Trouble at the Top: Protecting Directors and Officers from Civil and Criminal Liability

presents

Trouble at the Top:

Protecting Directors and Officers from

Civil and Criminal Liability

Lunch-and-Learn

presented by

Fox Rothschild LLP

Thursday, February 20, 2020

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Directors and officers are charged with acting in the company’s best interest. But even those trying to do just that are still exposed to potential liability - civil and criminal - under a variety of statutory and common-law schemes. When these regulatory regimes impose specific obligations on these key decision-makers, “official capacity” is often no defense. And in states like North Carolina, directors and officers can be personally liable for their own torts - even when acting on behalf of the company.

Our experienced panel will help you keep your executives out of trouble. And trouble is constantly knocking at the door, in the form of the Yates Memo, securities regulations, privacy rules, unfair competition claims, corporate governance requirements, fiduciary obligations, international “know your client” banking laws, labor and employment statutes, and other individual tort liability. Composed of in-house counsel and practitioners who regularly represent directors and officers in civil and criminal actions, the panel will give you the tools you need to spot issues of potential individual D&O liability ahead of time, and steer clear of them.

Location:

The Umstead

100 Woodland Pond

Cary

directions

CLE:

An application for CLE approval has been submitted to the North Carolina Board on Continuing Legal Education. The application for 1.5 general credits is pending approval.

Cost:

No cost for students, full-time law school faculty and staff,

and RTAC-ACC members and their non-lawyer colleagues.

$25 for ACC-eligible non-members.

Checks payable to RTAC-ACC or cash can both be used at the door.

By credit card, send payment to rtac@acc.com through PayPal.

About the speakers:

Presenters:

Stephanie Resnick

Stephanie Resnick is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Philadelphia office and Chair of the Directors’ & Officers’ Liability & Corporate Governance Practice Group. See her complete bio here.

Jaemin Chang

Jaemin is a versatile trial attorney and business adviser who helps clients avoid litigation when possible and prevail in court when it is inescapable. See her complete bio here.

Bret Puls

Bret is an accomplished trial attorney with significant experience handling securities litigation, derivative lawsuits, shareholder and partnership disputes, fiduciary duty and appraisal litigation, merger and acquisition litigation, corporate control challenges, and government and internal investigations on behalf of public and private corporations, corporate executives, boards of directors and special litigation committees. See his complete bio here.

Allyson Labban

WakeMed In-House Counsel

Allyson Jones Labban is Associate General Counsel at WakeMed Health & Hospitals, an 870-bed healthcare system with more than 8,000 employees and multiple hospitals, stand-alone EDs, and other healthcare facilities in Wake County, North Carolina.  At WakeMed, she works closely with the Corporate Integrity and Compliance Department and provides regulatory compliance guidance on topics ranging from HIPAA and data privacy and security, Medicare and Medicaid billing and claims filing requirements, and Certificate of Need and licensure issues, as well as advice regarding risk management and clinical-legal issues. 

Before joining WakeMed’s in-house department in June 2018, Allyson was a partner at Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP in Greensboro.  Her practice focused on HIPAA and regulatory compliance, including assisting hospitals and other clients with federal fraud and abuse investigations, ZPIC and other audits, OCR investigations, licensure and survey concerns, and bioethical and risk management assessments.

Moderator:

Matthew Nis Leerberg

Matt is Managing Partner of the firm's Raleigh office and Co-Chair of the Appellate Practice Group. He focuses his practice on helping businesses navigate state and federal litigation and appeals. See his complete bio here.

Marvin Genzer

Ruth Hammer

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