Central Standard Time (DST observed)

In today’s ever-changing regulatory landscape, it is vital for legal professionals to build an incident and breach response process that ensures consistent, documented, defensible, and ongoing compliance to avoid severe monetary and reputational penalties.

What you’ll learn:
•    Best practices for building and executing a compliant and defensible breach response plan;
•    Your obligations in managing paper data and deletion requirements;
•    Your obligations for data retention under the CCPA and the vital role technology plays in those requirements.

Please join us for a timely and comprehensive discussion including:

•    The pros and cons of selecting different venues (e.g., state court, federal court, ITC), and alternative ways to plead them (e.g., theft of trade secret, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty)
•    Tactics for preventing, detecting, proving or defending against liability claims, including the doctrine of inevitable disclosure
•    Damages theories, related standards and the burden of proof
•    Complementary tools to help effectively resolve disputes, such as the use of monitorships, independently-validated “purge” processes, etc.   

Intense market volatility throughout the COVID crisis has led to new risks in shareholder litigation, which are likely to intensify throughout 2021 as emerging trends play out.

Join us for a snapshot of current trends in shareholder litigation and a discussion of significant disclosure decisions that need to be made in this current environment. We will highlight steps you can take now to help mitigate the risk of securities and shareholder lawsuits which can pose substantial financial and reputational threats. In addition to discussing pre-litigation protection, we’ll cover building a strong defense in the event of litigation.

Please join us and our esteemed panelists in a discussion directed to tackling issues encountered managing teams and work across geographic and cultural boundaries. 

ACC Houston Career Development Event
Maslow's Hierarchy - Manifesting the "Career" Actualization
February 11, 2021 | 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Join the Houston ACC Chapter and Gibson Arnold & Associates for an afternoon cup of tea and a lively discussion on Maslow’s Hierarchy: “Career” Actualization. This one-hour panel discussion will provide members with tools and exercises in an interactive online session, followed by a one-hour breakout session of your choosing. NOTE: Event gift box will be sent to the first 50 registrants.

• Am I manifesting the career I want?
• Obligation versus creative expression: How do I find a job that inspires me?
• Short term versus long term career objectives and life’s timing.
• How do I create a job that is aligned with my desires?
• Best practices for a job search.

Presentation Description:
You want a career that inspires you and aligns with your personal beliefs and ideologies allowing you to become the best possible attorney that you can be. This presentation will encompass what it means to find a career that is fulfilling and self-actualizing. We will discuss the ways in which we approach our career search, and how that can affect our ability to find the right position to fit our goals and desires. Focusing on your mindset, you can positively or negatively affect your own quest for the ideal in-house role and therefore, this presentation will show you how to shift that mindset to a productive one by providing tools and best practices for finding the right career for you.

Breakout Sessions:
1. Finding Your Passion – For anyone struggling to find their true passions, both professional and personal
2. Unleashing Your Passion – Come discover how to harness your passions in new and creative ways
3. Job Search Best Practices – Let Gibson Arnold’s 30 years of experience in legal recruiting help you maximize your job search

ACC Houston February Chapter Meeting CLE Webinar
The Final Countdown: Where to Focus and What to Avoid in the Lead Up to Trial
February 9, 2021 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | 1.00 hours CLE (TX)

Join Kirkland’s seasoned trial lawyers as they run through where you and your trial team should focus your time and resources in the final push to trial. They will also cover the top distractions that you and your trial team need to avoid. This CLE will draw on the collective experience of Kirkland’s trial practice, which was named Law 360’s Trial Group of the Year in 2020.

ACC Houston Energy Practice Group and ACC Global Energy Network CLE Webinar
New Year...Same Remote Work Set Up

January 28, 2021 | 11 am - 12 pm | 1.00 Hours CLE (TX) and Includes 0.50 Hours Ethics Credits

The ACC Houston Energy Practice Group and the ACC Global Energy Network Sponsor Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP is pleased to present this timely CLE to all ACC members.

With a large number of attorneys continuing to work remotely in the new year, more state bar associations are offering informal guidance and ethics opinions on the subject. In this webinar we will examine the unique ethical obligations remote lawyering presents in the energy sector, including:

• Common ways working remotely could raise ethical issues
• Confidentiality of client information
• Duty of technological competence
• Obligations after a cyber-attack
• Practical guidance for remote work


Note: CLE credit is approved in Texas and a Universal Certificate of Attendance will be provided to those seeking to self-report CLE credits outside of Texas.  Credit is not offered in Kansas and Ohio, as these states do not allow self-reporting.  Any questions can be sent to acchouston@accglobal.com

This presentation will cover the complex considerations businesses should keep in mind regarding restrictive covenants and protection of trade secrets as they face the long-term implications of employing a more remote workforce.

Topics covered will include:

• Restrictive covenant issues, including non-solicitation and non-compete agreements
• Onboarding considerations, including employee restrictions and information inventory
• Preventing trade secret misappropriation
• Employee access/technology in remote work situations
• Litigation trends
   

Join The ACC Foundation and ACC Chicago for this fun and engaging virtual networking session open to lawyers around the world. Feel free to come as you are, bring a beverage of your choice if you like, and be ready to: meet up to 12 new people, connect with old friends, and share your best tips on "remote lawyering", all in 8 minutes!

We’re all stuck inside for a while, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun getting to know our fellow in-house attorneys in the Chicago area by working together to “escape.”

A sinister weapons manufacturer is building a device that threatens life as we know it.  In this irreverent cyber adventure from decades past, you and your team of elite hackers have decided to fight back and eliminate the threat! Do you have what it takes to join the resistance and save the world before it's too late?

Join one of our special teams to complete, have fun, and spend some time with In-House Counsel Colleagues. Current ACC members and prospective members equally welcome to join as we blow off a bit of steam together.