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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) employees.

From 2002 to today, America’s largest and most successful businesses have moved to implement inclusive workplace policies, practices and benefits to best attract, retain and engage LGBTQ talent and to access the lucrative LGBTQ marketplace.

This session builds the robust business case for inclusion while tracing the history and impact of the CEI.

Grab your lunch and join us online on Wednesday, June 15th, at 12:00 PM!

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

Join ACC St. Louis for networking, food & drinks at a beautiful and centrally located venue!

We will recognize the award winners for:
      2020 and 2021 Members of the Year
      2020 and 2021 Committees of the Year
      2020 and 2021 William E Jaudes Award It's Time! Let's get back together!

We look forward to seeing you in-person at the Wild Crush Wine Bar on Tuesday, April 5th!

Our international panels of specialists and in-house counsel will deliver a series of cross-practice topics to equip you with some of the tools you will need to navigate these changes successfully.  We hope to see you for what promises to be an exciting afternoon of stimulating conversation and reconnection. The full agenda is viewable below. 

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.  Registration, lunch and networking

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.    Global perspectives on adoption of digitalization technologies, risk and embedding corporate digital responsibility

This session will take you through how companies, across the globe, are or should be looking to shape or augment their approach to the ethical, legal, compliance and governance challenges that businesses face when pursuing digitalization.

The session will focus on both customer and supply side, including where businesses are developing, selling/licensing, buying or embedding digital technologies and solutions, forming collaborations and/or undertaking M&A activity.

Within the session, we will showcase the findings of Eversheds Sutherland's own recently launched thought-leadership report. Based on a survey of 700 C-suite leaders around the world, the report explores a number of key themes relating to the ethical, legal, compliance and governance challenges that businesses face when digitalizing their companies. The session aims to allow you to both benchmark where your company is on its journey and leave with some key takeaways of areas to focus on.

Speakers
William S. Dudzinsky, US Head of TMT Sector, Eversheds Sutherland
Mark D. Herlach, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
Charlotte Walker-Osborn, International Head of Artificial Intelligence & Technology Sector, Eversheds Sutherland

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.  Break

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.  Hindsight is 20/20: Pandemic lessons learned and a view towards the future of real estate  

With March 2020 in our rear view mirror and a return to travel, in-person events and working (at least some of the time) from our offices within sight, we can better analyze the more permanent impacts COVID-19 had on tenants and owners and examine how they will shape the future of leasing. In this session, our panel of attorneys will discuss:
•    The cause and effect of tenant/landlord disputes and lease provisions that often become the subject of disputes, such as holdover and surrender conditions  
•    Pre-transaction strategies for preventing and preparing for potential disputes
     •    Best practices for negotiating leases in a post-COVID world
•    The impact of the past two years on office and retail leasing  
     •    The office of the future  
           •    Downsizing/shared office space
     •    The future of retail

Speakers
Timothy J. McCaffrey, Real Estate Litigation Practice Chair, Eversheds Sutherland
Ruth A. Schoenmeyer, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.   Break

3:45 – 4:45 p.m.   Big, meets Small: The challenges for Industrial companies investing in early stage technology

Our panel will be bringing to life a discussion on a key consideration for Industrial company boards, being the race for technology. Whether it is using technology to improve supply chain constraints or the digitalization trend towards internet 4.0 and autonomy, major Industrial corporates are increasingly competing for new technology developments. Such drive can put a major listed corporate in an uncomfortable position: How does an established corporate perform the extensive due diligence it requires in the context of a start-up business? How rigorous has the tech company been with protecting its IP? How will shareholders react to a listed company paying a multiple of revenue for a pre-profit business and the impact on EPS? How will the corporate integrate the technology or realize its investment? What are the downside protections i.e. how do you get out if the technology is never realized?

Speakers
Nigel Cooke, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
Catherine Detalle, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
Peter G. Pappas, Co-Head of Global Intellectual Property, Eversheds Sutherland
Lance J. Phillips, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland
Antony Walsh, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland

4:45 – 5:30 p.m.  Cocktail reception

ACC Houston April Chapter Meeting CLE
Ethical Hazards That Confront Corporate Counsel
April 12, 2022 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Maggiano's Little Italy

On a daily basis, in-house counsel must navigate conflicts of interest and attorney client privilege issues that outside counsel do not often face. This interactive discussion addresses common scenarios and suggests paths to safe navigation.

Please join us for the ACC-WI 2022 Annual Conference & Meeting of Members!  

This 1.5 day event provides 22- hours of CLE programming for you to choose from, which includes 1.0 hour of Ethics, and is specifically designed for you as an in-house attorney.  Our registration format allows you to customize your program schedule to fit your practice needs. Conference registration includes one hotel room ( Early Bird Registration) continental breakfast during Thursday morning check-in, luncheon and Keynote Speaker on Thursday, cocktail reception Thursday evening and a hot breakfast on Friday. You may also join us for a variety of networking events at the conference. All paid registrants enjoy free attendance at our Fall 3.0 Ethics Seminar.

The health and safety of our members, sponsors, staff, and guests (“all attendees”) at our annual conference is of the utmost importance to the ACC-WI.

To help ensure a safe environment for our annual conference, ACC-WI is requiring all attendees either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a negative COVID-19 test 48 hours prior to the event. Your attendance at our annual conference certifies that you are in compliance with these requirements. We will be following all CDC recommendations in place at the time of the conference.

We are a profession subject to ethical obligations. As such, we expect all attendees will respect and abide by these requirements for their own safety and the safety of other attendees.

2021 IP Case Law Update for In-house Counsel

Schedule:

3pm-4pm IP Case Law Update

4pm-5pm Whiskey Tasting

1 Hour General Credit CLE

Whiskey Tasting to follow Conducted by Patterson Shareholder Edward Lanquist

COVID Protocols: Asking all in person attendees to be vaccinated.

*Those who are participating virtually, please stay on from 4:00-5:00PM to participate in the Whiskey Tasting

List of Whiskeys

Russell Reserve 10 Year (alt Eagle Rare)

Maker’s 46 (Alt Maker’s Mark)

Michter’s Rye (Alt Bullett Rye)

Jack Daniels Old No. 7

Old Forester 1920 (Alt New Riff Barrel Proof) 

*List of Whiskeys that you may purchase at your local liquor store if you plan on attending virtually.

Join us for our March Platinum CLE: “Do This, Not That.  How to (Better) Protect Privilege in Your Electronic Documents”.  Presented by Platinum Sponsor, Laffey, Leitner & Goode LLC.

Lawyers are ofter analog creatures living in a digital world. But sometimes, when it comes to privilege, the ease of sharing information digitally makes protecting the privilege that much harder. In this presentation, we will help guide you through the changing landscape of the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work-product doctrine and how the Courts have recently started applying these doctrines to in-house lawyers and their internal clients - often resulting in unintended consequences and a finding of waiver of privilege.  After this presentation, we hope you will be armed with more tools in your toolbox to assist  you in protecting your client's sensitive information, your legal analysis and your work product from disclosure- regardless of whether you are anticipating litigation.

Date:  Monday, April 4, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. 
Location:  Zoom Webinar 
CLE: 1.0 Hr. applied for WI