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How do you create enforceable contracts with users of your web site? What happens when users are worldwide? Are privacy policies really contracts and do you need one? What are the major elements of a use agreement? Should you incorporate privacy policies into your use agreement? What issues should you consider when linking to another company’s Internet property?

Latin America, with its numerous jurisdictions and varying labor laws and requirements in each can make even the most experienced employment counsel's head spin. This overview presentation will provide a comparative review of labor law in the varying countries, identify the common issues and requirements, highlight the differences among the various countries in Latin America and reveal the impact that these laws and requirements can have on a company doing business there.

Brief outline on how to promote strong business ethics within a multi-national corporation.

Guide to internally investigating and enforcing U.S. anti-corruption laws.

Reviews the role of the audit committee, best practices in selecting members, guidelines for committee action, and future concerns about audit committees.

Presented at the ACC-Northeast Chapter on December 18, 2007, this power point presentation reviews ways to avoid international disputes, or how to minimize their danger once they have arisen.

Increasingly, companies move labor intensive activities to inexpensive countries or enter into franchise agreements or comparable arrangements, while keeping the ownership of rights, brands and other intellectual property. Apart from already existing brand piracy issues, these arrangements increasingly lead to suspicions and litigation that call for independent fact finding. In this session key aspects of utilizing outside investigative fraud and litigation expertise in brand protection situations were covered.

The governing law clause is potentially the fastest way to completely change your contract. Governing law and dispute resolution clauses are more than yet more boiler-plate provisions; they set the substantive and procedural rules for the interpretation of a contract and are therefore two of the most important clauses in international agreements. Hear about factors influencing choice of law and the decision of whether to choose litigation or ADR.

Questions and answers from the program addressing issues such as due diligence, agency relationships, payments, scope of work, domain names and more.

This session will provide a general overview of the elements of an effective corporate compliance and ethics program and provide information on the process involved in managing such a program.

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