Legal

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Time: 2 – 3:35 P.M. ET
(11 A.M. PT)
Duration: 95 minutes

As the ubiquitous smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices increasingly dominate the communications landscape, legislators and regulators are honing in on mobile data gathering methods and user privacy concerns. The trend signifies increased regulation of mobile app developers and companies that collect consumer data via mobile apps, as new statutes and regulatory proposals are rolled out at both the state and federal levels.

Failure to comply can be costly. In December 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris sued Delta Airlines under the state’s 8-year-old Online Privacy Protection Act, alleging that the airline is breaking state law by failing to warn users that Delta is collecting sensitive information each time customers use the “Fly Delta” mobile application. The penalty could be as much as $2,500 per download.

And more recently, on January 16, 2013, in a push to address mobile privacy protection, Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson released a draft of the Application Privacy, Protection, and Security Act of 2013 or APPS Act.

As the regulatory and legislative oversight of mobile apps continues to accelerate, join us on Wed., May 8, at 2 P.M. ET and benefit from the insights of our panel of experts during the complimentary CLE Webinar, “Mobile Privacy: Legal and Legislative Developments. “

Legal developments are trending in the area of mobile privacy concerns. Join our expert panel on May 8th to hear the latest developments and best practices for companies in the age of bring your own device and mobile data applications.

Speakers:

Orrie Dinstein, Chief Privacy Leader, GE Capital

Mary Ellen Callahan, partner, Jenner & Block, former US Department of Homeland Security Chief Privacy Officer

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 
Time: 2:00 PM EDT (11:00AM PST) 
Duration: 95 minutes 

The quality of your company’s products and the execution of its services, of course, must be tended to constantly. You must stay in line with or even ahead of what your market demands. But little can bring a company down faster than damage to its reputation. Whether it is an accusation of financial wrongdoing, a breach of security, careless damage to the environment, or a harmful product defect, handling these events right requires planning, coordination and professionalism. That is true on a day-to-day basis, and is especially true when an event calls into question the very integrity of your organization. The in-house legal department is a key player in how a company addresses an event and communicates to the public, press, employees and shareholders. And in-house lawyers, working closely with their business clients, may find themselves caught in an ethical quandary when advising on potentially reputation-damaging issues. After one instance of injury, should a product be pulled off the shelves, at great cost, even though the risk of a recurrence of harm seems unlikely? Join us on April 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM EDT to hear from individuals with expertise and direct experience in reputational risk protection and management. 

● Apply proven best practices and protocols 
● Know the right people for a crisis communications team 
● Learn from companies that handled crises well, and poorly 
● Understand the various ways a reputation can suffer 
● Know how to properly screen employees 
● Know when it is the right time to perform background checks, due diligence 
● Hear about tools available to avoid high risk scenarios 
● Learn how to reduce risk from members of your supply chain 
● Determine the legal department’s role in the communications plan 
● Understand the unique aspects of data breach events, financial crises and unique aspects of events that impact health and the environment 

Speakers: 

William Ohlemeyer, Esq., Boies Schiller & Flexner 
David Maggiore-Anet, Esq. LexisNexis 
Colin Kelly, Esq., Alston Bird 
Carolina Perez, Esq., Kemira Chemical 

Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Global Conduct Codes

Recent amendments to a number of whistleblower laws and the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act have made maintaining a whistleblower claim easier for employees in many cases. Gain valuable insights on what in-house counsel need to know about the whistleblower program from professionals uniquely qualified to address the subject.

Topics to be covered will include:

·         The Statutory Landscape—What Laws Protect Whistleblowers?

·         The Dodd-Frank Act: One Year Later

·         Steps for Building a Successful Compliance Program

·         Handling Current Employees Who Blow the Whistle

Join our speakers Jay Cohen of Assurant, Inc., Saidah Grayson of Cisco Systems, Gregory Keating, Esq. of Littler Mendelson, and Christopher Calsyn, Esq. of Crowell & Moring LLP for this informative session.

Success in transactional work is often in the details. Now there’s a new practical guidance resource created by practicing attorneys to help you work with greater confidence and efficiency. It’s called Lexis® Practice Advisor, Corporate Counsel module—and it offers a combination of practical guidance, as well as tools to expedite your work including forms, checklists and agreements.

You’re invited to learn more in this 30-minute Webinar demo of Lexis Practice Advisor.

• Discover how to access practical guidance and “how to” information, written in plain English, so you can stay on top of current trends across 14 key areas of law.

   

• Find out how to hit the ground running in new areas through provision of key steps and considerations you need to negotiate a transaction, covering everything from A to Z.

   

• See how to enhance your drafting with sample documents and forms, including over 1,000 relevant forms, sample agreements, drafting notes, alternate clauses and checklists.

   

Wage and hour litigation is the fastest growing category within employment law today. During the years 2003-2006 there were about 4,000 FLSA lawsuits filed. Now they are being filed at a rate of over 7,000 a year. A Harris Interactive survey says that half of U.S. workers believe their employers are violating overtime laws. Within different industries there is fertile ground for violations due to an “everybody else does it.”

• Setting the stage: the Fair Labor Standards Act
• IRS definitions of “employee” and “independent contractor”
• Preparing for wage and hour audits and “sweeps”
• Lessons from recent high-profile cases
• What companies do (and shouldn’t do) to circumvent regulations
• The future of the employees’ right to know
• Joint employment allegations
• An effective record keeping program
• Overtime reduction efforts
• Especially vulnerable industries
• Department of Labor settlement terms 

Now that the presidential election is behind us, experts anticipate even greater government scrutiny cast upon employers’ handling of wages and hours. Ensure you hear the latest from our panel of experts!

Speakers:

Tracy L. Moon, Jr., partner, Fisher & Phillips

C.R. Wright, partner, Fisher & Phillips

Kelly Gimotty, business development & recruiting specialist, Discover Staffing

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How well do you know the companies and people with whom you do business? Are they being totally transparent?

There’s an exciting new solution from LexisNexis® that can help you ensure all their cards are on the table. Uncover critical information about your business partners, suppliers and potential partners with Lexis® Diligence. This powerful tool makes it easier than ever to conduct your due diligence with access to the global news and company information you need to make an informed decision.

Join us  for this 30-minute Webinar, where we will demonstrate how Lexis Diligence can help you:

• Mitigate risk by knowing with whom your company does business

   

• Search across a wide range of sources which eliminates the need to search databases one-by-one

   

• Review content based on relevance to the due diligence process, which takes the guesswork out of finding the right sources

   

• Browse news (including negative news), sanctions, watch lists, blacklists, PEPs, court cases, agency decisions, verdicts, public records, company profiles and biographies in a single interface

   

• Search intelligence is built in behind the scenes, ensuring precision results without user search expertise
• Stay up to date with scheduled alerts to monitor important changes in financial health, management activity and legal/regulatory issues that may arise after initial research

The world’s most popular social media site, Facebook®, reported recently that it now has over one billion users worldwide. With social media pervading most aspects of society and business, are you up to date on the changes that it brings to the insurance industry? During this  Webinar  a panel of experts will help get you up to date on social media’s influence on policy exposure, regulatory changes and internal privacy policies for insurance carriers and more. Learn about carrier use of social media for policy sales, customer service issues and risk management guidance and whether it is a good thing or a landmine of liability. Also discover ways in which public information on social media sites influences pricing and underwriting. Get up-to-the minute information on the current state and federal laws governing carrier use of private information found on social media sites. Also, learn about other technological influences impacting coverage and proof of coverage, such as mobile devices. With the rapid pace of change in this arena, insurance underwriters, attorneys and general counsel alike should not miss out on this important webinar.

The faculty will be Ronald Raether, Esq., of Faruki, Ireland & Cox; Peter Foster of Willis North America; and John Mullen, Esq., of Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton. The faculty will also take your questions on this important topic.

Why has the federal government decided not to pursue certain cases involving alleged corruption by U.S. companies overseas? What additional guidance might companies expect from the government this year or next? And how might these developments guide companies in crafting or updating their best practices in conducting business globally?

These are among the questions that will be addressed in this Webinar, prompted by recent developments such as the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) issuance of a series of “declinations” explaining why it decided not to pursue charges against several companies for alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). These decisions provide much-needed explanations into what criteria the government uses in evaluating FCPA cases, criteria that can be translated into best practices.

If your company does business worldwide, the insights shared on this program can help you avoid a costly DOJ investigation.

For today’s corporate attorneys and in-house counsel, being aware of differing rules of attorney-client privilege for various foreign jurisdictions is essential. Explore the definition of attorney-client privilege and privileged communication during this free Webinar.

 What is “privileged communication”? (ABA Model Rules 1.6, 1.13 and 1.18)

•  Definition of attorney-client privilege 

• How to treat and protect privileged information (ABA Model Rule 1.6)  

• Who can waive privilege and what to do about inadvertent disclosures

• Does the attorney-client privilege apply to communications with in-house counsel—and under what circumstances?

• The role of the in-house counsel and the possible concerns regarding their role in the corporate setting (ABA Model Rules 1.7 and 1.13)

• Special considerations for companies dealing with offices, outside firms, attorneys and others in foreign jurisdictions
• In-house counsel communication with company employees or agents of the corporation

Once again the financial world— especially investors— has been rocked by allegations and even criminal charges of lending rate manipulation within major financial institutions.  And once again the numbers are big. More than $350 trillion in derivatives and other financial instruments are reportedly tied to LIBOR.  The New York Times® describes LIBOR as a “benchmark interest rate that affects how consumers and companies borrow money across the world.” Some of the most respected names in banking have been implicated. Barclays Bank of London paid $450 million to settle accusations of rate manipulation, allegations the bank has denied.  This webinar features two attorneys with deep experience in law and litigation involving securities and investments.  Carol V. Gilden, Esq., of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll will provide her perspective as counsel to investors, while Howard S. Suskin, Esq., of Jenner & Block will present from his experience counseling lenders and financial institutions.

Agenda 

• Who has been injured by the scandal? LIBOR has an influence on many trillions of dollars in investments. Individuals, companies and governments have a great deal at risk. The speakers will explain which are likely to be most adversely affected by this controversy.
• Who has brought suit? Some parties and governments have already initiated formal claims. The speakers will explain who these parties are and provide an update on the status of those proceedings.
• What are the existing and possible causes of action? The speakers will outline which laws and remedies will be at the center of proceedings against alleged rate manipulators.
• What are the likely defenses? The speakers will draw on their experience in securities litigation to examine what defenses are being raised and what other potential defenses we can expect.
• How have regulators responded so far? The speakers will provide an update on the reaction from financial regulators globally.

Faculty

Carol V. Gilden, Esq. is a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, and a member of the Securities Fraud/Investor Protection practice.  Ms. Gilden represents public pension funds, Taft-Hartley Benefit Funds, private pension funds and high-net- worth individuals.  She has over 25 years experience in protecting the rights of investors, including five years of experience as an enforcement attorney in the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Ms. Gilden has served as lead counsel and on the Executive Committee of many high profile securities class action cases. These cases have involved allegations of financial fraud, misrepresentations in initial and secondary public offerings, merger transactions and derivative claims.  She is the resident partner of the firm’s Chicago office.  

Howard S. Suskin, Esq. is a partner in the Chicago office of Jenner & Block. He is a litigator with substantial first-chair experience in civil and criminal securities matters. Individuals and businesses seek his counsel in such matters as class actions alleging securities fraud and misrepresentation claims, derivative actions claiming breach of fiduciary duty, contests for corporate control, insider trading investigations and broker-dealer disputes. Mr. Suskin also counsels and represents clients in connection with securities administrative and self-regulatory organization investigations and proceedings and in arbitrations.

U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) are a constantly changing field, and companies and their counsel need to stay on top of the regulations in order to stay in compliance and avoid potential investigations.

Our expert panel—Mark Stevens of SCB Training Center Inc., Peter Quinter of Gray-Robinson, P.A., and Steven Brotherton of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP—will help you gain a better understanding of what items and activities are subject to EAR and what you can do to avoid a licensing process.

Topics to be covered include:

• The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

   

• Recommendations for best practices to avoid common pitfalls as well as solutions for handling common regulation violations

   

• What happens when there is an export compliance problem—either discovered by your company or when a penalty notice is received

   

• Recent trade embargoes by the Office of Foreign Asset Controls (OFAC)

   

• The Obama Administration’s recent export control efforts

   

• Export clearance procedures

   

• Record keeping requirements

   

An overview of the Export Compliance Management Program (ECMP) essentials you need to have in place

Learn how to efficiently navigate and access legal materials on lexis.com and Lexis Advance.  Paralegal students will learn how to:
1.  Access lexis.com.
2.  Customize lexis.com id for research assignments.
3.  Utilize Lexis.com research tools and solutions.
4.  Access Lexis Advance.
5.  Navigate Lexis Advance.

• Locate current and archived federal and state statutes and regulations on lexis.com and Lexis Advance.
• Search for statutes and regulations using techniques such as terms and connectors and segment searching. 

A LexisNexis® Complimentary CLE Accredited* Webinar: The Shrinking Attorney Client Privilege for International In-House Counsel—An Ethical Discussion

• Increased litigation involving global parties and subsidiaries – What is fueling the influx of cases?

   

• Evolution of United States’ treatment of in-house counsel communications as privileged

   

• Understanding the disparate treatment of in-house counsel communications internationally, specifically in the EU and France

   

• Choice of law standards – How U.S. Courts determine if international in-house counsel communications are discoverable
• Identifying and implementing steps with your international holdings and subsidiaries to reduce productions of privileged information

Your gut—and 10+ years of corporate experience—tell you that the new case filed against your company will probably resolve without incident. You know what’s happening in your industry.

But how do you track the big picture, such as who usually prevails in similar cases (and for how much), behind-the-scenes settlement details and other facts likely to impact strategy and budget?

LexisNexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer compiles prior case outcomes from the most comprehensive collection of verdict and settlement documents available. Revealing, easy-to-interpret charts and graphs show you:

·         See outcomes and establish patterns from past cases.

·         Quantify judgments or evaluate possible exposure.

·         Analyze and compare outcomes with clear, easy-to-read charts.

·         Simplify and speed early case assessment.

Watch the FREE First to Know Webinar and see first-hand how to mitigate litigation risk—and cost—and set case strategy earlier.

Watch this free 30-minute Webinar, where we will demonstrate how Lexis Advance can help you:

• Get comprehensive answers faster and more easily with our intuitive search

   

• Run alerts and access additional data with Public Records Alerts

   

• See broader topic coverage and more in-depth reports with Extended Topic Summaries

   

• Ensure that information is good law and current with Shepard’s Citations Service and LexisNexis® Alerts
• Help improve efficiency with exclusive tools like the My Workspace carousel, Legal Issue Trail™, and Research Map – all of which help you organize, track and manage your results

Government reports estimate that cyber breaches cost the U.S. economy over $1 trillion annually. From understanding case theories, learning the relevant developments in insurance coverage, and the vendors you'll need in place to manage the issue, the vulnerabilities surrounding cyber privacy can be endless. The need to protect your company against breaches, data loss and theft are increasing in today's ever-changing technological landscape.  Our expert panelists will provide insights plus a risk manager's perspective on privacy security, best practices for breach preparedness and explain the necessary coverage needs.  Learn how to protect yourself in this 90 minute complimentary webinar designed for in-house counsel.

On August 15th from 2:00 to 3:30 P.M. ET join our panel of experts, including Scott Godes of Dickstein Shapiro, Mario Paez of Wells Fargo Insurance, Jimmy Kirtland of ING Americas, Lynn Sessions of Baker & Hostetler and Professor David Bender of the University of Houston Law Center as they bring you the crucial steps needed to prepare for and address cyber privacy issues.

• Understanding cyber privacy concerns today:  Identifying your vulnerabilities & protecting against breaches, data loss or theft
• The state and federal statutory frameworks requiring the most observation and compliance
• Risk manager’s perspective on privacy security, breach preparedness and coverage needs
• Privacy breach – Now what?  Understanding the case theories involved, the relevant developments in insurance coverage and the vendors you’ll need in place
• Unique concerns raised by the use and storage of health related information

*CLE is approved or in the process of approval for the mandatory CLE states listed below for 1.5 hours of CLE Credit.  Of these, 0 qualify as hours of general, participatory, or skills credit, 0 qualify for hours of law office management, and 0 qualify for hours of ethics/professionalism.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York†, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. †Only experienced NY attorneys may take webinar training for CLE.  New York regulation requires that all CLE sessions must be conducted by an attorney in good standing or a JD.  The presenter for this event meets this New York regulation.  Contact the LexisNexis CLE group directly at CLE.Sales@lexisnexis.com with questions about eligibility requirements and for further details on CLE paperwork.

An expert witness can stand between you and your company’s success. Engage the best possible expert and strengthen your case. Challenge the opposing expert’s credibility or testimony successfully and you can severely limit your opponent’s options.

Watch this 30-minute webinar and find out just how easy it can be to uncover comprehensive expert witness intelligence with LexisNexis® Profile Suites.

LexisNexis Profile Suites can help you map out your expert witness strategy. Research results are aggregated automatically into one, easy-to-scan report of graphics and analyses that uncover the important trends and warning flags in an expert’s track record—cumulative insights that conversations with colleagues can’t reveal. Each profile draws its intelligence from the largest, most comprehensive collection of expert witness information available. In this free webinar, learn how you can:

• Research any expert and trust the information you find.

• Reveal connections impossible to detect in a stack of search results.

• Retrieve published articles, article mentions, patents -- and new coverage from the vast LexisNexis collection of 20,000 local, regional, national and international news sources.

• Point, click -- and get the information you need to see.

LexisNexis CourtLink provides strategic insights and litigation intelligence you can use to mitigate risk and make more informed decisions when evaluating cases, outside counsel, experts and more.

-          Search more than 100 million federal and state court dockets and documents in a single click and easily filter your results. Search by litigant, attorney or law firm, judge, nature of suit, docket number or patent.

-          Stay on top of new activity in cases of interest and be aware of events in other cases that may impact your company with automatic e-mail notification of new activity in existing cases of interest.

-          Uncover the litigation history and trends of an opposing party, attorney or law firm and/or the judge assigned to a case to locate prior similar litigation and develop compelling case strategies.

-          Set up an alert (for the federal civil, appellate, bankruptcy and selected state courts) by party name, nature of suit, jurisdiction, patent number, class or subclass and bankruptcy creditor or debtor.

Tracking changes to and assessing the impact from the ever-changing regulations tied to Dodd-Frank is a challenge. Let us show you how you can research, monitor and analyze Dodd-Frank regulations and related content in an intuitive, comprehensive tool.

Join us for this free 30-minute Webinar, where we will demonstrate how the LexisNexis Dodd-Frank Dashboard can help you:

• Keep pace with federal agencies’ implementation of the Act by easily monitoring federal regulatory activity by agency, action type (e.g., final or proposed rule), topic, Dodd-Frank section and key dates

   

• Thoroughly understand the impact the regulations may have on your business

   

• Anticipate change. Create customized alerts to stay up to date on the latest Dodd-Frank–related matters

   

• Minimize mistakes and oversights

   

Module 4 continues the search for primary authorities. Paralegals use case law to help interpret statutes that affect their case and to determine how a case with their facts will play out in court. When searching for case law, paralegals are looking for cases that match the law as well as the facts in their case. In this module, students will learn how to:

• Retrieve federal and state cases by citation and party name.
• Find additional relevant cases using LexisNexis headnotes.
• Search for cases using techniques such as search by topic and terms and connectors.

The social media trend has helped people and businesses connect with each other like never before. However, it has also opened a host of potential liabilities that companies need to be aware of and address.

Kere Tickner of Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara, Kathy Vanderziel of The Capital Group Companies, Inc. and Gregory Rogus of Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd. will cover topics including:

• What policies should you have in place and why

   

• The kind of employee behavior that can expose your company to liability

   

• To what extent should and can you monitor usage, non-competes and trade secrets impacted by employee social media use, etc.

   

• Various state laws addressing employer actions regarding social media

   

• Relevant NLRB rulings covering the nature and extent of an employer’s ability to access and use information from social media websites

   

The experts will also answer your questions on this important topic.

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The issue of digital piracy, intellectual property rights and content protection has become more complex as technology has evolved.

 Our panel of industry authorities—representing both in-house and outside counsel—for practical perspectives and expert insights on the latest digital piracy and intellectual property protection issues.

During this fast-paced, informative—and best of all complimentary—Webinar, our expert panel will discuss and debate:

•  Piracy in today’s digital age: What kind of technologies are pirates using today?

•  What technological advances are available to prevent the most pervasive tools? 

•  State and federal acts affording you protection and the future of the Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).  

• How will technology and legislative efforts evolve?
• Interactive activities between law enforcement and governmental agencies to prevent piracy.

•  Understanding the balance between protection and free speech.  

• Piracy and end-users: Why pirated products endure and best practices for discouraging public consumption.

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Over the past few years, enforcement of anti-bribery and corruption regulations has greatly increased and should only continue to increase in the years to come. Explore the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as well as the United Kingdom’s Anti-Bribery Act and their increased attention to financial institutions as well as international governments and third parties during this free Webinar. A panel of experts will discuss these developments as well as ways that businesses can address challenges through risk assessment, due diligence and management oversight.

Join Gwendolyn Hassan, Esq., manager of Corporate Compliance, Navistar, Inc.; Stephen Martin, Esq., Baker & McKenzie; and Marc Litt, Esq., Baker & McKenzie will discuss the following topics:

• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the United Kingdom Anti-Bribery Act and other international standards

   

• Comparison of domestic and international laws and enforcement efforts today

   

• Legislative reform of the FCPA: The motivations, the results and discussion of recent cases

   

• What is causing increased enforcement risks and are certain institutions, like financial and medical device manufacturers, more at risk?

   

• Special considerations: Government clients, third parties and acquisitions

   

• Best practices for minimizing risk: Risk assessment, due diligence and management oversight

   

• Standards for auditing and testing your anti-corruption compliance program

   

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This recording walks you through how to take the module quizzes.  Please make sure you take all 5 quizzes after you attend the recorded modules.

Lexis Advance is a new online research solution that transforms how you conduct legal research.  It was developed to meet the research needs of attorneys and paralegals.  In this webinar, you will learn how Lexis Advance provides a more efficient and intuitive way for you to:  

 -  Conduct a new search without the need to select sources or create a complicated search with connectors.

 -  Locate relevant search results faster and more confidently with pre- and post- search filters.

-  Navigate documents and build upon prior research using work folders.

-  Use Shepard's to validate and enhance your research.

Kim Cramer, LexisNexis Government Consultant

Get the simple facts on the key differences between Lexis and Westlaw. This webinar will highlight important terms and connectors differences and LexisNexis research tools such as Shepard’s Citation Service, Copy with Cite and History. Completing this session will help you quickly transition to online research on lexis.com.