The Legal Landscape: Building Your Defense:
aka - How To Be The Highest Hanging Fruit On The Tree

June 14, 2005
 
1:00PM - 2:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00AM - 11:00AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
 
If you think about fiduciary conduct the way you did pre-SOX and pre-ENRON you are moving yourself to the lower limbs of the tree.  Legal defense strategies have shifted as have the theories and strategies promoted by the plaintiff’s bar. 
 
What can you and your fiduciary colleagues do so that “the other guy” is seen by plaintiff’s counsel as the low hanging fruit.  The answers will surprise you.  It does not cost much money to get this right.  However, a willingness to challenge (and perhaps change) your collective behavior is required.
 
This program is the third in a six-part series that will provide an in-depth look at fiduciary governance plus executive-level guidance and solutions for the primary challenges fiduciaries now face:
 
1 What is fiduciary liability and how is it generated?
2 How has the concept of liability evolved?
3 What are the biggest obstacles to building an effective fiduciary defense?
4 How to optimize the relationship with your ERISA counsel?
5 What are the three most important things you can do to limit your exposure?
6 What solutions represent best practices?
Featured Speaker:
 
Charles F. Plenge, Partner, Haynes and Boone LLP
Areas of Practice: Employee Benefits/Executive Compensation; ERISA Litigation; HIPAA Privacy and Security.
 
Mr. Plenge has over 30 years of experience advising businesses on the full range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters.  He has represented employers of all sizes in all aspects of their employee benefits needs, from health and welfare and qualified retirement plans and related ERISA fiduciary issues, to executive compensation and equity incentive programs; financial institutions in their lending activities where benefit plan issues were involved; companies involved in acquisitions and sales of businesses; as special pension counsel to parties involved in litigation relating to benefit plan matters; businesses in bankruptcy cases involving employee benefit plan issues; individuals in regard to their employment and incentive compensation agreements; and fiduciaries and investment managers for benefit plans.
 
Noel M.B. Hensley, Partner, Haynes and Boone LLP
Areas of Practice: ERISA Litigation; Business Litigation; Sarbanes-Oxley/Corporate Governance; Securities Litigation.
 
Ms. Hensley has 20 years experience in a wide variety of business litigation matters.  A significant portion of her practice has involved securities litigation and class actions of all kinds.  Her securities practice encompasses numerous issues, including claims of violations of federal and state securities laws, contested tender offers and proxy disputes, and a wide variety of issues affecting actions by publicly held companies, and their management.
 
There are CPE credits available for participation.

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