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.
Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Ian Ballon will reprise his popular "year in review" program focusing on the latest intellectual property, privacy, cyber-security, and online contract formation case law, based on the 2020 updates to his treatise (E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms 2d Edition (Thomson Reuters West 2008 & 2018 Cum. Supp., www.ianballon.net)). Attendees will receive copies of extensive excerpts from his treatise.
This year, Ian will address:
Data protection and AI - the evolving legal landscape
California's Consumer Privacy Act - the new frontier for litigation and what it may mean for your company
DMCA law: Reconciling divergent Second and Ninth Circuit opinions on scope and red flag awareness
How new anti-SLAPP standards, CDA case and fake news are changing the legal landscape
Antitrust and platform liability in the era of Techlash
Trade secret protection for platforms
The impact of the Music Modernization Act on the DMCA and CDA
CDA law - do the 2018 FOSTA/SESTA amendments to the CDA make any difference for your business (and if so, what you should do about it)?
Important new Terms of Use, Mobile and online contract formation and arbitration law case law
Data privacy and cybersecurity class action suits and new state laws
Trademark infringement suits based on the use of social media hashtags
Speaker: Ian Ballon, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020. Is your company ready for the litigation risks? This program will address litigation and regulatory risks stemming from the Act. It will also offer a checklist of considerations as your company finalizes its compliance program. Also discussed will be the California Attorney General’s proposed regulations as well as the latest on a 2020 California ballot initiative to strengthen data-protection measures that promises to complicate privacy compliance even further.
Speakers: Paven Malhotra, Partner, Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Zander Dryer, Associate Product Counsel, Google
Lunch starts at 11:30. Presentation begins at 12:00.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020. Is your company ready for the litigation risks? This program will address litigation and regulatory risks stemming from the Act. It will also offer a checklist of considerations as your company finalizes its compliance program. Also discussed will be the California Attorney General’s proposed regulations as well as the latest on a 2020 California ballot initiative to strengthen data-protection measures that promises to complicate privacy compliance even further.
Speakers: Paven Malhotra, Partner, Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Zander Dryer, Associate Product Counsel, Google
Lunch starts at 11:30. Presentation begins at 12:00.
Please join Gretchen Ramos, GT's San Francisco-based Data Protection Shareholder, and several data specialists from well-known Bay Area tech companies to learn about the data compliance issues you will want to have on your radar in 2020, and how you can start preparing.
The panelists will discuss grey areas of the CCPA Regulations, proposed California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CalPREA) Initiative for the November 2020 ballot, and Brazil's LGPD (effective August 2020).
The group will also address several pending data protection laws that could be passed in 2020:
U.S. federal privacy legislation
India's PDPB if finalized
ePrivacy Regulation
Speakers: Gretchen Ramos, Partner, Greenberg Traurig
Annie Sun, Assistant General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, Castlight Health
Stu Eaton, Director, Privacy and Cybersecurity (Legal), Uber
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2020, and enforcement actions will begin on July 1, 2020. The CCPA has broad application and includes a private right of action as well as the possibility of a class action. Attorneys from Ogletree Deakins’ Data Privacy Practice Group are preparing employers doing business in California for this complex law by reviewing:
which employers need to comply,
the definition of “consumer,”
what qualifies as “personal information,” and
steps to take before January 1.
Speakers: Sean Nalty, Shareholder, Ogletree Deakins Sean Paisan, Of Counsel, Ogletree Deakins
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2020, and enforcement actions will begin on July 1, 2020. The CCPA has broad application and includes a private right of action as well as the possibility of a class action. Attorneys from Ogletree Deakins’ Data Privacy Practice Group are preparing employers doing business in California for this complex law by reviewing:
which employers need to comply,
the definition of “consumer,”
what qualifies as “personal information,” and
steps to take before January 1.
Speakers: Sean Nalty, Shareholder, Ogletree Deakins Sean Paisan, Of Counsel, Ogletree Deakins
Intellectual property (IP) may be one of your company’s most valuable assets in today’s market, underscoring the need for in-house counsel to consider carefully strategies for choosing between patent and trade secret protection for particular assets. The ramifications of those decisions can have a dramatic impact to your company’s business should infringement or misappropriation occur. Our panel will address potential considerations and strategies in deciding which type of protection to pursue for assets, including whether certain types of inventions are more amenable to patent protection or to trade secret protection.
The featured panelists are:
Shane Lunceford, Associate General Counsel, LendingClub
Intellectual property (IP) may be one of your company’s most valuable assets in today’s market, underscoring the need for in-house counsel to consider carefully strategies for choosing between patent and trade secret protection for particular assets. The ramifications of those decisions can have a dramatic impact to your company’s business should infringement or misappropriation occur. Our panel will address potential considerations and strategies in deciding which type of protection to pursue for assets, including whether certain types of inventions are more amenable to patent protection or to trade secret protection.
The featured panelists are:
Shane Lunceford, Associate General Counsel, LendingClub
Please join us for an update from Troutman’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice on the most important cases from the U.S. Supreme Court in the last year, as well as a preview of major certiorari grants for the 2021–2022 term. The firm’s appellate specialists will provide an overview of what you can expect to see at the top of the news and discuss key litigation shaping the national dialogue in the business sector this year and next.