Special Evening Corporate Counsel Roundtable: How to Protect Yourself Against Personal Liability as an Officer or Director

How to Protect Yourself Against Personal Liability as an Officer or Director

Please join us for our upcoming Corporate Counsel Roundtable, "How to Protect Yourself Against Personal Liability as an Officer or Director," sponsored by the Corporate Department of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM).

This special evening program for in-house counsel* will be held in JMBM’s Los Angeles office at 5:30pm on Wednesday, August 24.

Details

Topic
How to Protect Yourself Against Personal Liability as an Officer or Director

• Learn how to minimize personal liability including what D&O insurance, indemnification agreements and corporate protections should be in place.
• Hear from experienced corporate and litigation counsel on common problems that result in personal liability.
• Focus on practical observations based upon real life scenarios.

Special Guest
Neil C. Erickson, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
Neil C. Erickson has been practicing litigation for more than 25 years. His practice emphasizes general business and commercial litigation, including matters involving hotels and other real estate, complex financial fraud, construction, intellectual property, probate litigation, corporate and partnership dissolution, financial institutions (with an emphasis on receiverships and other provisional remedies) and securities.

Host
William F. Capps, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
William F. Capps is a partner and chairman of the Corporate Department. Bill represents some of the Firm’s higher visibility corporate and banking clients in many business matters, with particular emphasis on securities matters (including mergers and acquisitions and representation of Special Committees and directors), real estate and building materials companies, corporate finance, franchising, executive compensation planning, litigation management and health care transactions. His experience includes serving substantial corporate clients in all business matters.

Date and Time
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Registration at 5:30 pm, program from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Place
1900 Avenue of the Stars, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90067

Cost
There is no charge for this special roundtable.
Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Parking will not be validated (3 hour complimentary parking is available at the Westfield Century City Shopping Center).

To RSVP, contact Jessica Hekmatjah at 310.201.3567 or JH7@jmbm.com.

*This activity has been approved for one hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California. Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.