The participants will go through a mock crisis management exercise. This session will explore the complementary roles of legal, communications and PR, and business continuity management, presenting best practices in crisis management planning, stakeholder management, and proactive communications management.
Do you know your NPV from your IRR? Your Payback from your ROI? Find out how to understand and talk knowledgeably with business colleagues on financial matters. In-house counsel are frequently expected to demonstrate business acumen and sound financial decision-making skills. This session will help you to advise and make decisions based on financial data, explaining how to understand the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flow, and how to identify red flags that signal financial difficulties or accounting problems.
Increasingly EU law (in particular EU consumer law) is being driven by a school of thought known as 'behavioural economics', which takes into account the behaviours of individuals when they are exercising choice. Regulators recognise that behavioural economics could have a profound impact on many of the most serious challenges facing policy makers today and increasingly see an opportunity for behavioural economics to support more specific issues like complexity, consumer inertia, marketing and the impact of communications to consumers. This session provides an overview of how behavioural economics is quickly becoming a "game changer" for the shape of regulation for time to come.
Increasingly EU law (in particular EU consumer law) is being driven by a school of thought known as 'behavioural economics', which takes into account the behaviours of individuals when they are exercising choice. Regulators recognise that behavioural economics could have a profound impact on many of the most serious challenges facing policy makers today and increasingly see an opportunity for behavioural economics to support more specific issues like complexity, consumer inertia, marketing and the impact of communications to consumers. This session provides an overview of how behavioural economics is quickly becoming a "game changer" for the shape of regulation for time to come.
Increasingly EU law (in particular EU consumer law) is being driven by a school of thought known as 'behavioural economics', which takes into account the behaviours of individuals when they are exercising choice. Regulators recognise that behavioural economics could have a profound impact on many of the most serious challenges facing policy makers today and increasingly see an opportunity for behavioural economics to support more specific issues like complexity, consumer inertia, marketing and the impact of communications to consumers. This session provides an overview of how behavioural economics is quickly becoming a "game changer" for the shape of regulation for time to come.
Understanding that you are your own brand. This session focuses on how to improve your visibility both inside and outside your organisation, and align any activity with specific business goals. Social media is now no one-trick-pony but can deliver multiple and measurable results.
In-house counsels are under increasing pressure (especially from procurement colleagues) to run formal RFPs (Requests for Proposals), or tenders, in order to compare offers from law firms and select on an "objective" basis. In this session our speakers will lead a discussion on the pointers and pitfalls in running an RFP when selecting a law firm.
Reviewing the drivers of economic success in China and the latest IP developments in China and exploring in depth how to structure R&D arrangements to protect your trade secrets and technology in an interactive session with the experts.
Whilst presenting significant opportunities, any venture into or trade with emerging countries requires careful consideration, strategic planning and knowledge of the unique local markets and legal environments. The speakers will share valuable practical information, best practices on how to be successful and what to avoid during and after international expansion.
This session explores the immediate impact of the implementation of the EU General data protection regulation including the harmonisation of regulator activity across Europe, how effective the "one-stop shop" format will be, Article 29 Working Party submissions and how to protect your business from the right to be forgotten.