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What do you do when a recall, privacy breach or other crisis hits? Managing that crisis from a legal and reputational risk is much easier if you have prepared in advance on how to deal with insurers, regulators, suppliers, customers and the media. This session will feature practical advice from in-house counsel and their external counsel who have lived through a recall crisis. Both compliance officers and law department practitioners need to be involved in developing a crisis plan. Panelists will focus on what can be done ahead of time to facilitate navigation through the crisis.

A key question in both the United States and Canada is whether infrastructure and other public projects should be structured as public-private partnerships (P3s). Explore the lessons learned from completed P3 projects, using examples from Canadian and US infrastructure projects and the approaches adopted by leading jurisdictions throughout the world. It will outline what private sector companies and their in-house counsel need to know to maximize their success.

The SEC, IRS and FDIC have recently issued regulations governing equity and phantom equity plans that may result in clawback, change in control, valuation, accounting issues and other illnesses that may affect your plans. This panel will provide a checklist of known ailments, a method to diagnose your plan and treatment options to bring your plan into good health. In a town hall setting, participants will be asked to share their own "home remedies" with the group.

Records management is not new. Litigation, efficiency and competitive edge drive organizations to manage and capitalize on information. With rapid technology changes and the increasing volume and complexity of information, management is difficult. But new problems call for new answers. Globalization changes the landscape — a global company is not a bigger, more spread out US company — it is a different organization altogether and requires different solutions.

Competition law cases are discussed and outlines in useful flow charts.

This material focuses on the primary legislation of EC Competition, Article 81 and 82 of the EC treaty and guidelines of what to keep in mind when the European Commission begins an investigation.

Someone in your company has just been questioned about possible criminal activity. You receive a grand jury subpoena for company documents and the US Attorney wants to interview company personnel. Among other things, you would like to show this potential prosecutor that your company has an effective program of ethics, compliance and internal controls designed to prevent and detect crime and fraud. What specific elements do you want to bring to the US Attorney's attention? Join this panel discussion and get the tools you need to handle this situation.

You loved this dynamic Boston University professor at our '07 Annual Meeting so now he's back, straight from our Mini MBA for In-house Counsel Program, to help you achieve the business proficiency you need to thrive in these difficult economic times. If you learn to speak the language of your business team then it will enhance your role and help contribute to the bottom line.

Significant changes under two employment statutes, the ADA and the FMLA, were ushered in this year. This session will focus on the ADA Amendments Act and the new FMLA regulations, the history behind the changes, as well as suggested best practices and tips and techniques for dealing with these revisions. Case law interpreting these important regulatory regimes will also be addressed.

With control over the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, Democratic leaders have promised an aggressive agenda of employment law reforms in 2009. This program will provide an in-depth analysis of new employment laws and regulations (enacted, proposed or under development) to which your companies will need to respond. Topics will include pay discrimination reforms, card check legislation, civil rights reforms, FMLA expansion and paid sick leave bills, OSHA proposals, immigration reforms, and limitations on arbitration agreements.

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