Pacific Standard Time

6.5 Hrs of CA CLE Credit including Competence Issues, Implicit Bias & Ethics.

AGENDA

8:30am PT
The Burned Out Lawyer - Recognition and Prevention Strategies in the Post-COVID World
presented by Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania (1.0 Hour Competence Issues Credit)
    Speaker: 
    Brian S. Quinn, Esq.
    Education and Outreach Coordinator
    Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania

9:45am PT
The Fine Print: A Litigator’s Perspective on Boilerplate Contract and Insurance Provisions
presented by Farella Braun + Martel (1.5 Hour CLE Credit)
    Speakers: 
    Carly Alameda, Partner, Farella Braun + Martel
    Amy Briggs, Partner, Farella Braun + Martel

11:30am PT
Don’t Trip Over the Ethical Fault Line
presented by CSC Global (1.0 Hour Ethics Credit)
    Speakers: 
    Helena Ledic, Associate General Counsel and Senior Director , CSC Global
    Gemma Dreher, VP and Managing Counsel, TD Bank
    Kent Schoen, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Fynn Credit
    Brian Campbell, CLO (former), DHI Group

12:30pm PT - LUNCH DELIVERY (Order link will be sent to email address used to register. Order deadline: Jan 22.)

12:45pm PT
Pay Transparency – Living with SB 1162 and What to Expect Next
presented by Faegre Drinker (1.0 Hour CLE Credit)
    Speakers:
    Cheryl Orr, Partner, Faegre Drinker
    Lynne Anderson, Partner, Faegre Drinker
    Jonathan Blumenstein, Principal, Charles River Associates
    Zina Deldar, Associate General Counsel, Affirm

2:00pm PT
Implicit Bias:  What You Need to Know to Keep Your Company & Yourself Out of Trouble
presented by Cozen (1.0 Hour Implicit Bias Credit)
    Speakers:  
    Michelle Miller, Chair, West Coast Labor & Employment, Cozen O'Connor
    Walter Stella, Member, Cozen O'Connor

3:15pm PT
Decoding AI Litigation: Copyright and Fair Use Challenges in the Digital Era
presented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters (1.0 Hour CLE Credit)
    Speakers:  
    Paven Malhotra, Partner, Keker, Van Nest & Peters
    Matan Shacham, Partner, Keker, Van Nest & Peters
    Julia Greenberg, Associate, Keker, Van Nest & Peters

Participants must join using Zoom web link sent to the email they used to register to be eligible for CLE credit.

Join us for lunch at Mortons! Choice of Soup/Salad, choice of main course (steak, chicken, pork chop), trio of desserts. Mortons in Downtown Los Angeles. 11:30am for check-in and networking 12pm – Program and lunch starts PROMPTLY 1:15pm – Program ends PROMPTLY (Dessert can be eaten or it can be packed to take to the office and share with others) Gold Sponsor Steven Brower (Brower Law Group), known within ACC-SoCal for his firm’s informative and enjoyable CLE lunch presentations at Mortons, will be presenting recent war stories about persuading insurance companies to pay claims (sometimes involving litigation, sometimes not). He will also be including some war stories about the use of AI in legal practice, and some tips for transactional lawyers to avoid litigation.

Join ACC-SoCal for an afternoon of food, drinks and wrapping gifts in support of the 6^th Annual Angel Tree Gift Drive for the Holidays to serve children and young adults who are without families - unaccompanied migrant children, refugees, abused and troubled teens, children who are victims of commercial sex trafficking and/or in need of substance abuse intervention, foster children, and young adults who have moved from their foster families to independent living.

Wish lists are available here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4CA9A62DABFF2-45437712-6thannual. You can bring your gifts to our wrapping party on December 16^th or have them shipped. Or we can do the shopping for you - Venmo info in the link. Your donations are tax deductible as the organization we serve, Crittenton Services for Children and Families, is a 501(c)(3).

This is a family friendly event. All ages are welcome.

Get a jump start on your New Year’s Resolutions by learning to play the fastest growing sport in the country.  The morning will begin with a short clinic on the basic rules and tactics of the game, brought to you by world-class instructors from the Agape Tennis Academy.  Then, everyone will have a chance to practice their skills in friendly, coach-guided gameplay.  

All necessary equipment, as well as food and refreshments will be provided.  Kids over the age of 13 are welcome! 

Sacramento Chapter of the ACC Cordially invites you and a guest to our annual holiday social event.

Appetizers will be served from 6pm -7pm with the first course starting at 7pm.  Please provide me with your rsvp along with the name of your guest no later than Monday, November 27th

The ACC typically has not charged for this event. In lieu of in posing a guest charge, we ask that you please consider donating to the Wind Youth Services. Wind Youth Services provides homeless and at-risk youth with basic safety net and survival services. You can make your donation in advance by going to www.windyouth.org/donate/. We will also have a collection receptacle available to receive your much appreciated tax-deductible donation.

With the rise of generative AI in 2023, enthusiasm for the metaverse has appeared to dip. Or has it? Described as a shared, online, three-dimensional space where people can live, work, interact and connect virtually, the metaverse aspires to create a global virtual community void of physical or location restraints but has been slow to achieve widespread adoption. Conversely, generative AI has had record-breaking adoption levels and is being implemented in everyday consumer and business products and services. What can the combination of both of these technologies yield? By looking at these two together what can we learn about the possibilities and risks of each?

Please join us for a webinar where Baker McKenzie's experts will walk through a hypothetical example and have an interactive discussion about the legal issues related to the metaverse, as well as the developing influence of AI on said platforms. Questions to be addressed:

1. Where do these two technologies stand together and apart?
2. How do the content creation capabilities of generative AI progress the development of metaverse platforms?
3. What kind of scrutiny is necessary when evaluating current and potential use cases of both Gen AI and the metaverse?
4. How can product development, in-house counsel and human resources teams ensure their use of biometrics, data and machine learning are ethically sound?
5. How can creators manage the collection of personal data in both Gen AI and the metaverse?

When a company announces the sale, purchase, or restructuring of a business unit or entity, a company’s supplier contracts and contract practices will come into focus for large-scale analysis and remediation. Multiple stakeholders involved in the contracting process will be pulled out of their daily routine to prepare information on the Company’s Contracts. This session will focus on the legal department’s role in that process and how to prepare for a transaction or restructuring before it is announced or even contemplated.

5:00 – 5:30 – Registration & Check-In

5:30 – 6:30 – CLE Presentation

6:30 – 9:30 – Axe Throwing

Please join ACC Nevada & Jenner & Block for cocktails, food, networking & CLE:

This presentation will cover the increasingly common issue of Congressional investigations for businesses, and other high-profile and politically-sensitive investigations that can necessitate a combination of crisis management and legal expertise.  The presenters include, a former Associate White House counsel who has prepared Fortune 10 CEOs for Congressional testimony, a counsel to the January 6 House Select Committee, and a former DOJ prosecutor who has lead several high-profile investigations, including involving allegations of sexual assault within the Chicago Blackhawks organization in 2021.