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.
Join ACC Greater Philadelphia General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers, our sponsors, Akin Gump, Cozen O'Connor and Faegre Drinker, for a morning of trending topics relevant to GCs and CLOs in Crisis Management: Planning, Managing and Handling the Aftermath of a Crisis. This event is designed for and relevant to General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers ONLY.
Agenda:
Session I - 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. (Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP) Never Let a Crisis Go To Waste: Leadership and Lessons Learned During a Pandemic
This session will focus on the role that our expert panelists have played in helping their respective companies manage the current crisis, their perspectives on opportunities arising from the crisis, and the lessons they and their teams have learned.
Session II - 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Cozen O'Connor) Managing Internal and External Threats and Opportunities During a Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis has forced companies to rethink how they operate, and quickly adjust to a changing environment. This panel will discuss how to effectively manage the impact of large-scale remote work, cybersecurity threats and vendor and customer management. They will focus on issues confronting management now – data loss prevention, videoconferencing, BYOD devices, force majeure clauses, layoffs, return to work protocols, employee accommodations and more.
Session III - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. - (Akin Gump) Telehealth in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
In keeping with this year's Summit theme of "Crisis Management" this session will focus on telehealth innovation in the face of the COVID crisis.
Companies often seek discretion to determine requirements to be met by individuals involved in the company's business. However, the scope and exercise of that discretion can become more challenging when the individuals concerned are not intended to be employees of the company. Creation of unintended employer liability is perhaps a greater risk at the moment, given that uncertain economic conditions have meant more businesses are looking to engage individuals under different, often short-term, arrangements.
Partners Kellie-Ann McDade and Anne Petterd take a look at scenarios for independent contractor and services contracts where the companies seeking these services may need to rethink the discretions they seek. This session will examine:
terms customers seek to include in independent contractor and services contracts raising an employer liability risk;
contract drafting tips drawing on recent cases on independent contractors;
allocation of work health and safety responsibility in contracts in light of joint legislative responsibility, particularly given COVID-19 new workplace practices for health screening and collection of health data from individuals; and
employer liability considerations for a business under outsourced off-shore arrangements.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
Registrations for this event are being managed by Baker McKenzie directly.
The chance of an Australian company facing a significant class action is a material and increasing business risk as Australia’s class action landscape continues to heat up. While the funding landscape continues to face scrutiny, the class action risk to Australian corporates is unlikely to abate any time soon.
This webinar hosted by leading Disputes + Investigations experts Richard Harris and Colleen Platford, with insights from Corporate Advisory partner Tim Gordon, will explore the boiling Australian class action landscape and how companies can protect against this major risk. It will cover:
• factors contributing to the ongoing expansion of the class action regime in Australia;
• the funding market, tightening regulations and their impact on the prevalence and nature of class actions;
• the role of the regulator;
• navigating the new norm of competing class action claims;
• the future of class actions – including shareholder class actions and the rise of data breach class actions; and
• how to mitigate against the risk of a class action.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
Businesses are operating in an increasingly complex and high stakes regulatory environment. With the ACCC’s role expanding and penalties increasing, scrutiny has never been more intense. At the same time, many of the provisions of the Competition and Consumer Law Act require thought and some sophistication to ensure compliance.
Join Gilbert + Tobin competition experts Jennifer Barron and Rebecca Dollisson for a live webinar that will provide an update on current issues in competition law including:
the ACCC’s enforcement activity and priorities;
concerted practices; and
gun jumping.
This webinar will also provide you with some practical suggestions for assessing and mitigating competition law risk within your organisation.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
In-house counsel are often tasked with negotiating contracts with Federal or State governments or their agencies for the supply of goods or services or provision of works, or for the delivery (including construction and financing) and/or operation of public infrastructure such as transport, schools and hospitals. Contracting with government raises some unique legal issues and particular challenges which can trip up the unwary and give rise to risk of contract termination, invalidity or unenforceability. Governments themselves and their agencies also face policy issues and requirements which need to be addressed in contracts with the private sector.
Join William McCann and Peter Doyle from Gilbert + Tobin’s award winning Banking + Infrastructure team for a live webinar on the tips and traps of government contracting.
Hosted in conjunction with ACC Australia, this webinar will cover a range of topics relevant to both corporate and government lawyers, including:
the nature of the government contracting party (Crown v government agency v statutory corporation);
source of capacity and power to contract, authority to sign and bind and the doctrine of ultra vires;
Crown powers, privileges and immunities (including the rule against fettering, appropriation of funds and satisfaction of court judgements);
Government policy around ethical, sustainable and socially responsible procurement and implementation;
privacy issues and government reporting and disclosure requirements;
government probity policies and their implementation in practice; and
risk sharing and managing contracts with government.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
Please join Griffith Hack Principal, Kellie Stonier and ACC Australia for this informative webinar: Evidencing Trade Mark Use and Reputation in Proceedings.
In-house counsel can expect to take away important information on the following aspects of Evidencing Trade Mark Use and Reputation:
The regulatory landscape has changed dramatically in recent times, with regulators such as ASIC spearheading civil and criminal proceedings against individuals in order to compel cultural change within corporate Australia. ASIC’s commitment to the “why not litigate” approach since the Financial Services Royal Commission is accompanied by increased civil and criminal penalties for companies and their directors and officers and a substantial uplift in funding. In recent months, the ACCC has been successful in securing large Court ordered penalties against individual directors for their role in breaches of the Australian Consumer Law.
In light of this unprecedented regulator activism and focus on the liability of individuals, ensuring effective awareness, co-operation and compliance with the laws governing your business has never been more important.
This webinar, presented by Gilbert + Tobin’s award-winning Disputes + Investigations team, will cover:
recent trends and developments regarding individual liability in the Australian regulatory landscape and abroad;
recent decisions involving civil and criminal liability for individuals including directors and officers;
the review by the Australian Law Reform Commission into the corporate criminal responsibility regime and other proposed law reform; and
practical considerations for an in-house legal team.
If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
In this session, Baker McKenzie Partner, Toby Patten, and Special Counsel, Caitlin Whale, will cover the law and provide practical tips for drafting and negotiating limitations of liability.
Non-financial risks can inflict a devastating financial impact on a company. ASIC and other key regulators are seeking to hold corporates to account for failing to exercise active stewardship of non-financial risk. Australian directors and senior executives are increasingly alive to these risks in the wake of COVID-19.
Join Gilbert + Tobin’s market-leading experts David Clee and Elizabeth Hill for a live webinar on board oversight and monitoring of non-financial risks.
This webinar will explore:
the different types of non-financial risk;
the impact of failing to oversee and monitor non-financial risk;
the roles and responsibilities of directors and officers having regard to the observations made by ASIC’s Corporate Governance Task Force on the board’s role in the oversight and management of non-financial risk;
the attitude of other key regulators, including APRA and AUSTRAC; and
As COVID-19 continues to pose significant challenges to most sectors of the economy, Baker McKenzie Partners Adrian Lawrence and Aleisa Crepin take a look at key contractual provisions and doctrines relevant to disrupted commercial dealings, including:
provisions dealing with delay in performance and the allocation of economic burdens in the case of such delay;
termination of commercial contracts due to force majeure or frustration;
other contractual provisions such as stop payments, step-in rights and MAC clauses; and
considerations for renegotiation of contracts in the light of continuing COVID-19 disruptions.