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An overview of finance and accounting issues that in-house counsel may encounter. Includes guide to accountant's role and GAAP, basic financial statements and their importance, liquidity, leverage, corporate finance model, capital markets, corporate reporting and performance pressures, non-financial considerations, and a common sense approach to these issues.

Law Departments Adding Value: Structuring and Managing Outside Counsel Relationships and Beyond - Management Report

How can general counsel support the company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives, setting and communicating the tone-at-the-top, as well as facilitating practical implementation of CSR initiatives that benefit both your company’s image and bottom line? Open only to chief legal officers, the CLO Club was an interactive discussion that employed large and small group dialogue for sharing ideas on successful practices and advice on how to meet challenges.

Today, open source software is widely accepted as a key aspect of any company IT strategy, as well as a key factor in the business strategy of any technology company. It also challenges in-house counsel in new and unique ways. Traditional corporate practices are not effective in managing the use and procurement of open source. Companies need new policies and practices to allow them to take advantage of the benefits, while protecting against the risks.

Non-profits may secure significant long-term, low-cost funding through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, but the process is technical and complex. This session covered the basics on the benefits and risks of such financing, as well as the process and possible pitfalls in successfully bringing a bond deal to closure, and being a key player in the bond process.

Companies, including those unrelated to electric industries, are involved in programs that involve the marketing, purchase and sale of renewable energy attributes or credits produced when “green” energy is generated. This program focused on the nature of these attributes, how these attributes intersect with carbon offsets, the legal issues encountered with such programs, and key terms of agreements used in transactions involving renewable energy attributes.

It is impossible to keep up with it all, but this session will help. Our panel of experts provided an update of the year’s most significant litigation and regulatory decisions affecting both private and public companies. What you don’t know CAN hurt you and your organization, so don’t overlook this information-packed session.

This session presented an overview of the tax law and regulations as they relate to the deductibility of fines, penalties, and punitive damages. There was also a discussion of the current trends in settlement language with governmental institutions and strategies to obtain the optimal tax outcome for the company. And what are the economic implications of a settlement being deductible as compared to a settlement that is not deductible? We addressed that, too!

Today’s ethical representation challenges aren’t simple and they hardly ever wear convenient name tags that allow you to easily identify them. Since bar regulations don’t provide much guidance in the corporate context, we offered you a series of professionally-acted hypotheticals that asked the audience to interactively navigate a series of ethical close calls. Help decide how our corporate counsel hero should investigate whistleblower allegations, supervise off-shored representations, advise on executive compensation, conduct employee interviews, and more.

Shareholders are important stakeholders for every company and recent events have shown the risks a company faces in dealing with them. Shareholders are becoming more active and more aggressive, often using their influence to create short-term stock market gains rather than long-term value, or pursuing proxy fights based on their views of good corporate governance and good citizenship.

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