Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce the formation of the firm’s Consumer Products Industry Team to help its consumer product manufacturing clients strategically and comprehensively address every facet of their business.

The new group draws on the legal skills and business acumen of Freeborn’s corporate, intellectual property, employment, and other attorneys and litigators with industry-specific experience and knowledge across a range of practice groups to fully serve consumer products companies.

Jeremy D. Richardson, a Freeborn Partner and Leader of the Consumer Products Industry Team, said of the newly established group, “We have brought together many of Freeborn’s most knowledgeable and accomplished attorneys in key practice areas that will help our clients achieve the full spectrum of legal protections and business success. In addition, our Consumer Products Industry Team members have substantial experience working with consumer products companies and are attuned to the unique, critical challenges they face.”

The Consumer Products Industry Team attorneys have substantial experience responding to the opportunities and navigating issues regularly encountered by consumer products companies. These include negotiating agreements and resolving disputes with distributors, suppliers, vendors, regulators, governmental authorities, and competitors. The attorneys identify risks and mitigation opportunities for consumer products companies, as well as enforce and defend their rights in litigation, when necessary. The team’s legal services that specifically address the primary needs of consumer products companies include:

• Intellectual property and brand protection;
• Purchasing law, supply chain, and sales channels;
• Product liability, safety, and recalls;
• Antitrust and Federal Trade Commission;
• Labor and employment; and
• Website, e-commerce, data privacy, and cybersecurity.

Freeborn’s Consumer Products Industry Team attorneys also are well connected across the consumer products landscape. The firm is an active member in groups that include the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association; International Consumer Products Health and Safety Organization; Toy Association, Inc.; ASTM International; International Trademark Association; Brand Activation Association (formerly Promotion Marketing Association); and IRI Worldwide. The team’s attorneys also regularly share thought leadership with industry stakeholders through webinars, white papers, and other presentations provided for consumer products organizations.

Some highlights of the team’s recent successes for its consumer product manufacturer clients include:

• Counseling a consumer products manufacturer on evaluating incident reports, designing product testing protocols with engineering experts, and reporting to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission including proposing a remediation plan.

• Successfully resolving allegations of false “Made in the USA” marketing claims on a toy manufacturer’s product packaging.

• Representing a leading children’s products manufacturer in a design patent lawsuit with a competitor, resulting in the preservation of the design patent and the competitor’s exit from the market for the protected product.

• Representing sporting equipment distributor-marketers seeking contribution for personal injury settlements from Taiwanese manufacturers and distributors of alleged defective equipment, including obtaining depositions and other discovery in Taiwan and successfully executing judgments against personal property in Taiwan.

The Consumer Products Industry Team is made up of the following Freeborn attorneys:

• Jeremy D. Richardson, Leader of the Consumer Products Industry Team and a Partner in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups.
• David S. Becker, a Partner in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups.
• Kimberly A. Beis, Co-Leader of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and Partner in the Litigation Practice Group.
• Stephen P. Benson, a Partner in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups.
• Jeffrey J. Catalano, Co-Leader of the Intellectual Property Practice Group and Partner in the Litigation Practice Group
• Jennifer L. Fitzgerald, a Partner in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups.
• Erin McAdams Franzblau, a Partner in the Labor and Employment, and Litigation Practice Groups.
• Rita W. Garry, Senior Counsel in the Corporate Practice Group.
• Andrew L. Goldstein, Senior Counsel in the Corporate and Intellectual Property Practice Groups.
• Kathryn T. Lundy, a Partner in the Labor and Employment, and Litigation Practice Groups.
• John T. Shapiro, a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group.
• Robert A. Stines, a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group.
• Marc B. Zimmerman, a Partner in the Labor and Employment, and Litigation Practice Groups.

More information about the Consumer Products Industry Team is available at https://www.freeborn.com/practice/consumer-products.

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Legal Ethics for IP Practitioners: A Cautionary Tale of Professional Irresponsibility,” featuring Fitch Even attorney Steven G. Parmelee.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 16, 2020, at 9:00 am PST / 10:00 am MST / 11:00 am CST / 12 noon EST.

Registered patent practitioners must follow the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct, which conform to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Although largely similar to state bar rules, the USPTO rules can be applied in some fact scenarios that are unique to the intellectual property world.

During this webinar, the presenter will take a deep dive into how one patent attorney repeatedly ran afoul with the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct in the context of a business venture that purported to serve the unique needs of the inventor community. This troublesome tale showcases some interesting ways in which the USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline interprets and applies these USPTO rules. The presenter will examine these and other behaviors to which the USPTO objected:

• Following instructions from an intermediary on when to file a patent application for a client
• Disclosing a fee arrangement with a client
• Supervising an employee working for a client via an intermediary
• Doing business under an assumed name

CLE credit has been approved for California, Illinois, and Nebraska. Other states may also award CLE credit upon attendee request.

Following the live event, a recording of the webinar will be available to view for one year at www.fitcheven.com.

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In-House Impact: Life Sciences 2020 is the first dedicated national forum for life sciences legal leaders to accelerate their journey (and that of their teams) from legal specialist to strategic business partner.

For the first time, we’ll be shining a light on how the most high-impact legal teams are embedding innovation, collaboration and creativity into their DNA, sharing exactly how that’s allowing them to move from minimizing risk to maximizing opportunity in operating as true partners to their rapidly growing scientific business and helping them get better drugs to patients faster.

Download your copy of the Event Guide to see what else you will take away.

Among those sharing their stories of what’s working – and what’s not – in making this critical journey, include:
• Monika Dorda, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Global Pharmaceuticals, GSK
• Maurus Schreyvogel, Chief Legal Innovation Officer, Novartis
• Marcela Kirberger, General Counsel & Secretary, Roche Diagnostics Corporation
• Eric Sherbet, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, IQVIA
• Yvonne Tran, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Schrödinger
• Laurie Keating, Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
• Marie E. Pasquale, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Incyte
• Michael MacDougall, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, EMD Serono
• Jonathan Biller, Chief Legal Officer, Agios Pharmaceuticals
• Paul Savidge, General Counsel, Spark Therapeutics
• John Ryan, General Counsel, The Jackson Laboratory
• Richard Rew, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Luminex Corporation
• Shaun Ryan, Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Moderna
• Heather Goodman, General Counsel, Two Labs Pharma Services
• Christine Bellon, Chief Legal Officer, Beam Therapeutics
• Dina Ciarimboli, General Counsel, Thrive Earlier Detection Corp
• Beth Zelnick-Kaufman, most recently Chief Legal Officer, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
• Javier Rodriguez, Chief Legal Officer, Indivior
• Greg Bokar, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Sunovion
• Brenda Furlow, General Counsel, Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer, Bio-Techne

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Chamberlain Hrdlicka will host its first virtual Tax and Business Planning Seminar Tuesday through Thursday, November 10-12, 2020.

This year’s seminar will showcase presentations from Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s nationally recognized tax, estate planning, bankruptcy, corporate and employee benefits attorneys across the firm’s all four offices, including Houston and San Antonio. The event is open to the public, but particularly well suited for accountants and business leaders responsible for financial operations, financial planners and lawyers who guide clients in tax matters. Up to 11 CLE and 13.2 CPE credits available in Texas.

Attendees will gain valuable knowledge from members of Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s nationally recognized tax, labor and employment, corporate and employee benefits practices.

This three-day series will include half-day seminars on topics such as:

• Recent Tax Court valuation opinions that could put you in dire straits;
• Top employee benefits plan issues;
• Tax implications of the Paycheck Protection Program and related expenses;
• Bankruptcy in the COVID-19 age;
• Tax planning in a down-cycle economy;
• Impact of COVID-19 on state and local taxes (SALT);
• Estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax case law developments;
• 2020 International tax update; and,
• Old but gold strategies in estate planning.

Workshops will be led by Houston and San Antonio-based shareholders: Brett T. Berly, Sebastien N. Chain, Phyllis A. Guillory, Jarrod Martin, Joshua A. Sutin, Jaime Vasquez, Juan F. Vasquez, Jr. and Justin E. VandenBout.

Registration on or before November 9 is $20 per day or $50 for all three days. Check out complete details.

Chamberlain Hrdlicka is pleased to announce that it will host its first virtual Tax and Business Planning Seminar Tuesday through Thursday, November 10-12, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at 12:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. The year’s seminar will showcase presentations from attorneys in each of our offices. The event is open to the public, and ideal for accountants, business leaders responsible for financial operations, financial planners and lawyers who guide clients in tax matters.

Attendees will gain valuable knowledge from members of Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s nationally recognized tax, labor and employment, corporate and employee benefits practices.

This three-day series will include half-day seminars on topics such as:

• Recent Tax Court valuation opinions that could put you in dire straits;
• Top employee benefits plan issues;
• Tax implications of the Paycheck Protection Program and related expenses;
• Bankruptcy in the COVID-19 age;
• Tax planning in a down-cycle economy;
• Impact of COVID-19 on state and local taxes (SALT);
• Estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax case law developments;
• 2020 International tax update; and,
• Old but gold strategies in estate planning.

Workshops will be led by Atlanta-based Shareholders John Hackney, Scot Kirkpatrick and Christopher Steele, Senior Counsel Steve Wyatt, Associate Jasen Hanson, Philadelphia-based Shareholder and SALT Practice Co-Chair Jennifer Karpchuk, Shareholder and SALT Practice Chair Emeritus Stewart Weintraub and Special Counsel Mark Lubin.

Registration on or before November 9 is $20 per day or $50 for all three days. 3.0 hours of CLE credit has been approved for Georgia attorneys on Tuesday and 4.0 hours of CLE credit has been approved for Wednesday and Thursday. 3.6 hours of CPE credit are recommended for Georgia CPAs for Tuesday and 4.8 hours of CPE credit are recommended for Georgia CPAs for Wednesday and Thursday. Anyone is welcome to register to attend.

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Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Aftermarket, Not Afterthought: Patent Strategies for Protecting Aftermarket Parts,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Jonathan H. Urbanek and Jacqueline L. Thompson.

The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2020, at 9:00 am PDT / 10:00 am MDT / 11:00 am CDT / 12 noon EDT.

Aftermarket parts for a product such as a vehicle or large machine can provide an important revenue stream for the product manufacturer. Aftermarket parts sales are often highly profitable for the manufacturer, which invites will-fitters to sell their own aftermarket parts. These competing parts may not only negatively impact the manufacturer’s sales, but may cause safety and warranty concerns due to potential quality issues.

This webinar will provide approaches for cost-effectively protecting aftermarket parts, including these tactics:
• Preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications to develop a strong portfolio focused on aftermarket parts
• Integrating business input into the patent life cycle
• Detecting and stopping will-fitters
• Creating non-patent challenges for will-fitters

CLE credit has been approved for California, Illinois, and Nebraska. Other states may also award CLE credit upon attendee request.

Following the live event, a recording of the webinar will be available to view for one year at www.fitcheven.com.

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Your company may suffer a cybersecurity incident that warrants bringing in third-party forensics or other consultants to investigate and report on the cause or consequences of the cyber event or compromise. To seek to protect the third parties’ reports with the work product privilege (and, thus, to avoid having to disclose the reports in litigation) – and to try to side-step the unexpected failure to establish such protection that Capital One recently experienced (In re: Capital One Consumer Data Security Breach Litigation) – do (and don’t do) the following with respect to your contracts with these third parties:

Do have outside counsel be the entity contracting directly with the third party. Have outside counsel pay the third party’s fees, directly. Then, have outside counsel bill you for reimbursement of the fees paid.

Do contract under a specific statement of work or services description that is exclusive to the particular cyber incident.

Do state and expressly limit the purpose of the third party’s services and reports to anticipating litigation arising from the cyber incident. The purpose should not explicitly or implicitly include, for example, financial controls or reporting.

Do require that the third party’s report be in a form and of substance specific to the purpose of anticipating litigation. The report should not mirror what would be provided for reports for other purposes.

Do require the third party to issue formal and informal reports and updates only to the contracting outside counsel. Outside counsel, then, as necessary or appropriate, can distribute further the reports or updates, for example, to select internal stakeholders.

Don’t allow those who receive reports and updates from outside counsel to further distribute the reports or updates, whether internally or externally. Require recipients to explicitly agree to limited use and handling terms, before receiving reports or updates.

Don’t allocate the costs and fees for the third party’s services to any internal billing or cost center other than Legal’s. The costs and fees should be assigned to Legal’s budget. Categorize the costs and fees as “legal” costs and fees, not, for example, cybersecurity or business costs or fees.

And, in the contract with the third-party forensics firm or consultant, do include requirements that the third party conform to all of the applicable above do’s and don’t’s.

Importantly, these are only a few do’s and don’t’s that may help guide many companies to attempt to structure and implement contracts with third-party consultants so as to establish the work product privilege applicable to the third party’s reports. Each company, each cybersecurity incident, and applicable law can vary and be unique, so it is perhaps even more critical for the company to immediately involve inside (or outside) counsel to navigate these thorny issues.

Background – In re: Capital One Consumer Data Security Breach Litigation

The above do’s and don’t’s follow from the recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in the above-referenced litigation. Capital One sought to avoid having to disclose the report issued by the cybersecurity forensics firm that it retained in wake of the March 2019 data security breach suffered by the financial company.

In affirming a magistrate judge’s order to compel Capital One to disclose the forensics report, the Virginia federal district court made several observations. Well before the breach (and not specific to the March breach), Capital One had retained the forensics firm under a general SOW, on a retainer basis, to provide a set number of service hours for any one of a broad range of incident response services that might be needed. After the security breach, although the bank’s outside counsel signed a letter agreement with the forensics firm for services with respect to the breach. The terms of the letter agreement provided for the same scope and kind of services, on the same terms and conditions, as the general SOW (except that the forensics firm would work at the direction of the outside counsel and provide the forensics report to the outside counsel).

For performing under the letter agreement, the consultant was first paid from the retainer already provided under the general SOW. Then, Capital One directly paid the balance of the consultant’s fees due under the letter agreement – with funds from Capital One’s internal general cybersecurity budget. Capital One (at least at first) internally identified the fees paid to the consultant as a “business critical” expense – not as a “legal” expense.

During the forensics firm’s investigation, it communicated directly with the bank’s external financial auditors, so that the auditor’s could assess whether the breach impacted the bank’s accounting controls. Many internal and external parties received a copy of the forensics report, but Capital One provided no explanation as to why these recipients received a copy of the report, as to whether the report was provided for business purposes, regulatory reasons, or specifically in anticipation of litigation, or as to any restrictions placed on the recipients’ use, reproduction, or further distribution of the report.

Both the magistrate judge and, on appeal, the district court judge who opined on the matter saw these above facts, among others, as support for finding that the forensic firm’s investigation report was not protected from disclosure by the work product privilege.

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One of the most critical areas of employee relationships and one of the biggest challenges management faces today is conducting effective performance appraisals and determining appropriate merit increases.

Learn to give performance appraisals that help motivate employees to achieve goals and increase their value to the organization.

Since both managers and employees often view performance appraisals with anxiety, attention is given to preparing for and conducting performance discussions that are objective, complete and defensible. You’ll also share experiences and participate in various exercises with other participants to better understand how to obtain the best possible performance from employees.

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In this webinar, the speaker will explain best practices for Electronic Recordkeeping of I-9 Forms, as well as the importance of understanding the requirements for completing I-9 Forms.

Overview:
The costs of not complying are high. Compliance is actually easy if you know what to do. Unfortunately, many organizations do not take the time to learn how to properly complete an I-9 form. The forms are also changed every few years.

The presenter has conducted hundreds of I-9 audits.
The number of companies that were totally in compliance in 18 years of conducting I-9 Audits is a big fat ZERO.

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Even in the midst of the pandemic, we continue to see significant legal developments in the world of the workplace. To kick off our Fall Webinar Series, we begin with “What Did I Miss? The Year in Review (So Far)” We will explore the latest developments in a variety of areas across many states, such as:

• Federal Agency Update
• U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
• New Litigation in the COVID-19 Era
• Wage and Hour Developments
• Classifying Workers: Independent Contractors vs. Employees
• Upcoming Supreme Court Cases

Orlando, Florida — For the second year in a row, RumbergerKirk will host a series of workshops for Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law students during the 2020-2021 academic year. The RumbergerKirk Professional Development Series will move to a virtual format and will feature five workshops designed to help prepare the next generation of leaders for the ever-changing legal industry.

The workshop series kicks off Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 with a presentation on “Taking the Bar Exam and Bar Admissions Process,” presented by Richard Greenberg, Partner; Michaela Kim, Associate; and Sara Lewis, Associate.

RumbergerKirk has assembled a group of presenters for the workshops that will be conducted via Zoom, including partners, associates and professionals from the firm, as well as local judges and other legal experts. Several of the workshops will feature breakout sessions and polling questions to ensure a more interactive and engaging experience for the law students.

The additional RumbergerKirk Professional Development Series workshop topics are:
• October 22, 2020 – Associate Life: What to Expect Your First Three Years, presented by Jason Bullinger, Associate; Vaughn Glinton, Associate; and Christian Tiblier, Associate.
• November 5, 2020 – Courtroom Etiquette and Professionalism, presented by Suzanne Hill, Partner; Judge Bob LeBlanc, Ninth Judicial Circuit; and Judge Margie Schreiber, Ninth Judicial Circuit.
• January 7, 2021 – Interviewing Skills, presented by Angela Sterley, Human Resources Director
• February 4, 2021 – Taking Depositions, presented by Skip Eubanks, Partner; Darryl Gavin, Partner; and Shenele Pettis Bright, Associate.

For more information email Hammond.

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Latest Developments in the Patentability of AI- and Software-Based Inventions,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Thomas F. Lebens and Zachary Van Engen.

The webinar will take place on Thursday, September 24, 2020, at 9:00 am PDT / 10:00 am MDT / 11:00 am CDT / 12 noon EDT.

The changes in subject matter eligibility prompted by the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank and subsequent Federal Circuit and district court cases have continued to make it challenging to patent inventions tied to artificial intelligence and other types of software. The legal analysis often turns on how the software interacts with the outside world and the nature of the problems it solves.

During this webinar, we will provide an update on the latest legal developments in computer software patentability along with guidance on best practices for protecting software-related innovations, covering these topics and more:

• Ramifications of recent post-Alice Federal Circuit cases
• Updated USPTO guidelines
• Tips for patent application drafting
• Tips for responding to office actions

CLE credit has been approved for California and Illinois and is pending in Nebraska. Other states may also award CLE credit upon attendee request.

Following the live event, a recording of the webinar will be available to view for one year at www.fitcheven.com.

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Join SCCE September 14-16 for our first ever virtual Compliance & Ethics Institute. Hear from industry professionals on emerging trends and hot topics with 100+ sessions across 11 subject areas. New lower pricing available!

Don’t Miss these General Sessions:

Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Panel – Justin Ross, Blair Marks,
Art Weiss, Adam Turteltaub
Experienced compliance professionals share lessons learned from the pandemic and how to strengthen compliance programs for a post-pandemic world.

Fraud Is Not a Trade Secret: A Conversation
with Tyler Shultz
Tyler Shultz and Rebecca Jarvis
Hear directly from the whistleblower who helped expose Theranos, and gain insight into what to watch out for in your own organization.

Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into
Moral Rebels
Catherine Sanderson
Learn why so many people standby when they
see wrongdoing and what it takes to get them to come forward.

Fostering a Culture of Compliance
Culture Panel – Tiffany Archer, Susan Roberts, Adelle Elia, Jacki Cheslow
Culture is crucial for compliance success, but with workers at home new challenges abound. Learn how compliance and culture experts are meeting this challenge.

Additional registration discounts apply for SCCE & HCCA members. Group discounts are also available.

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Just when lawsuits against the media are on the rise, litigation budgets are being squeezed by the economic shock of the pandemic. Please join us on July 23 for a two-part webinar that will discuss how to navigate those difficult waters.

Nathan Siegel and Kelli Sager will discuss the critical importance of early case assessment and how recent legal developments are affecting that process. Kate Bolger will follow with a roundtable discussion with legal executives from film, television, print and digital media companies on how they are managing this crisis.

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Hanzo, a pioneer of contextual collection and dynamic web content ediscovery and compliance software, today announced an outstanding lineup of industry experts for an upcoming live webinar, Slack For Legal Teams: Getting The Most Out Of Collaboration While Mitigating Risk, on July 29, 2020, at 1:00 pm ET. In this live webinar event, panelists will explore how legal teams can use Slack for their own operational efficiency, guide corporate use to mitigate risk, and uncover best practices for managing discovery obligations with collaboration data.

EVENT DESCRIPTION
In this work-from-home world, collaboration applications like Slack have gone from the relatively small domain of IT and Development to expand, almost overnight, across the entire corporation. This dramatic shift means two things for legal: understanding the opportunity of this new platform and managing the risk within their business. This webinar will shine a light on how legal teams can reap the productivity benefits of Slack in their daily communications and operations. It will also explore how legal can be on the front lines to improve corporate use and governance of Slack, and share practical insights regarding meeting the preservation challenges of modern collaborative data.

Speakers will discuss:
– An overview of Slack and why it’s replacing email and changing the way work gets done
– Why legal teams should be embracing Slack to improve their communications and operations.
– Why is collaboration content the brave new world for ediscovery
– Best practices for information governance and preservation to improve corporate use of Slack
– The power of Slack’s Discovery API and purpose-built discovery solutions

SPEAKERS
Moderator:
– Brad Harris, VP Product, Hanzo

Panelists:
– Mark Pike, Legal Director, Product Counsel, Slack
– Ellen Blanchard, Director, Discovery and Information Governance, T-Mobile
– Meghan Brosnahan, Information Governance & eDiscovery Leader

WEBINAR REGISTRATION
Slack For Legal Teams: Getting The Most Out Of Collaboration While Mitigating Risk
Date: July 29, 2020
Time: 1:00 pm ET
Cost: Free
Registration link: https://www.hanzo.co/webinar-internal-investigations-in-the-age-of-collaboration-and-remote-work

ABOUT HANZO
Hanzo provides modern ediscovery and compliance software for enterprise organizations. Our solutions empower legal and compliance teams to efficiently manage the preservation, targeted collection, and review of dynamic content from enterprise collaboration applications, social media, and complex websites. Hanzo is SOC 2® Type 2 certified, demonstrating Hanzo’s commitment to data security and serves large corporations across the globe—giving them control, visibility, and context over their data to reduce cost and mitigate risk. Learn more at hanzo.co and follow updates on Twitter: @gethanzo or on LinkedIn.

Contact
Sarena Regazzoni
Director of Corporate Communications
Hanzo
503-407-4208
sarena@hanzo.co

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Trade Secret Misappropriation: When and How to Take Action,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Joseph F. Marinelli and Thomas A. James.

The webinar will take place on Thursday, July 16, 2020, at 9:00 am PDT / 10:00 am MDT / 11:00 am CDT / 12 noon EDT.

Trade secrets protect many of a company’s most valued intellectual assets, such as formulas, fabrication techniques, data compilations, and business intelligence. With the high employee turnover, shortened lifespan and digitization of technology, and complex business structures of today’s competitive environment, protecting trade secrets has never been more important. Deciding if, when, and how to litigate a possible misappropriation is a critical part of maintaining trade secret protection and enforcing a robust intellectual property strategy.

During this webinar, the speakers will explore the factors that must be considered when bringing a trade secret action, covering these topics and more:
• Pre-suit diligence and conduct
• Filing considerations related to jurisdiction and venue (state court, federal court, ITC)
• Other causes of action to consider
• Available relief
• Protecting trade secrets during litigation

CLE credit has been approved for California and Illinois and is pending in Nebraska. Other states may also award CLE credit upon attendee request.

Following the live event, a recording of the webinar will be available to view for one year at www.fitcheven.com.

Register for the webinar.

Companies shifted to remote work overnight and need practical insights for mitigating risk and tips on how to leverage Slack data for efficient internal investigations.

Hanzo, a pioneer of contextual collection and dynamic web content ediscovery and compliance software, today announced a stellar lineup of industry experts for an upcoming live webinar, Effective Internal Investigations In The Age Of Collaboration And Remote Work, on July 9, 2020, at 1:00 pm ET.  In this webinar event, panelists will explore how to conduct effective internal workplace investigations in the age of collaboration and remote work.

EVENT DESCRIPTION
We live in a shifting landscape where the COVID-19 pandemic has moved the workforce from their standard physical offices to a work-from-home world. This change accelerated the adoption of collaborative business communication platforms—replacing email as the primary method of business communication.  Almost overnight, applications like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and others have shot up in daily use and have become where the work gets done.

This unprecedented overnight migration to remote work presents a host of new challenges: increased business risk from lack of oversight and wrongdoing, and at the same time increasing the complexity to effectively conduct internal investigations and maintain safe working environments.

Uncertain times and rapid technology changes can make any legal or compliance team feel vulnerable. The best time to make sure you are prepared to conduct an investigation —especially leveraging new tools and data sources— is before an avalanche of investigation needs arise.

This educational webinar is developed to provide attendees with practical insights for reducing risk while planning and conducting effective internal investigations leveraging data from collaboration applications. Learn how to conduct effective internal workplace investigations in the age of collaboration and remote work.

Panelists will discuss:
– The changing business environment
– The effect of collaboration tools on business communications
– The role of internal investigations for employment compliance, litigation, and corporate culture.
– Strategies for conducting internal investigations
– How to add and manage new data sources for effective internal investigations
– Determining if a full investigation is required

SPEAKERS
– Stacey Blaustein, Counsel, IBM
– Kyle Kelly, Senior E-Discovery and Litigation Support Specialist, Coinbase
– Kimberly Quan, Global Head of eDiscovery & Digital Forensics, Juniper Networks
– Brad Harris, VP of Product, Hanzo

WEBINAR REGISTRATION

Title: Effective Internal Investigations In The Age Of Collaboration And Remote Work
Date: July 9, 2020
Time: 1:00 pm ET
Cost: Free
Register

ABOUT HANZO
Hanzo provides modern ediscovery and compliance software for enterprise organizations. Our solutions empower legal and compliance teams to efficiently manage the preservation, targeted collection, and review of dynamic content from enterprise collaboration applications, social media, and complex websites. Hanzo is SOC 2® Type 2 certified, demonstrating Hanzo’s commitment to data security and serves large corporations across the globe—giving them control, visibility, and context over their data to reduce cost and mitigate risk. Learn more at https://www.hanzo.co and follow updates on Twitter: @gethanzo or on LinkedIn.

Chamberlain Hrdlicka is pleased to announce that Philadelphia-based Shareholder Philip Karter was named a Lifetime Achievement honoree and Shareholder Kevin F. Sweeney was named a Lawyer on the Fast Track nominee in the 2020 Professional Excellence Awards by The Legal Intelligencer. The honor of Lifetime Achievement recognizes industry professionals who have “left an imprint on the legal history of the state during their career.” The Lawyers on the Fast Track designation “celebrates the next generation of legal leaders.” The full list on honorees can be found here.

Karter specializes in tax controversy and tax litigation matters. With over 35 years of experience, he has litigated Federal tax cases in the United States District Courts, the United States Tax Court and the United States Court of Federal Claims and argued in the United States Court of Appeals in multiple circuits. Karter formerly served as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, most recently as Lawyer of the Year for Litigation and Controversy – Tax for Philadelphia. Additionally, he has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 U.S. – Tax Controversy, International Tax Review – U.S. Tax Controversy Leaders and he has been presented with the Outstanding Attorney Award – U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division. Karter earned his undergraduate degree from Emory University, his law degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Law and his Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Sweeney is a member of the Tax Controversy & Litigation Practice and former federal prosecutor who specializes in defending clients in civil and criminal tax controversy and litigation matters. He represents high-net-worth individuals and businesses with complex and sensitive tax issues. Sweeney focuses on high-stakes IRS audits, civil tax litigation, white-collar criminal defense matters, and whistleblower matters for high and ultra-high net worth individuals, corporate executives, business owners, and public and private companies worldwide. He is listed in The Legal 500 U.S. for Tax Controversy and has been honored with the Tax Division Outstanding Attorney Award by the U.S. Department of Justice. Sweeney earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola University Maryland and his law degree from New York Law School.

Chamberlain Hrdlicka is a diversified business law firm with offices in Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia and San Antonio. The firm represents both public and private companies, as well as individuals and family-owned businesses across the nation. The firm offers counsel in tax planning and tax controversy, corporate, securities and finance, employment law and employee benefits, energy law, estate planning and administration, intellectual property, international and immigration law, commercial and business litigation, real estate and construction law

Please join a NYC Bar webinar on June 1st from 6:30 to 8:30PM EST to hear Jennifer Brown moderate a panel with Diane Brayton, General COunsel of The New York Times, Kimberly Chainey, General Counsel of Panasonic Avionics, Jung-Kyu McCann, General Counsel of Druva and Beth Levine, SVP & Chief Compliance Officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

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From trade wars to #fakenews to global pandemics to cybersecurity breaches—economic, political and social changes have upended business as usual. A general counsel’s ability to navigate and manage in these turbulent times is critical to the viability of her organization. This panel discussion with leading women GCs and Chief Compliance Officers will explore the GC and CCO roles in managing risk while adapting to the pace of change. We will hear how successful women lawyers at the forefront of their organizations navigate the winds of change.

Registration in advance is required.

Davis Wright Tremaine is pleased to partner with LaborLess and SHRM to bring you the webinar “COVID-19’s Impact on the H-1B Visa Process.” The COVID-19 pandemic has forced employees all around the US to work from home, which has had real implications on employers who hire H-1B visa workers.

This panel will go over how COVID-19 has impacted the H-1B visa process, walk through some of the issues around LCA posting and public access files, offer some practical tips and solutions, and discuss opportunities for streamlining processes going forward.

Register for this webinar.