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Geopolitical Risk: Corporate Counsel’s New Focus

The world is a much different place today than it was just four years ago, before the global pandemic, rising geopolitical tensions, and surging interest in generative AI solutions. Corporate counsel must now recalibrate their focus on these new and accelerating geopolitical risks in their business operations.

This three-part webcast series will highlight current geopolitical risks in the globally interconnected commercial world. Utilizing Bloomberg data, the series will focus on three fundamental areas: i) supply-chain practices, ii) cybersecurity attacks, and iii) labor implications of global regulations.

Each 60-minute webinar will follow a moderated panel format followed by a question and answer (Q&A) session. 

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  • Contains 2 Component(s) Recorded On: 10/22/2024

    Supply chains have shifted from being driven largely by price and value to a broader view that incorporates resiliency, ESG matters, and flexibility in response to unprecedented global changes. Corporate counsel need to manage the supply chain risks and disruptions, such as global pandemics, supplier disruptions, shipping delays, political instability, and trade tensions. This webinar will discuss how to make your business and supply chain more resilient in the face of geopolitical risks. Tentative topics include contractual clauses, tabletop exercises, and other methods to build resiliency into your business.

    Supply chains have shifted from being driven largely by price and value to a broader view that incorporates resiliency, ESG matters, and flexibility in response to unprecedented global changes. Corporate counsel need to manage the supply chain risks and disruptions, such as global pandemics, supplier disruptions, shipping delays, political instability, and trade tensions.

    This webinar will discuss how to make your business and supply chain more resilient in the face of geopolitical risks. Tentative topics include contractual clauses, tabletop exercises, and other methods to build resiliency into your business.

    Louann Troutman (Moderator)

    Senior Legal Analyst

    Bloomberg Law

    Louann Troutman is a senior legal analyst on the Bloomberg Law Commercial Transactions team, focusing on cross-border commerce and supply chain issues. She has more than 20 years of experience in covering international trade for Bloomberg Law. She earned her J.D. from George Washington University and her B.A. in International Relations from Ohio State University.

    Cara Bradley

    Deputy General Counsel

    Everbridge, Inc.

    Cara Bradley is the deputy general counsel of Everbridge, Inc., a global software company that empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™

    Bradley manages a legal team that handles commercial contract negotiations, public company compliance, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, global compliance, and business strategy for Everbridge.

    Lindsay Bernsen Wardlaw

    Vice President of Internal Compliance

    Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting

    Lindsay Bernsen Wardlaw is Vice President of Internal Compliance at Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches U.S. export controls and sanctions law.

    Before joining Amalie, Lindsay was an international trade attorney at Sidley Austin LLP and at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and before that she was a trade compliance analyst and then program manager at two Fortune 500 companies. As a result, Lindsay has over 10 years of experience developing export controls, sanctions, antiboycott, customs, and anti-corruption compliance programs, both in-house and for clients, and she has written hundreds of trade compliance policies, procedures, and work instructions. Lindsay also helps her clients and their counsel with trade classification, licensing, disclosures, and remedial measures for OFAC, BIS, DDTC, Census, and CBP.

    Lindsay holds a B.A., cum laude, in International Political Economy with a minor in Political Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Michigan School of Law, where she was also the editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of International Law.

    She is a Licensed Customs Broker and passed the April 2016 CBE with the highest score in the nation.

    At Amalie, Lindsay leads the company’s internal compliance department, and she consults for clients in the company’s advisory and program practices.

    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below!

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:

    *Alaska, *Arizona, California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington. 

     

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction.

     

    ACC WILL MAKE AN APPLICATION FOR CLE UPON REQUEST IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:

    Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, and Vermont.

    Requests must be made one week prior to the scheduled program date to ensure timely application submission. Please use the form below to submit your request for CLE.

    CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE FORM!

     

    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS):

    Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

     

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

  • Contains 7 Component(s), Includes Credits Includes a Live Web Event on 12/03/2024 at 1:00 PM (EST)

    Expanded digitization and information sharing in commercial transactions have increased overall vulnerability and exposure to cyber threats. Primary geopolitical risk for companies include retaliatory cyberattacks from foreign actors and vulnerable infrastructure networks. This webinar will discuss corporate counsel’s expanded role due to the increase in regulatory oversight requirements, such as the SEC Cyber Governance Rule, and cybersecurity attacks on critical networks. Tentative topics include cross-functional team coordination to manage IT security programs, cyber risk assessments and disclosure, effective compliance testing and internal controls, and cyber-related crisis readiness and response.

    Expanded digitization and information sharing in commercial transactions have increased overall vulnerability and exposure to cyber threats. Primary geopolitical risk for companies include retaliatory cyberattacks from foreign actors and vulnerable infrastructure networks.

    This webinar will discuss corporate counsel’s expanded role due to the increase in regulatory oversight requirements, such as the SEC Cyber Governance Rule, and cybersecurity attacks on critical networks. Tentative topics include cross-functional team coordination to manage IT security programs, cyber risk assessments and disclosure, effective compliance testing and internal controls, and cyber-related crisis readiness and response.



    This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below! 

    CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    *Alaska, *Arizona, *California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.  

    *Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. 

     

    ACC WILL MAKE AN APPLICATION FOR CLE UPON REQUEST IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:  

    Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington. 

    Requests must be made one week prior to the scheduled program date to ensure timely application submission. Please use the form below to submit your request for CLE.  

    CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE FORM!


    ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS): 

    Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

    CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS: 

    District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota

    Kate Azevedo

    Senior Legal Analyst, Corporate Governance

    Bloomberg Law

    Kate is an attorney and Senior Legal Analyst at Bloomberg Law, responsible for corporate governance legal analysis on the platform. Her background is in compliance and securities law. Prior to her current role, she served as in-house counsel for a medical research firm. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Kate worked as a solo practitioner and business consultant, providing legal counsel to small businesses.

    Christina Bixby

    Assistant General Counsel for Cybersecurity Legal

    Workday

    Christina Bixby serves as the Assistant General Counsel for Cybersecurity Legal at Workday. Her portfolio includes all aspects of managing the global cybersecurity legal program including data protection, incident response, risk mitigation, and compliance with global cybersecurity and data protection laws and regulations. She supports the development and implementation of cybersecurity programs, training, and exercises, including cybersecurity awareness programs, bug bounty programs, penetration testing, phishing simulations, tabletops, and red-team exercises. She serves as the dedicated legal counsel for Workday’s Cybersecurity and Trust team. She also collaborates with Corporate Affairs in formulating and advocating for Workday’s policy positions on cybersecurity matters.

    Prior to Workday, Christina served as Director and Senior Corporate Counsel at Salesforce working on U.S. public sector cybersecurity and product legal issues for Salesforce’s government and national security products. Prior to Salesforce, Christina was an attorney in the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. federal government for 14 years, including as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and as the Assistant General Counsel for the Science and Technology team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Christina’s federal government legal experience covered a wide variety of topics including complex tax litigation, criminal fraud prosecutions, False Claims Act investigations, and cybersecurity and IT audits.

    She holds a Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and a Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University. She resides in northern Virginia with her spouse and two children.

    Inna Dexter

    Deputy General Counsel

    Supernal- Hyundai Group’s Advanced Air Mobility Division

    Inna Dexter is currently the Deputy General Counsel of Supernal, Hyundai Group's Advanced Air Mobility Division. Focused on developing and commercializing "flying cars", Supernal is also developing policies and network of physical infrastructures to support this novel, emerging technology. As day-to-day Head of Legal, Inna oversees a diverse portfolio spanning employment, IP, corporate, and regulatory issues. She manages a high-performing group of attorneys and legal professionals and supports a growing employee population of over 800.

    Prior to joining Supernal, Inna worked at the US Department of the Treasury, where she advised the United States Mint, a government manufacturing bureau with over $1.2 billion in annual revenues and over 1,600 employees across several states. Inna supported the Agency in its employment and commercial work and was awarded the Treasury Department's Excellence in Leading Change Award in 2016. Prior to her government service, Inna was an associate in Clifford Chance's Washington, D.C. office, focusing on trade and compliance issues and investigations.

    Inna received a JD from the Georgetown University Law School, and a BA in Economics and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. She resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband, 3 kids, and new dog, Steve.

  • Contains 7 Component(s), Includes Credits Includes a Live Web Event on 02/06/2025 at 1:00 PM (EST)

    Many corporations and their labor practices have a global presence, specifically in the European Union (EU). As a result, corporate counsel must consider the major privacy, data security, and direct artificial intelligence (AI)-related regulations in the EU AI Act. Additionally, the recently enacted EU Directive on Pay Transparency Act is expected to have global effects by requiring more transparency on corporations’ pay practices and employee disclosure. This webinar will discuss the latest labor developments stemming from the EU AI Act and the Pay Transparency Act. Tentative topics include global AI governance policy, compliance best practices, employer’s obligations, labor risk and liability management, pay equity, and multinational companies with employees in one or more EU member states.

    Many corporations and their labor practices have a global presence, specifically in the European Union (EU). As a result, corporate counsel must consider the major privacy, data security, and direct artificial intelligence (AI)-related regulations in the EU AI Act. Additionally, the recently enacted EU Directive on Pay Transparency Act is expected to have global effects by requiring more transparency on corporations’ pay practices and employee disclosure.

    This webinar will discuss the latest labor developments stemming from the EU AI Act and the Pay Transparency Act. Tentative topics include global AI governance policy, compliance best practices, employer’s obligations, labor risk and liability management, pay equity, and multinational companies with employees in one or more EU member states.