This panel will walk through various real-world emergency scenarios and hypotheticals with help from audience members. Organized around three main phases – preparation, immediate response and aftermath – the program will teach you how to anticipate, recognize and respond in accelerated and stressful circumstances to the multifaceted environmental, health and safety legal risks of various emergency situations – particularly when time may not permit a call to outside counsel or other company lawyers.
So your CEO has finally recognized that the company needs a compliance program, and naturally turns to you, the lawyer. Where do you start? How do you determine that you've identified the compliance risks, complied with all the applicable laws and regulations, and adequately addressed the risks? This session will describe the essentials of a compliance program including risk assessments, policy development, communications, training, establishment of controls and monitoring and testing of controls. Presenters will offer firsthand experiences (some positive) and best practices, incorporating MRCP 3, A-C privilege, MRCP 1.16 and MRCP 1.13 for ethics.
Comparative advertising is no longer limited to high-profile television advertising involving soda brands, computer brands, mobile telephone carriers and cable versus satellite. It can be difficult to detect and police your competitors’ uses of your brand names in Google Adwords, metadata, hashtags, banner ads and countless other ways. This panel will explore the intersection of brand management, free speech, and free market competition through hypotheticals and case law updates. Attendees will walk away with a better game plan on how to detect, prevent and expeditiously address unauthorized use of their company’s brands on the Internet, as well as a better understanding of how to mitigate legally-allowed uses of their company’s brands by competitors.
This moderated talk show-style panel will share strategies designed to help 21st century general counsel cope with today’s increasingly complex legal and global environments. The program will address such critical skill sets as providing cogent cross-border legal advice without blowing the budget, building and managing a global legal team, communicating legal issues in a larger business context, evaluating and embracing risk and working seamlessly with the executive team and the board.
We live in a world where a wearable fitness tracker can tell you how many steps you’ve walked; your thermostat magically knows how to adjust the temperature in your house when you come home; you can control devices in your home with your phone; medical devices connect to insulin pumps wirelessly and your car logs everything from where you’re going to how many miles you’ve driven on public roads. While the possibilities are endless, they come with myriad legal concerns. This panel will delve into the key legal issues associated with the Internet of Things: privacy, data security and the regulatory perspectives from the Federal Trade Commission, the Food & Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission.
Long thought to be predominantly a US concern, human rights laws around the world are bringing equal opportunity issues to the forefront throughout the multinational operation. From gender requirements on corporate boards in Europe, to a sweeping sexual harassment law in India, to new family-leave recognitions in Japan, to a recent Employment Equity Amendment Bill in South Africa, global developments in human rights law command the attention of headquarters and regional in-house counsel like never before. A panel of current and former in-house counsel will discuss what these developments mean for the management of global employment law issues for the multinational employer.
As more jurisdictions adopt and enforce anti-corruption laws with different legal standards and territorial reach, in-house counsel face increasing pressure to manage compliance on a global scale with resources that don’t necessarily grow in proportion. This panel will explore how to go beyond addressing national anti-corruption laws as they emerge. Experienced compliance professionals will discuss best practices to ensure effective and efficient ongoing monitoring and improvement of a compliance program in a streamlined manner across borders, secure and leverage resources within the business and build up a long-term culture of compliance that preserves consistency across the business while adapting to local laws and cultural factors.
Many corporate leaders are asked to serve on nonprofit Boards or decide to form and operate charitable organizations, but even a simple error can have significant adverse legal and financial consequences for the corporation and even the individual director. This program will cover some of the more common legal issues impacting 501(c)(3) organizations, as well as the ethical issues facing in-house corporate counsel, including MCRP 1.13 on ethics. These issues affect both counsel who may be asked to advise the charitable organization, or the individuals asked to serve on the board.
There are two kinds of companies: those that have had a security breach and those that will have a security breach. Security incidents present numerous significant risks to companies, including negative brand and reputation attention, loss of sales or customer churn, financial penalties and legal exposure. This session will provide practical guidance from an in-house perspective on the multiple challenges posed by cybersecurity issues, best practices for data protection and steps to take in the event of an information security breach. Topics will also include insurance and vetting third-party vendors.
This presentation deals with enforcement and international cooperation to combat corruption.