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Where are companies legally required to draw the line in workplace privacy? If you don't know the answer to this question then this session is for you! Our presenters will examine the many legal issues surrounding employee privacy in today's workplace including employee monitoring, email and internet use, employee confidentiality, conduct outside the workplace, employee testing, personnel records, and much more.

Privilege, data protection and data retention are probably THE most important issues on the minds of corporate practitioners. In this fast paced exchange of information and ideas, we’ll share with you these hot topics and bring you up to speed to better counsel your client.

Annual Meeting 2006: Whether you are new to in-house or new to the field of technology law, this program will address the essential legal issues you must be able to spot in order to protect your company. Our panel of experts will discuss the hottest topics including doing business online, consumer privacy, developing and protecting IP, licensing, and implementing complex technology systems. Take home a basic checklist of the do's and don'ts and more importantly, a list of solutions to address these issues.

Annual Meeting 2006: Corporations face a wide variety of labor and employment laws. These vary significantly from state-to-state, often are contradictory, and sometimes are counter-intuitive. The sheer volume of statutes, regulations, and court decisions makes it very difficult for employers to understand the range of legal obligations that exist. The result is that your company may unwittingly be close to violating‚ or may already have violated‚ a law you did not even know about.

Annual Meeting 2006: The scope and reach of the US Patriot Act is daunting and pervasive; it reaches across borders and oceans. Its net casts beyond the realm of counter-terrorism and catches and impacts legitimate commercial activities. Its effects are felt not only by foreign customers of US corporations but also by customers of subsidiaries and affiliates of those companies. Many Canadian companies, for example, are now reviewing their traditional relationships with subsidiaries of US companies.

If you conduct business around the world, you know data privacy policies are far stricter outside the US than in. When you add Sarbanes-Oxley regulations to the mix, all bets are off. If you have US headquarters with international operations, you likely ponder the issue of privacy vs SOX often. Have all the answers? Didn’t think so!

The Data Protection Directive requires anyone who handles personal information to comply with a number of important principles. Among them: ensure that the personal information is lawfully processed, accurate and up to date, processed in line with the individual’s rights, secure and not transferred to other countries without adequate protection.

This material covers global privacy issue, major privacy laws and how they differ from country to country.

Gain an overview of what needs to be cleared, how to clear it and whom to contact about movie, music and photo rights, as well as the risks of not doing so.

This material covers updates on developments in copyright, trademark and patent law.

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