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In this Slide Presentation from ACC's Annual Meeting 2020, in-house counsel can learn how Covid-19 impacts investigating certain claims in your companies. This is a partner resource to "Top Tips for Investigating and Defending Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation Claims In the COVID-19 Era (United States)" found in ACC's Resource Library.

This presentation took place virtually at ACC's Annual Meeting 2020 from October 12-16, session #712.

If you’ve been a litigator on the<br />outside, welcome to a whole new ball game. As in-house counsel, your focus is not just on getting those pleadings filed, but also<br />implementing litigation holds, managing outside counsel, conducting investigations, analyzing your position, determining strategy, and much more. And it is not just about conducting the litigation. It is also about taking steps and creating programs to avoid litigation, performing cost benefit analysis and risk assessment to determine whether to get in, stay in, or get out, and conducting a thorough post mortem of each case so that you acquire a very long educational list of “lessons learned” that will direct you in the future. Come learn from our panel of experts who have “been there, done that.”

Learn how human review and advanced technology can be harnessed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of document review; how the marriage of people and processes can reduce the total cost of discovery; and how the combination of all of these components—human reviewers, advanced analytical technology, and robust review processes and protocols—can strengthen rather than sacrifice defensibility.

One of the in-house litigator's most important roles is quantifying litigation exposure. Whether evaluated at the enterprise level or on a case-by-case basis, the in-house litigator is under more pressure than ever to assist the corporation to manage/contain overall risk. Nuanced high/low analyses or "it depends" answers from a learned legal pulpit will not make the cut in today''s cost-conscious corporate environment. In-house practitioners need to have effective tools and methodologies to assess litigation risks and develop strategies for containing the cost of litigation, as well as financial exposure to the corporation. This program will explore novel ways the in-house litigator can approach litigation, and contain risk and cost, with a business (not only a legal) mindset.

Document review and production accounts for as much as 60 percent of total litigation costs, but generally, over 99 percent of the information collected could have legally been eliminated prior to the event. The legal profession’s approach to curbing discovery and review expense has been focused solely on managing costs after discovery becomes necessary. When companies “clean-house” and proactively remediate data prior to litigation, the results are dramatically lower discovery and review costs. Even companies that have low to no litigation can reduce costs substantially for storage and be much better prepared should they find themselves in litigation. This session will discuss how in-house counsel can lead an initiative that reduces the amount of data their companies have by as much as 70 percent. The panel will lead a non-technical discussion on who should be involved, what existing IT resources are required, decision points and, most importantly, results.

Unlike traditional panel formats, this interactive session is geared for those in their first five years in-house. Bring questions, hypothetical problems, issues and concerns to the panelists, experts in intellectual property, contract creation and litigation. They will answer your questions and make you aware of the latest leading trends in in-house practice.

Participants will go through a post-merger integration exercise and will have to provide inputs/responses for the Board. Naming and branding issues, earn-outs, subsidiaries management, employee relations, accounting and financial reporting…keep that due diligence report handy!

Which form of dispute resolution is best for your contract? Hear from in-house counsel and experts the pros and cons of different methods of dispute resolution from their experience and help inform you as you decide which form to use in your contracts.

Which form of dispute resolution is best for your contract? Hear from in-house counsel and experts the pros and cons of different methods of dispute resolution from their experience and help inform you as you decide which form to use in your contracts.

Department use cases showing how metrics and technology assisted process automation improves workshflows and results