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Hot Legal Issues for In-House Lawyers
Thursday 25th November 2004
at 222 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8XF

One day conference for In-House Lawyers

About us
SJ Berwin is a leading full service corporate and commercial law firm and as such offers a comprehensive range of services including Corporate Finance, Commercial, Real Estate, Banking, Financial Services, Litigation, Employment & Pensions, Intellectual Property, EU & Competition, Reconstruction & Insolvency and Tax.

With offices in London, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Paris and Brussels, the firm regularly handles major cross-border transactions. Our core principles as a firm, since inception, have been to provide commercial answers to commercial problems as quickly and efficiently as possible - whether we are acting for a global multi-national company or an individual.

Speakers
The speakers are all partners at SJ Berwin. These include
Dominic Adams, Peter Anderson, Tim Beale, Ray Black, Michael Bywell, Steven Davis, Wyn Derbyshire, Niamh Grogan, David Harrel, Simon Holmes, Nicola Kerr, Stephen Kon, Stephen Maffey, Hilary O'Connor, Craig Pollack, David Rose, Andrew Shindler, and Simon Witney. Senior assistant, Gretchen Scott will also be speaking.

Background
To ensure that you are properly briefed for the coming year, partners from SJ Berwin have hand-picked those legal and regulatory developments which are likely to affect your business in the next twelve months. Each will be covered in a concise and highly practical briefing delivered by an expert practitioner. There will be ample opportunity to ask questions. This year, we are offering workshop sessions to enable you to explore some of the topics in more detail.

We have designed this programme so that it is highly relevant to all in-house lawyers. A wide range of areas will be covered, giving an excellent overview of topical issues.

Programme

Morning

09.00   Registration

09.30   Chairman's welcome and introduction

Governing tomorrow's Company

Corporate Governance

• Keeping up with best practice
• Putting a structure in place
• Communication with shareholders
• Strong Governance as an investor relations tool

10.15   Duties of directors of companies in financial difficulties

10.45   Coffee Break

Avoiding Regulatory Traps: Some Impending Dangers

11.00  Data Protection - has the UK got it right?

           Keeping your secrets - the impact of the Freedom of Information Act

           Pitfalls to avoid when outsourcing

Brand Management and Human Capital

11.45   Intellectual Property enforcement issues - recent developments and a fresh perspective on costs

12.15   Sexist in the City: Avoiding the claims culture and staying ahead of changes in discrimination law

12.45   Panel discussion and questions

13.00   Lunch

Afternoon

Please choose one of the following workshops:

Workshop 1
14.30   Spotting the issues: recent developments in competition law

Workshop 2
14.30   Pension Funds: limited liability or black hole?
15.30   Coffee break

Please choose one of the following workshops:

Workshop 3
15.45   Don't Get Caught... by the new tax avoidance scheme disclosure
            rules/Share Schemes and financial instruments

Workshop 4
15.45   "Stuff" happens... so what do I need to know to improve our position?

• The wheres and whys of dispute resolution clauses in contracts

16.45   Panel discussion and questions

17.00   Summary and close

17.15   Drinks Reception

Training
SJ Berwin is accredited as a provider of continuing professional development by the Law Society and other professional bodies. Attendance at each seminar qualifies as 6 CPD hours, quoting reference 012/SJBE

RSVP
This seminar is free of charge.

RSVP by E-mail to: katie.cowley@sjberwin.com including in your message your name and organisation. Colleagues are welcome to come with you or in your place, but please let us know if this is the case.