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Join the Corporate Compliance Practice Group for In-Person CLE on February 2nd

This panel, Hot Topics in White Collar Crime Regulatory Compliance, will focus on key trends and developing areas of White Collar Crime and how in-house counsel should approach these topics from a compliance perspective. We will particularly focus on the areas of cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, responding to and navigating government investigations and inquiries from an in-house perspective. This talk will include perspectives from various in-house counsel, a current SEC Enforcement Attorney focused on Crypto Assets and the Cyber Unit of the Division of Enforcement, and perspectives from a former federal prosecutor who now advises companies in how to handle government investigations.

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30 pm:  Registration

6:30 - 7:30 pm: Program

7:30 - 8:30 pm: Networking Reception

Speakers:

Jason P.W. Halperin, Member, Mintz

Iris Hsiao, Associate General Counsel, Junto Capital Management LP

Martin Zerwitz, Senior Counsel, SEC Division of Enforcement’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit

Sipoura Barzideh, Senior Managing Counsel, Compliance and Ethics, Zoom Video Communications, Inc. 


For for both members and prospective members (must be in-house counsel). 

 

Walk-ins will be admitted for on-site in-house counsel registrants, if space permits.  

 

1 CLE credit (NY) // Professional Practice, suitable for both transitional and non-transitional attorneys

As the business world continues to evolve, new laws and employment trends foretell challenges ahead. This program will discuss hot topic issues that we are seeing in real time, as well as those we can predict will emerge. Let us help you stay safe. General topics to be covered include new developments in:

  • Wage and Hour (including pay transparency)

  • Employment (including possible demise of at-will employment)

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Whistleblower

  • Restrictive Covenants

SPEAKERS

Laurent Drogin, Partner and Chair of Labor and Employment Practice and Co-Chair of Restrictive Covenant Practice, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Rebecca Hirschklau, Senior Counsel, Global Employment & Litigation, DocuSign 

David Kleinmann, Partner and Co-Chair of Restrictive Covenant Practice, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

AGENDA

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM / Webinar

 

ADVANCE REGISTRATION NOTICE- Please note that advance registration is required for ACC NYC Webinars. Unless otherwise noted, registration will end three hours prior to the event start time. This enables us to administrate best practices for our virtual events. Thank you for your cooperation!

PHOTOGRAPHY POLICY
Your registration and attendance at this event indicate your consent to be filmed and/ or photographed and to the use of your image, without payment of any kind, for use in program(s) and for other promotional/ editorial activities of the Association of Corporate Counsel - New York City Chapter (ACC-NYC) for future use in any and all media, now known or hereafter created.

Members, in-house counsel, sponsors*, and select guests** are invited to join us for our 2023 Annual Meeting.  In addition to officer and director elections, this year’s meeting will kick-off our celebration of the 20th anniversary of the ACC NCR Corporate Scholars Program with a conversation with two of its co-founders, Brandon Fitzgerald, Chief Legal Officer of Special Olympics, and Vanessa L. Allen Sutherland, Executive Vice President Legal & Government Affairs, General Counsel, & Secretary of Phillips 66.  The meeting will also include ample time for networking.  

*Sponsors may send two representatives, except Diamond, which may send three.
**Guests may include business colleagues and significant others but may not include law firm or vendor representatives that compete with our sponsors. 

*All attendees are required to comply with ACC NCR's COVID-19 Duty of Care. 

This program will provide an overview of the stages of an IRS tax controversy and will help you prepare now for a successful resolution should your business ever be audited.

Learning Objectives:
• Present an outline of an IRS examination and the items most frequently examined in audits of businesses
• Review the rules regarding how the IRS requests information in an audit, the types of documents and information requested, and taxpayer protections
• Explore the methods of concluding an IRS audit
• Discuss the procedures applicable to IRS Appeals and how disputes are resolved at IRS Appeals

SPEAKERS

Rachel L. Partain, Partner, Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP
Jessica Terranova, Associate General Counsel, Optum

AGENDA

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM / Webinar

PHOTOGRAPHY POLICY
Your registration and attendance at this event indicate your consent to be filmed and/ or photographed and to the use of your image, without payment of any kind, for use in program(s) and for other promotional/ editorial activities of the Association of Corporate Counsel - New York City Chapter (ACC-NYC) for future use in any and all media, now known or hereafter created.

Join the ACC NYC Women & Gender Group on January 12th as Vedder Price and WAVES (Women at Vedder Empowering Success) invite you to welcome the new year with an exciting networking evening with woman-owned candle-maker Moods by Yemmie at Glass Celling Nomad. Hope you can join us as we welcome the new year with new and old friends.

Hope to see you all there!

 

Check out the amazing venue: Glass Ceiling Nomad

Wine, Cheese and Conversation...

A Networking Reception Featuring Guest Speaker, Raja Chatterjee, GC of Kasa Living

 

Join ACC New York Sponsor Sheppard Mullin, as New York Partner Michael Gilbert chats with Raja Chatterjee of Kasa Living. They will discuss Raja's impressive career, including as a federal prosecutor with the DOJ and NY DA’s Office, and hear his observations about in-house life from his time at Morgan Stanley and Tishman-Speyer.

The fireside chat will be followed by a networking reception complemented by a wine tasting. 

Join presenters Adam Losey and Michael Nardella for an interactive discussion on Professional Communication for Introverts and Extroverts. This session will provide 1 hour FL CLE Credit in Professionalism (pending approval). 

Join us to review the major government contracts developments of 2022. From changes to the Buy American Act, to inflation, to small business past performance eligibility, it was another busy and dynamic year for government contracts lawyers. We also saw important decisions relating to the False Claims Act, proposal timeliness, and COVID’s impacts on contract obligations. The panel will review the key cases and laws and regulations from 2022, as well as look ahead to how the major events of 2022 are likely to impact government contracts law into 2023 and beyond.       

Presented by Greg Jacobs, Erin Felix, and Holly Roth, Shareholders with Polsinelli P.C. and Kevin Joyce, Head of Global Public Sector Legal, Ethics & Compliance at ServiceNow.

2.0 Hours of VA MCLE pending.

For employment lawyers, the big question for 2022 is: Is this the “new normal?” This includes all aspects of the remote work experience, including the potential application of state laws that never applied to the employer before. We will also discuss federal and state legislative updates, review relevant Supreme Court decisions including employers’ options and responses to the Dobbs decision, litigation trends coming out of the pandemic, and what to expect in 2023.

Presented by John Remy and Alyson Guyan, Principals with Jackson Lewis P.C and Nickole Winnett, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Amentum Services Inc.

Event Agenda:
3:30 pm  - 4:00 pm - Registration
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Dinner and CLE Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Happy Hour

2.0 Hours of VA MCLE Credit pending

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