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Risk assessment is an ongoing and vital part of any compliance program. You can't control risk until you identify it and measure it. As part of your company's compliance process, your legal department needs to develop and monitor a comprehensive listing of potential risks. Hear from our in-house experts as they share their best practices for assessing corporate risks, and learn the tips and tools on how to implement a control-testing process at your company.

A PowerPoint of the February 28, 2006 program on Key Competition/Antitrust Issues in Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Merger Notification and Review.

What does a sensible company do about document retention? This question is on the minds of corporate practitioners around the world as recent legal developments have put these corporate policies in the spotlight. Join your peers to learn what you should keep, what you can happily destroy, policies on saving emails and other strategic retention procedures.

What does it mean to be a business leader? What are the necessary skills and competencies? Are lawyers well suited to this role or should these functions be kept separate? What makes a good lawyer become an exceptional leader? How can you make the transition? Our panel of distinguished speakers will share their invaluable experiences and observations on the role and potential of the in-house lawyer.

Recent cases have made the news, even gone all the way to the Supreme Court, about what must be kept, what can be shredded, and when. Discovery orders during litigation and government investigations complicate the issue. We all know some of the theory, but hear from our experts some practical tips about how to develop, implement and maintain an effective recordkeeping policy and how to comply with the growing burden of record retention.

You've taken the plunge and are determined to build a dedicated compliance function. Explore key strategies and tactics for structuring and maintaining a compliance program that fosters ethical, legal, and productive operations while also minimizing business risk. Review the impact of recent legal and business developments on compliance strategy. Learn how to maintain leadership buy-in and commitment, and avoid common pitfalls that make a compliance program difficult to maintain.

Corporate attorneys practicing within the EU need to be intimately familiar with competition laws and how they could affect a company's business. This overview of the trends EU competition is following will provide you with a clear understanding of the laws and guidance on how best to counsel your corporate client.

Presented by Bass, Berry & Sims, a Lex Mundi member firm for the ACC Tennessee Chapter.

The following outline is intended to provide a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of this discussion topic. There may be other issues we’ve not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline: you should feel free to raise these additional thoughts, as you like.

The following outline is intended to provide a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of this discussion topic. There may be other issues we’ve not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline: you should feel free to raise these additional thoughts, as you like.

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