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Guidance on how to create an effective legal hold process. Includes issues like the underlying legal issues, self-collection risks, how to monitor compliance, advance preparation, and releasing the legal hold.

This document provides legal hypotheticals and and analyses regarding the courts, including judicial ethics.

This Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) training course will help you recognize situations that raise FMLA issues and assist you in dealing with these issues effectively. At the end of this material, you'll play a game that presents hypothetical scenarios for you to analyze. As you answer the multiple-choice questions correctly, you'll move through the game and earn a Certificate of Completion.

This Code of Conduct training course will help you (1) recognize legal and ethical issues as they arise in the workplace, (2) respond appropriately to those issues, and (3) perform your job with the utmost integrity.

To access the Code of Conduct Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35529-code-of-conduct>www.acc.com/co…;.

This Appropriate Internet Use training course will explain rules and guidelines that you must follow with the computers, phones and/or other electronic devices that you use for work.

To access the Appropriate Internet Use Training Course, visit www.acc.com/compliance.

What is the current state of records management for most companies? What “best practice” trends are evident in those companies with an advanced records management maturity model? Panelists of this program will present an in-depth study of more than 3,500 participants that provides insight into how other organizations are doing when it comes to compliance.

Risk management has often been carried out by organizations in silos, with counsel responsible only for legal risks. Increasingly, though, systematic ERM will be imposed on corporations. This program will explore a number of issues related to ERM, including: What does ERM entail? What are the emerging ERM frameworks. such as ISO 31000, and how do they promote effective risk taking and help organizations maximize the opportunity for gain? What is ERM’s role in strategic planning? What is the appropriate role for the legal department in promoting an effective ERM program?

Lawyers are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for marketing and other purposes including gathering information about parties and witnesses in a case. In addition, sites like Legal OnRamp and Martindale-Hubbell Connected are specifically designed to facilitate communication between in-house and outside counsel. Many commentators believe that the use of social media is going to transform the practice of law much like email did years ago.

Where does in-house counsel’s obligation to promote business interests meet the obligation to disclose bad news? Join experienced counsel as they address what actions to take during the first 24 hours after you are notified that your company is being investigated by the government, how to handle executives and employees who mistakenly press for in-house counsel to represent their interests (as opposed to the company’s), and how to handle communications with employees, the press, clients and suppliers.

The next level of learning for the new securities practitioner, this session will focus on the hot topics in SEC disclosure relating to enterprise risk and compensation disclosure, proxy and shareholder proposals, and disclosure while managing through crisis.

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