Events

Join us for this 60-minute webinar on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, starting at Noon CT. Enjoy a free lunch, too, if you register before January 30 and opt in for an Uber Eats voucher!

Reducing Corporate Legal Costs through Litigation Funding

Litigation funding, in which a funder provides financial assistance to a claimant in exchange for a share of a potential recovery, has become an increasingly common way for corporate legal departments to pursue claims. This discussion will explain the litigation funding process and cover, among other things:

• Types of cases in which litigation funding could be appropriate
• Benefits of partnering with a funder
• Confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements
• The due diligence process
• Structuring of deals (single case vs. portfolio) and returns

Presenters:

• Phillip Goter, Investment Manager and Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway
• Jason Zucchi, Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C.

Registration is free and open to ACC members and first-time in-house counsel guests. 1 Standard CLE credit is pending in Minnesota.

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Thanks to our sponsor, Omni Bridgeway!

Use of M&A Insurance Solutions to Improve Deal Outcomes

Kick-start your ACC MN New Year with a delicious breakfast and a CLE program at the JW Marriott Mall of America Hotel on Thursday, January 19, 2023.

The use of M&A (primarily Representation & Warranty Insurance, or RWI) has changed the manner in which M&A transactions are protected. The use of other M&A Insurance solutions such as tax insurance and litigation buyout insurance have also increased in usage. We will explore how these solutions are used on transactions. We will also discuss what we have seen with respect to claims activity on RWI policies.

AGENDA 

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM | Plated breakfast

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM | CLE program

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | Networking

PRESENTERS

• Vipul Patel, Managing Director, Aon M&A and Transaction Solutions
• Anthony Dragone, Senior Vice President, Aon M&A and Transaction Solutions

Admission is free and open to ACC members (and to in-house counsel first-time guests). 1 Standard CLE credit is pending in Minnesota.

Thanks to our sponsor, Aon!

In the Cloud: Legal Issues, Risks, and Considerations

Join ACC MN colleagues for a late-afternoon CLE program in the West Metro on Thursday, January 26, 2023.

Join Maslon Partners Shauro Bagchi and Shawn McIntee for a robust presentation on the legal issues, risks, and considerations attendant to cloud-based platforms, services, and storage—drawn from their developed niche working extensively for software and cloud computing companies (or companies purchasing such services). The presentation will cover issues including liability for copyright infringement, data breaches, security violations, privacy and HIPAA violations, data loss, data management, electronic discovery (“e-discovery”), hacking, cybersecurity, and many other complex issues that can lead to complex litigation and regulatory matters before courts and agencies in the United States. 

Admission is free and open to ACC members (and to in-house counsel first-time guests). 1.0 Standard CLE credit is pending in Minnesota.

Convenient free parking abounds in the lot outside the program's venue, BLVD Kitchen & Bar in Minnetonka.

Thanks to our sponsor, Maslon LLP!

Society, businesses, and workforces are rapidly becoming more complex, unpredictable, and risk-laden. GCs must be key thought partners, decisionmakers, and stakeholders within the inner circle of leadership to guide organizations. GCs and legal departments must be engaged with business leadership and cannot afford to provide counsel from a distance or after the fact. Nor can GCs rely on traditional facetime to train and develop legal teams. We will explore how the GC role is changing in these ways:

• Becoming more central and indispensable to key strategy discussions, early decision-making, and direction-setting 
• Demonstrating more diversity in demographics, career path, and experience, reflecting increasingly diverse workforces as well as contributing broader perspectives in the C-suite
• Developing more proactive advice and leadership in counselling organizations, defining how legal work is performed in hybrid environments, developing legal team interpersonal competencies, and team-building.  

This will be a moderated discussion with Audrey Jean, ACC NCR VP of Programming and General Counsel at 3E and the following chief legal officers:

Sumeet Seam, Chief Legal Officer at National Geographic Society;

Tracy Schampers, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Deltek;

Karen Gally, General Counsel of Otsuka America Pharmaceutical;

Jerald "Jerry" Howe, Jr., EVP and General Counsel at Leidos.

All ACC members, in-house counsel, ACC NCR annual relationship sponsors*, and select guests** are invited to join us for this special event.

*ACC NCR annual relationship sponsors may send two representatives, except Diamond, which may send three.

**Guests may include business colleagues and significant others, but may not include law firm or vendor representatives that compete with our sponsors.

Agenda for Event:

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm:  Lunch and Networking

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm:  Panel Discussion

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Dessert and Coffee Reception

(This is for informational purposes only, no VA MCLE will be provided.)

Join the Corporate Compliance Practice Group for In-Person CLE on February 2nd

This panel, Hot Topics in White Collar Crime Regulatory Compliance, will focus on key trends and developing areas of White Collar Crime and how in-house counsel should approach these topics from a compliance perspective. We will particularly focus on the areas of cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, responding to and navigating government investigations and inquiries from an in-house perspective. This talk will include perspectives from various in-house counsel, a current SEC Enforcement Attorney focused on Crypto Assets and the Cyber Unit of the Division of Enforcement, and perspectives from a former federal prosecutor who now advises companies in how to handle government investigations.

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30 pm:  Registration

6:30 - 7:30 pm: Program

7:30 - 8:30 pm: Networking Reception

Speakers:

Jason P.W. Halperin, Member, Mintz

Iris Hsiao, Associate General Counsel, Junto Capital Management LP

Martin Zerwitz, Senior Counsel, SEC Division of Enforcement’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit

Sipoura Barzideh, Senior Managing Counsel, Compliance and Ethics, Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 

For for both members and prospective members (must be in-house counsel). 

Walk-ins will be admitted for on-site in-house counsel registrants, if space permits.  

1 CLE credit (NY) // Professional Practice, suitable for both transitional and non-transitional attorneys

This annual program, presented by Ian Ballon, will cover: 

• How the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Warhol, Louis Vuitton and Gonzalez will impact the tech world and innovation in 2023
• AI art, NFT reuse, and other fair use and First Amendment issues 
• Data reuse and AI - the law and liability issues surrounding machine learning test sets 
• CPRA privacy litigation - what we learned from the CCPA and strategies to defeat CPRA class action suits
• Chatbots and other state and federal data privacy and cybersecurity breach class action suits 
• CDA, DMCA and other moderation issues in an era of rising hostility toward tech companies
• The latest case law, trends and litigation and transactional strategies involving Terms of Use, mass arbitration, privacy, IP law and more 

Speaker:
Ian Ballon, Shareholder, Co-Chair Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig

This annual program, presented by Ian Ballon, will cover: 

• How the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Warhol, Louis Vuitton and Gonzalez will impact the tech world and innovation in 2023
• AI art, NFT reuse, and other fair use and First Amendment issues 
• Data reuse and AI - the law and liability issues surrounding machine learning test sets 
• CPRA privacy litigation - what we learned from the CCPA and strategies to defeat CPRA class action suits
• Chatbots and other state and federal data privacy and cybersecurity breach class action suits 
• CDA, DMCA and other moderation issues in an era of rising hostility toward tech companies
• The latest case law, trends and litigation and transactional strategies involving Terms of Use, mass arbitration, privacy, IP law and more 

Speaker:
Ian Ballon, Shareholder, Co-Chair Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig

Members, in-house counsel, sponsors*, and select guests** are invited to join us for our 2023 Annual Meeting.  In addition to officer and director elections, this year’s meeting will kick-off our celebration of the 20^th anniversary of the ACC NCR Corporate Scholars Program with a conversation with two of its co-founders, Brandon Fitzgerald, Chief Legal Officer of Special Olympics, and Vanessa L. Allen Sutherland, Executive Vice President Legal & Government Affairs, General Counsel, & Secretary of Phillips 66.  The meeting will also include ample time for networking.  

*Sponsors may send two representatives, except Diamond, which may send three.
**Guests may include business colleagues and significant others but may not include law firm or vendor representatives that compete with our sponsors. 

*All attendees are required to comply with ACC NCR's COVID-19 Duty of Care.