Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar

ABA SECTION OF LITIGATION           
2010 CORPORATE COUNSEL CLE SEMINAR
CO-SPONSORED BY THE COMMITTEE ON CORPORATE COUNSEL

Program Materials

General Counsel Forum

• Instead of the Billable Hour, What? A Proposal for Litigators
• ACC Value Challenge: “Meet. Talk. Act.”

Corporate America: The Jury’s Verdict

• Defending Goliath: How to Represent a Corporation Before a Jury in a Weakened Economy
• Challenges Corporate Litigants Face in This Time of Hardship

Winning the Negotiation

• Winning the Settlement – Keys to Negotiation Strategy
• Against Integrative Bargaining
• Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations?
• Psychological Impediments to Mediation Success: Theory and Practice

Employment Law in the Obama Age

• When Worlds Collide: How the Intersection of Social Networking and the Workplace Creates Peril for Employers
• Select Employment Law Case Developments
• Supreme Court Narrows Circumstances in Which Employers May Modify Employment Decisions Based on Statistically Disparate Outcomes
• Supreme Court Rejects Mixed-Motive Framework for Age Discrimination Claims
• Third Circuit Issues Important Decision Regarding Class Certification and Americans with Disabilities Act
• Ninth Circuit Issues a Trilogy of Decisions that May Significantly Enhance Defendants’ Ability to Contest Class Certification and Liability
• Reprint permission granted to the ABA Section of Litigation by © 2009 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• The Department of Labor: One Year After the Election

Hot Topics in IP Remedies and Injunctions

• IP Damages Issues Faced by In-House Counsel
• Damages Trends in Patent and Lanham Act Cases

Fallout from the Financial Crisis

• Fallout from a Crisis: Boards of Directors, In-House Counsel and Corporate Risk Management in a New Era
• The Impact of Regulation on Financial Services Firms
• The Risk Management Paradox
• 2008: Seeking Relief
• Reprint permission granted to the ABA Section of Litigation by Navigant Consulting, Inc.

“Tweet” Dreams: Social Networking May Be Your Worst Nightmare

• Anonymous Internet Free Speech and a Company’s Right to Obtain the Speaker’s True Identity through Discovery
• “Tweet” Dreams: Social Networking May Be Your Worst Nightmare

I Am Not Your Lawyer: Ethical Considerations Concerning Upjohn Warnings in Internal Investigations

• Avoiding the Perils and Pitfalls of Internet Corporate Investigations: Proper Use of Upjohn Warnings

Holding the Line on Reasonableness in E-Discovery

• Searching for Reasonable Discovery
• Report and Proposed Remediation Plan of Intel Corporation and Intel Kabushiki Kaisha to Special Master Pursuant to March 16, 2007 Order RE Intel’s Evidence Preservation Issues
• Document Categorization in Legal Electronic Discovery: Computer Classification vs. Manual Review

Protecting Your Company’s Reputation on the Internet

• Protecting Your Company’s Reputation on the Internet

The Diversity Dilemma: Another Victim of the Bad Economy?

• The Diversity Dilemma: Another Victim of the Bad Economy?

Alternative Fee Arrangements that Work

• The Competitive Edge: Turning Risk into Opportunity through the  DuPont Legal Model
• Reprint permission granted to the ABA Section of Litigation by DuPont Legal Function
• Alternative Fee Arrangements that Work
• Legal Rebels

Litigation Management Roundtable – Managing the Case, the Costs, and the Relationship

• The E-Discovery Budget Crunch: Practical Recommendations for Reducing E-Discovery Costs
• Reprint permission granted to the ABA Section of Litigation by Clearwell Systems, Inc.
• Getting the Best Value from Trial Consultants and Jury Research
• Reprint permission granted to the ABA Section of Litigation by Zagnoli McEvoy Foley LLC.