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Please join ACC Alberta and McCarthy Tétrault on Wednesday, Nov 19, for a Lunch and Learn on The exercise of contractual discretion: how to advise your business team during contract negotiation or re-negotiation
Brandon Kain, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, and author of Good Faith in Canadian Contract Law, and Robert Walker, Senior Legal Counsel, Projects & Supply Chain Management, Legal Affairs, Suncor Energy Services Inc, will explore the duty of good faith and the role it plays in the exercise of contractual discretion, as well as the practical guidance legal counsel can give their business counterparts throughout contract negotiation.
Lyndsey Delamont, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, will moderate this discussion.
Baker McKenzie, together with ACC Australia, are pleased to present the 2025 Commercial Contract Law Series - a must-attend program designed exclusively for in-house counsel.
Each session in this series will dive deep into a key area of commercial contracting, offering practical insights and legal updates to help you stay ahead in a fast-evolving landscape.
Red Tape & Risk: Government Contracting
In this final session of the series, Partners Georgie Farrant and Anne Petterd will unpack some of the traps that can catch even experienced suppliers to government and recent areas of focus for government procurement.
Key points of discussion will include:
• Scrutiny: Ensuring the business understands the implications that can come with rules for spending public money and oversight of government projects. • Geopolitics in Procurement: Expanded checks—especially on foreign ownership and control. • Public Official Risk: Knowing when performance of a contract may result in the supplier or its personnel being deemed to be a public official. • Conflicts and Corruption in Procurement: How to mitigate risk. • Limited Legal Remedies: When tenders or contracts go wrong, being aware of limited recourse against government bodies.
We invite you to an exclusive roundtable luncheon, hosted by Mills Oakley and tailored for General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers on Tuesday, 18 November 2025 at Perth’s prestigious Post Osteria & Bar, with doors opening at 12:00pm for a 12:30pmlunchand session start.
Incentivising Contractor Performance to Drive Success
This session explores how well-considered and calibrated incentive structures can align principal and contractor behaviours with project goals, enhance accountability, and deliver measurable outcomes.
We will unpack practical frameworks and real-world examples to demonstrate how the right incentives can transform contractor relationships into high-performing and long-term partnerships.
Scheme Arrangements
As most are aware, a scheme of arrangement is commonly used to implement M&A transactions. Beyond this M&A setting, up until relatively recently it has generally been overlooked that the same framework can be used by corporate groups to implement an internal restructure as an alternative to other more common forms of restructuring. Luke will briefly outline the process, some of the considerable advantages using this framework compared to the more conventional forms and give some recent examples of Australian corporate groups that have successfully implementing these schemes.
No Cost to Attend the Zoom Meeting | One (1) CLE General Credit Approved | In-House Counsel Only Please*
Join ACC Colorado for an informative webinar and introduction to theLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado. Learn more about the work of Colorado Legal Services in providing free civil legal aid to Coloradans regardless of income and how the Legal Aid Foundation supports funding for that work. You will learn about the need for and impact of legal aid in Colorado and how this work intersects with Colorado Rule of Professional Conduct 6.1. The program will cover details about how:
1 in 8 Coloradans qualify for help from Colorado Legal Service
Roughly 50% of people who apply for legal aid have to be turned away, not because they don’t have a case—but because of a lack of funding.
You may support access to justice by volunteering with CLS and earn one CLE credit per five pro bono hours | Volunteer Information
You also may support the Legal Aid Foundation by participating in the soon to launch 2026 Corporate Counsel Campaign of Giving | Corporate Counsel Challenge
WEBINAR SPEAKERS
Jordan Bates-Rogers, Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado Executive Director Jordan became Executive Director of the Legal Aid Foundation and the Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation in January of 2024. Prior to joining the Foundation’s staff, he served as the Executive Director of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission & Foundation. At Arkansas Access to Justice, Jordan promoted limited scope representation and led the rollout of a statewide self-help kiosk network, among other projects. He started his legal career as a legal aid attorney in the Mississippi River Delta, serving low-income Arkansans with housing-related legal needs. Jordan’s educational background includes a degree in Management, summa cum laude, from Arkansas State University and a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Alabama.
Matt Baca, Colorado Legal Services Executive Director Matt Baca joined Colorado Legal Services as Executive Director in 2023, after four years as Director of Community Engagement at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Before working for Attorney General Phil Weiser, Baca worked as a Staff Attorney in CLS’s Migrant Farm Worker Division, and before that, he was an attorney at Earthjustice, a public interest environmental law firm. Baca grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado Boulder before graduating from New York University School of Law, where he was a RootTilden-Kern Scholar, and simultaneously earned a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a board member of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association and a commissioner on the Colorado Access to Justice Commission.
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Technology is moving faster than the law – and your contracts are on the frontline.
From SaaS to AI, today’s IT agreements carry new risks, stricter compliance demands, and untapped opportunities to capture business value.
Whether you’re a business leader or in-house counsel negotiating, managing, or implementing modern IT agreements, don’t miss this must-watch session on Wednesday 22 October from midday.
Join legal experts Gihan Wijeratne, Head of Legal & Company Secretary – Ingenico, and Vladimir Kravchenko, Commercial Lawyer & Team Lead – Law Squared, as they:
• Unpack the clauses that matter most • Show how to future-proof against emerging risks • Share how legal teams can shift from “risk police” to strategic enablers of growth
If you want practical tools to pressure-test your IT contracts — protecting your organisation and unlocking competitive advantage — this session is for you.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Moderated by Law Squared’s Annika Childs, viewers will learn how to:
• Recognise where technology is outpacing the law and identify emerging risk in IT agreements • Pin point ‘pressure point’ clauses in SaaS agreements • Assess how to future-proof IT and AI agreements • Evaluate how contracts can protect and create business value • Understand the evolving role of in-house legal teams
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
If you’re a business leader or in-house counsel looking to stay ahead of new risks, sharper compliance demands and untapped opportunities to capture value then this webcast is essential viewing.
Privacy law in Australia has undergone significant reform. With tougher penalties, expanded enforcement powers for the OAIC, and new obligations around data handling, businesses must ensure their privacy frameworks are not only compliant but resilient.
This session will explore:
● Lessons learnt from Optus and Medibank. ● Key changes to the Privacy Act since late 2022, including the new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy and increased penalties (up to $50 million). ● How regulators are taking a tougher stance on non-compliance, with increased penalties and proactive enforcement. ● What you need to think about for your policies and procedures.
This session will focus on practical strategies and risk areas that ACC Tasmania members should be aware of. We’ll highlight common gaps and emerging expectations, and share insights on how leading organisations are responding. We'll also take a high level look at some of the key differences to be aware of in the EU, UK and USA.
Baker McKenzie, together with ACC Australia, are pleased to present the 2025 Commercial Contract Law Series - a must-attend program designed exclusively for in-house counsel.
Each session in this series will dive deep into a key area of commercial contracting, offering practical insights and legal updates to help you stay ahead in a fast-evolving landscape.
Avoiding hidden pitfalls in commercial contracts and employment law
Commercial contracts involving the provision of services can sometimes attract unintended employment law consequences. Join Partner Sean Selleck and Special Counsel Jarrod Bayliss-McCulloch for a practical and insightful session, designed to help you identify some of these issues and avoid the creation of unintended employer liability when drafting or negotiating these commercial agreements.
In this session, they will explore key issues in: • Services contracts and independent contractor agreements • Labour hire • Supply chain liability • Outsourcing, particularly with offshoring arrangements • Work health and safety, surveillance and privacy
One (1) CLE General Credit Approved. 4:00PM Registration | 4:30PM Program 5:30PM Chez Maggy ~ Project C.U.R.E. Helping Happy Hour
Join Greenberg Traurig’s David Zetoony to explore the fast-growing world of privacy litigation, which has exploded in recent years and now represents one of the largest areas to result in class action litigation. This CLE program will discuss the privacy issues that have caused litigation waves (i.e., entire industries impacted for more than a year), trends (dozens of complaints for more than 6 months), and micro-trends (new and emerging theories). Attendees will discover the:
Widespread impact and theories of privacy litigation affecting many—if not most—companies today.
Lesser-known theories that are on the rise and gaining momentum and increasingly being tested in court.
Wide-spread theories that are declining in use and may soon fade from active litigation.
Immediately following the CLE, gather for a Chez Maggy Beverages & Bites Helping Happy Hour. Jump in with both hands along with GT Law and ACC Colorado for Project C.U.R.E Kits for Kidsbackpack and medical kit packing for children in need to help deliver hope and health to the world!
David Zetoony, Co-Chair of the firm's U.S. Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, focuses on helping businesses navigate data privacy and cyber security laws from a practical standpoint. David has helped hundreds of companies establish and maintain ongoing privacy and security programs, and has defended corporate privacy and security practices in investigations initiated by the Federal Trade Commission, and other data privacy and security regulatory agencies around the world, as well as in class action litigation.
COMPLIMENTARY VALET PARKING AT HOTEL THOMPSON MAIN ENTRANCE
No Cost to Attend the Zoom Meeting | One (1) CLE General Credit Approved
Join Scott L. Evans, Litigation Chair of Buchalter's Denver Officeand an American Arbitration Association (AAA) Arbitrator & Mediator, to discuss why arbitration, if done correctly, is still advantageous. Our engaging format will address common misconceptions of arbitration and practical tips to avoid costly corporate mistakes.
This webinar will:
- Examine current law - Address model arbitration clauses - Outline critical tasks to guide you in updating arbitration agreements that reflect your company's philosophy.
Attendees will leave with: - Arbitration Clause Templates - Arbitration Check-List - Post Arbitration Considerations
Scott L. Evans is a shareholder and the Litigation Chair at Buchalter’s Denver office. Mr. Evans’ practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, employee transition litigation, workplace investigations, and alternative dispute resolution across a range of industry sectors including financial services, cannabis/hemp, real estate, restaurant, and hospitality industries. Mr. Evans’ commercial litigation practice focuses on breach of contract disputes, internal business conflicts, tortious interference with contracts, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, qui tam defense under the False Claims Act (FCA), and white-collar crime defense. Mr. Evans has tried multiple cases to verdict in state, federal, and administrative courts. Mr. Evans’ employment litigation practice involves defending financial advisors in broker-dealer disputes related to trade secrets, non-solicitation, and non-compete issues. He also represents employers in matters involving the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Additionally, with his background as a federal investigator, he conducts strategic internal corporate investigations throughout the U.S. concerning employment and fraud issues.
Doors open and light lunch is served from 12:20pm.
The legal and operational risks around copyright are becoming more complex as enterprise systems evolve and AI enters the workplace. For in-house teams, ensuring compliance while enabling innovation and efficiency is a constant balancing act.
In this session, Marlia Saunders, Partner at Thomson Geer and Gina McWilliams, Senior Legal Counsel at News Corp Australia, will explore how copyright issues arise in staff workflows and organisational systems, highlight the additional challenges AI creates, and provide practical guidance for in-house counsel navigating this shifting landscape.
