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JESSIE ZEIGLER, Esq.Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
150 Third Ave. South, Ste. 2800Nashville, TN 37201
(615) [email protected] 13, 2011
What Keeps In-House Counsel Up at Night?
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Panelists
• Karen Abbott - Vice President & Associate General Counsel IASIS Healthcare (Franklin, TN)
• Fern Daves - Senior Counsel – Environment, Safety & Health ITT Corporation (White Plains, NY)
• Sue Dyer - Senior Litigation CounselHCA (Nashville, TN)
• Liv Johnson - Executive Counsel, Office of the Gen. Counsel The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta, GA)
• Chris Shaheen - Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel U.S. Bank (Minneapolis, MN)
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E-Discovery
• Cost control
• Ensuring that pertinent data/documents are identified and collected
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E-Discovery
• Keeping up with ever-changing technology (is it really inaccessible?)
• Staying in sync with the Information Technology department
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THE I.T. DEPARTMENTThey manage your servers, your telecom equipment and your
mission-critical business applications. God help us.
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E-Discovery
• Effective preservation notices, and ensuring compliance with them
• What employees say in e-mails
• Spoliation concerns
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E-Discovery
• Lower Passaic River example
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E-Discovery
• Lower Passaic River example
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Government Actions that Impact the Company
• Increased audits/inspections (OSHA, HUD, etc.)– Violations– The costs of corrective actions– FAPIIS (Federal Awardee Performance Integrity and
Information System)
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Government Actions that Impact the Company
• Weakened federal preemption• Antitrust litigation (the need to stay on
top of competition issues)• Tax litigation (e.g. the imposition of
beverage taxes, food taxes)• FCPA
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Government Actions that Impact the Company
• Fostering good communication– Trends in market– Measures to head-off litigation/mitigate
damages
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Caseload Management in a Tight Economy
• Managing more cases with fewer in-house lawyers• Effective and timely communication with outside
counsel• Tracking progress of cases
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Caseload Management in a Tight Economy
• Finding pro-active outside counsel, rather than reactive (coming up with preliminary case strategy)
• Developing a level of trust with outside counsel
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Caseload Management in a Tight Economy
• Ensuring that outside counsel understand their business
• The “small” case that suddenly is not small
• The potential impact of other pending cases on your case
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Caseload Management in a Tight Economy
• The press
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Social Media/Social Responsibility
• The impact of Facebook, Twitter, etc.– on the Company/the Brand– employment actions/union activity– litigation generally
• Bloggers' impacts on the above
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Social Media/Social Responsibility
• Employees’ use of social media and the potential impact on litigation
• The fear of the unknown
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