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More and more employees are qualifying for certain benefits deemed for domestic partners. This is a relatively new area for benefits coverage: here is a your chance to get a clear picture up close from your in-house peers as they share their expertise on current legal status of domestic partners and best practices. You will come away from this session with a better understanding of the legal rights, or lack thereof, of domestic partners and their family members to employee benefits and other HR matters.

Shareholders are important stakeholders for every company; however, recent events have shown the risks and legal liabilities a company faces when dealing with them. Recent regulatory and legislative developments, such as new SEC rules permitting electronic proxy distribution, and the New York Stock Exchange’s action to eliminate broker non-votes, add complexity to these matters.

Records management is often not viewed as a responsibility of the general counsel's office, but records management decisions, and mistakes, can often raise a host of legal issues. This basics program will introduce in-house counsel to the basic elements of a records management policy including the law, review recent regulatory and judicial decisions that should influence a company's records management, and target the types of information that require special attention when it comes to preserving or destroying corporate records. An emphasis will be placed on automated information.

This Guide to Conducting an Effective Internal Investigation (“Guide”) sets forth how to investigate effectively matters arising within the company that have been referred to the legal department. This Guide does not address how to determine whether a matter should be referred to the legal department as opposed to another corporate function. Even though this Guide is designed to provide this guidance to the legal department in conducting Investigations, many of the principals in the Guide are universal and could be applied to investigations conducted by non-lawyers.

An article reviewing changes in the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act regarding treatment of repeat offenders.

Advises corporate directors on how to address "enterprise risk management".

An article reviewing the stages of an effective internal investigation

An interview with Thomas Wardell and R. William Ide of McKenna, Long & Aldridge on how companies can find general counsel that will adequately look after corporate compliance.

Presented on February 7, 2008 to the Oregon Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, this program examined some of the critical intellectual property and commercial issues in joint ventures and development deals and identified ways to address these issues in legal documents.

While Washington appears to have lost interest in pre-merger antitrust review, such reviews are intensifying in Brussels. Thanks to appeal judgments requiring the European Commission to justify its decisions more thoroughly, a new era of more lengthy and fact-intensive reviews has arrived. It seems that competitors are more easily able to create delays by exploiting this trend, which two case studies will illustrate.

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