Protecting Your Business in the Age of Wikileaks
Speakers: Vincent A. Castiglione, Coby Electronics Corporation; Paul D. Ackerman, Nick Akerman, Steven S. Fang and Ron Moscona, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Description: Your company’s online tools are its gateway to the world. The ability of your employees to access your systems remotely over the internet is essential to your company’s efficiency and its ability to market its products. Yet, lurking behind these essential business tools is a potential time bomb! Our multi-disciplinary panel will go through a (very bad) day in the life of a GC whose company’s systems have been compromised and highlight risks to your company and strategies to mitigate these risks. The issues are wide-ranging, spanning from data privacy compliance to SEC compliance, copyright, trademark, patent and public relations.
- Unauthorized Disclosure of Inventions and Trade Secrets
- Can Breaching a Contract be Computer Fraud?
- Unprecedented New Enforcement Measures Introduced in the United Kingdom to Tackle Online Copyright Infringements and Unauthorised File-Sharing
- Time to Review Corporate Computer Policies
- Pros and Cons of Deploying Open Source Software
Getting It Right: In-House Counsel Ethics Issues
Speakers: Janice Innis-Thompson, TIAA-CREF; Kenneth L. Jorgensen, Steven R. Schoenfeld and David C. Singer, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Description: Practical and real-life-based hypotheticals will serve as the basis for an examination of ethical issues, including use of pretexting in investigations, privacy of employee email, corporate Miranda warnings, and whistleblower-versus-client confidentiality rights. The audience will have the opportunity to test their ability to “get it right” and, after tallying the results, our panel will analyze not only the correct but also the “not so correct” answers to help clarify the issues.
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- Excepts from New York Rules of Professional Conduct
- Rules of the Court of Appeals are amended, to add Part 522 (22 NYCRR Part 522) pertaining to the Registration of In-House Counsel
- Employee E-Mails To Personal Counsel Held To Be Protected By Attorney-Client Privilege
- Federal Court Reverses Prior Holding and Finds that In House Counsel’s Inactive Bar Membership Does Not Vitiate Corporation’s Attorney-Client Privilege Claim
- Federal Court Holds that In-House Counsel’s Inactive Bar Membership Vitiates Corporation’s Attorney-Client Privilege Claim
Compliance and Regulatory Issues in the Post-Dodd-Frank Era
Speakers: Julie Copeland, Israel Discount Bank of New York; Ellen J. Bickal, Zachary W. Carter, Jay Kim and Bruce A. MacKenzie, Dorsey & Whitney LLPDescription: Enacted in the wake of the most profound economic crisis since the Great Depression, Dodd-Frank attempts to put several “genies” back in the bottle of financial regulatory reform. This discussion will focus on the challenges presented to enterprise risk managers by contemplated regulatory changes. How will the Systemic Risk Regulation scheme contemplated by the Act impact banking and non-banking financial institutions? What are the practical implications of the Volcker Rule on the boundaries between banking and non-banking institutions and their permitted lines of business? What role will corporate boards and internal compliance organizations play in policing financial activities to ensure compliance with the new restrictions?
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- SEC Delays Implementation of Dodd-Frank Provisions
- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - An Overview
- Board of Directors' Oversight of Compliance: The Compliance Committee Option
Global Bribery Risks: Complying with the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act and Other Anti-Bribery Laws
Speakers: Scott Gilbert, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., Nicholas Burkill, Zachary W. Carter, Thomas O. Gorman and Billy Martin, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Description: Since the enactment of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977, anti-bribery legislation and enforcement have intensified around the world, culminating in the highest-ever level of enforcement actions in the U.S. and under the U.K.’s Bribery Act, which is expected to come into force this year. Today, the stakes for multinational businesses have never been higher—damaged reputations, huge fines, disgorgement of profits, extraterritorial jurisdiction, criminal prosecutions, whistleblower protections, loss of government contracts, appointment of special monitors and enormous investigation and defense costs. An experienced panel will review anti-bribery law and enforcement and best practices for compliance and risk management globally.
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Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets: Take the Plunge or Stay on the Sidelines?
Speakers: Matthew B. McClure, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; W. Jefferson Stuart, U.S. Bank; Steven Khadavi and Eric Lopez Schnabel, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Description: Activity in mergers and acquisitions and the capital markets has recovered in 2010 and 2011 from the lows witnessed in late 2008. But dealmakers worry about the future landscape and whether the recovery will continue or result in a second “double-dip” downturn. Enter the minds of experienced bankers and deal lawyers as they explore the multiple layers of recent developments in the M&A world and the capital markets and share their thoughts about what the future holds.
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