The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
Join us for our next 2022 Happy Hour/Toys-For-Tots Drive on Thursday, November 3rd at 5:30 PM.Please bring an unwrapped toy for the toy drive. The chapter will deliver the toys.
Please let us know ASAP by email if you are able to attend so we have an idea of how many seats we need. Once we have a large enough group, we will order food.
Looking forward to seeing some old and new friends!
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. – Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Program
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. – Lunch
1:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Program
4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – Happy Hour at Shanks Tavern, 36 S. Waterford Ave., Marietta, PA 17547
Sessions:
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. – The Interplay of Fiduciary Duty and Strategic Planning
Starting with an overview of the duties owed by directors and officers to the entity and its various constituencies under Pennsylvania and Delaware law, and then proceeding to explore how those duties are implicated in both the strategic planning process and the board and management’s execution of that plan.
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. – The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA)
The CAA was enacted by Congress in December 2020. This defines a compendium of transparency, disclosure, and reporting requirements that group health plans and plan sponsors must navigate to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to plan beneficiaries.
11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. – Break
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – ESG, DEI and Why You Should Care
This will be a practical and solutions-focused discussion on these trending corporate governance issues.
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m – Lunch
1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. – Ethics topic
Faegre Drinker has presented an ethics topic for us on a number of occasions and never fails to make it entertaining and valuable.
2:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Break
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Deceptive Pricing Prohibitions
This program will address federal and state laws prohibiting deceptive pricing. The program will address the most common forms of bargain advertising and how to structure advertising campaigns to avoid claims of deceptive pricing. The program will also include strategies for substantiation of advertising and how to minimize the risk of class action lawsuits and government investigations.
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Inadvertent Disclosures
You may have seen the issues in the Alex Jones trial, such disclosures raise ethical issues. This program will discuss duty to notify the disclosing party, and proactive and reactive steps you can take to address inadvertent disclosures when they happen.
The Judge Don Castor Community Law Center, as Statewide Pro Bono Coordinator for the Florida Community Development Legal Project ("the Project") in partnership with the Tampa Bay, Central Florida and South Florida Chapters of the Association of Corporate Counsel is seeking volunteer attorneys from the ACC to provide intake consultations and transactional business law advice and counsel for our Virtual Pro Bono Clinic for Small Businesses. Following a brief small business training, participating attorneys will meet in virtual Zoom rooms with qualifying small businesses to assess their transactional business law needs, provide counsel and advice, and make recommendations to the Project for any additional legal service the small business may need.
Before the Virtual Pro Bono Clinic, each registered volunteer attorney will be emailed a link to the pre-recorded small business training which will serve as an introduction to the topics for discussion in the private consultations. A brief orientation will be held at 4:30PM for volunteer attorneys while participating small businesses are viewing the training.
This is a limited scope pro bono clinic: attorneys will not be required to do pro bono work for the assigned client after the clinic. Malpractice Insurance is provided.
For corporate boards, providing management oversight and strategic direction is expanding to include Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations. Board members must be able to assess both the business and legal risks across a range of ESG functions; from disclosures to supply-chain due diligence to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Boards also are increasingly expected to address challenging hot issues involving human rights and Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI), such as LGBTQ+ rights, racial and gender equality, reproductive rights, and human trafficking. Join us for a discussion of the Board’s role in navigating ESG strategies and differing approaches, whether a company is small or large, public or private.
Presented by Teresa Johnson, Partner, Corporate & Finance and Peter Gioello, Counsel, Environmental at Arnold & Porter andShanda Botts, SVP, Ethics and Compliance, Employment Law & Litigation at AARP.
Please join the ACC Northeast NextGen Committee & Preti Flaherty as we volunteer to help clean up the trails along the Spicket River in Lawrence on Saturday, September 24th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
This community service event is open to all ACC Northeast members and their families. Partners, spouses, friends and kids of helping age are welcome to join the effort! Come prepared to work outdoors, do general clean up/clearing and some trimming/pruning. Closed toe shoes and comfortable clothes that can get dirty/dusty are recommended. This event will take place rain or shine.
If you are interested in helping on Saturday, September 24th, please register below.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, employers have been considering how the decision and resulting state legislative activity impact their health plans. What, if anything, should employers be considering regarding access to reproductive services for plan participants? We will discuss the state of the current legal landscape, including recent executive and potential regulatory action, highlight key considerations including ERISA preemption of state laws and share evolving design options for employer-sponsored benefits.
Presented by Joy Napier-Joyce, Principal at Jackson Lewis and Andrea Gehman,Deputy General Counsel at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
The panelists will provide an update on recent trends and developments affecting the allowability and recovery of costs, including strategies for recovering allowable costs if contract performance issues arise following contract award, and compliance with the Cost Accounting Standards.
Presented by Nicole Owren-Wiest, Partner and Erin Rankin, Counsel at Crowell & Moring and Laura Semple,Assistant General Counsel at Amentum.
Please join the ACC Ontario and Denton's for a memorable networking and dining experience filled with delectable appetizers and cocktails. Join your fellow in-house counsel colleagues as we step onto the patio at Bymark restaurant to enjoy the dynamic energy of Toronto’s bustling Financial District.