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Trust/Antitrust: Getting the Most from Your Outside Counsel Relationship and Issue-Spotting for Current Antitrust Risks

Thursday, November 14th
8:00 am - 10:00am

Offices of Holland Hart | 555 17th Street | Suite 3200

Pending One (1) CLE Credit.

REGISTER NOW!

$10 Members | $20 Non-Members 

AGENDA

8:00 am Registration, Networking & Breakfast
 8:30 am CLE Presentation
10:00 am Conclude

Please join ACC Colorado and speakers Andy Lillie, Partner, Holland & Hart, and Paul Swanson, Partner, Holland & Hart  for a Breakfast CLE. This two-part presentation joins the themes of trust and antitrust for the in-house lawyer. The first part, Trust, explores key ways to build a relationship of trust and accountability with your outside lawyer so that you can be confident you’re getting what you need in the way you expect to get it. The second part, Antitrust, keeps you updated with the Enforcement Agencies’ current approach to non-competes and non-solicitation, competitor collaborations, antitrust compliance programs, and pre-merger notifications. Attendees will learn:

TRUST 

  • Fundamentals of every good attorney-client relationship.

  • Emotionally intelligent lawyering.

  • Checklist for caring for your client and your client’s client.

ANTITRUST 

  • The latest on FTC’s new rule barring noncompetes.

  • Collaboration risk a year after DOJ/FTC scuttled safe harbor. 

  • The HSR landscape for M&A after new DOJ/FTC rules.


     

COMPLIMENTARY PARKING AVAILABLE AND BRING TICKET WITH YOU TO H&H RECEPTION 
ENTER GARAGE at 1755 GLENARM 

 

 

Do you feel like your legal expertise and other talents aren’t fully leveraged within your organization? Do you wish you had more influence and impact?

This workshop equips in-house counsel with practical strategies to become trusted advisors and high-impact business partners. In this interactive session, you'll gain insights on how to:

· Build stronger relationships with internal clients

· Strengthen your business acumen, and

· Increase collaboration with your internal clients.

This program is designed specifically for in-house legal counsel in the Mountain West region who wish to elevate their influence and make a lasting impact on their businesses.

ACC Colorado Presents a WEBINAR

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Colorado’s AI-OK: 
Consequences of the Colorado AI Act 
(and What You Should Be Doing Right Now)


 Presented by
Tyler Thompson & Andrea C. Maciejewski

Thursday, July 18, 2024
11 AM – 12PM MDT

 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

No Cost to Attend the Zoom Meeting | One (1) CLE General Credit Approved

Join Greenberg Traurig attorneys Tyler Thompson and Andrea Maciejewski as they delve into the latest risks for these topics and more. Colorado’s comprehensive AI Act is the first of its kind in the United States and has serious implications for both developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems. This webinar will not only educate about the new Act and how we got here but provide practical guidance on what both AI developers and deployers should be doing right now, benchmarked by the actions of industry leaders. This webinar will:

  • Provide short, focused guidance on AI terminology, legal ramifications, and legal history in a way that will provide value to both AI veterans and newcomers.
  • Detail the CO AI Act’s key requirements, timing, and penalties.
  • Discuss what the Colorado AI Act means for AI legislative efforts in the U.S., and what affect we can expect it to have on the regulatory landscape.
  • Provide practical guidance, based on AI industry leaders, to guide company’s compliance efforts in an uncertain landscape. 

Tyler Thompson advises clients on data privacy and protection, technology contracts and contract processes, websites and mobile apps, digital accessibility, social media, and direct advises clients on data privacy and protection, technology contracts and contract processes, websites and mobile apps, digital accessibility, artificial intelligence, and data issues in the franchise space. Tyler offers clients practical and efficient legal counsel, striving to manage costs and risk with business-friendly strategies. With deep experience in digital compliance, Tyler focuses on handling all aspects of a client’s website, platform, or mobile app to pursue compliance while maintaining the best user experience. His practice also focuses on creating enforceable digital agreements with platform users, whether that platform is a website, SaaS, mobile app, or video game. He also helps clients reduce website scraping risk. Tyler has designed and implemented privacy programs for clients from Fortune 500s to start ups, ensuring those clients are compliant with U.S. and international privacy laws. Tyler also advises on data retention and minimization, privacy by design, data inventories, and privacy impact assessments. Tyler is accredited by the American Bar Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) as a Privacy Law Specialist. He is also certified by the IAPP as an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Professional for the United States (CIPP/US), Europe (CIPP/E), Asia, (CIPP/A) and Canada (CIPP/C) as well as a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPP/T). Tyler is also an ISACA Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE).In the technology space, Tyler counsels on artificial intelligence (including generative AI and LLMs), open source software, digital marketing, software licensing, and SaaS agreements. He also works with clients to modernize commercial contracting processes and privacy practices, enabling in-house attorneys to function more efficiently and conserve resources.

Andrea C. Maciejewski designs and implements privacy and security programs for clients of all sizes – from Fortune 500s to start ups – and in all sectors, including digital entertainment, marketing, online education, retail, and consumer goods. Andrea helps companies navigate the intricacies of multi-jurisdictional compliance programs as well as compliance with sector-specific data privacy and security laws. Andrea offers clients practical legal counsel, striving to understand the underlying business model and provide strategies that manage costs and risks, while attempting to maintain the businesses operations. Her practice includes international data privacy laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and China’s Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”), as well as U.S. federal and state data privacy laws, such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Some of the specialized documents Andrea drafts include data processing addendums, intracompany agreements, cross-border transfer mechanisms, privacy policies, privacy impact assessments, and data inventories. She has experience in U.S. and multi-national record retention practices, and frequently counsels on updating those practices for compliance with new privacy laws. Additionally, Andrea provides expert counsel on data concerns unique to video games, eSports, and mobile gaming.          

 

ACC Colorado Presents

 WEBINAR

 

The Rise of Pay Equity Risks and 

How to be Proactive

 

Thursday, July 11, 2024
11 AM – 12PM MDT

 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

No Cost to Attend the Zoom Meeting  |  One (1) CLE Genera Credit Approved

Worried about the growing pay transparency trend? 
Wondering if pay data your organization submits to regulators exposes you to risk?
Confused about what your organization should be doing for pay equity?
Struggling to manage equal pay litigation or compliance?

Join Greenberg Traurig Of Counsel Mikaela Masoudpour as she delves into the latest risks for these topics and more. The session will be laser focused on the newest developing risks in each area, and what companies should be doing right now to stay ahead of the curve. Practical resources will be provided, including tactical steps legal, talent acquisition, human resources, and compensation teams can take.

Topics include:

  • Heightened pressure to close pay gaps from legislators, regulators, plaintiff’s lawyers, and employees
  • The wave of pay transparency and salary history bans and its significance 
  • Steps to take right now to deal with the current pay equity landscape 
  • Benefits of proactive action
  • Overview of pay equity audits and related assessments

Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour is a trusted advisor to companies from startups to Fortune 500 in a wide range of employment matters, from strategic employment counseling and internal investigations to proactive audits and compensation analyses to litigation. She provides pragmatic, timely advice to employers for their pressing workplace issues, including hiring, leave and disability, implementation of AI tools in the workplace, remote work, performance management, restrictive covenants, wage and hour, workplace policies, and labor relations. Mikaela’s counseling practice also focuses on pay equity matters, such as advising clients on pay equity and salary disclosure laws and conducting pay equity analyses, including comprehensive internal statistical and policy audits. When litigation does occur, Mikaela regularly represents clients in courts and before administrative agencies in individual and class claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Equal Pay Act, federal labor laws, and other employment statutes. She leverages her deep courtroom experience to assist employers with litigation prevention and crisis management.

 

 

Over the past decade, social media has drastically changed how businesses share information and interact with their customers. Ensuring that everything posted about a company is compliant with ever-changing laws and regulations is a growing challenge. Join Maschoff Brennan attorneys Robert Boone, CJ Veverka, and Tim Nielsen for a discussion providing an overview of states’ efforts to regulate social media, challenges to those statutes, and litigation against social media companies attacking the platforms as addictive and harmful to youths.

ACC MW Members: register by July 15 to receive a GrubHub gift certificate for lunch.

Corporate Counsel University® (CCU) is the leading onboarding and networking opportunity specially tailored for new in-house lawyers. 

 

CCU is the ideal program for members with less than five years of experience in a corporate legal department, as well as those seeking to refresh their basic practice skills. 

 

Learn everything you need to know about 2024 ACC Corporate Counsel University® in Denver, Colorado 
HERE!


Complete Schedule

This program is completely organized and delivered by the Association of Corporate Counsel.

For questions, please contact education@acc.com.

8:00-8:30 – Breakfast & Networking

8:30-9:30 - The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Biden Administration Order and EU Artificial Intelligence Act)

Barbara Bagnasacco and Steve Lau will provide a general overview of the most relevant laws currently governing Artificial Intelligence. They will also discuss at a high-level important aspects of the 2023 U.S. Executive Order 14110 on the “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence,” and offer a comparison of the approach of the new European Union Artificial Intelligence Act and that of the Executive Order, and refer to emerging State laws in the United States.

Presenters:

Barbara Bagnasacco, Of Counsel, Parsons Behle & Latimer

Steve Lau, Head of Privacy – Americas, eBay

 

9:40-10:40 - Get Off My Lawn! Effective Brand Protection, Management and Enforcement in a World of Bullies and Trolls

Juliette White and Jon Love will discuss best practices for trademark protection, management, and enforcement strategies. The discussion will include in-house counsel and executive-level client representatives, Nicole Greener and Carley Herrick, with an eye towards helping companies establish successful, sustainable brand strength and goodwill.

Presenters:

Nicole Greener, VP Strategy and Compliance, KUHL

Carley Herrick, Corporate Counsel, Traeger

Jonathan H. Love, Shareholder, Parsons Behle & Latimer

Juliette P. White, Shareholder, Parsons Behel & Latimer

 

10:50-11:50 - The Current Status of DEI and What it Means for Your Business

Christina Jepson and Mike O’Brien will discuss how, despite the great DEI debate raging in the country today, employers can implement diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives without engaging in illegal discrimination.

Presenters:

Christina M. Jepson, Shareholder, Parsons Behle & Latimer

Michael P. O’Brien, Shareholder, Parsons Behle & Latimer

 

12:00-1:00 - Above and Beyond:  Complying with the New EEOC Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace and Creating Exceptional Workplace Culture

A harassment-free culture is fundamental to a professional and civil workplace. Nonetheless, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reports that harassing conduct remains a serious workplace problem, so much so that recently, on April 29, 2024, it issued new guidance for employers. Nicole Farrell and Sara Jones will analyze why harassment remains an issue today, even in the era of remote work, review examples of what is considered harassing conduct, and discuss what companies need to know to protect themselves from liability.

Presenters:

Nicole Farrell, Chief People Officer, Parsons Behle & Latimer

Sara Jones, CEO, InclusionPro

 

1:00-1:30 – Lunch and Networking

 

REGISTER NOW!

 

Pickleball, anyone? 
 

Join ACC for the Colorado Chapter's first ever pickleball event sponsored by 

Fairfield & Woods P.C.


Whether you're a seasoned pickleball veteran or 
you've never even picked up a PB racquet, mark your calendar and 
plan to be a part of the new 
ACC Colorado* pickleball community on Friday, July 26th! 
 
 

Friday, July 26th, 2024 | 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Gates Tennis Center 
3300 East Bayaud Street, Denver | One Block from Cherry Creek Mall


Members: $15 | Non-Members $25

*In-House Counsel Registration Only, Please
 



SCHEDULE
3:30pm:  Registration, Refreshments & Equipment Loans
4:00pm:  Pickleball Play* on Four Reserved Courts!
 6:00pm:  Social Time & Court Play Wrap-up

*Skill Level/Liability Waiver form required to play. 
Gates Pickleball Pro will help guide beginners!

PARKING
Limited lot availability at Gates with more parking at Pulaski Park Lot near East Cedar @ South Madison Streets 
(just a quick walk through park to entrance). 
Street parking in adjacent neighborhoods (north and east of Gates) 
-or- 
pay-on-your-own covered and valet parking available in Cherry Creek Mall Parking structure 
(two blocks away)

HELPFUL VIDEOS
Pickleball Rules    |    Pickleball Scoring

 

 

2024 Nonprofit Legal Audit Clinic: Sponsored by
Colorado Lawyers Committee of Colorado 

Nonprofit Legal Audit Clinic 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
8:30am to 1:30 pm
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Shreck, LLP
Downtown Denver

REGISTRATION IS FULL!

This half-day program includes a free 2 hour CLE on nonprofit law, followed by meetings where teams of transactional lawyers review a checklist with representatives from small nonprofits to evaluate their organizations’ legal health.' 

Registration is filled. Look for 2025 pro bono opportunities!

 

Join us June 22 for a unique ACC Member experience!

5:00-6:00 pm: ACC members will receive one hour CLE taught by Bob Caldwell, General Counsel of Real Salt Lake and the Utah Monarchs. This special discussion will take place in the Press Room at the stadium.

6:00-7:15 pm: BBQ dinner served at the pavillion for members and guests

7:30 pm: Watch the match-- RSL vs. LA Galaxy

 

Hurry! Seats are limited. All tickets must be purchased by June 1.

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