Second Annual Corporate Counsel Institute Strategies for the New Year
Second Annual Corporate Counsel Institute:
Strategies for the New Year
8:30am – 3:15pm CST • January 28, 2005
2555 Grand Blvd • Top Floor (24)
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration & Continental Breakfast for Conference Attendees |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Plenary Session: The Savvy Personal Injury Lawyers’ Key Tactics for the Future: How Civil Justice Reform Can Help Blunt Them [60 min] |
| Victor E. Schwartz | |
| SHB Washington, DC | |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Sarbanes-Oxley’s Effect on Private and Non-Profit Organizations, and Other Trends on the Corporate Front [45 min] |
| Craig L. Evans | |
| Mischa Buford Epps | |
| SHB Kansas City | |
| 10:15 –10:25 | 10-Minute Break |
| 10:25 – 11:25 | Morning Concurrent Sessions [60 min] (specific room assignments will be based on sign-up numbers) |
| New Developments in Tax, HSAs& Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation | |
| Robert D. Grossman | |
| Alson R. Martin | |
| John W. Simpson (Jay) | |
| SHB Overland Park & Kansas City | |
| Selected Acquisition Issues | |
| Stephen D. Aliber (Moderator) | |
| Elizabeth C. Lawrence (Employment Issues) | |
| David R. Erickson (Environmental Issues) | |
| SHB Kansas City | |
| Corporate Crime – the Musical: Lessons for Legal Compliance | |
| James R. Eiszner | |
| Guy A. Lewis | |
| Carol A. Poindexter | |
| SHB Miami & Kansas City | |
| 11:25 – 11:40 | 15-Minute Break to Retrieve Boxed Lunches |
| 11:40 – 12:25 | Luncheon Plenary: Best Practices in Selecting Convergence Counsel & Managing Legal Resources [45 min] |
| Harvey L. Kaplan | |
| SHB Kansas City | |
| Steven J. Miller | |
| Assistant General Counsel | |
| Akzo Nobel Inc. | |
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John Weresh |
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| Associate General Counsel | |
|
Microsoft Corporation |
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| 12:25 – 12:35 | 10-Minute Break |
| 12:35 – 1:35 | Afternoon Concurrent Sessions [60 min] |
| (specific room assignments will be based on sign-up numbers) | |
| Succession Planning for Privately Owned Businesses | |
| Nancy Schmidt Roush | |
| SHB Kansas City | |
| Gordon Slaney | |
| Director and Executive Vice President (retired) | |
| Former Chair, Ownership Committee | |
| The HNTB Companies | |
| Current Developments in Business Litigation | |
| Willam C. Martucci | |
| Todd W. Ruskamp | |
| SHB Kansas City | |
| Intellectual Property Issues: Risk Avoidance & Turning IP into a Profit Center | |
| Scott B. Strohm | |
| B. Trent Webb | |
| SHB Kansas City | |
| 1:35 – 1:45 | 10-Minute Break |
| 1:45 – 3:15 | Ethics Plenary: Tattletales or Crimestoppers – Disclosure Ethics Under Model Rules 1.6 and 1.13 [90 min ethics credit] |
| Maryann Clifford | |
| Corporate Vice President, Law Department | |
| Ethics & Compliance Officer | |
| Motorola, Inc. | |
| John M. Barkett | |
| Stanley D. Davis | |
| Joan M. Haratani | |
| SHB Miami, Kansas City & San Francisco | |
| 3:15 – 4:45 | Reception |
This agenda anticipates 360 minutes of instruction, which will translate into 6 or 7 hours of CLE credit (including at least 1.5 ethics hours) in most jurisdictions.