Compliance and Ethics

Agenda:

Thursday, December 3 @ 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Buchanan) — Employees and Corporate Legal Concerns: Managing Ethical Issues and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

From internal investigations to outside litigation, the question of who is representing whom can pose ethical challenges. We will consider common scenarios, the role of in-house and outside counsel, Upjohn warnings and other relevant rules and case law to consider when your employee is a witness, a joint defendant, or just wants some legal advice.

Follow this link to join the session — https://accinhouse.zoom.us/j/96427448280?pwd=VVd4OUVQQ1FmZXRKeTR3NE9SQ0ZCUT09

Passcode: 724459

Thursday, December 3 @ 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Duane Morris) — Ethics and the Challenges of Working Remotely

This panel will discuss the challenges of remote working and how to manage risk and loss prevention in the current remote working environment. We will address best practices for information security while working remotely and on mobile devices and outlines ways to minimize the impact that “remote” working may have on your team , including mental health aspects.

Follow this link to join the session — https://accinhouse.zoom.us/j/96427448280?pwd=VVd4OUVQQ1FmZXRKeTR3NE9SQ0ZCUT09

Passcode: 724459

Click the button below to preregister for this three-day event!  Your registration entitles you to attend all six sessions, or just one or two if that's what works for you.  One Zoom link will get you into all sessions, and will be provided to each registrant prior to the beginning of the event.

Agenda:

Wednesday, December 2 @ 9:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. (CSC) — Ethical Considerations With Technology Contracts

Ethical issues and technology contracts can present in-house attorneys with unique ethical challenges.  This program reviews ethical issues that arise with technology contracts and will include considerations of internal processes and compliance and discuss contract negotiations and provisions.

Follow this link to join the session — https://accinhouse.zoom.us/j/96427448280?pwd=VVd4OUVQQ1FmZXRKeTR3NE9SQ0ZCUT09

Passcode: 724459

Wednesday, December 2 @ 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Hogan) — Practical and Ethical Implications of Litigating During COVID-19

In this session, expert panelists will cover best practices for avoiding the unique ethical pitfalls of remote and in-person litigation proceedings during the pandemic.

Follow this link to join the session — https://accinhouse.zoom.us/j/96427448280?pwd=VVd4OUVQQ1FmZXRKeTR3NE9SQ0ZCUT09

Passcode: 724459

Click the button below to preregister for this three-day event!  Your registration entitles you to attend all six sessions, or just one or two if that's what works for you.  One Zoom link will get you into all sessions, and will be provided to each registrant prior to the beginning of the event.

Agenda:

Tuesday, December 1 @ 9:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. (Schnader) — Ethical Issues in Employment Law and Beyond

Businesses face a wide range of ethical issues related to employment law. It can help business leaders and in-house counsel to focus on two key aspects of these issues – technology and internal investigations. Technology presents ethical questions involving the nature of information shared in electronic form, the confidentiality of electronically stored information, the risk of cyber intrusion, and protecting attorney-client communications. Internal investigations, both when required by law and used to assess and remediate potential problems, present ethical questions involving the initial authority, structure and staffing of the investigation, as well as clarifying and communicating the identity of the “client(s)” for the investigation and managing these relationships. This session will provide practical examples and best practices for these issues and more.

Follow this link to join the session — https://accinhouse.zoom.us/j/96427448280?pwd=VVd4OUVQQ1FmZXRKeTR3NE9SQ0ZCUT09

Passcode: 724459

Tuesday, December 1 @ 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Ballard Spahr) — Corporate Political Participation in a Hyper Partisan World

This program will discuss navigating the applicable laws and regulations related to corporate political contributions, and how political participation may create liability for companies.

Follow this link to join the session — https://accinhouse.zoom.us/j/96427448280?pwd=VVd4OUVQQ1FmZXRKeTR3NE9SQ0ZCUT09

Passcode: 724459

Click the button below to preregister for this three-day event!  Your registration entitles you to attend all six sessions, or just one or two if that's what works for you.  One Zoom link will get you into all sessions, and will be provided to each registrant prior to the beginning of the event.

NOV. 17   ~ 10:30- Noon  (3 Parts)

1- ALEXANDRA WRAGE

Five Key Takeaways from the 2020 DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (“the Guidance”)

2- M. ELAINE JOHNSTON & KENNETH RIVLIN

International / Cross-border Compliance Trends:  Sanctions, Foreign Direct Investment (e.g., CFIUS and its non-US counterparts), ABC & Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

3- Roundtable 

COVID-19 Related Compliance Challenges/Lessons Learned/Practical Tips

•  Specific risk areas – potential items: Cyber security, privacy, protection of IP and confidentiality and people working
• The unique compliance issues + Best practices compliance tips guidance

(Day 1 Nov. 12)

ALEXANDRA WRAGE

Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going: 

• Review of FCPA and International Anti-Bribery Enforcement Trends and
• How the Next Administration Will Shape Corporate Compliance Programs

Followed by

M. ELAINE JOHNSTON & KENNETH RIVLIN, Partners, Allen & Overy LLP

PETER D. BERNSTEIN, Sr. Managing Counsel, Competition Law, Compliance and Policy, Mastercard

Antitrust Enforcement in the New Administration – Continuity or Transformation:

• As the principles underlying modern antitrust enforcement face populist challenge, what should we expect to see for mergers, collusion/cartels, and Big Tech?

Ron Schuler’s history of the legal profession in Pittsburgh, THE STEEL BAR, was released in September 2019. In his chapter on Pittsburgh’s Renaissance, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, he focuses on how the general counsels of three major Pittsburgh corporations -- PPG, Mellon Bank and Alcoa -- played major roles in stimulating and executing the development of Point State Park, the Gateway Center Towers, the Civic Arena and WQED-TV, among other post-war projects. They did so based on a belief that major corporations owed a fiduciary duty to the communities in which they were located, and in part because they believed that as citizens of a community, lawyers have a special obligation to share their expertise and provide leadership. This was at the tail-end of an era in which lawyers were accorded high levels of respect within corporate America: 75% of the chief executive officers of major corporations in the U.S. were lawyers in the late 1930s, while only 5% of them were lawyers as of the beginning of the 21st century.

Why the decline in numbers? Are lawyers still capable of providing the kind of leadership in their communities that was the hallmark of Pittsburgh’s lawyers immediately after WWII? And what happens if today’s lawyers do not step up and lead?

As key leaders of The Phoenix Taskforce, the ATO and ASIC take a whole of government approach to combating illegal phoenix activity.

Join Deputy Commissioner Will Day (ATO), Assistant Commissioner George Montanez (ATO) and Senior Executive Leader Thea Eszenyi (ASIC) for this live, interactive webinar as they discuss illegal phoenix activity and the measures in place to address this behaviour.

The panel will discuss:

• The Phoenix Taskforce 
• Key legislative changes and initiatives to combat illegal phoenix behaviour
• The impacts of illegal phoenix activity and what companies, in-house counsel and legal practitioners should be alert to.