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Energy practitioners will cover the top ten legal issues associated with lowering energy costs, including local, state and federal regulations, contract negotiations, tax advantages and funding opportunities for "going green." The program will educate in-house counsel on how to substantially reduce energy costs for assets, such as casinos, manufacturing plants, mining operations, retail stores, restaurants, commercial real estate operations (e.g., REITS) and hospital systems while understanding the legal, regulatory and policy issues associated with doing so.

What do you do when a recall, privacy breach or other crisis hits? Managing that crisis from a legal and reputational risk is much easier if you have prepared in advance on how to deal with insurers, regulators, suppliers, customers and the media. This session will feature practical advice from in-house counsel and their external counsel who have lived through a recall crisis. Both compliance officers and law department practitioners need to be involved in developing a crisis plan. Panelists will focus on what can be done ahead of time to facilitate navigation through the crisis.

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.

This panel will focus on what all in-house counsel covering technology-related transactions should know about the growing nexus between technology and the environment. Currently, the world is in Green IT 1.0. The focus is on conserving energy and reducing heat in power-hungry data centers and protecting the environment with proper equipment disposal procedures. The panel will review what to ask for when negotiating data center agreements, outsourcing and equipment disposal arrangements.

This program outline addresses the following questions: What is a green lease? Why a green lease? How do you measure carbon/energy reduction and sustainability? How do you make a sustainable design/operation part of your leasing program? Other key green considerations are also covered.

How can general counsel support the company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives, setting and communicating the tone-at-the-top, as well as facilitating practical implementation of CSR initiatives that benefit both your company’s image and bottom line? Open only to chief legal officers, the CLO Club was an interactive discussion that employed large and small group dialogue for sharing ideas on successful practices and advice on how to meet challenges.

Environmental laws for businesses in Ontario have changed and corporate officers and directors need to understand their personal and affirmative obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent environmental breaches. Offenses are punishable by fines, jail terms, or both, and officers and directors can be convicted for breaching this duty even if the company has not committed or been convicted of an offense under the Act. At the heart of this due diligence obligation is the requirement for an environmental management system.

Companies, including those unrelated to electric industries, are involved in programs that involve the marketing, purchase and sale of renewable energy attributes or credits produced when “green” energy is generated. This program focused on the nature of these attributes, how these attributes intersect with carbon offsets, the legal issues encountered with such programs, and key terms of agreements used in transactions involving renewable energy attributes.

Climate change is about more than smokestacks. Lawyers need to understand what legislators, regulators, and plaintiffs plan to do about climate change, carbon, green house gasses, and energy efficiency statutes and regulations. Learn from a panel of authorities about the demands that may be placed upon your buildings, operations, public disclosures, and energy purchases, and the role that you as inside counsel will be required to play in the implementation of, and compliance with, emerging environmental regimes.

Environmental regulatory and liability concerns increasingly touch upon thousands of products in the marketplace based on the chemicals they contain. In some cases, if not reformulated, products are banned. A panel described how the list of controlled chemicals (like lead and mercury) has grown in the last decade, what laws regulate products, and how manufacturers are reacting to demands for bans or restrictions on certain chemicals.

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