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The ACC Australia WA committee and Corporate Alliance Program Partners Pragma Lawyers invite you to join them for an end of year in-person celebration. Enjoy drinks and hear a recount of the key legal issues thrown up by the COVID-19 Pandemic and a sneak peak of what we can expect in 2021.
You will be entitled to claim 0.5 CPD point (Substantive Law), and meet new and old colleagues - all in the same wonderful session!
The global pandemic and shutdown has been the gravest challenge to Australian business. Contracts and business relationships have been tested, in many cases beyond their limits.
Piper Alderman is guiding its clients through contractual issues including variations, force majeure, electronic execution of contracts and virtual meetings.
Join our webinar as our corporate & commercial partners provide practical insights and real world solutions in the areas of:
Maria Capati – Contract variations and negotiations as a result of COVID-19 particularly risks in terms of force majeure.
Maria will discuss real life examples of contract variations and whether COVID-19 constitutes a force majeure event in a new contract;
Alasdair McLean – Key considerations for drafting contract terms going forward.
Alasdair will discuss the issues that you should consider when renewing or entering into new contracts in light of issues that have arisen during COVID-19;
Andrew Rankin – Making permanent the COVID-19 reforms in respect of electronic execution of contracts and virtual meetings.
Andrew will discuss the amendments proposed by the Corporations Amendment (Virtual Meetings and Electronic Communications) Bill 2020;
Chris Lyons – FIRB’s temporary measures in response to COVID-19 and The Star’s litigation – is coronavirus a catastrophe?
Please join the ACC Northeast Chapter and Mintz Levin for this virtual presentation on critical employment issues related to COVID-19.
The world has been turned upside down since the onset of the virus, and as the crisis continues, all employers are being faced with a multitude of new employment issues to navigate.
Geri Haight, Member, Mintz and former Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at Panera Bread, will lead this discussion and be joined by Amanda (Mandy) Carozza, General Counsel at The Rockport Company. They will provide up to date guidance and legal requirements that in-house counsel and employers should be aware of as they they navigate return-to-work plans for office spaces, the remote working environment, navigating leave policies and the ever-changing wage and hour landscape. They will also address the ongoing economic disruption caused by the pandemic and its impact on non-compete and non-solicit agreements and severance agreements.
All in-house counsel are encouraged to attend and invite their Human Resource colleagues.
REGISTER BELOW. All registrants will receive dial-in/log-on information 24 hours prior to the event.
ACC Greater Philadelphia's IT/Privacy & e-Commerce Committee would like to invite you to a morning of CLE where you can earn 2 hours of CLE credits.
AGENDA:
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. — Session I
10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. — BREAK
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. — Session II
SESSION I, The California Privacy Rights Act: How to Comply with a Brand New Privacy Law (Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP)
Californians are returning to the polls in November to vote on the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which will provide new rights to Californians to control the use of their personal information by companies and impose additional privacy compliance burdens on those companies. If your organization does business in California or provides services to a business that operates in California, the CPRA could apply to you. This panel will discuss the details of the CPRA and provide attendees with the tools to analyze whether the CPRA applies to their companies and, if it does apply, how to help their companies comply with its requirements.
SESSION II, New York’s SHIELD Act: What It Means For Your Company (Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP)
New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (“SHIELD”) Act took effect in March of 2020. Provisions of the Act, such as those defining personal information and private information, and setting minimum standards for reasonably safeguarding sensitive data, are very important for any business with New York customers. This presentation and its panelists will break it down, so that attendees gain a firm understanding of what is expected and what can be done to comply with the SHIELD law.
Just click the button below to preregister! A Zoom login link will be emailed to each registrant prior to the event. In case you have not received your login link email, just follow the link below to join the webinar.
Join ACCGP and our generous sponsor, Troutman Pepper, for a discussion on how to identify and minimize antitrust risk in your organization. The panelists will address potential situations that could expose your company to increased antitrust risk, including litigation and enforcement, and offer practical tips to minimize that risk while still achieving your organization’s business goals. The discussion will also provide guidance on what to do when enforcement agencies are on your door step, including best practices for internal investigations, responding to subpoenas and the proactive use of compliance to prevent enforcement actions and mitigate outcomes.
Over-retention of data is a major data privacy risk for all companies. U.S. and international regulations specifically require that companies ensure their retention standards are up-to-date and enforced, and that all obsolete records containing regulated sensitive data are disposed of promptly. By implementing defensible data minimization strategies across your organization, you can significantly reduce your costs and risks. Data you don't have can't be breached, and doesn't have to be produced during litigation or for data access requests.
Join the ACC Northeast Chapter and ACC's exclusive Alliance Partner for Data Privacy Compliance, Exterro, for this important webinar. Beyond gaining insights into how to practice good data hygiene, you will learn:
How to best implement data minimization strategies that protect your company's data and your organization;
What key data retention considerations you should be considering; and
The vital role technology plays in automating and identifying the right data to delete.
Register below. Dial in to be provided once registered.
The Victorian Commercial Arbitration Scheme (VCAS) is a set of Rules that provide a process through which parties can resolve disputes quickly under a capped-fee scheme with experienced arbitrators. The VCAS deals with the resolution of disputes by means of private arbitration instead of litigation in Court. VCAS’s procedures are simple and convenient and will appeal to companies that are seeking a flexible and low-cost resolution of their civil and commercial disputes.
This webcast, presented in conjunction with the Victorian Bar and the Commercial Bar Association, will provide an introduction to the VCAS Rules, how the Scheme operates, what in-house counsel need to do to access it, as well as an overview of arbitration and how it works in practice. Presented by Victorian barristers Rob Heath QC and Kieran Hickie together with a member of Corporate Counsel.
Join Gilbert + Tobin for a live webinar, hosted in conjunction with ACC Australia, on current developments in contract law, including recent cases on:
• termination rights;
• good faith obligations;
• clauses dealing with consequential loss; and
• the enforcement of dispute resolution clauses.
Tim and Alastair will also consider how these developments affect the drafting and implementation of commercial agreements.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for Australian companies and businesses. Many have been forced to rely on temporary measures put in place by the Federal Government (both fiscal and regulatory) and negotiations or extensions with stakeholders (such as banks and landlords) in order to stay afloat. As a result, almost all Australian businesses are now exposed to significant risks arising from the financial distress or even the insolvency of their contractual counterparties. Despite this, there are a variety of proactive steps which can be taken, and protective measures available, to maximise the outcomes for your business in the event of counterparty insolvency.
Join Gilbert + Tobin’s award-winning Restructuring + Insolvency and Disputes + Investigations teams for a live webinar on managing counterparty insolvency risk. The webinar will explore:
our views on the current market and regulatory regime;
challenges with the current regulatory environment and the temporary protections;
the protective measures which can be put in place to mitigate the risks associated with counterparty distress or insolvency;
the consequences of counterparty insolvency to your business and ongoing trading arrangements;
statutory moratoriums that apply in certain external administrations (including the ipso facto provisions), retention of titles issues and PPSA requirements;
strategies for dealing with a company that has suffered an insolvency event; and
the potential impact of the government winding back the temporary measures and implementing the proposed new insolvency laws.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
Building on our successful webinar in July, The New Playbook for International Business Growth, ACC Northeast, together with Osborne Clarke, is pleased to invite you to join us for an updated and timely webinar.
Highlighting Osborne Clarke depth from across Europe, this webinar will provide a broad and holistic view of the key international compliance issues that must be at the top of the priority list for US in-house counsel.
Key topics to be covered:
Setting up and operating a global compliance program;
Implementing continuous improvement measures;
Recent global data protection and privacy updates;
The Schrems II decision, and how US businesses are facilitating data transfers from Europe;
Shifting international regulatory landscape, the impact across various industries and how to adapt to changing priority;
Assessing opportunities and creating a growth roadmap for your organization for 2021 and beyond.
Register below today for this exclusive ACC Northeast webinar and hear from Osborne Clarke's experts as they share first-hand views of best practices for global compliance.