ACC 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting

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In the world of virtual conferences, networking can be both easier and harder. This workshop will provide reasons as to why and how networking can be better online. And you will have the opportunity to experience networking effectively in the world of Zoom. Come join some of your favorite people, plus meet new individuals to build professional relationships and expand your network.

Sneak Peek: You know those groups you can't break into at an in-person conference? They don't even exist virtually!

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In today’s global economy, customers, investors, employees, and other stakeholders are holding businesses to a high ethical standard. Falling short of that standard can result in serious backlash. What does an ethical company really look like? Does acting ethically necessarily impede day-to-day operations and profit? Finally, what role does the legal function play in supporting ethical conduct? Join us for this engaging discussion as we journey towards becoming one of the world’s most ethical companies!

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If the wave hasn’t hit your department yet, get ready for a direct blow in the coming months. Retention and turnover experts are predicting workers have and will continue to voluntarily leave their jobs in 2021 and the near term beyond. How are you addressing the very real issues surrounding talent retention and acquisition in order to maintain an effective workforce within the legal department? Join us to discuss the tools you can use and the plans you can follow to keep your current employees happy and engaged as well as to identify and hire the best candidates for your team.

Find your people.

You've made the investment in ACC. We want you to make the most of it.

You are personally invited to join a panel of existing ACC members to learn how to get connected, stay connected, and make the most of your investment. This meeting will be like nothing you've ever experienced. Network with other new members and start you network.

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Even under "normal circumstances" the legal profession is demanding, often characterized by long hours, workaholism, and higher levels of substance abuse than other professions. Attorneys are often at risk for burnout, which can lead to ineffective lawyering, ethics violations, breakdown of personal and professional relationships, and is linked to depression and suicide. Living through the global COVID-19 pandemic has presented its own unique risks and challenges, compounding stress and uncertainty. But what exactly is burnout, and how may it be affecting you, your team, and/or your legal department? What can our profession learn from the work being done at the Mayo Clinic to prevent burnout among physicians? What can you do to monitor for the risk of burnout, fight burnout when you see its effects on your team, and implement systemic changes to promote the health and wellness of your legal team?

Join this engaging discussion as thoughtful attorneys tackling these problems converse with experts in the science of burnout to share ideas and hear your thoughts about how we can work together to counter this problem and prioritize well-being in support of fulfillment and continued high performance among your team members.

*Eligibility requirements apply; participation subject to approval. In order to attend this session, you must be a current Corporate Member Ambassador (i.e., an attorney at an ACC Corporate Member who has volunteered to be an Ambassador for the membership at their organization), or someone who is an attorney at an ACC Corporate Member and willing to become an Ambassador. For an invitation or additional information contact corporate@acc.com.

During this introduction to our new, virtual platform, learn how to setup your profile, add sessions to your schedule, connect with contacts, and customize how you want to spend your time during the meeting.

After checking out the virtual environment, stick around for the Trivia Hour! Pour your favorite beverage, pack snacks, and let’s find out who’s the 2021 ACC Trivia Master. Bragging rights (and Amazon gift cards) are up for grabs!

Teams will be assigned randomly.

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What have we learned over the past year about Mindfulness, Meditation and staying happy & healthy at home? Join Jeff & Jill to discuss effective steps we can all take to continue our wellness journeys. Learn about at-home fitness, nutrition and mental wellbeing in this exciting session.

Learn practical tips for in-house counsel in this introduction to media training! We’ll cover key points on preparing for an interview, advice to help get your message across, and some key mistakes to avoid. Then, we’ll break out into smaller groups to practice and discuss. Join us for this high-level media discussion.

Space is limited.

Find your people.

You've made the investment in ACC. We want you to make the most of it.

You are personally invited to join a panel of existing ACC members to learn how to get connected, stay connected, and make the most of your investment. This meeting will be like nothing you've ever experienced. Network with other new members and start you network.

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The recent push by companies, states, and even countries to require broader diversity on corporate boards reminds us of the role boards of directors play in the overall health of an organization. Their decisions impact and contribute to innovative thinking and growth within the company. Having diverse perspectives represented from a broad range of backgrounds, beyond just gender and ethnicity/race, allows for broadly informed and engaging conversations, which lead to creativity and critical analysis that might otherwise not occur with a more homogeneous group. Join representatives from ACC’s Board of Directors as they discuss diversity, equity, inclusion, and lessons learned from their ACC leadership experience that can help you tap best practices to build into your board governance plans.

Join us as we gather to recognize and celebrate the incredible contributions and accomplishments of our 2021 ACC leadership and value champion award winners. Stay on after the ceremony for a great opportunity to connect with the award winners and other annual meeting attendees.

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The Women in the House (WITH) Network, supported by the ACC Foundation, invites you to join them for a fireside chat. This panel will feature senior level women in the legal profession and focus on the strengths that women bring to life and work, discussing how to effectively use and integrate these strengths in the workplace. We encourage attendees to be open to sharing their stories of success and leadership and experiences that have shaped their professional path.

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Twenty percent of Lawyers face addiction issues today. Join us to hear how you do not need to wait for crisis to strike before addressing your physical or mental health.

Sponsored by Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

ACC Top 10 30-Somethings alumni are a part of a network of talented lawyers that has been growing since 2012. Join this networking session to connect with existing friends and colleagues or make new contacts.

This session is only open to recipients of the ACC Top 10 30-Somethings awards.

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Join us for a lively discussion from general counsel perspectives on how to secure a GC position. Learn answers to what should you, as a prospective GC, do to make yourself more marketable and desirable to companies, what are the various paths to the position, how to build your legal team leadership skills to meet pace and urgency without burnout, how to develop and utilize your network, how to develop relationships with recruiters, and much more.

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Members of the ACC Singapore Board and other experienced senior counsel will explore how compliance challenges can be navigated across the diverse and expansive cultural, political, legal, and geographic landscape in the Asia Pacific region. Using recent cases and other data, the session will focus on FCPA violations, managing investigations, and understanding the rising incidence of cybercrime. Learn the importance of designing and delivering compliance programs that address local and regional nuances from counsel who have successfully implemented better management of compliance risks in the ASEAN emerging markets with a deep dive into incidents in the region.

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(Roundtable) ) Legal teams in APAC, whether large or small, are typically facing pressure to "do more with less" while simultaneously managing legal risk across a vast and complex region. Your hosts will facilitate a roundtable discussion on how legal departments in the region are structured, current challenges and emerging trends, and how technology and the growth of ALSPs are changing the way in-house counsel work and staff legal practices.

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Strong leaders always want to see the most talented people in their department succeed. This panel of law department leaders from across EMEA will explore succession planning from two perspectives: That of the GC with a star performer, and that of the deputy waiting to ascend to the top spot.

Join to gain seasoned perspectives on GCs' important succession planning decisions spanning a wide range of topics, from supporting business clients and determining compensation, to managing organizational dynamics and fostering individual success without alienating the team. Shifting focus, panelists will then impart key insights for top-performing potential successors, including how to continue to grow your career while you wait for that next opportunity. Attendees will take away practical tips for cultivating talent without losing collegiality and developing your own skills and abilities for when an opening presents itself.

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The past 18 months have truly upended almost everything we do — how we buy, work, socialize, and more — creating remarkable changes in customer behavior and a renewed focus on customer experience. An “experience renaissance” is affecting companies and businesses around the world, and in-house counsel can capitalize on this moment to make the legal customer experience first-class.

This session will share Accenture’s approaches to creating a client-first service model, including how segmentation can support various business needs, and how tech innovation in contract analysis, digitization, and more can deliver greater value and insights to both internal and external clients.

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Antitrust laws and regulations continue to gain popularity and influence throughout Africa and beyond. New and amended competition legislation has been recently introduced in Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, and South Africa, and no fewer than five regional regulators maintain authority interwoven with that of more than 30 national governing bodies across the continent.

With competition enforcement efforts on the rise worldwide, Africa is an important piece of the global compliance puzzle not to be ignored. Join this session to learn from seasoned experts the essentials of competition laws and regulations in Africa and begin scanning the horizon for what may impact your company in 2022 and beyond.

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The tide has turned, and corporations are increasingly prioritizing environmental, social, and governance factors. Businesses from around the globe are taking stands on issues typically reserved for governments. It’s no surprise that trust in business is at an all-time high! At the heart of this change is whether corporations can balance delivering value to investors, while also delivering on ESG commitments. Hear from our panel of in-house counsel and business leaders who are uniquely qualified to weigh in on both sides of this conversation, especially as ESG issues that we’ve seen in the last 20 months look to be here to stay.

Across the globe, government reviews of foreign investments have expanded significantly since the start of 2020. Some G7 countries have introduced new foreign investment review processes, while others have expanded their existing regimes. Join us for a panel featuring experts from key jurisdictions around the world as they examine recent developments in foreign investment reviews and highlight the key points that investors need to consider before engaging in inbound or outbound cross-border investments. We will cover topics including recent updates from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the UK’s new National Security Investment Act, and how companies can balance compliance requirements across competing regimes.

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Jon Gafni, Head of U.S. Foreign Investment, Linklaters, and former deputy national intelligence officer for CFIUS support at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Nicole Kar, Head of UK Antitrust & Foreign Investment, Linklaters

Get to know more about your fellow attendees. Join us for short bursts of fun, small group video networking and take the energy generated to power the rest of your day.

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Join us for an engaging roundtable conversation with your fellow chief legal officers of large legal departments (having 9+ attorneys) about navigating the minefields of advising your company on when and how to speak out on challenging political issues. Our conversation will be guided by a group of thoughtful CLOs who have faced these issues and advised their CEOs on taking such positions. As with all of our roundtable sessions, come prepared to engage and share your experiences with your peers so that everyone learns together. The discussion will include the role of the CLO in advising senior management on taking positions on topics such as voting rights, racism, climate change and the environment, and COVID-19 related issues, among others.

*Eligibility requirements apply; participation subject to approval. In order to attend this session, you must be the senior most legal official (i.e., chief legal officer/general counsel) of your organization's law department, which must have 9 or more attorneys.

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From China to the EU to California (and back again!), this global tour will highlight everything from management of an essential workforce, to manufacturing challenges, supply chain impacts, and overseeing an unsupported infrastructure. While each jurisdiction has to manage its own crisis, many multinational organizations and NGOs had to learn how to swim in unchartered waters. Our well-travelled tour guides will offer tips on how in-house counsel can work with their company leaders to keep business moving, international expansion plans on target, and executives out of jail in the increasingly connected global economy.

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Organizations across the globe have experienced incidents and data breaches for the past decade, but many organizations still treat data breaches as rare events, addressing them with ad-hoc processes, on-the-fly communication, and cobbled-together toolsets. There is a better way! Join panelists as they walk through a hypothetical scenario of a global organization responding to an incident and gain best practices for building and executing a compliant and defensible breach response plan

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Since George Floyd’s death and the immediate worldwide reaction, in-house counsel have moved from early momentum to sustainable DE&I practices to better balance the 16 percent of lawyers and nine percent of partners who are racially or ethnically diverse and the 35 percent of lawyers and 23 percent of firm partners who are women. This session will follow case studies of DE&I efforts from legal departments (particularly those with limited resources) and law firms to engage in a transparent discussion about actionable ideas you can take with you to help move your DE&I programs forward.

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You have reached the final frontier in your job search. Background music, maestro: the job interview! If it goes well, a potential job awaits. How is it that some candidates stand out and create a unique connection with their potential employer? Great candidates approach their job interviews no differently than famous talk show hosts approach their upcoming media interviews. In a short period of time, they tell their unique stories and elicit key experiences from the people in front of them.
Hear from Jason Levin, executive career, business development, and outplacement coach at Ready, Set, Launch, LLC® as he outlines interviewing best practices and answers these questions:
How should you ask for and properly use an informational interview with a potential employer?
What should you do to prepare for an interview?
How do you correctly balance both answering and asking questions during an interview?
What are the nuances of a phone screen or Zoom interview?
How can you channel you “inner Oprah” to stand out with you interviewer?

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Join our diverse group of panelists for a lively discussion from C-Suite perspectives on how to secure a GC position. Learn answers to what should you, as a prospective GC, do to make yourself more marketable and desirable to companies, what are the various paths to the position, how to build your legal team leadership skills to meet pace and urgency without burnout, how to develop and utilize your network, how to develop relationships with recruiters, and much more.

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Many important business opportunities for US multinational companies arise in nations and territories that are embattled with strategic conflicts and/or criminal organizations. Some of these locations are targets of longstanding US sanction programs. Some risk imposition of secondary sanctions, and still others pose risks of future US sanctions or anti-money laundering enforcement. This panel will explore what sophisticated corporate counsel should understand, analyze, and monitor to stay ahead of enforcement, commercial, and reputational risks relating to increasingly rapid changes in US sanctions and anti-money laundering priorities.

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COVID has taught us that business, operational, and competitive landscapes can change on a dime. Organizations need to be nimble and change course to adapt to evolving business climates. Given the scale of many legal reviews, a traditional approach to managing these projects has become time and cost prohibitive. This panel will discuss end-to-end ediscovery and contracts solutions, weaving in best practices and proven results from real-world use cases. You will learn what steps to take before kicking off a review to set yourself up for success, how to incorporate legal technology solutions to automate/streamline tasks, and how to leverage cost efficient resources to complete quality reviews.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly demonstrated the utility of remote work and accelerated pre-existing trends toward the flexible workplace. Increasingly, the global search for talent and employees’ desires for global travel and experiences are leading employers to try to accommodate remote work in countries where the company otherwise does not operate. Join us to interactively unpack these complex and interlocking issues including local employment law/social security, work authorization requirements, tax presence concerns, and benefit and workplace injury coverage, which make cross-border remote work a difficult, although essential, challenge for an employer to manage.

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This panel will explore the opportunities and challenges implicated by the transition toward a low-carbon energy future. Topics will include environmental, social, and governance (ESG), green and sustainability-linked bonds, and new technologies (hydrogen, carbon capture/sequestration), among other issues.

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As healthcare costs and costs related to perceived healthcare fraud continue to rise, regulators are devoting more resources to pursue those who engage in questionable or unscrupulous practices that result in the billing of fraudulent or medically unnecessary services to federally funded healthcare programs. In this session, regulators from various federal agencies will participate in a candid conversation to share recent initiatives and trends in regulatory enforcement actions in the healthcare industry.

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The London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the international interest-rate estimate used for global bank lending, is supposed to disappear at the end of 2021. Join this panel discussion on the proposed replacements, the likely impacts (short, medium, and long term), and how impacted in-house counsel's risk and contracting teams will have to deal with these changes.

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This panel will explore the 2021 spring proxy season and various shareholder proposals that were presented providing a statistical summary of the proposals to date and their outcomes, as well as a short description of how shareholder proposals work under SEC rules. Plus, our in-house experts will share their perspectives on the shareholder proposal process including tips for you to consider in responding to shareholder proposals.

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In the spirit of SNL’s “Weekend Update,” this ACC special edition of “Weekday Update” will explore how to build trust, avoid lawsuits, and mitigate claims from employees and supervisors of various generations, management styles, and cultural backgrounds. In this rapid-fire program, Anthony and Alyesha will use entertaining examples to identify key lessons on top-of-mind issues while fielding live audience questions. Top in-house thought leaders will chime in with valuable insights on topics such as counterintuitive strategies for eliminating harassment and discrimination, new developments in artificial intelligence, well-intentioned (but misguided) domestic and cross-border DE&I efforts, and more. Don’t miss the most fun CLE/CPD session at AM21!

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Attend this session to understand the basics of implementing and maintaining equity incentive plans at both private and public companies. Topics will include the basic terms of incentive plans, the types of awards issued under these plans, and the approvals required to implement them. Plus, we will identify concerns when drafting an incentive plan and granting awards, including securities laws applicable to equity plans and equity awards, issuing grants to foreign employees, and the nuts and bolts of day-to-day administration.

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No doubt, COVID-19 has dominated the headlines, but there have been a significant number of federal, state, and local non-COVID related employment developments that impact the workplace. Join this expert panel as it highlights legislative developments and judicial opinions in key areas, including paid and unpaid leave legislation, new bans on noncompetes, changes to WARN Acts, and laws related to pregnancy accommodation, Biometric information privacy, equal pay, hairstyle discrimination, and marijuana use.

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Even in this era of digital information with employees working from home, many companies still cling to old-fashioned, paper-based records management policies, processes, and practices. Join us as we discuss starting a modern program or updating your old one. Topics will include: an introduction to key components of a modern records management program; creating records schedules that better address electronic information and are easier to follow; how to prevent employees and business units from hoarding electronic information; creating employee records processes that comply with the “five second rule”; and making your program work for WFH employees.

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After years of low level grumbling about Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon’s hold over social networking, online advertising, online search, and other areas, the antitrust floodgates have opened. Federal and state enforcers from all over the political spectrum have sued the big tech giants for monopolizing various markets. The time is now to assess your existing antitrust compliance program to ensure it is up to date. This session will review DOJ guidance on antitrust compliance, review trends in the law, and provide practical takeaways for you to develop your own assessment. Whether you are a part of a large or small legal department, this session will ensure you can stay ahead of the curve.

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As businesses engage more deeply with stakeholder groups – including workers, the community, the environment, and customers – in-house counsel must assess the impact on business relationships. For many corporate counsel, the combination of multi-stakeholder interests plus enhanced reputational risk requires a new playbook. More business relationships must be viewed with a lens that combines the company’s newer stakeholder commitments with its traditional concerns. Our panelists will describe frameworks for re-considering customer-supplier relationships using this broader lens. Panelists will discuss new contractual risks and related provisions, due diligence of partner relationships, risk committee impacts on the contracting function, and contract analytics with a mind towards sharing best practices to help your legal team adapt to the changing business environment.

End the day by visiting sponsors you may have missed and attend fun virtual receptions and activities.

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This session, hosted by members of the ACC Singapore Board, will explore how Singapore has become a powerful hub for small and large companies wanting to expand in Asia and capture the tremendous growth of emerging markets in the ASEAN region. We will explore the advantages of Singapore’s legal system and lay out what general counsel and in-house attorneys need to know to succeed in setting up their regional legal operations in Singapore.

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Aligning your career choice with your values, beliefs, natural industry preferences and personality type can be challenging, especially as you progress through roles. In this presentation, Claire will discuss how to determine and match up your emotional and behavioural characteristics with quantitative tests that measure psychological variables to help you find the right job that fits you like a glove.

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Many of us struggle when it comes to talking about our own accomplishments. Cultural and gender modesty norms as well as impostor syndrome can prevent anyone from acknowledging their remarkable attributes and expressing their achievements. Google’s worldwide #IamRemarkable initiative strives to empower underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond. At the heart of this initiative is a 90-minute facilitated workshop during which you will learn the importance of self-promotion in your personal and professional life. By attending the workshop, you will walk away equipped with tools to develop this skill, challenge the social perception around self-promotion, and reflect on how we can all be better allies and advocates for underrepresented groups, so that together we can build a more inclusive world.

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The ability (or inability) to effectively track and adjust to worldwide legal and regulatory changes perennially ranks as one of the top contenders for “What’s keeping GCs up at night?” Mature compliance teams go a step further, aiming to plan for their future by predicting the risks that will impact their organizations and reallocating resources to meet future demands. Instead of focusing on, “What’s on the horizon?” this session will delve into “How do we forecast what’s coming next?”

Join this session to learn global compliance forecasting best practices from Wafa Derouiche, Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer at TE Connectivity, a global industrial technology leader with approximately 80,000 employees working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries. Afterward, you'll have the opportunity to ask your own questions in search of practical tips from her and others who may have grappled with your most pressing compliance challenges. Walk away with new peer-tested advice that will help you surmount future compliance obstacles that you encounter along your path.

Grab a beverage and engage face-to-face with fellow attendees for this casual, small group video chat experience. We encourage you to turn your camera on, engage in conversation, and leave with new connections.

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In 2020, McKinsey and Company published its sixth annual report on women in the workplace. Traditionally, this report has been celebrated, but, as we know all too well, 2020 was not a year for such a celebration. Women have made great strides to take on management and leadership roles in the corporate structure. Now, many women are stepping away and companies are at a crossroads. In the spirit of achieving gender parity, this esteemed panel will discuss the Report, the current landscape and what companies can do to keep women employees and leaders as well as review ways we can help women starting out in their careers.

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This session will discuss approaches to legal innovation on a cross border/global basis and the organization of the legal department through a look at how we optimize the use of technology; and the use of alternative legal service providers to render the delivery of legal services more efficient.

In this interactive session with experts representing in-house, legal technology, and ALSP’s we will debate the different approach taken by regulators in the EU, UK and the US to the organization of service providers (i.e. equity ownership by non-lawyers) and its effect on innovation. Can innovation include providing a multidisciplinary approach to the delivery of legal services?

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Global events over the last year — the pandemic, civil unrest, protests, riots, and environmental disasters — have required law departments to adapt, confront, and deal with emergencies on the fly. Do you have an emergency preparedness plan that allows you to be nimble but still keep you protected? Join us for this important discussion and take home a checklist of relevant items to have in your plan including access to files remotely, ways to maintain confidentiality and privilege while conducting company business at a non-company location (including at an employee’s home or temporary office), a process for using company or personal equipment at a non-company location, best practices to work with outside counsel who may also be off-site, and how to minimize disruption in law department function.

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Data privacy and security in Europe can no longer only be seen as a compliance topic. It has also become a broad field of litigation, for better or worse. The sometimes enormous fines imposed by the different EU privacy authorities have in numerous cases been successfully challenged and drastically lowered. Major claims based on allegations of wrongful data collection and use for commercial purposes are also on the rise. This panel of experts will give you an overview on the status of privacy litigation in Europe, explain how to successfully mitigate fines, and lay out strategies to effectively litigate against privacy class actions in Europe.

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This lively discussion with Infosys lawyers from around the globe will cover how the company has successfully, stressfully, and playfully closed large global deals with its clients over the past year.

One of the leading global IT services and digital transformation companies in the world, Infosys was founded and headquartered in Bangalore, India, and today has over 250,000 employees across 46 countries and a market capitalization of approximately US$70 billion. When it comes to closing large deals, the Infosys legal team of 110+ attorneys from around the world must stretch to meet all the deal’s needs. Panelists will discuss:

• Working through local laws – across numerous jurisdictions – related to contracts, employment, migration/immigration, intellectual property, compliance, M&A, and unique governmental interests;
• Navigating cultural and linguistic nuances and barriers across various regions; and
• Overcoming the logistics of inhospitable time zones and the internal and external needs of the parties’, including working with outside counsel and consulting companies.

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It is estimated that roughly 55 million adults in the US are either “unbanked” (no bank account), or “underbanked” (have a bank account, but no access to credit). Thanks to a volume of new fintech companies aimed at these groups, a full range of banking products from deposit accounts to credit cards are now within reach. This session will provide an overview of the state and federal financial services regulatory landscape and the challenges it poses to service providers. Additionally, we will explore technological innovations that have facilitated financial inclusion, including the use of alternative data sources and artificial intelligence in underwriting cryptocurrencies and fraud detection and prevention software.

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Increasingly, advertising is going digital and being tailored to the viewer to increase conversion rates which necessitates the processing and sharing of vast amounts of personal data by the parties involved in getting an ad to the consumer. We will look at the privacy issues arising from a personal data test case from a European, Canadian, and US perspective, where regulators have this industry under the microscope and draft regulations could further tighten use of cookie and pixel technologies.

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The new reality for employers is that many workplace investigations are being conducted remotely (and likely will continue this way for some time). While many in-house counsel have adapted to this new way of operating, there are still numerous obstacles that can threaten the integrity of an investigation, both from a technological and human standpoint. In this session, we will discuss best practices for conducting even the most challenging remote workplace investigation, including ensuring that interviews are conducted appropriately, assessing credibility without being in person, and avoiding pitfalls that could jeopardize the investigation. Additionally, we will cover strategies for global investigations, where issues like language and cultural differences can amplify the challenges for in-house counsel in a remote environment.

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The reasons people are satisfied with their jobs are different from the reasons they are dissatisfied. You would think they'd be two sides of the same coin, but Hertzberg’s Hygiene Theory says the opposite. The pandemic and working from home has brought this fact to the fore. The reasons for satisfaction tend to center around an individual's contribution or recognition. Dissatisfaction on the other hand focuses more on the environment or conditions created by others. In this discussion, the panelists will shine a light on the importance of creating workplace cultures by reducing the factors that create dissatisfaction, namely leadership, relationships, policies and work conditions. By making changes in how you view and address these factors, you can transform your culture to one where people love to work.

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The global automotive industry is rapidly changing. As new challenges arise daily, agility is not only just an advantage but a necessity for the legal team to meet its client’s needs. GM’s legal staff achieves this through deep knowledge about the business, anticipation of where change may occur, and adjusting to meet and, in some cases, lead the delivery of change.

Join us in a discussion on some of GM’s recent efforts to demonstrate “agility in practice” in the face of rapid change. We will explore our support of the company in its expansion of new business offerings, like Brightdrop and OnStar Insurance, its shifting international landscape, and its expansive autonomous vehicle (AV) and all-electric vehicle (EV) spaces.

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Most crises happen unexpectedly, with little to no warning. And these days, it’s clear that no one is safe from them. How you prepare and respond, however, will make a big difference in helping an organization to a quick resolution or long-term consequences. Developing an effective crisis management policy can be daunting for any company, big or small. As corporate counsel, you must play a critical role in its development to ensure all bases are covered. Take this opportunity to benchmark key ideas from a premier crisis management expert as she sits down with chief legal officers to discuss best practices in preparing for when a crisis hits.

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Two years after moving to a new legal operations technology platform, David Bumsted explains how a combination of advanced analytics and expert advice have helped his department develop a culture of financial accountability, value-based engagement, and continuous improvement.

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David Bumsted, SVP & Group General Counsel, Andritz
Alex Kelly, Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder, Brightflag

A 2021 EY Law and Harvard Law School survey, which interviewed more than 2,000 GCs, found that in-house counsel expect 25% greater workloads over the next three years. At the same time, 88% of GCs anticipate budget cuts.

Despite these unprecedented workloads and budget cuts, teams are expected to juggle growing workstreams while remaining agile and responsive, even as the world around them changes on a daily basis. Explore how to address emerging and evolving risks, improve cost-efficiencies, and minimize your pain-points, while staying aligned with the business.

Graciously sponsored by Pramata

Are you ready to learn a little more about your fellow attendees? Join us for short bursts of fun, small group video networking and leave energized to tackle the final events of the day.

Open to in-house counsel only.

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In this popular session, open to direct reports to the chief legal officer, you will hear directly from a group of leading CLOs about the road to becoming general counsel. Learn how they got their first GC role, important career lessons learned, why you might (and might not!) wish to become a CLO yourself, and come away with a better understanding of what C-suite leadership looks like for legal.

The roundtable format means that you have a chance to engage in a dialogue, ask your questions, and share your own career experience and perspective as a senior leader in your department. This is a unique opportunity for you to engage directly with top CLOs on a variety of career topics and get thoughtful, candid answers to your most pressing questions.

*Eligibility requirements apply; participation subject to approval. In order to attend this session, you must report directly to the Chief Legal Officer of a large law department (9+ attorneys). For an invitation or additional information contact corporate@acc.com.

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced that student-athletes can now be compensated for their name, image, and likenesses (NIL) during their collegiate year. Corporate counsel in a variety of industries will need to understand new regulations that could impact the use of NILs going forward. Hear from our panel of experts as they unpack these regulations from a corporate, agent, sponsor, and endorsement perspective.

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Manufacturers are highly susceptible to an unannounced OSHA visit, and even if you have handled inspections in the past, there is always room to grow! This entertaining presentation will use video and photos from actual cases to teach participants how to successfully manage an OSHA inspection to reduce your exposure to OSHA citations as well as downstream liability.

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In a global, mobile world, understanding the impact of US immigration law on your bottom line is not only essential for an in-house legal team, but arguably the most challenging to navigate. That is because today’s immigration regulations intersect with both state and federal employment law, healthcare law, and general compliance. Join in the conversation as we review the new Presidential Proclamations, regulations, legislative proposals and enactments, post-COVID compliance issues (including investigations and audits), and important federal court decisions that affect the corporate workforce. You will learn to identify key immigration issues before they become a liability to your company by engaging with presenters and participants and leave with an actionable plan to face these challenges, incorporate key strategic compliance processes, know when to call your immigration counsel, and attract the best talent, while also improving your bottom line and minimizing risk.

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In-house counsel are facing new and unique ethical challenges arising from a rapidly changing business and technology environment. Our program will focus on the ethical issues presented by technology transactions, including ethical responsibilities in technology contract negotiations and compliance. We will review relevant model rules and ABA opinions, as well as a lively discussion covering situational scenarios that corporate counsel at any level may encounter including AI, data breaches, and social media, as well as provide guidance on how in-house counsel can work with their business partners within the context of the model rules.

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IP indemnification continues to be an issue that regularly arises for in-house counsel on a global basis. We will address provisions that demand particular attention, ways to resolve differences over those provisions, and global hot topics in the area. Panelists experienced in considering and negotiating IP indemnification provisions will tackle these topics and discuss negotiating strategies for indemnification and related provisions, such as warranties.

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Volunteering has become commonplace in corporate culture because it allows individuals to support causes they care about, for-profits to engage and motivate their workforce, and nonprofits to augment their impact. In this interactive discussion, a panel of both for-profit and nonprofit counsel will examine the opportunities and pitfalls of running an employee volunteer program and hosting volunteers. We will examine policies and procedures to establish at your company, how to handle risk, and how to drive engagement.

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Like the titular mollusk, privacy law has many moving parts and exists in an ever-changing sea of federal, state, and international privacy laws that can raise complex legal issues for your organization. Companies not only need to be concerned with protecting the privacy of their customers, they need to pay attention to the privacy of their own employees. Our panel of seasoned privacy lawyers will provide updated guidance on strategically preparing for and reacting to this ever-changing creature of law.

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You’ve studied emotional intelligence, communications, delegation, and time management… then the world fell into a global pandemic that turned managing a team on its head. The role of manager now includes a new responsibility — transformative mentorship. Like a coach who develops aptitudes to improve a person’s performance and results, transformative mentors develop their people by bringing clarity that allows employees to do what they do best. But how do you accomplish this in today’s reactionary environment? Join this session to learn tools and strategies to tap into your unique transformative mentorship style to optimize integrated on-site and remote teams by identifying the “new normal” that will help get you out of your own way in removing blind spots arising from business as usual.

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The events of 2020 forced many businesses to accelerate their digital transformation. As companies prepare to transition into a post-COVID world, it is essential to continue digitizing your business. In this session, we will review the trends towards digital transformation experienced by legal operations in 2020 and discuss how legal departments can be the catalyst across their organization. We’ll cover essential contracts and documents that drive revenue for your company as well as help transition your business for a post-COVID world such as policies, employee handbooks, as well as supplier and sales agreements that need to be amended and updated.

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Boot up your Microsoft 365 suite! We’re going off-piste to explore lesser-known components of MS 365 suite and how they can be used in legal operations. This interactive session features live demos and practical insights on using MS 356 in an in-house environment. Specifically, we will explore its use for matter management, task assignment, automated approvals, and surveys to get immediate feedback from your colleagues and clients. For your apres-ski treat, we invite you to follow along on your screen to set up your own Outlook-based clause library for emails in real time. (TIP: If you have time, check with your IT team about getting access to the ‘My Templates’ MS add-In in advance). Suitable for all levels of MS 365 experience and for snowed-under in-house counsel seeking a warm glow of inspiration.

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The new reality for employers is that many workplace investigations are being conducted remotely (and likely will continue this way for some time). While many in-house counsel have adapted to this new way of operating, there are still numerous obstacles that can threaten the integrity of an investigation, both from a technological and human standpoint. In this session, we will discuss best practices for conducting even the most challenging remote workplace investigation, including ensuring that interviews are conducted appropriately, assessing credibility without being in person, and avoiding pitfalls that could jeopardize the investigation. Additionally, we will cover strategies for global investigations, where issues like language and cultural differences can amplify the challenges for in-house counsel in a remote environment.

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(Roundtable) Join this roundtable discussion with your peers to discuss current priorities for developing the legal function. Address questions such as how do you identify what work to stop doing? What legal work is planned to be automated? How much effort should you dedicate to doing the work vs transforming how you work? And so much more.

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In April 2021, the European Commission proposed new rules governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) akin to the GDPR in terms of strictness, expensive fines, and extraterritorial applicability. While actual legislation is likely two years away, it’s not too early to begin scanning the horizon and counseling your clients about what may come your way — regardless of your location.

AI experts from across the industry will provide updates about the current state of the proposed rules that will help you position yourself as a key player once your leadership begins assessing impact, initiating advocacy efforts, and engaging in strategic planning. Regardless of the fate of the EC’s proposed rules, sooner than later your team will need to begin gearing up for next-level AI compliance — don’t miss this opportunity to get ahead of the curve.

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The most important focus for a leader is in creating the conditions that enable their people to deliver the success. You cannot micromanage your way to long-term success, you need to grow and empower your people to deliver more on their own (both individually and as a team). Mark will share the 3 conditions that enable your people to deliver the success (and wherever they are located). Remember, if you don’t have a who, the who his always YOU!

In this session, you will learn the 3 conditions to empower your WHO:
- Clarity - your people taking ACTION on their own
- Business Judgment - your people making DECISIONS on their own
- Influencing Skills - your people COLLABORATING on their own

Looking forward to see you there!

Grab a beverage and engage face-to-face with fellow attendees for this casual, small group video chat experience. We encourage you to turn your camera on, engage in conversation, and leave with new connections.

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In response to social and political activism over the rise of violence and exclusion toward disenfranchised groups, companies have been forced to truly examine their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. In-house legal teams can play a pivotal role in this effort both internally and externally across the profession.

This panel of Accenture’s top legal counsel and legal operations experts will share their best DEI practices for leading from the top, driving greater accountability, building a pipeline of diverse talent, and measuring outcomes.

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Strong leaders want to see talented people in their department succeed, and star performers want strong mentors and champions. This panel will explore career growth and development from two perspectives: that of the star performer looking to ascend, and that of the general counsel planning for succession while growing future leaders both inside and outside of the legal department.

Gain seasoned perspectives from a general counsel, deputy general counsel, and employee development strategist on decisions spanning a wide range of topics from managing organizational dynamics to fostering individual success. Learn key insights for top-performing potential successors, including how to continue to grow your career while you wait for that next opportunity. Attendees will take away practical tips for developing their own skills and abilities for when an opening presents itself.

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What do legal professionals need to know before digitally transforming their contract management process? Come learn from legal professionals representing some of the most prominent companies in the world. Our expert panelists will discuss the importance of contract governance, compliance, and the management of corporate risk in today’s business environment as well as explain the strategic value of solutions that help identify, evaluate, and mitigate hazards, bringing order to the chaos.

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In a short time, British Telecom’s legal team has re-envisioned processes and technologies to optimize the delivery of legal services to its internal stakeholders and create cost efficiencies. With a multi-pronged strategy for digital transformation, the legal department of this multinational telecommunications holding company with operations in 180 countries reduced the complexity of the technology stack by 75 percent, were able to track and report on 70 percent of matters, and overhauled how they track and control legal spend. By the end of this session, you will understand the importance of planning ahead for digital transformation, learn how organizational health, customer service and technology come together for the success of the organization, and identify predictions about the future of digital transformation.

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A pandemic isn’t the only major world event that has affected the practice of trademark law over the last year. Substantial legal changes impacting the global trademark portfolios of large and small companies alike have had implications for practitioners and advisers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Myanmar. A panel of global trademark law experts will discuss the new US Trademark Modernization Act slated to go into full effect at the end of 2021, the new trademark law in Myanmar that allows trademark applications for the first time, the impact of Brexit on trademarks in the UK and the EU, and other recent trademark laws changes around the world. Panelists will also share best practices regarding trademarks and China, now that the dust has started to settle on the monumental law changes over the last few years.

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Want to gain firsthand insights from the early months as general counsel – one year into a global pandemic? Join this conversation with BMO Financial Group General Counsel Sharon Haward-Laird to hear the top issues on her radar, including strategies for assessing the legal department operating model and how to evolve while remaining aligned with the global enterprise strategy. Members of her leadership team will also weigh-in on how they are supporting their new GC while keeping a team of highly diverse global employees engaged and excited about what’s ahead.

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Join two federal agency leaders to discuss important issues employers face under federal anti-discrimination laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This interview will address a variety of considerations such as the evolution of COVID-19 leave requirements under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the types of accommodations that may be legally required under either the ADA for disability or Title VII for religious beliefs, how telework during COVID-19 may have long-lasting impacts on their roles and employment law generally, and much more. Don't miss this lively and informative session with two influential leaders about the present and future of work in view of this historic pandemic.

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The role of the chief legal officer is increasingly complex, with legal department leaders driving organizational change and creating sustainable value for corporate stakeholders. The Covid-19 pandemic and renewed societal attention to tackling systemic racism has increased legal leaders’ focus on challenging racial and economic injustices. A panel of leading in-house counsel will examine the role of CLOs and other leaders in supporting such efforts, including through their department’s pro bono efforts. The esteemed panel will address integration of pro bono with their corporate social responsibility and sustainability objectives, and will discuss the growth and importance of access to justice initiatives within legal departments, companies, and the communities where they work.

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Managing employees through challenging times is critical to the long-term success of corporate legal departments around the world. Unprecedented changes brought on by the global pandemic demonstrated that conventional leadership skills alone aren’t sufficient — additional skills and competencies are needed to help in-house legal teams stay focused and connected to successfully navigate a rapidly changing business environment. This includes supporting the needs of diverse, remote, and international teams. Our panelists will share proven strategies for leading with empathy, communicating with honesty and transparency, strengthening interpersonal relationships, being culturally sensitive and emotionally aware, and more. Learn strategies to help members of your team adjust to new challenges while strengthening engagement, empowerment, and collaboration.

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The London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) interest rate index is now being replaced in countries all around the world. There is an estimated US$200 trillion in financial instruments that reference LIBOR globally, which all need to be identified, prioritized, and repapered. Our panel will walk through the challenge of finding the requisite contracts within an organization, locating the relevant sections, and going through the process of renegotiating each using a variety of best practices to efficiently get the job done.

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Ever wonder how legal delivers the highest value in tackling truly global issues? Welcome to state-of-the-art global legal management. This session will focus on the use of an innovative global legal management system and its use on the ground in four regions around the world. Learn from the Chubb Global Digital Legal team’s experiences working through a real world digital legal issue in multiple jurisdictions and delivering value to their business partners.

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Whether from the vendor or customer perspective, Software as a Service (SaaS) has changed the way we do business. What are the considerations when negotiating a SaaS agreement relating to intellectual property, various cloud providers, indemnity, privacy, security and limitation of liability? Our panel will discuss SaaS from both perspectives and debate language you should include in your agreement and alert you to clauses that should raise red flags.

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Litigation funding or lawsuit funding, also known as legal financing and third-party litigation funding, enables a party to litigate without having to bear the upfront financial burden of paying for it . A third-party funder can pay some or all of the costsassociated with a dispute in return for a share of the proceeds of the dispute if it is successful. If the litigation is not successful, the funder bears the costs it has agreed to fund. This presentation will discuss real-life scenarios to delve into the potential issues created by third-party lawsuit funding, transparency concerns, the impact on settlement negotiations, and potential conflicts for counsel involved with such third parties.

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Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have become a key component of the mainstream M&A market and are likely to represent a significant portion of the overall deal landscape over the coming year. Our panelists will discuss some of the most important legal issues related to SPAC and de-SPAC transactions, with an emphasis on cross border considerations, additional funding options such as the use of private investments in public equity, co-investment opportunities, governance, and reporting.

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Before opening a dialogue with the government, corporate practitioners should ensure they understand potential risks as well as possible rewards of cooperation with the US government. This presentation will teach in-house counsel tangible ways to be clear about regulators’ expectations and prepare them to meet those expectations including policies governing messaging tools used by employees and raising data privacy restrictions for discussion with US regulators.

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For legal to benefit from technology, it needs to be grounded by a tight focus on what departmental objectives it aims to improve and what the desired business outcomes are. In this session, we will share a proven matrix to calculate your legal team's technology ROI, which will give you the numbers to prove your department's impact on the business.

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Speaking to the media on behalf of your organization is never easy, particularly so for the chief legal officer who will necessarily have a variety of unique considerations in mind that other executives may not. The media more often wants to hear from companies about issues that include legal dimensions, and as the chief legal officer, you will likely be called upon to speak to these issues. Be sure that you go into any such situation prepared and able to secure the best possible outcome. In this session, learn how to be camera-ready and powerfully connect with your audience to tell your story.

This roundtable is open to chief legal officers of small, medium, and large law departments.

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In the sixth edition of the Thomson Reuters LDO Index, we noticed new or continuing developments in three crucial areas of legal department operations – spending, technology, and department management – and we will consider each of these areas more deeply during our discussion.

The data for the report is comprised of real-world legal spend analytics available from Thomson Reuters’ Legal Tracker that’s sourced from more than 1,500 corporate legal departments and a June 2021 Thomson Reuters survey to which 100 legal departments responded.

In many organizations, legal teams are under enormous pressure to reduce contractual risk but have limited resources with which to do it. They face a constant tension between speed and accuracy—they have to keep deals moving, while also anticipating all the issues that may arise from concessions. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help relieve this tension, by reducing manual and repetitive tasks so legal professionals can focus on the most critical issues.

Join us for this discussion where we’ll look at how AI can empower legal teams to better leverage their time and mitigate contractual risk throughout their organizations.

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Anne McNulty, Agiloft Senior Director of AI Success

Are you ready to learn a little more about your fellow attendees? Join us for short bursts of fun, small group video networking and leave energized for the remainder of the meeting.

After assessing and working with various platforms and partners, Jamie Hurewitz shares how Deel has helped her team mitigate compliance risk, and scale globally for both contractors, and full time employees. The flexibility to hire across 150 different countries, quickly, efficiently, with a commitment to local compliance

Join this discussion to learn how to:
-Drive adoption of compliance and develop that true culture of compliance
-Encourage people to speak up and report issues and misconduct
-Use advanced technologies to assist in managing compliance
-Get value through an external rating, attestation or certification of your compliance initiatives
-Get buy-in form executives that compliance adds value

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The pandemic has upended work practices over the last 17 months, and under represented lawyers in many cases experienced mostly negative career outcomes, according to our Pandemic Nation research conducted by the ACC Foundation, the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals, and the Thomson Reuters Institute in February 2021. In fact, just 43% of in-house lawyers rated their employers as interested in their career progression and on the learning and development topic, only 33 percent rated their employers as “interested.” On a positive note, 64% of in-house lawyers thought their employers did a good job at demonstrating an interest in their overall well-being during the pandemic. Join this session to learn about these and other insights and to participate in crowd-sourcing break-out discussions to generate new ideas for work practices to advance the careers of underrepresented attorneys in a hybrid work environment.

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The pandemic has drastically changed how we communicate, both formally and informally with our colleagues. For most, the days of dropping by a colleague’s office for a quick chat are gone and instead messages are exchanged via Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, and other platforms. As organizations quickly introduce these technologies to ensure that there is no interruption in day-to-day business, they must also be mindful of the ediscovery and information governance risks posed. Join this session to learn about the myriad of available messaging applications and best practices for acceptable use policies and change management.

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The imperative to adopt new ways of working has never been more apparent than now, however achieving change requires more than new technology or procedure manuals. Lawyers and legal departments are commonly perceived as late adopters of innovation, but natural or learned human reflexes resisting change needn't necessarily derail innovation programs. This session for current and rising law department leaders will teach science-based approaches to overcoming psychological barriers of both individuals and groups and effectuating impactful change in your legal department.

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Are you looking for an edge to increase your influence in your organization? And to enhance your leadership skills? Right now? Start with your own presence as an executive. The impression you make in meetings and in group and individual communications - with your Board, your peers, your manager, and your direct reports - affects your effectiveness. Learn what works and what does not in this highly interactive workshop related to the presence that legal executives need to be successful. Speakers will demonstrate presence challenges and skills through role play, followed by participants breaking into small working groups to share their observations of presence competencies they have experienced. Aggregated, non-attributed results shared in the small group discussions will be provided to all participants after this session.

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The 2020 upheaval we experienced has had profound impacts on in-house practice. In this uniquely engaging program, Stuart Teicher, Esq. (the “CLE Performer”) explains the ethical dangers with working from home, the challenges of remote supervision, and new issues with technology. US Model Rules of Professional Conduct covered include 1.1 (Competence), 5.1 & 5.3 (Supervision), 1.4 (Communication), and FAO #2019-4.

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There are few professional experiences more exciting or rewarding in the life of law department leaders than that of completing a transformational event like taking your company public. There are many considerations to keep in mind, including legal, financial, and regulatory issues, as well as the ideal timing, the response of key market players, single or dual listings, the exchange, thinking through staff retention, and many other post-listing concerns as well. Whether your company is considering a public listing soon or you want to be prepared for any possible exit strategy, come to this session to hear an open and candid roundtable discussion of key considerations in preparing your company for an IPO. Leave with practical takeaways from top in-house practitioners who have been there and done that.

*Eligibility requirements apply; participation subject to approval. In order to attend this session, you must report directly to the Chief Legal Officer of a large law department (9+ attorneys). For an invitation or additional information contact corporate@acc.com.

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In this interactive session, we will discuss burning issues surrounding Blockchain and dispel myths that you may hold about:

Digital currencies – state actors vs private actors: what is the current “state” of national digital currencies?

Countries from the US, Canada to China, France, Japan, Venezuela, and Sweden have either adopted or considered adopting national digital currencies.

While other countries like France and India have made strong statements against some private actors. Where do we go from here?

Tax issues associated with investing in Blockchain? US vs EU, APAC. Is it true that individuals are restricted from investing in Blockchain in the US?

What is a NFT (Non-Fungible Token)? What are concrete use cases today? Why should you care?

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Companies with global supply chains have been challenged over the last several years (2020 in particular) to react and respond to a variety of new issues, including tariff investigations, an influx of trade remedy cases, export restrictions, and ensuring the supply chain is free of forced labor. This panel will focus on compliance considerations within the end-to-end global supply chain. We will explore issues to consider when sourcing products and components globally and the implications upon import, including how to identify and mitigate additional tariffs and approach compliance with Withhold Release Orders issued by US Customs.

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This session will offer reasons for prioritizing lawyer well-being as well as sharing leading practices,, information, strategies and resources for implementing a plan for positive change. When it comes to mental health, stress and resiliency, it’s always better to be ready than to react to a life-impact event that affects both the legal department and individual team members.

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What has actually worked? What are established/tested strategies? Blurring of lines in Covid/Virtual world. Time has value and we are each worthy of honoring and structuring our time; yet, time is often the most violated boundary as we struggle with work-life balance, self-care and prioritizing our own needs with those of others. Explore the issues surrounding time boundaries, how to address violations of time and ways to honor yourself by managing expectations around time.

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Understanding and complying with the rules and regulations related to clinical research can feel like navigating a maze with frequent detours down rabbit holes. With multiple US federal agencies increasing their oversight, regulation, and enforcement efforts with respect to clinical research, health law practitioners must be aware of potential regulatory and compliance pitfalls and the penalties of failing to comply. This session will focus on hot topics in clinical research enforcement, examine recent government enforcement actions, and provide information and guidance on how to comply with the regulations.

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This program is an advanced follow-up to last year's trade secret protection session. This year we will provide a more detailed look at what may constitute trade secrets and how to protect them under US law. Using examples of potential trade secrets in various contexts and under different fact circumstances, participants will assess whether trade secret protection may apply. Plus we will focus on the application of trade secret law to new and emerging technologies along with recent case updates.

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Whistleblower litigation changed significantly in 2020 and that trend continued into 2021. Claims arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive an increase in whistleblower complaints and notable changes occurred in whistleblower protection at the state and federal level. This program will review key developments across the whistleblowing landscape, including significant court decisions, legislation and enforcement trends.

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As part of fulfilling their fiduciary duties, boards of directors are increasingly expected to address more and more topics at a faster than ever pace. Expert panelists will provide guidance on the issues in-house counsel should be discussing with their board of directors, including routine and emerging corporate governance matters and topics inspired by current events and recent case law.

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What have 2020 and 2021 taught you about leadership that you wish you’d known before? Our leading CLOs will take a break from running their law departments to discuss the challenges they’ve faced and share lessons learned from this disruptive period in our history.

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This session will examine developments in US export control restrictions against Chinese entities and citizens, including foreign-invested entities in China, as well as China’s “blocking rules” against those restrictions. The rules are intended to prevent entities in third-party jurisdictions (Japan, the European Union, United Kingdom, India, etc.) from complying with US export control restrictions. We will begin with a panel discussion among experts and finish with theme-based breakout sessions.

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In a July 2020 decision, the EU Court of Justice dealt a blow to international data transfers that invalidated the US Privacy Shield program. The decision also placed upon European data exporters an obligation to ensure adequacy when transferring data under other permissible methods. Our panel will discuss the current state of recommendations and guidance, in the wake of the 2020 decision, the effects of the European Data Protection Board’s comments, and the revised standard clauses on cross-border transfers.

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Post-employment restrictive covenants like non-competes and non-solicitation agreements remain common in many industries even as courts, federal agencies, and state legislatures have taken steps to narrow when these provisions can be enforced. This session will explore recent trends in post-employment restrictions and will focus on what in-house counsel should be aware of when hiring a new employee subject to a restrictive covenant, seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant against a departing employee, reviewing and updating a company’s existing restrictive covenants, and drafting restrictive covenants for new employees.

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Corporations give their law firms more sensitive information than any other type of vendor. Yet surveys show that almost 70% of companies do not assess the security of their firms and legal service providers. Tackling this problem ACC recently launched a new and innovative service for assessing and accrediting law firm security. Through an assess-once/share-many model the ACC Data Steward Program makes it much easier to ensure that all of your law firms have the right controls in place to protect client data. Free for in-house counsel and security teams, this global program is set to be the standard in the legal industry.

Learning outcomes:

Why law firms have become large targets for cybercriminals
Professional responsibilities of in-house counsel to ensure that legal information provided to firms is secure
Why it's difficult and expensive for companies to assess their law firms today using traditional methods
A new industry model: Data Steward takes a different and more effective approach

Join us for what is certain to be an interesting and lively discussion

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As legal departments race to add technology and automate as much as possible, the next frontier is integration across point solutions and enterprise systems. These 2021 ACC Value Champions, ranging in size from more than 500 to 5 in-house legal professionals, will share how they have adapted business and legal-specific applications, plus AI and bots, to deliver the right contracts faster, get legal service requests out of inboxes and into smart workflows, and more. Join this session to learn how you too can shape apps you can buy or get your hands on into the platform you need.

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Sometimes you just can’t get the big impact you need quickly by pursuing one (or two) key initiatives at a time – you have to scrap and replace your structure and stand up a new operations function, or completely revamp your outside counsel management model, or dramatically impact compliance and ethics practices, or … do pretty much all of the above at once. These Champs will tell their stories of wholesale change management on aggressive timetables that got big results – and provide practical advice on leading transformations, whether by partnering or going it alone.

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Want to spark innovation in your legal department? Join these three women, each of whom has more than one ACC Value Champions trophy on her shelf, for a discussion about the different models they have used, and the leadership attributes in common across their award-winning initiatives. Their stories span setting up “Innovation Labs” to foment process improvements internally, collaborating with multiple partners to create an eye-popping contract approval workflow tool, and using their influence to forge a goals-driven approach to improving law firm diversity – plenty of ideas and inspiration, plus advice about how to move from vision to impact.

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We all know there’s no such thing as “one size fits all,” and this session will demonstrate how you can set up decision trees to select the right resources, internally and externally; how you can leverage a single law firm to help you revamp your whole portfolio of litigation or IP; as well as how you can adopt some innovative techniques to effectively manage a preferred panel. What do these use cases have in common? Pricing and outside counsel engagement models designed to ensure the relationships stay on track and costs are contained.

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This special replay of a 2021 Women in Law & Leadership Month program shares valuable insights from four leading GCs in the Middle East & North Africa region about their career journeys, motivations, and recommendations for creating an environment that supports more women in finding their seat at the table. This highly regarded program was originally presented in March 2021 as a collaboration between the ACC Middle East & North Africa Chapter and the ACC Women in the House (WITH) Network.

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How do you establish metrics, utilize data analytics, and demonstrate value to the business and to regulators around the world? What are “table stakes” data sets in the U.S. and elsewhere? How does a compliance program move beyond the low-hanging fruit of available data and dig deeper into the business to identify risk and prove it has been addressed? How do you quantify the value of compliance? Hear practical examples from in-house colleagues who generate and use facts and data to tell a tangible story of compliance success

While many of the data privacy laws around the world are similar in some respects to the GDPR, there can also be important differences which could expose your company to significant risks if you rely on GDPR or CCPA compliance as a benchmark for operating in other countries. This session examines a variety of privacy laws beyond those contained in the GDPR and the CCPA. Speakers with expertise in major international commercial jurisdictions address issues such as registration of databases, cross-border transfers, enforcement trends, and a range of other significant issues that are particular or unique to those jurisdictions.