interested in joining our Mid-America Chapter of ACC.  The Association of Corporate Counsel offers many benefits and resources to in-house counsel and we look forward to sharing that information with others in this field. 

Please click here to RSVP by Monday, December 4, 2023.  Questions? Please contact Lori Beck at mid-america@accglobal.com

Title: Contractual Indemnity in Wisconsin: Issues and Drafting Tips 

This webinar will provide a foundational overview of indemnity law in Wisconsin, including recurring issues with contractual indemnity provisions and drafting tips.

DATE: December 14, 2023

TIME: 12pm - 1pm

More information coming soon!

ACC WI CLE Program and Networking Sponsored by Laffey, Leitner, & Goode LLC

Title: You Can’t Always Get What You Want – A Review of Key Decisions from 2023

Join Laffey, Leitner & Goode LLC as we share a year-end wrap up of case law developments in both state and federal courts over the last year.  

Expect a lively and interactive discussion about recent decisions that have immediate impact on you and your company’s litigation strategy and business initiatives.  We will also share our thoughts on recent trends in state and federal court that focus on top-of-mind cultural issues, such as constitutional free speech and voting rights.  After our presentation, join us for some holiday cheer!  

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DATE: December 12, 2023

LOCATION: The University Club of Milwaukee

924 E Wells Street

(Convenient, covered parking available.)

PROGRAM:

Registration: 4 p.m.

Presentation: 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Networking Reception: 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

This will also be presented as a live webcast.

1.5 hours of CLE will be applied for.

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Among other topics, we will discuss: 

• Common hot-button issues in D&I
   
• The impact of the Supreme Court's Gratz v. Bollinger decision on corporate D&I programs
   
• Current and anticipated administrative and legislative D&I and ESG initiatives 

• Strategic considerations and best practices for complying with and navigating the evolving D&I landscape

Perkins Coie partners April Goff and Jill Louis will discuss information security breaches within a broad range of sectors and provide a step-by-step guide to develop a crisis plan response, including cybersecurity rules to be considered in the U.S. and elsewhere.