When a cyber-attack or data breach hits your organisation, the pressure to react immediately is acute and there will be limited time to think or plan.  A comprehensive, approved plan and regular cyber drills involving your board and key personnel are critical to your organisation’s effective response. 

LK Principal, Brooke Hall-Carney, will lead an interactive cyber drill focused on core legal considerations to test your readiness to respond in the event of a cyber incident.  Brooke will discuss some of the critical issues that your organisation and its board will need to address, including insurance, payment of ransom, communication, notification, damage to brand, director’s duties and what happens after the event.  

With legislative reform increasing the personal risk of executives and Boards, our cyber drill will allow you to assess your organisation’s ability to respond and recover. 

The rise of renewable energy and decarbonisation projects has led to a concomitant demand for vast areas of land. The areas required, coupled with the geography of where these types of projects are typically situated, give rise to native title issues and /or enliven Aboriginal heritage regulation and a consideration of cultural values. 

In each case, traditional owners are a key stakeholder in the approvals processes and their cooperation is important for two reasons. First, and most obviously, a cooperative stakeholder in a regulatory context reduces approvals timeframes. Perhaps more importantly, how one engages with traditional owners can impact proponents in an ESG context - compliance with legislation is not, in all cases, sufficient to fulfil ESG requirements.

This webinar, hosted by Gilbert + Tobin in conjunction with ACC Australia, will cover the legal framework for engaging with First Nations counterparties and explore how it really works, including:

• a brief summary of the legislative framework;
• how that differs from international conventions and the Equator Principles;
• what dealing with First Nations groups looks like in reality (what is the structure / decision making process of the group); and
• approaches that work well, and ones that don’t.

ACC Australia and Gadens welcome you to attend a webinar on the recent changes to the unfair contract terms regime, which will have a significant impact on the way businesses contract with other parties. This session will provide you with an overview of the upcoming changes and provide practical commercial guidance for legal counsels to mitigate risks within their businesses. 

Hosted by Adam Walker (Partner), Eve Lillas (Senior Associate) and Joseph Abi-Hanna (Senior Associate) from Gadens, the presentation will focus on:

• a recap of the unfair contract terms regime;
• an overview of the amendments to the unfair contract terms regime, which come into effect on 10 November 2023;
• enforcement trends in relation to contraventions of the unfair contract term regimes;
• top 'unfair' terms to look out for;
• examples of how to amend terms that may be considered unfair; and
• practical tips and takeaways for legal counsels.

The session will include an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the Gadens' team.

We are delighted to announce the second ACC Australia and Thomson Reuters’  Employment Law for In-House Counsel Conference which will be held on the 31 August 2023 in the Marble Ballroom at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sydney.

Employment law continues to be one of the biggest issues facing general counsel.  This year the conference brings to the table the latest contentious issues for In-house Council and will look at the following topics from multiple angles:

• Enterprise bargaining in 2023, 
• Proactive measures, respect in the workplace, 
• Understanding changes in the Modern Award/Professional Award and their implications for your organisation, 
• Navigating common HR challenges, 
• Recent Fair Work Act amendments, 
• Managing never-ending and ever-changing work volumes of in-house teams,  
• And more! 

As 2023 unfolds, the market for M+A remains robust. In-house legal teams need to understand the key elements of a public M+A deal, so that they are prepared for the receipt or initiation of a merger proposal by their company.

This webinar, hosted by Gilbert + Tobin’s M+A team in conjunction with ACC Australia, will explore the essential components of a public M+A deal. It will cover:

• deal structures – scheme of arrangement vs takeover;
• pre-deal arrangements;
• implementation agreements (including common points of negotiation); and
• recent trends and issues in public M+A.

Gilbert + Tobin are also hosting a webinar on Thursday 17 August 2023 on Be Prepared: Responding to a Control Transaction Approach, which members might be interested in attending. Click here for more details.

There’s significant reform on the horizon for Australia’s privacy laws. Recent high-profile data breaches have put data protection under a microscope and put a fire under the Attorney-General’s ongoing review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Organisations today face increasing pressure from regulators and the marketplace to improve how they collect, use, store and delete personal information, and how they manage data privacy. 

This session, hosted by Gilbert + Tobin’s Tech + IP team in conjunction with ACC Australia, will cover:

• a (brief) history of privacy law and global enforcement trends;
• major privacy trends in Australia, including data breach class actions, recent enforcement actions for facial recognition technologies and the regulator pile-on to privacy;
• the December 2022 amendments to the Privacy Act, including the new penalties regime; and
• the current privacy reform process in Australia and a rundown of key proposals raised in the Attorney-General’s review of the Privacy Act.

Networking and buffet lunch: 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Presentation: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

ACC Breakfast CLE



ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI):

Navigating the Perfect Storm of Risk in
Today’s Digital Landscape

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Approved For One (1) CLE Credit.

AGENDA

8:00 am Registration, Networking & Breakfast | 8:30 am CLE Presentation
10:00 am Conclude

Please join panelists Rich Spilde and Sloane Dreyer for a breakfast CLE in the offices of Holland & Hart LLP in downtown Denver.

This presentation will delve into the evolving landscape of generative AI—like ChatGPT—highlighting the legal and compliance issues that come with emerging threats.

The presenters also will cover the intricacies of the emerging comprehensive privacy laws in the US, such as the Colorado Privacy Act, and explore the challenges organizations face in remaining compliant.

SPEAKERS

    Rich Spilde, Partner, Holland & Hart LLP 

   Sloane Dreyer, Associate, Holland & Hart LLP

Page Seager Lawyers is excited to host ACC Australia members for an update on major changes to the unfair contract provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). The changes to the Act will prohibit unfair contract terms in standard form contracts and introduce penalties for contravention of unfair contract term provisions of the Act. These changes come into effect on 10 November 2023.

Join Kathryn Speed and Sarah Standen for an overview of the changes and what steps need to be taken now by organisations to ensure compliance. 

Piper Alderman is pleased to host a presentation considering the implications of greenwashing and the danger of making misrepresentations when it comes to ESG. 

Join Tim O’Callaghan and Travis Shueard for a casual presentation over Italian wine tastings from John Caporaso of Mercato, and the opportunity to raise questions and discussion points among the group. 

Guests will be seated for the presentation and wine tastings, commencing at 5:30pm, and welcome to stay and network after the presentation ends at approximately 7pm.

Light refreshments, wine, beer and soft drinks provided.