Conference Agenda
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Professional Development [PD]Substantive Issues [SI]In-House Young Professionals [YP]
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| 7:45 am – 8:45 am |
Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors and Sponsors |
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| 8:45 am – 9:45 am |
Opening Keynote Speaker
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| 9:45 am – 10:45 am |
Keynote Panel: The Real Story Behind “The Informant” – A Case of Corporate Fraud Panelist
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| 10:45 am – 11:15 am |
Networking Refreshment Break with Exhibitors and Sponsors |
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Ethics Boot Camp I (Introduction) This session provides a thorough review of the Model Rules. Get the opportunity to examine best practices, figure out ways to manage client relationships and come to understand the up-the-ladder reporting requirements. Speaker
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
IP Update: Patent Law Reform With various changes in patent law, it is imperative that you create a plan to prevent expensive future problems and patent infringement. If your business has operations in a patent-heavy area, join our panelist and hear what measures you need to implement in response to the overhaul to the patent system. Moderator
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Managing Your International Business With the growing globalization of business, understanding what’s relevant to U.S. based in-house counsel is very important. This session will provide an overview and practical advice on common issues encountered by in-house counsel in managing their foreign subsidiaries from within the U.S. You will:
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| 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm |
Lunch |
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| 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm |
Young Professional Lunch & Learn: (Limited Seating)
Deposition Planning – Preparing the Corporate Witness |
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Technology Assisted Review: Practical Guidance from Legal and Technology Perspectives Technology Assisted Review (TAR) is the subject of much debate and confusion. Its proponents can’t agree on what to call it and its skeptics fear that it may not be legally defensible. However, TAR is not a radical new tool but rather an evolution of widely accepted technologies and practices. This session will provide actionable advice about how to use technology assisted review to reduce your eDiscovery costs as well as how to defend your decision to use it.
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Growing Pains – Handling Growth When You Have A Small Legal Department With rapid growth come rapid challenges. When this occurs, the speed at which the growth occurred can sometimes be overwhelming, bringing on a unique set of problems within a legal department. This session will focus on business strategy, legal risk management and department resources that need to be implemented to manage your department growth successfully. Moderator
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
The NLRB’s “Race to the Finish” – The Final Months of 2011 Facing the prospect of a two-member Board in 2012 and thus having its hands effectively tied, the second half of 2011 saw an unparalleled level of radical decisions come out of the National Labor Relations Board. The Board issued numerous decisions in cases that posed significant implications for businesses – in both union and non-union settings – that could fracture a workforce. Join us for this session to be “in the know” to avoid unfair labor practice charges in 2012. Moderator
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Top 10 Financial Shenanigans Financial frauds don’t discriminate – they occur in most industries and geographies throughout the world. Are you familiar with some of the ‘usual suspects’ of financial fraud in Asia, South America, Europe or North America? A deeper understanding of financial fraud risks at home and abroad will help companies more effectively develop and maintain global anti-fraud and anti-bribery policies and controls. Join us as we delve into actual case studies with our “Top 10 Financial Shenanigans” of the past year. |
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| 3:15 pm – 3:40 pm |
Networking Refreshment Break |
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Conjoined Twins – Corporate Culture and Your Ethics Policy It is common knowledge that customers prefer dealing with organizations they trust. While many executives pledge their commitment to ethics, sometimes their corporate cultures don’t align with their lip service. Policies are written, but hardly enforced; employee training is given but not reinforced. Does this sound familiar? Learn from our panelists why your corporate culture and ethics policy go hand and hand and what you need to do to ensure ethics and compliance become a priority for your organization. Moderator
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Dodd Frank: Where Are We Now? With the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (a 900-page document) fully taking shape, knowing how the activities of your business may impact you under Dodd-Frank is important in this heavily regulated environment. Hear from our panelists on what is now finalized, what is coming down the pike, what parts of your business could be affected and the regulators’ current priorities.
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Corporate Litigation – Adding External Investigations to the Mix When corporate litigation requires external investigation support, careful planning is needed. Penalties for violating regulations can be severe, and in-house counsel must know what to do to limit undue distress to employees and ensure a successful outcome. Hear from our panelists on the ins and outs of adding external investigations to the mix of your corporate litigation.
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Benefits and Risks of a At-Home Workforce Allowing employees to work from home can be beneficial to the employee and employer, but there are a number of compliance considerations that need to be addressed. From wage and hour audits, to discrimination claims for employees denied this benefit when others are not, to employers being liable for injuries employees suffer while working from home, this session helps you understand the benefits and risks of a telecommuting workforce. Moderator
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| 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm |
Cocktail Reception in the Exhibit Hall |
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| 7:45 am – 8:45 am |
Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors and Sponsors |
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| 8:45 am – 9:45 am |
Keynote Panel – General Counsel’s Shaping Government Policy (How it Benefits the Business) Panelists
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| 9:45 am – 10:45 am |
Judicial Roundtable
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| 10:45 am – 11:15 am |
Networking Refreshment Break with Exhibitors and Sponsors |
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Ethics Boot Camp II This session will provide an opportunity to discuss debate and review numerous ethical questions submitted by our conference attendees. Gain the opportunity to understand whether the submitted issues are walking an ethical tight rope and examine the latest ethical practices confronting in-house counsel. Speakers
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Social Media Governance The National Labor Relations Board’s involvement with social media disciplinary issues has increased the importance for organizations to plan, prepare and create social media governance within their companies. Join us for this engaging session to certify whether your current actions and policies comply with NLRB rulings, learn what resources are needed to manage your company’s social media initiatives, and understand what guidelines need to be created to ensure compliance. Speaker
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Arbitration Agreements Post Concepcion: Case – What you Need to Know With the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling of AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, employers looking to avoid exposure from employment-related class actions may focus more heavily on arbitration agreements with class action waivers for their workforce. This session will focus on what you need to know about the ruling and how to craft arbitration agreements to help avoid challenges to the agreement’s enforceability.
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| 11:30 am – 12:45 pm |
Legal Challenges at the General Counsel and CEO Level: What’s Keeping You Up At Night. Hear from General Counsels and Senior In-House Counsel on how they manage legal issues internally with their CEO and externally with law firms and vendors.
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| 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm |
Lunch |
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| 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm |
Young Professional Lunch & Learn: (Limited Seating)
Understanding Financial Statements – An In-House Counsel How To |
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
International M&A A successful international M&A transaction mandates analysis, management and coordination of many factors, including differing statutory frameworks, due diligence process and risk analysis, merger control analysis, and international compliance considerations. Join this panel presentation for a lively discussion of practical advice by experienced dealmakers for a successful cross-border transaction including the topic of global integration as an integral part of the transaction process.
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Survive, Succeed and Transform with Analytics: Data Driven Management Using Benchmarks The greater availability of data and competition driven by economic necessity resulted in the demise of the old notion that litigation is immune from cost containment strategies. The next step in the evolution of data driven litigation management is the application of benchmarking data to litigated matters. This session will cover data driven management strategies using benchmarks including how best to price, manage and budget a single matter/case or a portfolio of similar matters/cases.
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Managing Up: How to Structure Your Team to Empower Your Own Productivity When it comes to legal department management, as the saying goes, there aren’t enough hours in the day. With competitive priorities, keeping costs down, mitigating risk and forecasting future contingent liabilities, it’s a tough job and getting the results you need within a minimal time period is even tougher. Join this session to learn about management techniques that will help guide your team to seeing organizational goals as their own, and receive basic team structure ideas to help conquer traditional management issues. Moderator
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| 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Compliance Strategies in an Environment of Constant Change: How to Cope with Social Media in the Cloud Social Media in the workplace will only increase over time. Does your company have the tools and policies in place to handle the security risks posed by social media? How does a company’s document retention policy come into play for business documents that are generated with social media and stored in the Cloud? This session will address social media, the cloud and key data security methods that should be implemented now. Moderator
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| 3:15 pm – 3:40 pm |
Networking Refreshment Break |
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Litigation Holds – Varying Approaches and Solutions It’s no secret that implementing a litigation hold can be an onerous burden. To further complicate matters – the legal department and records management approach to litigation holds and data collection are done in two very different manners. For instance, records managers will often use the enterprise method of collection, while attorneys still rely on the custodian approach. In this seminar you will learn:
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Doing More with Less – Keys to success This session focuses on practical tips for evaluating department practices and assessing the applications of contract automation solutions. With a focus on best practices to help drive efficiency and doing more with less through contract automation, panelists will draw from two landmark surveys –the ongoing GCM Benchmarking Survey and a Contract Automation survey of GCs completed in January 2012 – to help provide a framework and strategies that can be implemented instantly. Moderator
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Corporate Perspectives on ADR — 2011 Survey Results and Current Trends Increasingly, all disciplines are seeking to make decisions based on empirical evidence, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is no different. This panel will focus on recent research and survey results regarding corporate legal practice and ADR and will touch upon the recently completed Cornell/CPR/Pepperdine survey of the Fortune 1000 regarding ADR practices and usage. Participants will be provided with up-to-date information on the factors influencing decisions in commercial and employment arbitration, mediation, hybrid processes and systemic approaches to dispute resolution. Moderator
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| 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm |
Settling the Big Case with Disputed Coverage Corporate policyholders often find themselves caught in the middle between plaintiffs’ lawyers demanding large amounts to settle major, expensive litigation and their insurers that refuse to contribute to settlement with a reservation of the right to deny coverage outstanding. This presentation will discuss proven tactics and strategies to help policyholders cut through the gridlock, settle the big case, and go back to doing business. Topics to be covered include creating three-way mediation, forcing intransigent insurers to participate, using mediators to create settlement pressure and more. Moderator
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| 5:00 pm |
Conference Adjourns |
