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Legal Matter Management commonly describes the task of organizing and systematizing the daily workload of a corporate legal practice. Having a matter management in place is very important and also fundamental to further use and deploy IT solutions in the legal department. This program material addresses the advantages/disadvantages of a specialized legal matter management system.

This document provides legal hypotheticals and and analyses regarding the courts, including judicial ethics.

Contract, document, matter management, electronic billing and electronic discovery: with all of the legal systems available, lawyers have never been so efficient...or so confused. Knowing where to store and find information, much less how to take action on the data, is becoming increasingly impossible and expensive. This session will illustrate a day in the life of an attorney attempting to find vital accountability metrics on a major case. Receive a checklist of advanced metrics and learn where to find the data needed to compile metrics in today’s technology landscape.

Companies that don’t comply with local labor and employment law regarding implementing workforce reductions expose themselves to significant legal liability. Each country’s laws are different and often times highly ambiguous. There are many legal landmines along the way. This session will answer questions such as: What are the biggest challenges for employers when making these decisions? What are the most common legal claims being asserted today on behalf of laid-off workers and how could they have been avoided?

The next level of learning for the new securities practitioner, this session will focus on the hot topics in SEC disclosure relating to enterprise risk and compensation disclosure, proxy and shareholder proposals, and disclosure while managing through crisis.

This interactive program will discuss how to prepare for a union campaign, including a discussion of manager training, solicitation rules and what a corporate campaign is.

How do our senior management colleagues see our role and our performance? How is the role of the in-house counsel widening and integrating with that of other functions such as internal audit and integrity and compliance? Read this program material to find out.

Someone in your company has just been questioned about possible criminal activity. You receive a grand jury subpoena for company documents and the US Attorney wants to interview company personnel. Among other things, you would like to show this potential prosecutor that your company has an effective program of ethics, compliance and internal controls designed to prevent and detect crime and fraud. What specific elements do you want to bring to the US Attorney's attention? Join this panel discussion and get the tools you need to handle this situation.

Canadian employment and human rights laws and the regulatory environment are very different from those in the United States. Efforts to use or impose American forms of contract hiring and termination practices are often unenforceable or illegal in Canada.

Why settle for "getting to yes" when you can "play to win"? Risk is everywhere and every decision you make is a gamble. To gain the advantage, you need to understand the odds and your opposition and accurately assess tolerance for legal and financial risk — your own, your company’s, and your competitor’s. This multi-disciplinary and interactive presentation will bring together the latest in decision theory, finance and psychology, using participatory examples from poker, blackjack and the stock market.

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