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Join Baker McKenzie and the Association of Corporate Counsel Chicago Chapter for a CLE webinar focused on key privacy and employment risks for companies as they reopen workplaces.
 
With the advent of the COVID-19, many organizations around the world quickly underwent a seismic shift towards telework or remote working for some or all employees. Months later, ways of working continue to be altered, as employers reopen and face a "new normal," which may include performing antibody testing, taking temperatures, deploying contact tracing, implementing extended work-from-home arrangements and many other measures that are mostly novel for businesses to undertake.

These new measures raise many legal questions and decisions for businesses to navigate. In this session, Baker McKenzie employment and data privacy lawyers team up to review the risks to be aware of, and practical steps to mitigate them.

You're invited to attend our upcoming Happy Hour Event on Thursday, March 5, 2020, from 4-7pm, at Anton's Taproom and Restaurant in the Crossroads Arts District! We hope you will make plans to join us to enjoy over thirty varieties of beer, cocktails, and appetizers!  Anton's is located at 1610 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, 64108, and the event will be held in the Main Street Gallery.

Please help us grow our chapter by bringing a guest! We encourage you to bring a guest who may be interested in joining the ACC Mid-America Chapter to network with other in-house counsel. Also, as a special new member recruitment incentive for the month of March, our chapter is giving away two registration packages** to the ACC National Annual Meeting! To qualify for the drawings, there are two ways to be eligible:

• Referral Contest- ACC Mid-America Chapter members who refer a colleague or friend that becomes a member by March 31, 2020, will be entered to win one of the packages. If you refer someone, please email me with their contact information so that I can verify once they have joined. 

• New Member Contest- All new members who join by March 31, 2020, will be entered to win one of the packages.   

*Membership information can be found at: https://www.acc.com/membership/become-a-member. 
*Each package includes reimbursement for annual meeting event registration and reimbursement for up to $500 worth of travel expenses (a value of $2,125). The ACC Annual Meeting will be held in Philadelphia on October 13-16, 2020, and more information can be found at: https://www.acc.com/annualmeeting.  

Please click here to RSVP for the social by March 3, 2020! 

Questions? Contact Lori Beck- Chapter Administrator at mid-america@accglobal.com. 

After a tremendously successful year in 2019, ACC Chicago is once again running its corporate legal diversity pipeline program, an exciting initiative designed to help prime the pipeline to the legal profession for young people from underserved high schools in Chicago and the Northwest suburbs.   

This program – developed by ACC in collaboration with the Street Law organization (www.streetlaw.org) - creates partnerships between lawyers and nearby high school law classes serving youth from diverse backgrounds.  The idea behind the program is to encourage high school students to continue their educations and to consider careers in the law.

The ACC Chicago Chapter Street Law Program has both a Chicago and a Northwest Suburbs component, and volunteers can select which component (city or suburbs) is most geographically convenient for them.   ACC Chicago has forged relationships with both Chicago Public Schools and the U-46 District; together, we have identified a number of classes that would be grateful for opportunities to partner with in-house counsel through the current semester.

Over the next few months, ACC Chicago volunteers will visit each of the participating classes, and ACC Chicago will bring all of the students to a one-day conference (one for each geographic component) near the end of the spring semester.  

The program kicks off with training sessions on the dates below, during which we will meet the teachers, learn how to access proven lesson plans for the classroom visits, and begin to plan for the student conference.

February 21 – Chicago Volunteers
Times: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Online
Please RSVP: ACCLoopStreetLaw@gmail.com For the Zoom invitation.

The program was extremely successful last year with more than 80 in-house attorney volunteers reaching out to well over 200 promising young students.  We received tremendously positive feedback from the students and teachers, with requests for us to add students to the program this year if possible.  

Volunteers find it to be a fun and gratifying way to give back to the community and, at the same time, form meaningful relationships with their in-house colleagues.  The time commitment involved is fairly flexible, probably averaging 10-15 hours over the course of three to four months – a small commitment to perhaps change the life of a deserving student.

After a tremendously successful year in 2019, ACC Chicago is once again running its corporate legal diversity pipeline program, an exciting initiative designed to help prime the pipeline to the legal profession for young people from underserved high schools in Chicago and the Northwest suburbs.   

This program – developed by ACC in collaboration with the Street Law organization (www.streetlaw.org) - creates partnerships between lawyers and nearby high school law classes serving youth from diverse backgrounds.  The idea behind the program is to encourage high school students to continue their educations and to consider careers in the law.

The ACC Chicago Chapter Street Law Program has both a Chicago and a Northwest Suburbs component, and volunteers can select which component (city or suburbs) is most geographically convenient for them.   ACC Chicago has forged relationships with both Chicago Public Schools and the U-46 District; together, we have identified a number of classes that would be grateful for opportunities to partner with in-house counsel through the current semester.

Over the next few months, ACC Chicago volunteers will visit each of the participating classes, and ACC Chicago will bring all of the students to a one-day conference (one for each geographic component) near the end of the spring semester.  

The program kicks off with training sessions on the dates below, during which we will meet the teachers, learn how to access proven lesson plans for the classroom visits, and begin to plan for the student conference.

February 21– Northwest Suburbs Volunteers
Times: 1:00 – 2:00 pm via WebEx
RSVP:  ACCNWSuburbsStreetLaw@gmail.com for the WebEx invitation.

The program was extremely successful last year with more than 80 in-house attorney volunteers reaching out to well over 200 promising young students.  We received tremendously positive feedback from the students and teachers, with requests for us to add students to the program this year if possible.  

Volunteers find it to be a fun and gratifying way to give back to the community and, at the same time, form meaningful relationships with their in-house colleagues.  The time commitment involved is fairly flexible, probably averaging 10-15 hours over the course of three to four months – a small commitment to perhaps change the life of a deserving student.

Shake off any winter blues at a festive gathering with your peers at The Local in downtown Minneapolis! This networking social is also a member-recruitment event. All ACC members who register, attend and bring a non-member in-house counsel guest will be eligible for a prize drawing of a $100 gift card for use at either location of The Local, and for a second surprise drawing courtesy of our sponsor, Cozen O'Connor. So, mark your calendar now, recruit a friend, and join us on March 5.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - DATE TBD

ACC Houston March Chapter Meeting CLE: Planning Ahead for Disaster Response

When workplace disasters strike (such as explosions, chemical releases, and catastrophic injuries), a host of legal issues are immediately implicated and require pre-planning for how to respond to the first wave of government investigations by OSHA/EPA or others, while also anticipating the second wave of litigation that may follow.

We are encouraging all of our members to invite fellow in-house counsel to attend and join us for our Chapter Meeting in March. For this month only, subject to availability, all non-member in-house counsel guest may attend with a complimentary ticket. All members that bring a guest will be entered into our door prize raffle and will receive an additional $5 off their next Chapter Meeting registration with a discount code!  There will be SWAG and incentives for the invited in-house counsel guests to become members of ACC.  We look forward to seeing you at the Chapter Meeting in March!

Speakers

Matt Deffebach, Partner, Haynes and Boone
Ann Al-Bahish, Partner, Haynes and Boone
Christina Marshall, Partner, Haynes and Boone

Houston Corporate Counsel Awards - Alumni and Judges Reception
By Invitation ONLY

The Houston Corporate Counsel Awards Alumni and Judges Reception is for past awards winners, ACC Houston leadership, awards judges and sponsors.

Thank you to Hicks Thomas for sponsoring this reception and supporting the 2020 Houston Corporate Counsel Awards.

Location: The Angels' Share Room at the Four Seasons Hotel

ACC Houston Women In-House International Women's Day
Celebrating International Women's Day with Women Who Lead in the Law

Join us March 5th for a cocktail reception and panel discussion recognizing extraordinary women who have excelled in the legal profession, as they present their perspectives and experiences towards achieving #EqualforEqual.

Speakers
 

Meredith Mouer, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Tellurian Inc.
Anna Rotman, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
Julia Wright, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Apergy Corporation

Please join us for our February Roundtable Luncheon

Venture Capital, Private Equity & Corporate Venturing: What’s the Deal?
A primer for In-House Counsel.

Speaker:

Professor David J. Brophy, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Venture Capital & Private Equity Finance
University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Our February Roundtable Luncheon 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. 

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Roundtable Presentation

CLE is applied for.

SPACE IS LIMITED SO PLEASE RSVP SOON!

THIS PROGRAM WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.