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Corporate Counsel?s ?Social Media - Risks and Rewards? Conference Explores the Emerging Legal Dangers of Social Media

ALM (Businesswire) - 25 October 2010

Corporate Counsel?s ?Social Media: Risks and Rewards? Conference Explores the Emerging Legal Dangers of Social Media

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corporate Counsel magazine?s ?Social Media: Risks and Rewards? conference speakers will address the latest threats and increasing legal perils associated with the rapid growth and evolution of social media. Featured speakers include in-house legal counsel from American Express, GE Capital, General Mills, TripAdvisor and Google. The conference will take place on Wednesday, November 3rd, at the Harvard Club of New York.

?Social media has blurred the lines completely between work and private life. Among other things, it?s made legal departments totally re-evaluate what is important in terms of discovery in the employment sphere.?

Anthony Paonita editor-in-chief at Corporate Counsel commented, ?Social media has blurred the lines completely between work and private life. Among other things, it?s made legal departments totally re-evaluate what is important in terms of discovery in the employment sphere.?

Last year, over 100 in-house counsel met at The Harvard Club of NYC for the first event in this series. This year, the updated program focuses on best practice[s] for fundamentals like legally binding social media policies and significant emerging issues such as e-Discovery, the shifting relationship between companies and consumers, and the efficacy of Terms of Use [policies].

The conference sessions topics will include:

  • Privacy and security in social media.
  • How to protect against exposure risks generated by social media.
  • The lawyer?s new nightmare: e-Discovery and social media.
  • Crafting and legally enforcing a uniform social media policy across a corporation.
  • Brand protection, promotion and social media.

Complete conference agenda and registration details are available at www.corpcounsel.com/socialmedia.

Program attendees are eligible for up to 8 CLE credits, including one CLE Ethics credit in New York.

For additional conference information, please contact Judy Kelly at jkelly@alm.com. To register, please contact customer service at (212) 457-7905 or visit www.corpcounsel.com/socialmedia.

The conference is presented by Corporate Counsel, in conjunction with ALM Events, a leading producer of educational and networking events for legal and business professionals.

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