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The increasing use of digital media outlets such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube is on a crash course with the corporate world. Employees are engaged with digital technologies that play an ever-increasing role in their everyday lives, including in the workplace. How can you protect your organization from the impact of this new normal? What policies do others have in place? What ethical problems arise with the use of these outlets in the corporate space? This experienced panel representing the technology, financial services, and media industries will discuss the issues that impact compliance and IP in light of these developments. This interactive session will answer these important questions as well as provide the audience with real world examples aimed at helping in-house counsel address this important issue.

Without a doubt, implementing a successful legal project management (LPM) program is no easy feat. LPM can include various responsibilities, such as coordination, planning, monitoring and issue escalation on matters. But as with every emerging practice, LPM brings myths: “LPM is too complex and interferes with the legal aspects of the matter;” “Finding the right fit for this role is impossible;” and “In-house lawyers will never adapt to LPM.” These myths and other challenges cause some law departments and law firms to quit LPM before they even get started. Hear firsthand how some pioneers—in-house counsel at varying levels—debunked the myths around LPM and developed practical strategies for making it work within their environments.

This session will enable in-house counsel to effectively respond to the need for a large-scale contracts remediation effort. This need may arise as a result of a regulatory enforcement action, such as after a US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation has occurred, or after a change in regulation, such as when the EU declared the Safe Harbor framework to be invalid. While these efforts tend to be reactive in nature, panelists will pinpoint best practices for proactively identifying all business relationships and collecting and warehousing the associated documentation so that the company will be prepared to respond if needed. Panelists will present case studies of remediation projects, whether undertaken expeditiously under the watchful gaze of a monitor or over time in response to a change in regulation, or after the merger or divestiture of a key supplier.

This advanced-level program will provide a mock negotiation of a major-tenant large commercial office lease in a Class A commercial office building in a major metropolitan area. The audience will have an opportunity to watch seasoned leasing attorneys representing both the landlord and the tenant work their way through the most hotly contested issues in major lease negotiations, including tenant improvements; common area maintenance and real estate tax provisions; maintenance and repair obligations; landlord building services; tenant restoration obligations; casualty, insurance, and indemnification provisions; mortgagee nondisturbance; assignment and subletting; and other issues. The audience will follow along by viewing lease documents with sample redlined negotiated provisions, illustrating typical back and forth communications in lease negotiations.

International negotiations present unique challenges for negotiators dealing with counterparts from different cultural backgrounds. A common language and a shared understanding of negotiation ethics are integral to negotiating viable agreements. If a negotiator is dealing with different cultural backgrounds and different ideas of ethics during the course of negotiations, he or she must know how to acknowledge and respond effectively to the cultural norms and standards of ethical treatment and fairness of her or his counterparts at the bargaining table. This interactive panel of experienced cross-cultural negotiators will provide solutions that will enable you to analyze your negotiation situation, interpret signals during negotiations, cope with cultural differences, and successfully manage the international negotiation process to seal the deal.

The introduction of health care reform under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) continues with full implementation of many of the requirements that were delayed until 2015. Make sure that you are aware of how these changes affect your business. Our panel of experts with depth of experience advising employers, health plans and providers will help you navigate the latest issues in health reform such as the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP), how the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) marketplace operates, reporting and compliance requirements, tax credits and subsidies. They will discuss lessons learned in 2014 that can help the insurance industry, employers and businesses prepare for 2015 requirements.

Companies spend billions of dollars to associate their products or brand with celebrities, athletes, and sports franchises. This session will provide in-house counsel an opportunity to learn the critical components of sponsorship and endorsement agreements. It will cover the cornerstones — grant of rights, category exclusivity, use of marks, indemnification, term and termination, IP ownership, reps and warranties, delivery of elements, activation, and ambush marketing — as well as strategies for avoiding common negotiation pitfalls. The panel will discuss applicable sports and entertainment union coverage and rules that may affect your bottom line as well as frequent deal terms that may trip you up when engaging high-profile talent to endorse or advertise your brand or product.

Why do corporations lose in high-stakes litigation before juries? A number of factors may be to blame — including plaintiffs portraying corporations as uncaring monsters long before any parties set foot in the courtroom. In this program, we will address how to overcome Ball and Keenan’s Reptilian Theory by transforming the perception of the company from the inception of the case. Our panel will focus on the use of themes (including company mottos and corporate vision statements), proper preparation of the corporate representative, and innovative approaches to voir dire, opening statement, closing argument, and demonstrative exhibits, all focused on portraying the corporation in the most favorable light possible and contributing to the best outcome at trial.

The increasing use of digital media outlets such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube is on a crash course with the corporate world. Employees are engaged with digital technologies that play an ever-increasing role in their everyday lives, including in the workplace. How can you protect your organization from the impact of this new normal? What policies do others have in place? What ethical problems arise with the use of these outlets in the corporate space? This experienced panel representing the technology, financial services, and media industries will discuss the issues that impact compliance and IP in light of these developments. This interactive session will answer these important questions as well as provide the audience with real world examples aimed at helping in-house counsel address this important issue.

The increasing use of digital media outlets such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube is on a crash course with the corporate world. Employees are engaged with digital technologies that play an ever-increasing role in their everyday lives, including in the workplace. How can you protect your organization from the impact of this new normal? What policies do others have in place? What ethical problems arise with the use of these outlets in the corporate space? This experienced panel representing the technology, financial services, and media industries will discuss the issues that impact compliance and IP in light of these developments. This interactive session will answer these important questions as well as provide the audience with real world examples aimed at helping in-house counsel address this important issue.