Events

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. 

Join ACC St. Louis and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for a box lunch and program on Antisemitism on Thursday, January 19th, at 11:30 AM!

Our event host, Lisa Savoy with Equifax, will engage in conversation with Jordan Kadosh, the Regional Director of ADL Heartland.

To be covered: 

- What does the ADL do?

 - What is antisemitism?

 - What is the current state of antisemitism in our society?

 - Recognizing common antisemetic tropes

There will be plenty of time for Q&A!

This forum is intended to be conducted interactively in a safe space for learning and the exchange of ideas.   Everyone is encouraged to join and ask the "tough" questions.  Please register for what promises to be a thought provoking discussion!

Schedule:      

     11:30 - 12:00 CLE Check-in and lunch     
     12:00 - 1:00  Presentation

Location:

     ICL Office Building
     2nd Floor Conference Space
     622 Emerson Rd.
     Creve Coeur, MO  63141

We look forward to seeing you IN-PERSON for lunch and CLE.

Join the ACC NYC Women & Gender Group on January 12th as Vedder Price and WAVES (Women at Vedder Empowering Success) invite you to welcome the new year with an exciting networking evening with woman-owned candle-maker Moods by Yemmie at Glass Celling Nomad. Hope you can join us as we welcome the new year with new and old friends.

Hope to see you all there!

Check out the amazing venue: Glass Ceiling Nomad

Wine, Cheese and Conversation...

A Networking Reception Featuring Guest Speaker, Raja Chatterjee, GC of Kasa Living

Join ACC New York Sponsor Sheppard Mullin, as New York Partner Michael Gilbert chats with Raja Chatterjee of Kasa Living. They will discuss Raja's impressive career, including as a federal prosecutor with the DOJ and NY DA’s Office, and hear his observations about in-house life from his time at Morgan Stanley and Tishman-Speyer.

The fireside chat will be followed by a networking reception complemented by a wine tasting. 

Join us to review the major government contracts developments of 2022. From changes to the Buy American Act, to inflation, to small business past performance eligibility, it was another busy and dynamic year for government contracts lawyers. We also saw important decisions relating to the False Claims Act, proposal timeliness, and COVID’s impacts on contract obligations. The panel will review the key cases and laws and regulations from 2022, as well as look ahead to how the major events of 2022 are likely to impact government contracts law into 2023 and beyond.       

Presented by Greg Jacobs, Erin Felix, and Holly Roth, Shareholders with Polsinelli P.C. and Kevin Joyce, Head of Global Public Sector Legal, Ethics & Compliance at ServiceNow.

2.0 Hours of VA MCLE pending.

For employment lawyers, the big question for 2022 is: Is this the “new normal?” This includes all aspects of the remote work experience, including the potential application of state laws that never applied to the employer before. We will also discuss federal and state legislative updates, review relevant Supreme Court decisions including employers’ options and responses to the Dobbs decision, litigation trends coming out of the pandemic, and what to expect in 2023.

Presented by John Remy and Alyson Guyan, Principals with Jackson Lewis P.C and Nickole Winnett, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Amentum Services Inc.

Event Agenda:
3:30 pm  - 4:00 pm - Registration
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Dinner and CLE Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Happy Hour

2.0 Hours of VA MCLE Credit pending

Join us for an online session to learn the ins and outs of one of the most popular career, networking, and business social media platforms - LinkedIn.   Led by Jourdan Card, Founder and Marketing Strategist at Card Marketing + Media and social media extraordinaire for ACC NCR. 

Jourdan will cover the basics as well as new bells and whistles of LinkedIn, including:

• adding general information to your page

• posting updates

• including volunteer positions

• noting speaking engagements

• utilizing the latest features

• connecting with others at events in real time

2022 Annual Relationship Sponsors may send two representatives (Diamond Level may register three).