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A poll taken in 2003 by ACC and the National Association of Corporate Directors asked directors and general counsel "What would most improve corporate governance?" Seventy percent of members of boards of directors and 82% of general counsel replied, "Senior management creates and sustains an ethical business culture." This best-selling chapter program shares best practices in how to start and sustain a business ethics program in your company.

You've taken the plunge and are determined to build a dedicated compliance function. Explore key strategies and tactics for implementing and maintaining a compliance program that fosters ethical, legal, and productive operations while also minimizing business risk. Review the impact of recent legal and business developments on compliance strategy. Learn how to maintain leadership buy-in and commitment, and avoid common pitfalls that make a compliance program difficult to maintain.

Many companies expect the law department to handle compliance. The reality is that an effective compliance program involves many players, both inside and outside the company. In this session, your in-house peers will explore examples of how organizations have creatively managed the relationship between the law department, compliance function, and auditors to enhance the process of improving the compliance effort with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies. Take home practical solutions to achieving an integrated compliance effort within your organization.

This interactive presentation will provide you with insight into valuable strategies to prepare for and respond to employment related government audits and compliance with current agency initiatives. Our panel will explore best practices for avoiding auditing issues when that inevitable knock on the door comes.

Public company communications are complex and fraught with risk. Recent regulation FD and similar legislation in Canada and the EU precludes selective disclosure of material information. What guidance should you give your CEO and CFO in their dealings with the press, analysts, rating agencies, and investors while protecting your corporate officers and directors? Experienced general counsel will share how to ethically, legally, and proactively manage public company communications by identifying and resolving disclosure issues before they cost the company time and money.

Even if you can fly, dealing with business units around the world is tough for a compliance superhero. Learn how to help your company use compliance as a competitive advantage internationally. This program will examine leading multinational compliance programs, including a discussion about the tensions between compliance and decentralized international management structures, types of international risks, and tools that are available to assist you.

Risk assessment is an ongoing and vital part of any compliance program. You can't control risk until you identify it and measure it. As part of your company's compliance process, your legal department needs to develop and monitor a comprehensive listing of potential risks. Hear from our in-house experts as they share their best practices for assessing corporate risks, and learn the tips and tools on how to implement a control-testing process at your company.

Recent cases have made the news, even gone all the way to the Supreme Court, about what must be kept, what can be shredded, and when. Discovery orders during litigation and government investigations complicate the issue. We all know some of the theory, but hear from our experts some practical tips about how to develop, implement and maintain an effective recordkeeping policy and how to comply with the growing burden of record retention.

You've taken the plunge and are determined to build a dedicated compliance function. Explore key strategies and tactics for structuring and maintaining a compliance program that fosters ethical, legal, and productive operations while also minimizing business risk. Review the impact of recent legal and business developments on compliance strategy. Learn how to maintain leadership buy-in and commitment, and avoid common pitfalls that make a compliance program difficult to maintain.

Presented by Bass, Berry & Sims, a Lex Mundi member firm for the ACC Tennessee Chapter.

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