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Looking for optimal work flow, organization, and productivity in your legal department? Who isn’t! Here is a thought provoking, effective session on how to apply top down and bottom up principles in conjunction with Six Sigma practices to turn a disorganized legal department with circular work patterns and other inefficiencies into a highly productive team with quality on-time deliverables.

Real estate is a basic part of doing business, whether your employer owns, leases or subleases facilities. Learn the law from your in-house peers who have of necessity become real estate law experts, and discover the key considerations and potential traps that every in-house attorney must know for basic real estate transactions and managing your companies' real property assets.

The greatest challenge for corporate counsel is to reconcile the dual, and sometimes contradictory role, of being both a productive business partner and guardian of the corporation's integrity and reputation. Successfully resolving this tension is essential if a company is to attain the two fundamental goals of contemporary capitalism: high performance and high integrity. We are most fortunate to have Ben W. Heineman Jr., share his thoughts and observations about this dilemma with us.

Corporations operating internationally take legal and other risks in sending employees abroad. The dangers of international travel are very real for corporate travelers, often deemed ideal targets for criminals. Kidnappings are a daily occurrence, even in cities once thought to be safe.

When a dispute arises concerning the sale of a business, your clever lawyering and intricate draftsmanship can get lost in front of judge and jury. How can you draft your contract to insure the intention of the parties is enforced as well as maximize the protection to your client? Our panel of your litigation peers will share their 20-20 hindsight on the M&A deal and what M&A practitioners should know about how your contracts are received and interpreted, and what you can do to help in case the business deal ends up in the courtroom or arbitration.

By 2010, nearly one in three workers in the United States will be over the age of 50. As the relative proportion of younger workers declines, attracting and retaining experienced and reliable workers will become a core business strategy for all employers. Our panel discussed the impact that older workers are having on the workplace, legal issues related to phased retirement and nontraditional work arrangements as well as proposed and pending regulations relating to phased retirement.

A must for any in-house practitioner needing to stay up to speed on current employment law, this permanent fixture on the ACC Annual Meeting agenda will do just that. Join our panel to learn about new case law and legislation that affects employment and labor law issues. You will take away resources to draw from to help you understand these changes and how they might affect your company's employment practices.

ACC compiled the concerns and unresolved challenges identified scores of CLOs of the largest public and private companies in the US and Canada, culminating in a report to the in-house profession of the concerns that keep CLOs awake at night, as well as their vision for the solutions that should be pursued to address them. Look into our unique crystal ball to view the emerging challenges that will occupy your law department’s time and attention in the coming years. Find out what top in-house thought leaders believe is around the corner, and how to best prepare to meet those challenges.

Developed with the transactional attorney or corporate generalist in mind, this session will provide you with the fundamentals to draft and negotiate legally enforceable environmental terms and conditions for the purchase of real property and the sale of an on-going concern with environmental liabilities. Our panel will focus, in particular, on environmental law including indemnification provisions, baselines, and related insurance. From this program, you will be able to draft and negotiate environmental terms in a contract without being forced to go to outside counsel for assistance.

By mid-century, China, the world’s fastest-growing economy and the second largest behind the United States, is expected to be number one. Business can no longer avoid the Chinese market. The keys to a successful business in China are a clear Chinese strategy, sound business and legal policies, effective implementation plans and performance goals that are updated on a continuous basis.

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