A panel of experienced international in-house lawyers will discuss the legal support areas on which legal department members in international offices should focus on in order to partner effectively with the business team. They will address optimizing the process for providing legal services, identifying future legal support requirements and implementing legal cost-saving initiatives.
Because social media law is a hybrid of a number of practice areas, this session will feature panelists familiar with social media issues in their most frequent corporate applications: labor and employment, advertising and endorsements and corporate law (including mergers and acquisitions). The panelists will cover issue spotting and reveal suggested guidelines for minimizing legal risks from social media activity by the company and its employees.
Practicing labor and employment law in a multinational business can be a difficult task. Of particular complexity are the varying standards and procedures required for terminating and disciplining employees. What might seem like a straightforward issue in one jurisdiction can be fraught with significant risk in another. This interactive panel will provide an overview of the key principles related to employee termination and discipline in a variety of international jurisdictions. The panel will also provide insight, best practices and resources for in-house counsel tasked with managing these issues globally.
For many years, the United States drove global anti-corruption efforts through vigorous enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. More recently, other jurisdictions have begun to assert themselves in the anti-corruption arena. Brazil joined those countries in 2014 by enacting a tough new anti-corruption law. This program will cover the main aspects addressed in the new law such as the penalties imposed, incentives for companies to establish and enforce effective compliance programs, leniency provisions and incentives for companies to self-report violations, impact on multinational companies doing business in Brazil and how they can prepare their existing compliance programs, impact on companies conducting internal investigations in Brazil and other relevant aspects.
This panel will cover a wide range of issues relevant to in-house counsel including: dealing with seller-friendly deal environment; the role of in-house counsel in M&A; opportunities and pitfalls with earn-outs and other purchase price adjustment provisions; current due diligence hot button issues (including FCPA, OFAC and cybersecurity); shareholder activism; and lessons learned from recent M&A litigation.
This session will raise common ethical issues faced by in-house counsel and discuss best practices for handling those issues, while helping you comply with MRCP 1.13 regarding organization as client.
This panel of attorneys from medium and large legal departments will share strategies for processing high-volume transactions (sales agreements, procurement agreements and NDAs) more efficiently. They will discuss their approaches to improving quality and reducing cycle times. These strategies include applying business process improvement methodologies, such as Six Sigma and Lean, to the contracting process; developing forms and playbooks to empower non-attorneys (including legal process outsourcing) to make decisions; establishing risk thresholds and approval criteria and more.
The session will operate at two simultaneous levels. First, the tables (companies) in the room will comprise a market and will need to make strategic choices to deal with market-wide developments. Second, because each person at the table will represent a different member of the management team, participants will need to work together to make good decisions.
This presentation teaches how to manage the work of your legal department like a business unit – with effective project management techniques, and best practices to implement changes in your legal department.
It’s a bad day, the eve of your company’s merger. You are a high-profile corporate lawyer working for a global brand and you just learned that personal data believed to have been stolen from your cloud computing account has been posted on WhoNeedsTheLaw.com, apparently exposing your name, entire work email inbox, phone number and scandalous images secured by a hacker accessing the camera on your laptop computer. The data includes a private dialogue between you and the outside company about the liabilities of taking on the merger. What would you do? This interactive session will cover emerging executive liability issues and test how effectively you can navigate risk with real-life scenarios and video vignettes.