The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
Employers have been put through the ringer this year – from furloughs, to layoffs, to COVID requirements, to new executive orders. Now, the California Legislature has passed a new set of laws for employers. Greenberg Glusker’s Employment Law Group looks forward to “seeing” you via Zoom to help you make sense of what is to come in 2021.
Topics include:
Expansion of Medical and Family Leave under the California Family Rights Act (SB 1383)
Notice Requirements for COVID-19 Exposure in the Workplace (AB 685)
Workers’ Compensation Coverage for COVID-19 (SB 1159)
Amendments to the Independent Contractor Test and Exceptions (AB 2257 amends AB 5)
California Diversity Requirements for Corporate Boards (AB 979)
Amendments to Prohibitions on No-Rehire Provisions in Settlement Agreements (AB 2143)
State Pay Data Reporting Requirements for Large Employers (SB 973)
Scheduled Increases for Minimum Wage and Exempt Employee Minimum Salary Requirements
This 90-minute complimentary session will include time for Q&A.
This program is valid for 1.5 PDC toward SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification and is approved for 1.5 hours of MCLE credit in California.
ACC Southern California and Shook Hardy & Bacon cordially invite you to a virtual tea tasting event. The workshop will be led by Ashley Lim, a certified tea sommelier and founder of Mansa Tea.
A tea kit will be sent to you prior to the event.
Steven Brower, a long-time ACC sponsor (who regrets he still can’t host lunch at Morton’s), has 35+ years of experience with insurance coverage. This presentation is targeted at in-house counsel who either supervise litigation or who try to avoid litigation. The insurance market is changing, and the approach of many Court’s to insurance is changing. Steve will be providing practical tips for how to buy insurance, how to use insurance to either avoid litigation or to fund litigation and, most importantly, how to avoid insurance becoming a source of embarrassment.
Join us virtually for Mintz’s Second Annual Developing Trends in Bet-the-Company Class Actions presentation. The presentation will cover class action trends and provide an overview of what to expect from the Plaintiff's bar nationwide.
Based on considerable experience in defending class actions, the speakers have identified comprehensive, informative, and timely trends and will offer practical insights and tactical tips concerning nationwide consumer class actions. Among other topics, the panelists will address:
The Eleventh Circuit’s ban on incentive awards for class representatives;
The emergence of Covid-19 litigation;
Bristol-Myers and its application to class actions;
The U.S. Supreme Court’s review of the TCPA and what that means for the class action space
Amidst ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny and law enforcement focus on corporate malfeasance, compliance officers face tremendous pressure to protect their employers from civil and criminal liability.
In this program, Squire Patton Boggs’ partner Gabriel Colwell will discuss the keys to implementing effective compliance policies and procedures and what compliance professionals can do to avoid the same pitfalls that they are actively protecting their employers from.
Does your company have a crisis communications plan? Many don’t. In this age of social media journalism, it is
important to at least have a basic idea of what to do should the press start talking about your organization.
This panel will address some best PR practices including:
Getting ahead of the narrative
Identifying internal and external pressure points around the issue
Controlling the spread on social media
Determining who should be responsible for approving statements to the press
We will allow time at the end of the session for Q&A. Please submit any questions you have in advance to events@paynefears.com
2020 has been a difficult and strange year for everyone, but sports and fitness have faced their own unique struggles—from no fans for professional sports to the complete shutdown of the fitness industry. In this webinar, we will talk about developments and complications facing the Sports and Fitness Industries, as it pertains to employment law.
Topics include:
Current state guidance on COVID-19 shutdown orders
Racial injustice
Expansion of allowances for independent contractors (AB 2257)
Trade secrets are rapidly becoming the most valuable corporate asset class, but it’s not always clear how to manage them. Join James Pooley, one of the world’s foremost trade secret experts, and Stephanie Southwick of Omni Bridgeway, a litigation finance firm that makes non-recourse, non-dilutive investments in litigation, as they discuss valuable tools corporate counsel can use to take a leading role in the protection and monetization of trade secrets. Topics include:
Applying risk management processes to keep secrets and avoid contamination
Evaluating potential trade secret disputes
Resolving trade secret disputes without litigation