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2018 CLE Forum, Indianapolis
Schedule of Sessions
Plenary Session: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Course: P1
Title: Why Executive and Legislative Branch Lobbying is Good for
Business – If You're Not at the Table, You're on the Menu
Speakers: Lawren Mills & Kip Tew
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: Legislatures across the country affect business every day they
meet. While it is critical to have legal help in many of the
endeavors of business, the ability to affect public policy to help
your business should also be considered. The more heavily
regulated a business is, the more important it is to have advocates
looking out for your business interests. But even if a business is
not heavily regulated, many aspects of governmental policy affect
your bottom line.
About our Speakers: Lawren Mills, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Lawren Mills is an Ice Miller partner concentrating on state and
federal public affairs management, including legislative
monitoring and representation, public-private partnership
coordination, administrative law and government procurement,
campaign finance and election law compliance. Lawren
previously served as the senior policy director and legislative
director for then-Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. During her five
years as advisor to the governor, she focused on issues relating to
Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, and various other matters ranging from
child welfare issues, public health, and insurance regulation.
Lawren also helped lead a state team tasked with analyzing and
implementing Indiana’s response to the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act.
Kip Tew, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Kipper (Kip) Tew concentrates his practice on public affairs and
municipal law, including smart cities and IoT, gaming, alcohol,
utilities, and campaign finance. Kip has also been actively
involved in the political process. He was the state chair of the
Barack Obama presidential campaign in Indiana. He is also the
former chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party. Kip also served
as chief legal counsel to then Minority Leader and previous
Speaker of the House, Representative B. Patrick Bauer. He has
been an adviser in various statewide campaigns, including
campaigns for the secretary of state and the United States Senate.
In addition, he served as deputy campaign manager for Governor
Joe Kernan. Kip was part of the state task force to restructure
Indiana's tax code. He also participated in several trade missions
to Japan, Taiwan and England.
I\13582634.1Session 1: 1:10 – 2:10 p.m.
Course 1a
Title: When Good Customers (or Suppliers or Vendors) Go Bad –
Minimizing the Impact of Their Financial Distress on Your
Business
Speakers: Jeff Hokanson & John Cannizzaro
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: The presenters will provide practical information and steps to take
to prevent or minimize the impact of a supplier's, vendor's or
customer's financial difficulties, measures to observe in ongoing
operations to identify or predict that their trading partners may be
experiencing financial difficulties, and best practices for
responding when the financial difficulties of their trading partners
become their problem.
About our Speakers: Jeff Hokanson, Senior Counsel – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis,
IN)
Jeff Hokanson is a commercial attorney in Ice Miller’s Business
Group, with broad experience in matters involving all manner of
contract formation and disputes. In this regard, he advises clients
on a wide spectrum of issues related to their contractual
relationships with suppliers, vendors and customers, including in
particular secured transactions and other issues addressed by the
Uniform Commercial Code. Jeff’s practice includes guiding and
representing secured and unsecured lenders in the creation and
enforcement of their loan documents and security instruments, and
he has litigated commercial disputes in state and federal courts
within Indiana. Secondarily, Jeff is experienced with disputes
involving real estate, including enforcement of purchase
agreements, easements, and commercial landlord tenant disputes.
John Cannizzaro, Associate – Ice Miller LLP (Columbus, OH)
John Cannizzaro is an associate in Ice Miller’s Bankruptcy and
Financial Restructuring Group where he focuses his practice on
debtor/creditor issues, commercial and bankruptcy litigation,
insolvency, and workouts. Prior to joining Ice Miller, John clerked
for two federal bankruptcy judges. He served for five years as a
law clerk to the Honorable Judge Hannah L. Blumenstiel in the
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of
California and for more than two years as a law clerk to the
Honorable Judge Charles M. Caldwell in the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio. While
clerking, John researched, briefed, and drafted orders and opinions
for hundreds of contested matters and adversary proceedings.
Much of John’s work involved complex corporate debtors,
including tech companies, commercial property ventures, health
care facilities, and retail chains.
I\13582634.1Course 1b
Title: Software, SaaS Services, and Cloud-Based Vendor Contracts
– Key Concepts and Negotiation Strategies
Speakers: Dustin Dubois
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: This presentation will explore some of the key provisions
attorneys and others involved with procurement of SaaS and other
software applications should understand. Discussion topics will
include concepts such as acceptance testing, milestone based
payment structures, uptime and service level considerations,
statements of work and business/functional requirements, key
personnel, data security and related provisions, intellectual
property ownership and licensing structures, and others.
About our Speaker: Dustin Dubois, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Dustin DuBois is a partner with Ice Miller and concentrates his
practice in various facets of intellectual property and transactions.
Dustin designs strategies for clients' intellectual property
portfolios based on their goals as well as market expectations,
securing patents, trademarks and other forms of intellectual
property. Dustin assists clients with other complex legal issues
including compliance with export control regulations,
international privacy laws, and in compliance with a host of other
regulatory frameworks.
Course 1c
Title: The Impact of New Trade Policies on U.S. Business (and How
to Deal with Them)
Speakers: Tom Lynch, Dale Stackhouse, Meghann Supino
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: 2018 has seen a lot of Presidential and administrative agency
action that affects U.S. businesses that do business or source
materials internationally. Steel and aluminum tariffs, a trade war
with China, increased enforcement of antidumping laws, sanctions
against businesses affiliated with Russian oligarchs, changes to
rules regulating foreign investment in U.S. companies through the
CFIUS process, and efforts to renegotiate trade agreements (like
NAFTA) are creating uncertainty and increasing costs for many
U.S. businesses. We will look at what the Trump administration is
trying to accomplish, what these new developments mean for U.S.
businesses, and how you can plan for—and respond to—these
changes.
About our Speakers: Meghann Supino, Senior Associate – Ice Miller LLP
(Indianapolis, IN)
Meghann is a Senior Associate in Ice Miller's Business Group,
where she serves clients in a wide array of regulatory and business
I\13582634.1matters. Meghann has focused her practice on regulatory
compliance, commercial agreements, international trade, and
business litigation. Meghann advises clients on complex legal
issues involving consumer product law, recalls, and reporting to
federal and state agencies. She handles a variety of general
business, corporate, and transactional matters for domestic and
international clients. Meghann’s practice also includes advising
clients on all aspects of the regulation, production and trade of
consumer and industrial products. This includes international
trade matters arising under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, the Commerce Department (“BIS”), the
Department of State (“ITAR”), the Department of Treasury
(“OFAC”) and other federal and state agencies.
Tom Lynch, Principal – Ice Miller Strategies LLP; Staff
Attorney, Ice Miller LLP (Washington, D.C.)
Drawing upon years of Senate and House experience, Tom Lynch
provides Ice Miller Strategies’ clients with tailored representation
across a number of authorizing committees in both chambers.
Prior to joining Ice Miller Strategies as a principal, he was key to
several of the most significant laws enacted over the last half-
decade when he worked for Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.). He
served as the staff director for the Transportation and
Infrastructure Subcommittee within the Environment Public
Works Committee. Throughout the Moving Ahead for Progress in
the 21st Century (MAP-21) reauthorization effort, he managed
drafting, negotiation and consensus-building efforts to produce the
largest bill Congress enacted in the 112th Congress. The result
was a $109 billion, 27-month law providing federal funding to
support the U.S. highway and transit infrastructure. He also
separately negotiated the federal-aid distribution provisions in the
2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which provided
approximately $27 billion in highways funding and another $8.4
billion in transit funding to the states. In addition, he addressed
Labor matters for Sen Baucus.
Dale Stackhouse, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Dale Stackhouse chairs Ice Miller's International Group and co-
chairs its Regulatory Compliance Group. His practice focuses on
international trade, regulatory compliance, investigations,
commercial agreements and foreign investment. In addition,
Stackhouse handles a variety of general business, corporate and
transactional matters for domestic and international clients. Dale
has done extensive work for clients in various manufacturing
industries, including steel, automotive, inks and printing, glass,
plastics, chemicals, films, industrial and agricultural machinery,
military parts and equipment and medical devices. He also has a
number of clients that are involved in various service industries,
such as software, sports and entertainment, distribution and
I\13582634.1logistics and higher education.
Course 1d
Title: Executive Compensation
Speakers: Marc Sciscoe & Tara Schulstad Sciscoe
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: This session will provide an overview of the various ways in
which executive compensation can be provided and the
advantages and disadvantages of the available alternatives. It will
include a discussion of the legal requirements applicable to
executive compensation programs, with a focus on tax, ERISA
(where applicable), and securities laws. Topics covered with
include deferred compensation, equity-based compensation,
phantom stock, stock appreciation rights, other types of synthetic
equity, and profits interests. Finally, the session will discuss best
practices administering executive compensation programs.
About our Speakers: Marc Sciscoe, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Marc represents employers of all types on matters relating to their
employee benefit and executive compensation programs. He
assists employers ranging from small professional corporations to
large multi-national companies in structuring and administering
retirement, health, equity compensation and various other types of
benefit and incentive compensation programs. He also represents
employers in disputes involving their benefit plans, with such
disputes ranging from individual benefit claims to large class
actions involving complex tax and fiduciary issues. Marc has
worked with a number of private and public employers to
establish incentive compensation programs for investment
professionals. In addition, he regularly works with employers,
including universities and university systems, in establishing
incentive compensation and retirement programs for key
management and other highly compensated employees.
Tara Schulstad Sciscoe, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis,
IN)
Tara Schulstad Sciscoe is a partner in the Employee Benefits
Group of Ice Miller LLP. She advises employers, plans and trusts
with respect to the design and compliance of their employee
benefit programs, including their retirement plans, deferred
compensation plans, health and welfare plans, severance plans,
early retirement programs, executive compensation programs,
tuition remission and fringe benefit plans, and phased retirement
programs.
I\13582634.1Session 2: 2:20 – 3:20 p.m.
Course 2a
Title: Common Leasing Issues for In-House Counsel
Speakers: Michael Tirman, Katie Marschke, & Greg Gorospe
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: This seminar will provide a brief overview of leases and common
questions and issues that can arise during a lease negotiation.
Topics will include: (a) typical lease provisions in office, retail,
and industrial contexts, (b) common issues that may arise during
negotiations, (c) common issues with healthcare-related leases, (d)
handling tenant improvements, and (e) insurance.
About our Speakers: Michael Tirman, Associate – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Michael (Mike) Tirman is an associate in Ice Miller’s Real Estate
Group. He advises and represents clients in all areas of real estate
law, including acquisitions and dispositions, finance,
development, leasing, land use and zoning, entity structuring, and
joint ventures.
In 2015, Mike graduated cum laude from Northwestern University
School of Law and served as Managing Editor of the
Northwestern University Law Review. He externed for the
Honorable Virginia M. Kendall in the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Illinois. In his final year of law school,
he was selected as a Pritzker Legal Research Fellow. Mike is also
an active member of the Urban Land Institute and taught Real
Estate Principles to upper-level business majors in the Andre B.
Lacy School of Business at Butler University.
Katie Marschke, Associate – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Katie Marschke is an associate in Ice Miller’s Real Estate Group.
She advises and represents developers of commercial, retail, and
residential properties, as well as local municipalities in all areas of
real estate transactions, including leasing, acquisitions and
dispositions, finance, and land use. Katie practiced as a business
litigator at Ice Miller for four years before transitioning to real
estate. Katie continues to assist clients with disputes amongst
landlords/tenants, contractors, and neighbors both before and
during litigation. She received her Bachelor of Science in
hospitality and tourism management at Purdue University in 2009,
graduating with high distinction. Her focus was restaurant
management. Katie attended law school at Pennsylvania State
University, the Dickinson School of Law in State College, Pa. She
graduated magna cum laude and received her juris doctor in 2013.
Katie was an editor for the Penn State Law Review and on the
executive board for Phi Alpha Delta, the national professional law
I\13582634.1fraternity.
Greg Gorospe, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Columbus, OH)
Greg Gorospe is a partner in Ice Miller’s Real Estate Group. He
helps clients assemble joint ventures, obtain or issue financings,
complete acquisitions and dispositions, negotiate construction
contracts, development agreements and leases, and navigate
workouts and distressed asset transactions. Greg has extensive
experience in the multifamily housing, telecommunications,
healthcare and retail sectors. He has also represented clients in
public/private partnerships for parking, road and other
infrastructure projects. Greg has helped real estate developers and
equity partners to create joint ventures and obtain bank and public
financing to develop multifamily housing communities, medical
campuses and shopping centers. In particular, he has negotiated
billions of dollars worth of multifamily transactions, including
funding from industrial development authorities, tax-exempt
bonds, tax credits, and TIFs.
Course 2b
Title: Winning in IP – Offensive and Defensive Strategies for
Today’s World
Speakers: Christine Hansen & Aaron Ettelman
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: A discussion of IP issues that many entities face today, including
infringement allegations from non-practicing entities, post grant
challenges, protecting computer and internet related investments,
and others, along with both offensive and defensive approaches
for dealing with these issues in today’s patent hostile
environment.
About our Speakers: Christine Hansen, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Christine Hansen is a partner in Ice Miller’s Intellectual Property
Group. She has over twenty years of experience counseling life
sciences and chemical companies on patent prosecution, due
diligence, and freedom-to-operate issues. Christine works
extensively with innovator pharmaceutical companies and handles
Orange Book submissions, patent term extensions, and other
issues at the intersection of patent and FDA law. In the agriculture
industry, Christine has worked extensively on patent freedom-to-
operate issues for genetically modified crops and on the patenting
of novel plant genes. She is also experienced in drafting patent
licensing agreements and joint research and development
agreements, including agreements between universities or
governmental entities and a private-sector partner. Christine
comes to her patent work through a strong love of science.
Aspects of her chemistry research as an undergraduate at
Princeton were published in the Journal of the American
Chemical Society. As a Fulbright Scholar, Christine studied
I\13582634.1chemistry in Germany under the renowned professor Dr. Manfred
Reetz.
Aaron Ettelman, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Philadelphia, PA)
Aaron R. Ettelman is a partner in Ice Miller’s Intellectual Property
Group. His practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property
rights, including patent prosecution, counseling and opinions, due
diligence, post-issuance proceedings, litigation and licensing.
Aaron's practice has included work in liquid crystal display
technology, electro-optic materials, organic synthesis,
pharmaceuticals, vitamins and dietary supplements, agricultural
adjuvants and actives, cosmetics, surfactants, measurement
devices and sensors, medical devices, fuels and lubricants,
coatings, plastics and polymers, electrochemical and battery
sciences, semiconductors and nonvolatile memory, mineral
extraction and textile treatments.
Course 2c
Title: Health Care Network Management – New Changes and Risks
in the IoT Era
Speakers: Kim Metzger & Lindsay Miller
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: We are in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in which
modern information systems interact with the physical world to
generate volumes of person-centric data in real time. The Internet
of Things (IoT) creates unprecedented new uses for internet-
enabled devices, and heightens the demand for high-speed
connectivity. In no industry has the IoT had as profound an effect
as in health care.
The use of telemedicine and associated applications to monitor
patients, personnel, and medical devices is expanding within the
health care sector at an accelerated pace. While this brave new
technology increases access and helps manage costs,
cybersecurity challenges can create risk that threatens to
overshadow the anticipated benefits. A robust risk management
program helps providers and suppliers identify threats and
vulnerabilities, reduce risk to a reasonable and acceptable level,
and meet compliance requirements.
Kim Metzger, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Kim Metzger is a partner in Ice Miller's litigation group,
concentrating her practice in drug and device litigation and data
security and privacy, particularly HIPAA privacy compliance. She
is a member of the International Association of Privacy
Professionals (IAPP) and is a Certified Information Privacy
Professional (CIPP) and Certified Information Privacy Manager
(CIPM) through that organization. Kim was recently inducted into
the IAPP’s inaugural class of Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP)
I\13582634.1designation recipients. Kim has extensive experience with federal
and state health information privacy laws, has established a
HIPAA compliance program for a large health care provider and a
benefits outsourcing provider, and counsels clients on HIPAA and
other information privacy matters. She is integrally involved with
the Firm's HIPAA compliance program, and chaired an initiative
to ensure the Firm's compliance with revised health information
privacy directives issued by a large pharmaceutical
client. Kim trains pharmaceutical manufacturing and other health
care clients on issues of HIPAA compliance. She also assists
clients in determining whether they have experienced a data
breach, and how to best respond to a breach.
Lindsay Miller, Associate – Ice Miller LLP (Columbus, OH)
Lindsay Miller is an attorney with the Public Affairs and
Government Law Group. With nearly ten years of experience in
technology initiatives, Lindsay has a reputation in the broadband
and telecommunications arena of being a strong advocate with a
successful track record in building relationships with public and
private sector stakeholders. Lindsay regularly advises
municipalities on how to utilize Public-Private Partnerships for
fiber and Wi-Fi expansion in order to build smarter cities and
leverage the Internet of Things (IoT). This includes providing
guidance and counseling to multi-sector leaders as they seek to
develop and finance Smart City infrastructure, and implement
policies to enable developing technologies, such as connected/
autonomous vehicles (CAVs).
Course 2d
Title: Which Way Does the Pendulum Swing? A 2018 Update on
Labor Law, Arbitration, and Sexual Harassment
Speaker: Manolis Boulukos
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: The Ice Miller Employment Law Update (“ELU”) addresses the
most significant developments of the past year. This session
examines the new laws, cases, legal trends and regulatory and
legislative changes that are moving employment law into the
future and imposing new day-to-day obligations for employers.
The ELU arms participants with practical and timely information
regarding steps employers can take to limit their legal liability in
an ever-changing regulatory landscape.
Included in the session are specific updates regarding:
(1) Back-to-the-Future: A return to a conservative NRLB;
(2) a practical review of Epic Systems; and
(3) the #Metoo Movement and its implications nationwide.
About our Speaker: Manolis Boulukos, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Emmanuel "Manolis" Boulukos is a partner in Ice Miller's Labor
I\13582634.1and Employment group. Manolis represents and advises clients in
labor and employment law matters, including federal and state
litigation; wage and hour issues; administrative proceedings
before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the
National Labor Relations Board; collective bargaining;
arbitrations; union organizing; and the development of
employment policies and practices, including conducting
extensive wage and hour audits.
Session 3: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Course 3a
Title: Fighting City Hall – Dispute Resolution in Government
Contracting
Speaker: Aaron Woodward & Eric Singer
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: Contract disputes with the government arise before contract
award, throughout contract performance, and after contract
completion. Government agencies use a variety of methods to try
and resolve these disputes with government contractors. This
session will discuss risks, rights, and remedies in local, state, and
federal dispute resolution mechanisms, step negotiations,
mediation, arbitration, and litigation in administrative boards and
courts of claims.
About our Speaker: Aaron Woodward, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Washington, DC)
Aaron Woodward is a partner in Ice Miller’s Federal Government
Contracts Practice Group, where he represents clients in matters
involving complex litigation, government procurement, bid
protests, the Contract Disputes Act, and the Federal Acquisition
Regulation. Prior to joining Ice Miller, Aaron’s worked for the
Department of Justice, Civil Division defending federal agencies
involved in contract disputes, and served as an active duty Judge
Advocate in the Air Force for nearly fourteen years. Aaron attended
the University of Minnesota (B.S. 1996, J.D. 2000) and The George
Washington University (LL.M. 2011). His is a member of the ABA
Section of Public Contract Law, as well as the Section’s Bid Protest
and Contract Claims & Disputes Resolution committees.
Eric Singer, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Du Page County, IL)
Eric Singer is a construction lawyer and litigator, concentrating in
contracts, insurance and counseling for construction and design
projects, as well as disputes concerning real estate, construction,
liens, bonds, mortgages, title insurance, easements, injunctions
and other commercial litigation. Eric represents a variety of
design professionals, contractors, owners, lenders, title insurers
and others involved in development, improvement and use of real
estate, as well as other businesses. Eric attended the University of
Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (B.A. 1985) and the University of
I\13582634.1Chicago (J.D. 1988). He is a Member of the ABA Forum on
Construction Law, the Society of Illinois Construction Attorneys
and the ISBA Construction Section Council, and is an Affiliate
Member of the American Institute of Architects, AIA Chicago and
AIA Northeast Illinois.
Course 3b
Title: Practical Tips for Trademark Protection and Comparative
Advertising
Speaker: Holly Banta & Alice Kelly
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: The content will include an overview of trademark law, including
selecting a mark and selecting where to protect the mark, and
points to keep in mind when preparing marketing campaigns that
include comparative claims.
About our Speaker: Holly Banta, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Holiday Banta is a Partner in the Intellectual Property Group. She
is a registered patent attorney and concentrates her practice in the
areas of intellectual property litigation, dispute negotiations, U.S.
and foreign trademark prosecution and intellectual property
licensing. Client needs come first in Holly’s practice and
responsiveness is key to satisfying those needs. Holly takes the
time early on to learn about each client's unique perspective and
values to ensure that her advice and analysis are tailored to fit.
Calls and emails are answered promptly, and, whenever possible,
work is performed proactively to maximize value and efficiency
for the client. She litigates matters with the same focus and
tenacity required in her spare time pursuit of training
thoroughbred racehorses to run and jump at speed.
Alice Kelly Of Counsel– Ice Miller LLP (Chicago, IL)
Alice Kelly practices in Ice Miller's Intellectual Property Group.
Based in Chicago, Alice handles all aspects of trademark law and
global brand management, from global clearance and registration
to enforcement of those rights through litigation in United States
federal courts. She has tried cases in federal, state and arbitral
forums and routinely handles matters before the Trademark Trial
and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Alice's practice includes trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets,
franchise enforcement and licensing. Alice represents clients in a
wide range of industries, including manufacturing, travel,
entertainment, hospitality, food and beverage, and beauty and
wellness.
Course 3c
Title: GDPR 2.0 – U.S. Edition: How the U.S. is Preparing to
Develop a National Data Protection Regulation
Speakers: Matt Diaz & Stephen Reynolds
I\13582634.1Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: 2018 was a big year for data protection and privacy regulations. In
May, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation
took effect and in August, the Brazilian General Data Protection
Law was signed. Domestically, all eyes were on California as they
passed the California Consumer Privacy Act in June. In order to
avoid a patchwork of data protection and privacy laws across the
U.S. similar to our current patchwork of state data breach
notification laws, the U.S. federal government is beginning to
mull the idea of a national data protection and privacy framework.
This session will briefly overview international data protection
regulations and the CaCPA in order to identify key similarities
among the regulatory frameworks. Next, this session will
overview recent developments out of the FTC, Department of
Commerce, and Capitol Hill on the development of a federal data
protection and privacy regulation. Finally, this session will
consider best practices from recently developed data protection
regulations in order to provide insights into what a U.S. data
protection and privacy regulation might look like.
About our Speakers: Matt Diaz, Associate – Ice Miller LLP (Columbus, OH)
Matt Diaz is an associate in Ice Miller’s Data Security and Privacy
Practice Group. Matt's practice focuses on data security, privacy,
and telecommunications. He regularly helps clients comply with
state, federal, and international data protection laws including data
breach notification laws, federal privacy laws such as COPPA and
HIPAA, and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). Matt has also assisted clients in managing data breaches
and investigating cyber fraud. He writes and speaks regularly on
topics related to emerging technologies, including smarts cities,
autonomous vehicles and, loT. Leveraging his experience working
on telecommunications matters in Washington, D.C. and Ohio,
Matt counsels clients on matters related to spectrum and
broadband. He helps navigate clients through FCC compliance
matters, as well as assists municipalities in managing right-of-way
and broadband deployment issues.
Stephen Reynolds, Partner – Ice Miller (Indianapolis, IN)
Stephen Reynolds is a partner in Ice Miller's Litigation Group, and
co-chair of the Data Security and Privacy Practice, with a practice
that focuses on commercial litigation and data security and
privacy law. He has represented companies in several types of
litigation, including products liability cases, mass torts litigation,
construction litigation, trade secrets litigation, securities litigation
and other commercial litigation.
I\13582634.1Course: 3d
Title: Less History, More Mystery? Best Practices for Background
Investigations on Applicants and Employees
Speakers: David Chroust & Ryan Poor
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: A discussion of the challenges employers face as they navigate the
ever changing laws and regulations relating to employee
recruitment, background checks and hiring. The discussion will
include state and municipal "ban the box" laws and ordinances as
well as other state laws and federal regulations relating to
employee background checks.
About our Speakers: David Chroust, Of Counsel – Ice Miller LLP (DuPage County,
IL)
As a litigator, David Chroust represents clients in matters
involving commercial loans and guaranties; prosecutes and
defends mechanic's lien claims; and litigates business disputes
involving business sales, restrictive covenants and property title
claims. He also represents secured creditors in bankruptcy
proceedings. Since the financial crises, David has increasingly
represented commercial lenders and has successfully recovered
many millions of dollars for clients through commercial
foreclosures, loan workout and settlements and in proceedings
against guarantors. David has also been involved in a number of
appeals before the Illinois Supreme Court and the Illinois
Appellate Courts. Samplings of these decisions are listed below.
David also successfully represented clients in appeals which
resulted in unpublished Orders or which were settled during the
appeal process on terms favorable to his clients.
Ryan Poor, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Ryan Poor helps employers solve tough workplace problems,
develop positive employee relations, deal with unexpected crises
and prevent unnecessary litigation. He also guides employers
through the minefields of government investigations and defends
them when they’ve been sued or received administrative charges.
He works directly with human resources and safety professionals,
in-house counsel and corporate officers to build better workplaces.
Ryan is a counselor to and advocate for employers. He provides
guidance during times of crisis, from difficult terminations to
workplace fatalities. He helps clients avoid employment-related
disputes and litigation with proper training, development and
implementation of policies and procedures and drafting of
employment and separation agreements. He represents clients in
state and federal courts and in administrative proceedings before
agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, state and local civil rights departments, occupational
safety and health agencies (such as IOSHA) and the National
Labor Relations Board. He also helps employers create strong
I\13582634.1workplaces to make third-party representation unnecessary, and
he negotiates and administers contracts and arbitrates disputes
where unions currently represent employees.
Plenary Session: 4:35 – 5:35 p.m.
P2
Title: Plenary Session: An In-House Counsel’s Guide to the Use of
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Other
Technologies
Speakers: Eric Goodman
Time: 60 minutes (1.0 general credit hours)
Course Summary: Lawyers today are bombarded with information and articles
discussing how computers will change the practice of law. We hear
that IBM Watson now has the skills to research and debate on any
subject in real time. The term “artificial intelligence” is used
frequently as a technology which will change all of our lives. An
important question is how will all of these emerging technologies
change your everyday practice? This session will address this
question and will also discuss the uses and limitations of specific
technologies developed for corporate legal departments.
About our Speakers: Eric Goodman, Partner – Ice Miller LLP (Indianapolis, IN)
Eric Goodman is a partner with the Firm's Business group. He
concentrates in corporate and securities law, and his practice is
primarily focused on private equity and venture financing
transactions, representing start-up and emerging growth
companies, securities regulation and general corporate matters.
Eric's experience includes representing private equity clients in
equity and mezzanine investments, leveraged buy-outs,
recapitalization transactions and representing both buying and
selling companies in merger and acquisition transactions. He
assists clients with a variety of equity and debt financing
transactions, including raising equity funding from angel investors
and venture capitalists and structuring debt. Eric also advises
clients with respect to securities law compliance including broker-
dealer and investment adviser registration and compensation
issues.
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