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The highly regulated nature of financial services firms poses unique legal issues for the in-house lawyer charged with ensuring the adequacy of directors and officers insurance. Here is your opportunity to issue spot challenges and identify new insurance product offerings and trends with your peers. Benchmark the most important elements to look for and negotiate in D&O insurance for a financial services firm.

This document presents lessons from the litigation battlefield on commercial contract clauses, including the risks posed by boilerplate language and ways to limit liability.

During this session, the distinguished panel will discuss the recent developments and emerging trends in D&O liability, indemnity and D&O insurance coverage issues.

Wondering how your company’s corporate governance practices and activities stack up against your peers or best-in-class companies? Find out from knowledgeable ACC members. This course discussed the design and collection of data on corporate governance measures and also identified the different sources for securing comparative data.

Should the legal department manage the company's risk insurance program? If your department does, you’ll find this program will provide you with the legal knowledge and strategies for handling the risk insurance program, from negotiating policy renewals, developing relationships with underwriters, and incorporating brokers into your risk management team.

Negotiating transactions is one of the functions that in-house counsel must perform well. In fact, a good negotiation can make the difference between getting the most and getting a so-so outcome for your business client. Negotiating contracts is a key component of practicing in-house, and offering your client and the other side well-drafted contract provisions can reduce the time and effort spent negotiating.

This ThinkTank, hosted by Pat Hatler, Nationwide, included discussion of Enterprise Risk Management, the Board's role, communications and IT considerations, trends and review processes as they relate to the insurance industry.

Many companies have good internal anti-corruption policies, but may be exposed to potential liability due to the acts of others who they engage to assist them in foreign markets. Hear about best practices in how to avoid such possible exposure in the appointment and use of agents and representatives in foreign jurisdictions.

What is Enterprise Risk Management? For each business risk, financial, products liability, compliance, data security, etc. your company needs to examine the relevant business processes, with the aim of achieving a balance between avoiding downside risk and embracing upside risk. This program takes a holistic approach and looks at ways a small law department can identify, prioritize and address different types of risk, and help align departments and functions to efficiently integrate risk management.

Whether you manage litigation, advise your company's officers and directors, or negotiate leases or other contracts, recent developments in the law of insurance coverage and claims must be taken into account. Our panel of litigation management attorneys and insurance professionals will summarize 30 of the most critical legal developments on the issue, and show you how to incorporate them into your practice and extract the most out of your company's insurance dollars.

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