This Report summarizes the discussion at the ACC’s CLO Roundtable session “Diversity and Privacy (Risks and Compliance” held in Toronto on May 20, 2014.
Most companies have key business suppliers upon which they rely. In these relationships, comprehensive agreements are created to memorialize contractual understandings and provide indemnity rights/obligations if things do not go as planned. What do you do if your key business supplier or franchisee does not meet expectations and causes your company a large loss in breach of the protective agreement? Should you write it off as the cost of doing business? Should you retain counsel and sue for indemnity at the risk of souring the relationship and losing future business? Panelists will address approaches that create a satisfying middle ground to enforce indemnity rights and potentially strengthen business relationships.
This panel will focus on the first ninety days in-house as a model for
setting and achieving goals and measuring success that is applicable to
in-house counsel at any stage. Experts will address increasing
production in the counsel's office, managing outside projects, improving
value and reducing costs, engaging with client business groups to
identify important issues and benchmarking successes for those outside
the counsel's office.
This is a presentation on considerations at the contract drafting stage, the Dispute Resolution clause, the start of the dispute - arbitration, enforcement of the final arbitral award, etc.
Global corporations face a host of challenges when doing business abroad. Among them is whether to agree to submit a dispute to an international arbitral tribunal or to consent to the jurisdiction of a foreign court. Once these decisions are made, however, how are the resulting rulings enforced? Discover the unique challenges associated with transnational enforcement of a valid award issued by a court or an agreed-upon arbitral tribunal and how to effectively resist transnational enforcement of a fraudulent or deficient judgment.
More companies are making corporate social responsibility (CSR) a key part of their business strategies. At its heart, CSR is a response to growing shareholder pressure to mitigate a corporation’s societal and environmental impact. By employing a strategy that often goes beyond compliance with existing laws and regulations, however, companies can expose themselves to a host of legal, reputational and operational risks. Examine the liability concerns—both domestic and foreign—associated with the CSR business strategy, explore how it impacts the financial reporting process and learn how to establish and effectively implement a CSR program, particularly for multinational corporations.
Learn from representatives of prime upper- and lower-tier subcontractors how to review, track and explain the numerous federal acquisition rules (FARs) that are often incorporated by reference into contracts of all sizes and types, including the differences between optional and mandatory flow-down clauses and exceptions to incorporated clauses in other non–FAR related statutes.
This program will review how to manage a defensible records retention and data management program, considerations related to disposition of items that are not required to be kept by law or policy in the normal course of business and how to effectively manage legal holds when they come into play.
Banks, brokers and insurance companies are often affiliated, but doing business with affiliates creates some inherent conflicts. Panelists will address how to identify, disclose, mitigate and otherwise manage these types of conflicts as well as address the rules of professional responsibility and ethical considerations.
This presentation will cover all aspects of practicing before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), including statistics on board decisions, recent trends and how to decide what cases to take to the board.