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2007 ACCE Annual Conference: As in-house counsel, you are likely the first line of defense or corporate "spokesmodel" in a crisis situation. When press or regulators come knocking at your door will you be prepared? This interactive session focused on what to do in a crisis, how to handle a media call, what you should or should not provide a regulator in a dawn raid, and much more.

2007 ACCE Annual Conference: Although not taught in law school, risk management has become a hot topic for in-house counsel globally. Have you conducted a risk analysis for your company? Do you have a set of policies and procedures in place to respond to the results of that analysis? Regardless of whether you have conducted the research or have procedures in place, this session will provide real-world insights into establishing a system or improving an existing one including ensuring your management team is on board with what you find and solutions to correcting any challenges.

Guiding principles and pragmatic solutions to dealing with a C-Suite scandal.

Companies with server networks to bring "infrastructure on demand" to their customers provide cloud computing. In busy times, customers can dramatically ramp up their computer usage without investing in equipment and software, and then quickly ramp down when the extra capacity is no longer needed. This session will address challenges faced by companies that use or provide cloud computing services.

Learn how to better prepare and avoid a product crisis.

We've all seen movies where a smoking gun document surfaces late in a crisis. While this can be entertaining when it is someone else's problem, most of us would prefer to avoid this scenario with our own companies. The best way to avoid smoking guns is to implement sound document retention policies. Topics to be covered include education and document retention challenges, proper maintenance of files, teaching law to non-lawyers and making the law relevant, encouraging non-lawyers to use proper document creation processes, and much more.

Our panel discussion will assist corporate practitioners to evaluate, analyze, and prioritize the myriad operational issues that arise in an organization when it is confronted with natural disasters and other crises. This panel of experts who have experience in dealing with recent disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina will explain the challenges confronted by their respective companies, and share the lessons learned from these trying circumstances.

Annual Meeting 2006: Succession is an inherently unpleasant topic; no one likes to think of themselves as anything other than indispensable or to contemplate their own mortality. However, legal managers often fail to anticipate their own departure and plan for how the leadership of the legal department will continue in their absence. This can have serious repercussions on the effective functioning of a legal department; in dealing with regulators; and on morale in a legal department.

Are you versed in the requirements surrounding mandatory vs voluntary reporting of environmental releases and violations? It’s likely your company is relying on you to provide legal guidance on this issue, but are you prepared to answer the questions if/when they come up? If not, our panel will first detail the legal requirements triggering the mandatory reporting of environmental releases and violations and then focus on the more difficult situation of voluntary reporting or disclosure of releases and violations that are not covered by current reporting rules.

As in-house counsel, you are likely the first line of defence or corporate "spokesmodel" in a crisis situation. When press or regulators come knocking at your door will you be prepared? This interactive session focused on what to do in a crisis, how to handle a media call, what you should or should not provide a regulator in a dawn raid, and much more.

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