Missouri CLE Course Catalog

Consumer class-action lawsuits pose significant challenges for businesses across various industries. As legal and regulatory landscapes continue to evolve, understanding how to effectively address and navigate these challenges becomes crucial for organizations to protect their reputation, minimize financial risks, and maintain a positive relationship with their customers. Join us in this informative session as expert panelists provide you with valuable insights and practical strategies to effectively address consumer class-action and mass arbitration challenges, and explore ways to proactively manage and mitigate potential legal threats.

As a present-day legal leader, it may feel like you are facing one crisis after another and while you have become adept at handling these situations, it's important for GCs to take a proactive approach to prevent future crisis rather than believing their value lies in the quality of their response to the crisis. This panel will focus on strategies leaders should implement to help their teams get ahead of a crisis, minimize its impact and avoid it as much as possible overall. While you can't always predict what's coming around the corner for your organization, you will walk away from this session with tools that help leaders shift to rewarding efforts in preparing for and minimizing future crises.

In today's fast-paced and competitive business landscape, protecting a company’s intellectual property is critical to the success of the business and the responsibility lies with in-house counsel to ensure that the company takes the right steps to protect and create these assets. As disputes and litigation surrounding IP rights are becoming increasingly common, failing to have the right agreements, policies, training, and plans in place can be detrimental to an organization. Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do as General Counsel to help the company protect its intellectual property. In this dynamic session, our expert panelists will explore how to successfully navigate this complex terrain and the essential components of building a robust and versatile toolkit that equips your legal department with the knowledge and strategies necessary for effective IP litigation.

As ESG pressures continue to intensify, GC's have become more likely to shoulder the responsibility of how to correctly measure, report, and decide what's appropriate for individual company goals. With these increased pressures from stakeholders, and regulators, comes the increased risk of falling into a greenwashing trap. This session will provide an overview of the impacts of environmental law on your overall business strategy, and how to identify and avoid greenwashing pitfalls, and other possible ESG risks.

Join this session as our privacy experts review existing privacy laws, and share their insights into navigating the upcoming risks and changes expected in the privacy space.

Taking the right stance in today's society is a challenge for organizations, especially given the current political and social environment. In this session, learn how to navigate taking a stance on important societal issues and understand which policies and procedures should be implemented in order to act as an ethically sound organization. To avoid any reputational damage, it is pertinent for GCs to take the right approach and not waiver on any ethical issues.

For many in-house litigators, managing spend can prove to be the most challenging aspect of litigating a case. However, leveraging your legal ops teams and capabilities, such as collaboration with outside counsel, data mining, collecting metrics, providing predictability of case outcome, and managing legal bills, legal ops can be one of the most effective tools in controlling spend and providing unmatched value to senior leadership. This session will uncover the hidden value of the unique partnership between litigation and legal ops.

When you think of “insider threats” it's difficult to not immediately default to privacy and cyber threats within your business. However, over the last decade, a new workplace hazard has emerged, one that is far more insidious, and unfortunately, becoming far too common. These threats can be anything from a disgruntled former employee, a violent spouse or family member, or one of your very own employees dealing with mental health challenges. Having a workplace violence framework has become vital to the safety and security of your workforce. Panelists in this session will discuss identifying threats, getting ahead of incidents, and ensuring legal, HR and security are all on the same page

ESG is multifaceted and continues to be an important priority for legal departments and overall organizational messaging. So many in-house counsels are trying to find their way to shape the foundation of a successful ESG program. Effectively building ESG considerations into your strategy and risk management framework will help support better financial performance and long-term business success. Attend this session to discover the value of involving ESG into your risk appetite, learn how to influence and hold decision-makers accountable for ESG goals, communicate the value effectively to multiple audiences, and ensure your business is prepared for the challenges ahead involving ESG regulations and consumer expectations.