Crisis Management for In-House Counsel: Data Breaches, Social Media Attacks, Natural Disasters, Investigations
Developing a Proactive Plan, Identifying Potential Liabilities, Navigating the PR Fallout, Ensuring Business Continuity
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will prepare in-house counsel to address the legal, business and ethical challenges inherent in their role as crisis manager for their corporation. The panel will discuss best practices for risk assessment and planning, liability mitigation, preserving business continuity, and resolving lawsuits and negative media fallout.
Outline
- Recent trends in high profile corporate crises
- Preparing for and responding to crises
- Pre-crisis
- Developing a company crisis response team
- Ethics considerations
- During crisis
- Identifying potential liability and damage issues
- Ethics considerations
- Post-crisis
- Trial or settlement negotiations
- Communications with media
- Ethics considerations
- Pre-crisis
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What is the role of in-house counsel in planning for and responding to a crisis?
- How can counsel guide clients in identifying and planning for key crisis-triggered legal and business risks?
- What are best practices for the legal, business, and ethical challenges in-house counsel face in crisis management?
Faculty
Michael Dockterman
Partner
Steptoe & Johnson
Mr. Dockterman is a celebrated trial lawyer who has tried scores of commercial disputes, both civil and criminal,... | Read More
Mr. Dockterman is a celebrated trial lawyer who has tried scores of commercial disputes, both civil and criminal, throughout the United States. His litigation and trial experience includes cases arising from contracts, securities, antitrust, intellectual property, government fraud, product liability, real estate, and environmental, along with a variety of amateur sports disputes. In addition to litigation in jurisdictions nationwide, Mr. Dockterman has led multinational litigation over matters pending simultaneously in courts around the world, including The Hague, London, Stockholm, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. Along with his extensive trial work, he counsels boards of directors on corporate governance matters, including oversight of compliance, government investigations and executive succession issues. Mr. Dockterman's success in the courtroom has been recognized by The National Law Journal, which named him one of its "Top 10 Winning Litigators in the US" and a "Trailblazer in Litigation," and by Law360, which called him one of 50 "Trial Aces" in the United States.
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Halsey G. Knapp, Jr.
Partner
Krevolin & Horst
Mr. Knapp regularly advises clients on crisis management and best practices with particular emphasis on business... | Read More
Mr. Knapp regularly advises clients on crisis management and best practices with particular emphasis on business arrangements, limited liability entity operating agreements, real estate transactions, graceful employment departures, and more antagonistic, high stakes, “bet the company” business divorces and litigation. Consequently, Mr. Knapp frequently is asked to handle relationship issues with clients, suppliers, competitors, owners, operators and the occasional government prosecutor or regulator. Although Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (“Chambers”) cited him for being a “talented trial lawyer noted for being tenacious”, Mr. Knapp also brings a “solution-oriented” approach to disputes. He brings judgment and wisdom to any negotiating table. Mr. Knapp is also a trained and registered neutral and serves on the Board of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section.
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