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This material contains legislation and practical experience with the European Works Council

Milk. Toothpaste. Baby formula. Pet food. Toys. The list of contaminated products manufactured in China seems to grow daily. What can and should your company do? This program will address these problems and how to manage the risk of sourcing products from China. A panel of experts will discuss the "Action Plan for Import Safety" report to the president, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the FDA guidance for third-party certification programs and other steps your company can take to protect itself and its customers.

Congress recently passed the most significant amendments to the federal consumer product safety laws in 30 years. These changes affect not just manufacturers of consumer products, but also importers, private labelers, distributors and retailers. This session will address how these sweeping changes impact consumer product companies, new legal risks, and new burdens that have been placed on sellers and manufacturers.

It's not possible to keep up with it all, but this session will help you stay up-to-date with changes that effect E-Verify, business ethics programs and mandatory disclosure requirements in 2009. Don't get caught off guard! This course will provide a summary of the new requirements for prime contractors and subcontractors as well as an up-to-date assessment of where things are headed after the first nine months.

Part two of this two-part program will teach you techniques and safeguards to employ when creating and testing your search terminology. It will also cover various technologies, and the pros and cons of each. Methodologies available to tackle this problem will be discussed, and the panel will review strategies and technologies to consider when faced with a large document review project.

With the increase of corporate globalization, potentially relevant evidence can reside in many countries. From foreign language and computer language barriers, to privacy laws and safe harbor issues, counsel encounter numerous challenges when litigation is anticipated. It’s critical to understand the rules and regulations that govern the access to and the use of foreign data. This session will examine ethical issues and practical solutions for cross-border e-discovery, including e-discovery vs.

The global expansion of criminal risk for international companies and their executives progresses with lightning speed: some countries are setting even more stringent standards than in the US. Cooperation between international agencies is growing. The EU arrest warrant now allows arrest by foreign prosecutors without the need for a court process and extradition from the US is a real possibility. Given the high financial and reputational damage that criminal liability causes, in–house counsel need to understand the risks that their global companies and executives face.

The recent US Supreme Court decision in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., relaxes the rules on price maintenance—but in Canada such activity remains a “per se” criminal offense. These and other differences can create traps or unnecessary burdens for companies which seek to operate on an integrated North American basis. This session, which was co-lead by a Canadian and a US practitioner, discussed the key areas of inconsistency and provided attendees with practical solutions for addressing them.

Many of us grew up under a common law system. Others lived in countries that have a civil law system. As in-house practice grows increasingly global, however, it is essential that we understand both traditions and that we also understand the relationships that these two traditions have to the developing legal systems in the world’s emerging economies.

Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - A Comparative Analysis between U.S. and European Competition Laws.

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