California CLE Course Catalog

Responding to government investigation requires knowledge of updates and regulations along with ability to effectively navigate a number of ethical responsibilities. In this session we will discuss critical rules of the road to keep in mind during a federal investigation.

In this session, speakers will discuss how the legal department can function more efficiently and how better managing everything from data, evidence gathering, litigation support, budgeting, and metrics can affect long-term litigation strategy.

Today, in most areas of a business, success is measured clearly with metrics and KPIs that illustrate growth in either financial terms or otherwise. In legal departments, metrics for measuring success remain unclear with some companies still using ‘nothing went wrong’ as the main indicator of a successful legal department. However many in-house counsel understand that simple metric fails to capture the impact and effectiveness of their departments. So what KPIs and metrics should you be setting to determine success? This session will cover how to introduce a KPI program for your department.

Employers across the nation are confronting a host of new or amended employment laws addressing pay equity, pay inquiry, and paid sick leave. For instance, various U.S. municipalities and states, including New York City, Philadelphia, New York, California, and Puerto Rico have also enacted new legislation that prohibits employers from asking applicants about their current or past salary, creating additional compliance and recruitment challenges for employers. Additionally, various states and localities have adopted or are considering mandatory paid sick leave laws, adding to the assortment of new employer requirements. So what will the future workplace look like for women?

This session will look at how law departments continue to evolve how to build a legal ops team within your organization. Panelists will discuss hiring the right talent and the people skills needed to work in a legal environment, functions of the legal ops team and where it fits into the greater business structure, and how to improve efficiency and synergy between the in-house law department and legal ops team.

In an industry undergoing as much disruption as legal, management strategies that support these changes are becoming increasingly important. In order to facilitate change within an organization, each team needs to be equipped with the resources and support they will need when challenges arise. This session will demonstrate successful methodologies for management so you can help facilitate change in any situation without losing the engagement and productivity of your team.

When corporate boards are more diverse, everyone wins; from consumers to employees to shareholders. A 2015 finding by MSCI found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperformed other companies of similar size by at least 5% from 2012 to 2014. Today, we’re beginning to see legislators getting involved in this particular gender diversity issue and in 2018 we saw California become the first state to require every publicly held corporation have at least one woman on its board of directors by the end of 2019. Several other states have also passed nonbinding resolutions encouraging corporations to better gender diversify their boards. This seems to signify a more active role from legislators when it comes to gender diversity in business, so what should we expect in the coming years? In this session, speakers will discuss not only how you can achieve your own corporate board position but also the trends in gender diversity legislation.

Negotiation skills are a necessity in executive management and they enhance conversations around things like, increasing department budgets, resources and compensation. Unfortunately, there are no magical phrases that can guarantee success. Even the most seasoned managers and executives need a compelling strategy before going into a campaign. In this discussion, participants will share their strategies on how to demonstrate confidence, congeniality, and the knowledge necessary to secure positive results.

In this session, GCs and in-house counsel discuss the business benefits of a strong ethical culture, how ethics is valued in their corporations, and what work needs to be put in from the company and its employees to achieve success.