Corporations have embraced social media to create and enhance their online presence using platforms such as Facebook® and Twitter®. However, the added brand awareness and potential new business can come at a steep price for companies without the knowledge to skillfully manage social media.

This panel of speakers will share their experiences in handling social media issues on the corporate level, including avoiding and managing litigation, handling regulatory agencies, dealing with technological issues, and developing best practices in-house. Among the topics to be addressed:

• Corporate social media policies – development and enforcement
• Protecting the corporate brand and image
• Employer-employee relations and third-party involvement
• Technology aids in enforcing corporate social media policy
• Issues with regulatory organizations: FTC, FDA, and more

* Please note: this previously recorded session is not for CLE credit. If you are seeking CLE credit, please visit West LegalEdcenter.

Ten years ago, Serengeti Law partnered with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) to provide previously unavailable data about the evolving relationships between corporate legal departments and the law firms who represent them. Since then, more than 2,000 legal departments have participated and contributed to the annual survey.

This ten-year retrospect will highlight key data regarding the in-house and outside counsel relationship, including:

• Changing engagement and retention terms;
• Longevity of hourly rates and the rise of alternative fees; and
• Adoption of legal project management techniques and technology.

Cloud computing is one of the most important trends in computing. This webinar provides an overview of this movement and the legal/regulatory issues it raises.

• Understanding cloud computing, how it is defined, and its advantages
• Developing a strategy for adopting cloud computing
• Overview of the legal framework for cloud computing

* Please note: this previously recorded session is not for CLE credit.
If you are seeking CLE credit, please visit West LegalEdcenter.

Every day, more corporate legal professionals are discovering the power of WestlawNext. With its exclusive search engine, WestSearch™, and other tools like sharable research folders, WestlawNext will expedite your workflow.

• Discover how WestlawNext can help reduce your research time by as much as 64 percent
• Learn how WestlawNext's advanced search algorithm puts the most relevant results first
• See the ease of filtering results, saving documents, and sharing work

This new resource for corporate law departments makes it simpler to conduct research across multiple jurisdictions, stay abreast of emerging topics, and feel confident research is complete. You'll learn:

• Efficient new ways to research current/pending statutes and regulations
• How template searching speeds you to answers in multiple jurisdictions
• How to get results from different types of documents in one list

For more information on West products and how they fit your workflow, call 1-800-289-9378.