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This basics course will provide an essential overview for anyone thinking about doing business in India. Corporate counsel with expertise in the region will share with you their insights into the Indian legal and governmental system, compliance challenges, corruption and the FCPA, US export controls on sales to specific Indian entities, complying with Indian competition law, obtaining approvals for foreign ownership of an Indian company, and much more.

Annual Meeting 2006: Corporations face a wide variety of labor and employment laws. These vary significantly from state-to-state, often are contradictory, and sometimes are counter-intuitive. The sheer volume of statutes, regulations, and court decisions makes it very difficult for employers to understand the range of legal obligations that exist. The result is that your company may unwittingly be close to violating‚ or may already have violated‚ a law you did not even know about.

What are the hot employment issues facing companies doing business in Europe today? If you don’t know and your company conducts business there, this European employment update is for you. Take this opportunity to brush up on laws regarding unions, privacy, non-compete clauses, works councils regulation on hazardous substances, and much more.

In recent years, hedge funds have taken on the mantle of the corporate raiders of the 1980s as they have shaken up the capital structures, boardrooms, and business plans of publicly traded companies across the investing spectrum. When your CEO turns to you for legal advice on fending off these new barbarians at the gate, what will you say?

Ranging from key technology licenses central to a business model to operational IT licenses for office software, every company’s counsel must advise on inbound licensing. This nuts and bolts course will take the perspective of and focus on the legal issues involved in licensing including coordinating licensed rights from different vendors with the licensee’s business model, impact of standard provisions on the licensee’s operations, and must-have contract clauses for licensees.

With the Olympics being held in China in 2008, what better time to delve into the country’s IP regulatory system? With its global outreach increasing every day, every in-house practitioner should have some interest in China’s intellectual property policies and how they can impact your company. Our panel of IP experts versed in the inner workings of China’s IP system will explore IP Law in China and share best practices on ways to successfully manage your IP assets under Chinese policy.

Annual Meeting 2006: Many US employees have no idea of the exposure they are facing by managing overseas business dealings, or worse, being registered as officers or managers of non-US companies. Not only do numerous US and non- US laws hold an employee personally liable for certain statutes occurring outside the US, but civil law countries do not recognize a business judgment rule defense to personal liability. Think you or others in your organization might be exposed but don’t know how to proceed?

Annual Meeting 2006: The scope and reach of the US Patriot Act is daunting and pervasive; it reaches across borders and oceans. Its net casts beyond the realm of counter-terrorism and catches and impacts legitimate commercial activities. Its effects are felt not only by foreign customers of US corporations but also by customers of subsidiaries and affiliates of those companies. Many Canadian companies, for example, are now reviewing their traditional relationships with subsidiaries of US companies.

Confidentiality and non-compete agreements are some of the most common agreements faced by in-house law departments. Learn the law involved in these types of agreements and how the size of your organization and the type of business determines how and when it’s best to use these instruments.

Annual Meeting 2006: Managing risk is an important part of every in-house lawyer’s portfolio. How do you balance the negotiations of limitations of liability and indemnification provisions without risking the deal? What can your company live with, and what can you recommend and still sleep at night? What leverage can you exert against a party that is a Goliath when you are David? Learn about legal strategies, and take home best practice methods to apply in your own company.

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