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An overview of the process of licensing music, videos, and photos. Includes a discussion of basic copyright law, the Fair Use Doctrine, and other intellectual property issues.

An overview of cloud computing, including a discussion of the pros and cons of cloud computing, privacy considerations, and other legal issues.

A series of tips for general counsel on how to manage liability at a sports/entertainment facility.

Politics and government regulation affect every aspect of business profitability and success, often in critical ways. Corporate legal counsel can, and do, advocate successfully in legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts, at federal, state, and local levels. However, corporate counsel must comply with their professional and ethical obligations in doing so. Learn how to manage the corporation’s advocacy efforts, including lobbyists, election advertisements and political contributions, without running afoul of the law or the highest ethical standards.

Effective compliance programs require the drafting of policies that are understandable and make sense for your organization. In this workshop you will have the chance to draft such a policy and compare your work with that of your peers.

<br />This program will provide guidance regarding your ethical obligation for responding to government requests for information, including informal letters from government agencies or their contractors, OIG subpoenas, HIPAA subpoenas, civil and administrative investigative demands, congressional and grand jury subpoenas. Various other ethical issues, including privilege, will also be addressed.

Movie lawyers lead tough lives, particularly corporate lawyers. From the 1976 film Network to the 2007 film Michael Clayton, the fantastic situations of our big screen counterparts offer real world lessons. Using short film clips of ethically challenged movie lawyers to illustrate the requirements of the rules of professional responsibility, Hollywood's portrayal of corporate counsel enables us to demonstrate practical requirements of the rules of ethics.

A review of the year’s IP legal developments including patent, trademark and copyright primarily.

This material comes from a program for those with established international practices, as companies need to constantly evaluate in a tight market if resources are being properly deployed.

Take an in-depth look at executive compensation disclosure in this session. The focus will be on completing the Summary Compensation Tables and other Reg S-K Item 402 tables, preparing the Compensation Disclosure & Analysis (CD&A) for the Proxy Statement and describing – in text, not tables – employment agreements and golden parachutes. We’ll cover tough questions on what data to report and how to report it, and we’ll cover – particularly for the CD&A – not just the requirements, but the process for putting together great disclosure.

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