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Not sure how to respond to environmental, health and safety matters? This program brings you up to speed. It covers the basics of dealing with regulations issued by federal and state environmental and safety agencies, such as EPA and OSHA. The panel covered such issues as key regulations, permits, inspections, record keeping, and responses to enforcement activities.

We all know that compliance with the electronic discovery rules is a challenge. But what about the ethical issues we face as attorneys? How can we best preserve the attorney-client privilege? What are the ethical implications of outsourcing? How about our own technological competency (or lack thereof)?

Reporting “green” can ensure your company meets certain legal or social goals, but such reporting is not without its risks; it must be done with care. This program provided an update on the latest requirements, standards, codes, and guidelines for making environmental disclosures, particularly disclosures regarding the impact of climate change on business operations. This includeed those made under the SEC’s S-K regulations, GAAP and FIN standards, and under the “green” guidelines of the FTC.

What are the latest trends and events in anti-corruption enforcement? As in-house counsel practicing globally you need to know. This session addressed the current state of the anti-corruption and bribery laws applying to the international activities of US companies including the application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and non-US laws such as those of the 37 countries who are signatories or concurring countries to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation (OECD) and certain United Nation treaties.

These days if you are counsel in the financial services industry, responding to a host of regulatory agencies and even being involved in the judicial process is practically daily fare. This cadre could include the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC, SEC and other various and sundry state insurance, banking, and exchange regulators. This program addressed the issues that may come up in responding to them, including the attorney-client privilege and demands of waiver, whether to be compliant or adverse, and other issues that arise with respect to official process.

The following questions are designed to test your knowledge of the ethical concerns in giving or receiving gifts in a business relationship.

"Just as the dual role of in-house counsel complicates liability as discussed above, communications with in-house counsel, ordinarily subject to the attorney-client privilege, have become suspect."

Whether someone is engaged in the unauthorized practice of law is a highly fact-sensitive inquiry. Both New Jersey and New York courts have, therefore, adopted a case-by-case approach.

A summary of recent developments regarding to the attorney-client and work product privileges.

To present the program, you will need approximately four individuals to read the script and "role play". We suggest a panel of two to four individuals with a moderator to address discussion questions. Successful programs have used panelists with diverse legal backgrounds such as in-house lawyers, judges, legal ethics professors and lawyers in private practice. We encourage audience participation.

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