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Please join ACC NCR and the Washington Council of Lawyers for a Virtual Pro Bono Fair. Attendees will be introduced to a variety of legal service organizations discussing on-going needs and volunteer opportunities. The Pro Bono Fair will be held virtually again in 2024 and participants will have the opportunity to select breakout rooms to learn more, ask questions and better understand the mission of the organizations.
Thank you to the following organizations that have signed on to participate. More will be added.
Ayuda · Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition (CAIR) · Children's Law Center · DC Bar Pro Bono Center · DC Volunteer Lawyers Project · Legal Services of Northern Virginia · Maryland Legal Aid · National Veterans Legal Services Program · Neighborhood Legal Services Program · Tzedek DC · Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless · Whitman-Walker Health Legal Services ·
By registering for this ACC NCR event, you acknowledge that you have read ACC NCR’s Code of Conduct for Events and agree to comply with its terms.
Want to catch-up with other lawyers that share your passion for privacy, cybersecurity, and innovation?
Come join ACC Ontario for our Data Protection & Technology Roundtable!
Topics include:
Legislation / Regulatory: Canada federal and provincial legislation updates, U.S. updates
Artificial Intelligence: Global AI legislation updates, Recent Generative AI developments and in-house applications
Roundtable Discussion: Record Keeping and Data Retention Issues and Practices
Please join our ACC NCR Black & African American Affinity Group to connect and network over lunch. Pick up your lunch at one of the many to-go lunch options nearby, bring it to Verizon's offices, and enjoy lunch with other ACC NCR members.
Our Black & African American Affinity Group seeks to bring together members for shared experiences, topics, networking opportunities, and issues impacting Black and African American in-house counsel.
Attendance will be capped to ensure good conversation. Please check your schedule before registering as hosts will be expecting you!
In 2022 the ACC Foundation launched the DEI Maturity Assessment (powered by Ethisphere), allowing organizations to pinpoint where they are in their DEI journey, benchmark them against their corporate peers, and chart paths to increased DEI success with the ultimate goal of increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging across the legal profession. The ACC Foundation DEI Vanguard Award was created to honor organizations that have demonstrated their commitment to and impact on legal diversity by completing the assessment and scoring within the top 15% of respondents.
Join us as we host a virtual conversation with the 2024 ACC Foundation DEI Vanguard Award winners. Learn how they’ve developed effective plans for DEI success, challenges they’ve faced along they way and strategies to overcome them, how their commitment to diversity has impacted their organizations, and where their DEI journey is taking them in the future.
STREAMLINING EMPLOYEE SEPARATIONS AND TRANSFORMING TRADITIONAL SEVERANCE
If you want to enhance your company's profitability, this session is for you. Gain a deeper understanding of employment law, explore a unique separation benefits framework, and revolutionize traditional severance practices to impact your company's financial health positively. This CLE session will provide insights into labor laws, introduce a distinctive separation benefits model, and offer a fresh perspective on conventional severance agreements to drive your organization's prosperity.
Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email for the webinar.
The Global Women in Law & Leadership Symposium and Honors Dinner is an opportunity to bring high level professionals together to explore the many issues confronting women in the workplace, particularly in the corporate legal profession.The symposium will include programing focused on career strategies, leadership, and wellness.The honors program will include keynotes, networking, and a dinner honoring women leaders.
The coming election year promises to be turbulent, and your workplace will unlikely be immune from the challenges that are sure to face employers. As political passions run high, for most employers it will be more a question of when, rather than if, workplace disruptions will occur. As we have seen in the past, these disruptions include employees arguing with, refusing to work with, shunning, and/or harassing co-workers with opposing political views. Considering what you can do as an employer to prepare for this impending workplace dynamic raises several questions, such as:
Can you prohibit all political speech in the workplace? What about prohibiting just whatever political speech you want?
How about political speech outside the workplace or on social media?
Can you discipline or terminate an employee who violates your political speech policy? Should you?
Can you as an employer encourage employees to vote for a specific candidate or position?
Is your organization publicly supporting a political candidate? If so, do you have a plan on how to respond to employees who object to the company’s position?
Join attorneys from Fisher Phillips to learn the answers to these and related questions, and for practical tips on what you can do to effectively address these unique challenges.
Join us for a review of one of the biggest years in data privacy, as regulators have increased the stakes of privacy enforcement. 2023 saw everything from new laws, new regulatory actions, to new presidential decrees impacting privacy against a backdrop of AI-fueled seismic shifts in both public and private sectors. We will break down the state of data privacy compliance going into 2024, analyzing noteworthy updates such as:
New rules from the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Trends in privacy litigation and strategies to avoid becoming the next target
Exacting rulemakings from the California Privacy Protection Agency
Emerging guidance on AI and data privacy.
Updates in state privacy law, including the now 13 comprehensive state laws.
The Biden administration’s AI Executive Order and its repercussions for privacy.
The latest international privacy updates, such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
Presented by Natasha Kohne and Michelle Reed, Partners at Akin, Sheila Pham, Director, Legal -Privacy at RingCentral and Amy Yeung,VP and Deputy General Counsel at Sallie Mae.
Moderated by Tony Pierce, DC Partner-in-Charge at Akin. 1.5 Hours of VA and CA CLE pending.