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Session Track 2008
May qualify for ethics credit


Sunday, October 19
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM Reception
Monday, October 20
07:30 AM - 09:00 AM 013 Onsite Pro Bono Clinic - Part I
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Breakfast
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 001 Next Career Stop for In-house Counsel: The Board Room
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 002 Distribution Agreements
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 003 Gotcha! Top Ten Employer Compliance Mistakes
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 004 Understanding & Surviving OSHA
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 005 Negotiating IP Provisions in Contracts: Lessons Learned on the Front Line
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 006 Starting Off on the Right Foot as New In-house Counsel
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 007 How to Respond to Your Financial Services Agency
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 008 Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Using Traditional Litigation Tools for Strategic Advantage
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 009 Considerations in Outsourcing Legal Services
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 010 Globalization of Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Is the Playing Field Leveling?
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 011 Employment Law Update
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 012 Benchmarking Corporate Governance
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 013 Onsite Pro Bono Clinic - Part II
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 101 ACC's Value Challenge: Reconnecting Costs to Value in Outside Legal Services (Part I: Introduction)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 102 Anatomy of a Private Equity Sale
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 103 Crisis Management: Responding When Disaster Strikes
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 104 An Update on Environmental Disclosures
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 105 T'aint Easy Protecting Another's Confidential Information
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 106 IP Competitive Intelligence
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 107 Financial Services General Counsel Roundtable
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 108 Ethics Issues Surrounding Electronic Discovery
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 109 Simplifying Agreements: Making Documents Shorter, Easier to Understand, and Adaptable to Risk
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 110 Differences between Civil Law & Common Law Countries in Drafting & Negotiating International Contracts
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 111 No One is Getting Any Younger: Avoiding Age Discrimination in the Workplace
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 112 Beyond the Basic Arbitration Agreement: Increasing the Speed and Efficiency of Commercial Arbitration
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 113 In-house Counsel as Circus Ringmaster
12:45 PM - 02:15 PM 200 Lunch
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 201 ACC's Value Challenge: Law Firm and Corporate Counsel Workshops (Part II)
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 202 The Tricks & Traps of Corporate Intrapreneurship & Entrepreneurial Investment: Getting the Most Out of a New Business
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 203 Handling Your First Discrimination or Wrongful Termination Complaint: EEO Investigation Basics
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 204 EH&S 101: The Nuts and Bolts of Dealing with EPA and OSHA
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 205 Regulatory Revolution in Patent Law
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 206 M&A for the Non-M&A Lawyer
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 207 Payment Card Industry Requirements- How to Protect Your Credit Card Data
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 208 Anatomy of a Trial: Influencing the Outcome from the Client's Chair
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 209 Taking Matter Management to the Next Level
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 210 Doing Business in the Middle East and North Africa
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 211 ERISA: Top 10 Compliance Areas
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 212 SEC Update
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM Break
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 301 Answers to Questions You Wish Your Outside Auditor Hadn't Asked
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 302 How to Cope with Being a Generalist
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 303 Organization, Productivity, and Effectively Managing Workflow
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 304 Focus on Environmental Regulation of Products: How EPA Has Moved Beyond the Factories
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 305 Nuts and Bolts of Trademark Practice In-house
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 306 Buying Energy
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 307 A Sub-Primer
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 308 Fraud Planning & Prevention for In-house Counsel
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 309 A Practical Approach to Records Management
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 310 Class Actions Outside the US: Is the Cancer Spreading?
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 311 Contingent Workers
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 312 Managing Foreign Operations Under SOX and the FCPA
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM Reception
Tuesday, October 21
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Breakfast
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 401 Report from the Front Lines: Current Antitrust and Competition Policy Issues
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 402 Government Contracts for the Generalist
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 403 Demystifying Trade Secrets: How to Identify and Protect Them
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 404 Climate Change for Business
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 405 We Said That? Building a Robust Review of Advertising Claims & Marketing Programs
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 406 Online Contests & Sweepstakes: Don't Let Your Company be the Loser
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 407 International Insurance Law
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 408 Using Decision-tree Analysis to Intelligently Manage Litigation
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 409 Leadership Development Issues Facing the Law Department
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 410 The Rise of European National Law: Compliance Challenges and Practical Tips for In-house Counsel
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 411 Understanding the Jury in Sexual Harassment Litigation
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 412 Care & Feeding of the Board: Liability Issues for Board Members
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 501 Negotiating is a Contact Sport
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 502 Good to Excellent: Managing and Maintaining a Successful Law Department
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 503 Outsourcing: The New Tsunami
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 504 An Insider's Guide to Office Environmentalism
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 505 The Devil is in the Details: Nailing Down IP in Mergers & Acquisitions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 506 Electronic Content Management Systems: Unravel the Mysteries Before You Speak to Vendors
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 507 Maximizing Insurance Coverage
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 508 Best Practices in Patent Litigation
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 509 Metrics Mania: Leveraging Law Department Metrics to Manage Costs and Improve Performance
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 510 A Practical Approach to Compliance Challenges in the International Arena
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 511 Federal and State Wage and Hour Issues
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 512 Care & Feeding of the Board: On-Boarding and Continuing Education
12:45 PM - 02:15 PM Lunch
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 602 Negotiation of Commercial Real Estate Leases
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 603 The Government Investigator is Knocking: Now What?
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 604 Corporate Counsel's Role in Taking Your Company Green
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 605 Designing a Distribution System that Complies with U.S. and Canadian Antitrust Laws
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 606 A Global Perspective on Data Security Breaches and Enforcement
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 607 Ethics in Practice
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 608 How to Excel at Litigation Holds
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 609 An Enterprise Approach to Contract Management
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 610 Protecting the Brand
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 611 How to Survive a Union Corporate Campaign and NLRA/Labor Law Update
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM 612 When the SEC Says Great Companies Got it Wrong
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM CLO1 Law Department Pro Bono and Diversity Strategies that Work (only open to Chief Legal Officers)
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM Break
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 702 Personal Liability Risks Facing In-house Counsel
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 703 In-house Litigation Management
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 704 Legally Green: Lower the Environmental Impact of Your Law Department
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 705 Nonprofit Mergers & Acquisitions
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 706 Data and Information Security: What are the Rules and Can Technology Help With Compliance?
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 707 The Right to Select Counsel: A New Twist in Insurance Company Negotiations
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 708 Hot Topics in E-Discovery: Are There Any Other Kinds?
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 709 Creating an Effective Law Department Business Plan
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 710 Succeeding in China and India: The Next Ten Years
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 711 We've Got An Eye On You: Employee Monitoring & Communications, Privacy, and Data Security
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 712 How to Deal with Shareholders
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM CLO2 CSR - The Law Department's Role (only open to Chief Legal Officers)
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM Reception
Wednesday, October 22
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Breakfast
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 801 Ethics SuperSession
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 802 The Tax Implications of Fines, Penalties, and Punitive Damages
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 803 Corporate and Securities Litigation Update
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 804 Going Green? A Primer on the Purchase and Sale of Renewable Energy Attributes
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 805 Fraud & Malfeasance: State & Federal Enforcement
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 806 Going Global with Large IT Vendors: Dancing with the Elephant
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 807 Insurance, Risk Management, and Captive Insurance Companies
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 808 The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 809 International Staffing: Recruiting, Training, and Retaining Lawyers from Foreign Jurisdictions
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 810 Criminalization Trends in Europe, the Middle East and Asia: Effects on US Business
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 811 Trade in the Pacific Rim: Developments and Opportunities
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM 812 Companies in Crisis: Ethical Issues Faced by Boards and Their Counsel
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 901 To Be Announced
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 902 Proactively Managing Electronic Discovery: Challenges for Small Law Departments
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 903 How to Survive a SOX Whistleblower Complaint
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 904 Doing Business in Ontario: Environmental Management is Key
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 905 Tax-Exempt Bond Financing
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 906 Open Source-Into the Main Stream
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 907 Attacks on In-house Counsel's Ethics
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 908 Asia: Red Flags are Everywhere, Not Just on Buildings