ACC Mid-America and Dentons US LLP

JOINTLY PRESENT

                                           Crisis Leadership                                              

Presented by: Lisa Krigsten and Mary Ann Hynes from Dentons,
and Anne St. Peter, from Global Prairie

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

12:00 – 1:00PM via Zoom Webinar
The webinar link will be sent the day before the event to the email address used during registration.

Program Description:

This program will provide an overview the legal principles and related strategic issues around effective corporate crisis leadership.

Topics Include:

Introductions/Topic Definition (10 minutes)

Real World Example: Black Lives Matter Protests (10 minutes)

Discussion Points about Crises (40 minutes)

• What does planning for a crisis mean?   
• What can a GC or corporate counsel do to prepare for a crisis situation?
• What are the best practices around categorizing an event as something worthy of implementing the “crisis response”?
• What is the internal leadership needed to weather a crisis through its life cycle. 

We encourage members to bring an associate or colleague that may be interested in joining the ACC Mid-America Chapter. The Association of Corporate Counsel offers numerous benefits and resources to in-house counsel including CLE offerings and networking opportunities and we look forward to sharing that information with others in the field.

Click here to register by July 28, 2020.  
*Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri Continuing Legal Education Credits pending.

Trouble with the Link? Copy & paste this link into a new browser to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/july-29-2020-cle-crisis-leadership-tickets-112995596872

CORPORATE COUNSEL INSTITUTE

August 11, 2020

10:45 – 11:00                Zoom Check In and Troubleshooting

11:00 – 11:10                Welcome, Announcements,
Brian Parsons, Senior Counsel, Litigation, Macy's Corporate Services Inc.
President, Association of Corporate Counsel, St. Louis Chapter

Robert Tomaso, Partner, Husch Blackwell
President-Elect, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

11:10 – 12:00               Session Title: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Data Privacy
Polsinelli
1.0 Hour MCLE

Dan Glowski, Vice President & Assistant General Counsel, Reinsurance Group of America
Rebecca Frigy Romine, Shareholder and Privacy Officer, Polsinelli
Hannah Ji, Associate, Polsinelli

12:00 – 12:10                Break                            

12:10 – 1:00                  Session Title: When the Tables Turn: Strategies to Prepare In-House Counsel When Deposed as Witnesses
 Husch Blackwell, LLP
 1.0 Hour MCLE

Sarah Hellmann, Husch Blackwell, LLP
             Urmila Baumann, Associate Chief Counsel, Cigna/Express Scripts

1:00 – 1:10                     Break

1:10 – 2:00                     Session Title:  All Things AI:  Dealing with the Privacy, Intellectual Property and Commercial Aspects of AI in Your Business
 Gowling WLG
 1.0 Hour MCLE

                                        Kelsey O’Brien, Senior Legal Counsel, Accenture LLP – St. Louis
                                        Jahmiah Ferdinand Hodkin, Partner, Gowling WLG – Ottawa
                                        Selina Kim, Partner, Gowling WLG – Toronto
                                        Todd Burke, Partner, Gowling WLG – Ottawa (Moderator)

Lawyers are routinely characterized as “officers of the court” with special obligations of truthfulness and candor to a judge.  Concurrently, lawyers are thought to owe their allegiance to the client and only the client. It is also an accepted principle that lawyers have no affirmative duty to inform an opposing party of relevant facts.  The obligation to manage these conflicting guidelines can be difficult and most often arises in the context of contentious negotiations which lawyers engage in almost every day.

This program will address the basic ethical rules on the obligation of truth telling by lawyers and how to apply them to various situations with a focus on the special problems caused in negotiations.

Various topics covered will include subjects across industry sectors, including:

•            The Requirement of Truth with Specific Examples
•            The Role of Negotiations in Lawyer Work
•            Ethics in Negotiation Tactics
•            Lawyer Duties of Truthful Disclosure
•            Confidentiality Duty, Duty to Stay Current and Duty of Communications

Lawyers are routinely characterized as “officers of the court” with special obligations of truthfulness and candor to a judge.  Concurrently, lawyers are thought to owe their allegiance to the client and only the client. It is also an accepted principle that lawyers have no affirmative duty to inform an opposing party of relevant facts.  The obligation to manage these conflicting guidelines can be difficult and most often arises in the context of contentious negotiations which lawyers engage in almost every day.

This program will address the basic ethical rules on the obligation of truth telling by lawyers and how to apply them to various situations with a focus on the special problems caused in negotiations.

Various topics covered will include subjects across industry sectors, including:

•            The Requirement of Truth with Specific Examples
•            The Role of Negotiations in Lawyer Work
•            Ethics in Negotiation Tactics
•            Lawyer Duties of Truthful Disclosure
•            Confidentiality Duty, Duty to Stay Current and Duty of Communications

DATE:  Tuesday, July 21, 2020

TIME:  11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

HOSTED BY:  ACC-WI   

LOCATION:  Zoom

Space Is Limited So Please Register Today!

The ACC-WI Roundtable Series is designed exclusively for In-House Counsel to meet and discuss current domestic and international legal issues. This is an open and candid forum for discussion and networking among corporate counsel from legal departments across Wisconsin.   There is no topic for this roundtable.   If you have a topic you would like to discuss or a question to ask the group, you may email it to wisconsin-exec@accglobal.com

Questions?  Please contact Amy Westrup  414-861-9006 or wisconsin-exec@accglobal.com

CLE Credit Applied For.

A Membership Committee Event:  Litigation Management 

In an epic Seinfeld episode Kramer’s pet rooster, Little Jerry Seinfeld, ran from Jerry’s apartment to Newman’s in under 30 seconds. Not sure if he should be impressed upon learning this news George asks, “Is that good?” To which Jerry replies, “I don’t know.”

Like measuring the land speed of a rooster without a point of reference, the metrics in-house counsel use to measure outside counsel’s litigation value-add can be just as meaningless.  So join us for a members only roundtable discussion on how litigation managers can measure value. We’ll discuss Value-Based Fees, Early Case Assessment Techniques, and the evolving methods for managing litigation in COVID 19.

The conversation will be moderated by Aaron Mutnick, Senior Litigation Attorney, Shelter Insurance, so come prepared to learn from one another by asking and answering questions like this:

 Value-based fees 
o  What types of fee arrangements are you utilizing?
o  What data are you collecting?
o  What tools or technology is making this harder or easier?

Early Case Assessment techniques -
o  Are your value-based fee arrangements incorporating early case assessment techniques?
o  What carrots and sticks do you use, if any, with outside counsel to evaluate the accuracy of heir early case assessment?
o  When and how do you utilize decision tree analysis?

Managing Litigation in COVID 19 - 
o  Will any of the necessities of COVID 19, i.e. Zoom depositions, be adopted as the default for your post-COVID 19 practice? 
o  Have you re-vetted your outside counsel who are working remote to see what data security protections they have in place?
o  Have you changed any key performance indicators for evaluating outside counsel’s performance?

“Cyber Threats in the Age of Remote Access”

About this Event

Join ACC Tennessee and Miller & Martin for a 1-hour virtual CLE

“Cyber Threats in the Age of Remote Access”

This session will explore cybersecurity and privacy threats facing companies and the potential for massive financial losses, reputation, and legal risks as a result of being the target of financial crimes or data breaches. Cybercriminals use sophisticated (and sometimes not-so-sophisticated) schemes such as compromising business emails and phishing, computer hacking, social engineering, ransomware, malware, and other tools to designed to cripple security controls and access confidential financial and personal information. Unprecedented global events, unfortunately, bring out the worst of humankind, and the current COVID-19 pandemic is no different. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber risks have grown as companies embrace telework and remote access capabilities. This presentation will focus on real-world scenarios that companies have faced and the lessons learned, privacy & data security standards and compliance, effective strategies to reduce risk and liabilities; and best practices for data breach response and crisis management in the event of an attack.

Presenters:

Lynsey Barron is a litigation attorney with significant trial and appellate experience practicing in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and government investigations, data privacy, and cybersecurity. As a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia assigned to the Economic Fraud and Public Corruption sections, she investigated and prosecuted matters involving bribery of public officials, insider trading and securities fraud, tax fraud, healthcare fraud, and other complex white- collar crimes. She also represented the government in several oral arguments before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prior to joining Miller & Martin, Lynsey served as in-house Compliance, Data Privacy, and Cybersecurity counsel with the Fortune 50 global logistics and package delivery company UPS. She managed internal investigations; ethics and compliance issues including antitrust, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act, trade and export compliance, airline security, and insider trading; and data privacy and cybersecurity.

Before becoming an attorney, Lynsey had a career in politics. She was a Legislative Assistant for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and also served as the Staff Director for the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues. After leaving the Hill, she was a federal lobbyist for the American Association of University Women, where she lobbied on education policy and civil rights issues, and then for the March of Dimes where she lobbied on health care access issues. Lynsey is also an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law where she teaches courses on trial advocacy and Federal Prosecution Practice. She clerked for Judge Beverly B. Martin on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mark Ray is an accomplished Cybersecurity professional and former FBI Special Agent with over 20 years of law enforcement and technology industry experience. As a Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Cybersecurity & Privacy practice, Mark helps organizations prepare for, investigate, and recover from major cyber incidents and fraud events. He has extensive experience responding to large, high-risk data breaches for government agencies and Fortune 500 companies around the globe. Mark also advises clients on strategic cybersecurity matters, as well as operational matters regarding people, processes, and technology to improve resiliency to Cyber risk, helping them protect what matters to their business.

Prior to joining PwC, Mark was a Special Agent with the FBI’s Cyber Division, where he conceived, built, and led some of the FBI’s most preeminent criminal and national security cyber investigations. His investigations received distinguished recognition within the U.S. Government and the cybersecurity community, and received international attention, including featured stories in Newsweek and Wired, and a top-fold cover story in USA Today. Mark also served overseas as the FBI’s cyber liaison officer to the Netherlands and Bulgaria. Mark has a BS in Management Information Systems from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.