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New to In-house Committee 2008 Annual Meeting EventsNew to In-house Committee Business MeetingMonday, October 20, 2008 12:30-2:30 pmACC New to In-house Committee 2008 Annual Meeting Networking EventACC New to In-house Committee and its sponsors, Womble Carlyle Sandrige & Rice and West, A Thomson Reuters Business, invite you to attend the Committee's 2008 Annual Meeting Networking Event, to be held on Monday, October 20. Please click here for more details or to RSVP. September 2008 TeleconferenceThe next New to In-house Committee teleconference is scheduled for September 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM EST. If you are interested in participating on these monthly calls, or if you wish to assist the committee with planning activities and resources, send an email to Adam Palmer , Chair, of the New-To-Inhouse Committee. Teleconferences are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 3 PM Eastern. Legal QuickieBusiness Risks and Rewards in Online Virtual Worlds. Moderator: Susanna McDonald, General Counsel, Claimant Management Systems
Guest speaker: Ted Claypoole, authority on internet law at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Topic Description:
Millions of people participate in online virtual worlds, and millions of dollars are spent in them. The three-dimensional immersive computing that characterizes these worlds will probably be the future of interactivity online for nearly all businesses. Companies are beginning to participate in these online communities, but the risks and rewards are not always clear. This presentation will define and explain the significant online virtual worlds and will discuss who is participating in them. The speaker will discuss the various ways that corporations are playing and profiting from these social networks, and the new economies created by new worlds. Finally, the group will analyze and discuss the legal risks and business risks that your company may face if it chooses to play or profit in the virtual space. In particular, the presentation will focus on legal risks highlighted by the Second Life Banking Crisis of 2007-2008, and on case studies of corporate commitments to virtual worlds. For more information on virtual worlds, including Second Life, visit the links below. Webcast: Employee Defection and the Multi-jurisdictional Employer: Practical Advice on Enforcing Noncompetes and Other Restrictive CovenantsDon't miss this month's New to In-house Committee's webcast Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 12:00 PM EST/9 AM PST. Join ACC's New to In-house Committee and sponsor Womble Carlyle Sanders & Rice in a webcast that will address issues that can arise from using form-based restrictive covenants. Multi-jurisdictional employers are learning the hard way what departed employees and their attorneys already know: not all states enforce restrictive covenants the same way. Some states, such as California, have statutory prohibitions against employment-based non-competes. Other states, such as Georgia, interpret restrictive covenants more strictly against the employer than do other states. As courts increasingly question the enforceability of choice-of-law and forum selection provisions, multi-jurisdictional employers are particularly at risk of having their restrictive covenants held to be unenforceable under another state's law. Learn from a panel of authorities about the recent trends involving noncompetes and other restrictive covenants for multi-jurisdictional employers. Information provided during this webcast will be appropriate for in-house employment lawyers at multi-jurisdictional employers who must stay on top of this rapidly developing area of the law. In-house counsel who draft employment agreements will also benefit from this webcast. Register for this webcast today at:
More New to In-house News:
August 2008 Teleconference
July 2008 Teleconference Legal Quickie: Is Your Company Unknowingly an Exporter?
June 2008 Teleconference Legal Quickie: Records Retention, Legal Holds & e-Discovery Best Practices
May 2008 Teleconference
April 2008 Teleconference: Legal Quickie: Litigation--Managing Outside Counsel
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