2008 Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar (Scottsdale, AZ)

The documents below are written materials from the 2008 Committee on Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar. All files are available in PDF format unless otherwise noted. ()

General Counsel Forum

• » Moratorium on Across-the-Board Law Firm Rate Increase
• » General Counsel Under Attack: Criminal and Enforcement Proceedings, Investigations, and the Travails of In-House Counsel

Corporate Governance 2008: New Trends in Corporate Governance Law and Practice Following Enron, WorldCom and Sarbanes - Oxley

• » The New Stage of Corporate Governance Litigation: Section 220
• » “Sinners Who Find Religion”: Advancement of Litigation Expenses to Corporate Officials Accused of Wrongdoing

S&L to Dot.Com to Mortgage Crisis: Are You Ready Yet to Protect Your Company against Corporate Fraud?

• » S&L to Dot.Com to Mortgage Crisis: Are You Ready Yet to Protect Your Company against Corporate Fraud?
• » Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organization – Part 1
• » Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organization – Part 2
• » Corporation Memorandum
• » United States v. Gregory L. Reyes
• » Chapter Eight – Sentencing of Organizations

Punitive Damages: Do We Know More after Philip Morris v. Williams?

• » Litigation Claims for Punitive Damages: The View from the Front Line
• » Litigation Punitive Damages Outline
• » Due Process and Punitive Damage: An Overview of the Gore-Campbell-Williams Trilogy

Insurance: Protecting Directors in the Hot Seat

• » Securities Claims against Directors and Officers: D&O Insurance, a Bridge over Troubled Waters
• » Zone of Insolvency and Deepening insolvency: Where are We Today?
• » Cyber Policy – A New Threat to the Balanced Sheet

The Legal Tsunami – How to Manage the Crisis When Your Industry Faces a Product Related Mass Tort

• » Tsunami Litigation: Four Perspectives
• » Launching Corporate Investigations with Intelligence
• » Litigation Communications in a High Publicity Environment
• » The Attorney-Client Privilege and PR Consultants

Who’s Next: How Enron’s Fallout Foretells the Future of Federal Prosecution

• » The Perils of Dismissing Enron as “Different”
• » United States v. Jeffrey Skilling

Straw, Sticks or Bricks – Keeping the Wolf at Bay: How In-House Counsel Can Meet and Beat E-Discovery Challenge

• » Electronically Stored Information: Are You Ready?

Ethical Dilemmas in Aggressive Litigation – Dealing with the Unethical Advisory and Difficult Client

• » Ethical Dilemmas in Aggressive Litigation
• » Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations
• » Case Citations

Perry Mason, Arnie Becker or Denny Crane: To What Generational Beat Do You March and Does it Make a Difference in Your Legal Practice

• » Perry Mason, Arnie Becker or Denny Crane: To What Generational Beat Do You March and Does it Make a Difference in Your Legal Practice
• » Communicating to Gen X and Net Gen Jurors, Part II
• » The Changing Face Juries

Strategies for Enforcing Your Intellectual Property Rights in China

• » Judicial Protection of IPR in China – Patents
• » Judicial Protection of IPR in China – Trademark
• » Judicial Protection of IPR in China – Criminal
• » IP Rights Available in China
• » Experience with IP Enforcement in China

Women of Color in the Legal Profession: Why it Means Success for Everyone

• » Visible Invisibility – Women of Color in Law Firms

Litigation Management Roundtable

• » Moratorium on Across-the-Board Law Firm Rate Increase
• » Not Going to Take it Anymore
• » Who Will Pay for Associate Raises: Partners or Clients?
• » When They Look Outside the Company

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