Networking Webcast: Lessons Learned from the Age of Uncertainty, An Invitation-Only Workshop for Texas In-House Legal Professionals

Who Should Attend:

This webcast/networking session is geared for legal professionals in Texas to discuss challenges from 2020, what you've learned and how you are creating your game plan for 2021.

Description:

Following a year of immense uncertainty, the corporate legal department solidified its place as a true strategic business partner by managing corporate risk through a multitude of unforeseen obstacles. From navigating compliance with remote employees to untangling disputes with a new – or different - layer of complexity, our corporate legal departments were the key to protecting the corporation in 2020.

As we move further into 2021, how can we continue to iterate on the changes made in 2020. What lessons did we learn and how did our colleagues manage similar challenges?

Register today and Join FTI Consulting and CCBJ for an interactive workshop with our Texas in-house peers to discuss the unique challenges faced by Texas corporate legal departments and what ongoing concerns are ahead for 2021. Discussion point include:

Top Concerns for 2021:

• Lack of resources for 2021 initiatives and workload
• Employee retention
• COVID-19 persistence and ongoing business continuity
• Risk exposure due to lack of data retention and data management policies
• Increase in employee misconduct complaints (harassment/insensitivity complaints, trade secret theft, misuse/misappropriation of funds, bribery or corruption)
• Risk and crisis management
• Intellectual property protection
• Data governance, data security and privacy
• Increased litigation
• Corporate risk from remote workforce
• Risk exposure due to lack of data retention and data management policies by partners, vendors and service providers

Developing and adjusting corporate policies due to adopted or developed practices from 2020:

• Updating or creating remote workforce policy, confidential or sensitive data management policies, legal hold policies and processes, data and records retention policies, etc.

Preparations for the new administration and potential regulatory changes

• Lessons learned from 2020
• Managing corporate data security with a remote workforce, effects of the Oil & Gas Industry on other companies in Texas, shadow IT, recent and anticipated privacy laws

Discussion Leaders:

• Kristin Calve, Editor & Publisher, CCBJ
• Steve McNew, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting