UBIC Announces Sponsoring the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Annual Meeting
Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) October 22, 2013 -- UBIC, Inc. (TSE: 2158; NASDAQ: UBIC), a provider of strategic international litigation support through CJK TAR™(Technology Assisted Review) and forensic solutions, sponsors the ACC Annual Meeting - the largest gathering of corporate counsel worldwide from October 27th-30th at the Los Angeles Conventions Center, focusing on compliance trends and corporate governance issues.
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), the world's largest bar association dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of in-house lawyers, will highlight international compliance issues, data protection and privacy, the Affordable Care Act, trade secret theft and other legal challenges related to multinational business operations at its Annual Meeting.
Who Attends:
In-house Counsel
Attorneys from around the world attend ACC’s Annual Meeting to stay current on the latest developments affecting the corporate counsel profession, pursue continuing legal education, meet and learn from other in-house counsel, and identify potential law firm and legal service partners.
Law Firms and Legal Service Providers
Industry providers exhibit at ACC’s Annual Meeting to gain access to the world’s largest gathering of corporate attorney decision-makers. The value of participation is unmatched due to the numerous opportunities to interact with the attendees.
Legal industry thought leaders present relevant and timely sessions at ACC’s Annual Meeting. Experienced practitioners speak on a wide range of topics as they share their valuable insights with the in-house legal community.
ACC’s Annual Meeting is the world’s largest gathering of the in-house counsel community and offers great professional development value, a year’s worth of CLE/CPD credit in three days, platform to exchange ideas with peers during more than 30 hours of networking events, and gather information from more than 100 law firms and legal service providers.
“UBIC has been an active participant in defining the framework for Asian eDiscovery and data privacy rules by several industry standard organizations,” quoted Mr. Naritomo Ikeue, President & COO, UBIC North America, Inc. “UBIC is a pioneer in cross-border eDiscovery, especially in developing cutting-edge technologies and services for complex Asian-languages while educating the market and keeping pace with the needs of legal industry.”
The ACC Annual Meeting will offer more than 100 sessions, including:
• In-house Lawyers Who Got into Trouble and How You Can Avoid a Similar Fate
• A Review of C-suite Ethical Pitfalls
• The Never-ending Battle Against Counterfeits and Pirates - How to Get Ahead
• Fracking and the Environment: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know
• Critical Issues for Success When Doing Business in Brazil
• Global Cyber Risks: Why Your Entire Legal Department Should Pay Attention
Other sessions will address international compliance issues, legal challenges related to social media, international securities and mergers and acquisitions topics and a full day of programs on the Affordable Care Act. United States Attorney for the Central District of California André Birotte will address compliance, offering an enforcement authority perspective on confidentiality and privilege issues during a panel on government investigations.
ABOUT ACC
The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is a global bar association that promotes the common professional and business interests of in-house counsel who work for corporations, associations and other private-sector organizations through information, education, networking opportunities and advocacy initiatives. With more than 30,000 members in more than 75 countries, employed by over 10,000 organizations, ACC connects its members to the people and resources necessary for both personal and professional growth. By in-house counsel, for in-house counsel®. For more information, visit http://www.acc.com and follow ACC on Twitter http://twitter.com/ACCinhouse.
About UBIC
UBIC, Inc. (TSE: 2158; NASDAQ: UBIC) is a leading provider of Asian-language eDiscovery, forensic solutions and services. UBIC has extensive eDiscovery and forensic experience and expertise with information documented in Japanese, Korean, Chinese as well as English languages, and applies its expertise in connection with cross-border litigation, administrative proceedings and internal investigations, including those related to anti-trust investigations, intellectual property (IP) litigation, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and product liability (PL) investigations. UBIC serves its clients from offices in Japan, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
UBIC’s proprietary technology platform, Lit i View™, version 6.7, is an innovative eDiscovery solution that accurately handles Asian-language characters, encoding schemes and native file systems. UBIC also recently launched its flexible and customizable Legal Cloud™ service to address the problem of rising costs associated with the growth and dispersion of data volumes across the globe, along with prolonged investigations and litigations.
With flexible, customizable end-to-end solutions and services covering the entire electronic discovery reference model (EDRM) life-cycle for corporate litigation strategy and crisis management, UBIC has assisted clients in more than 310 administrative and legal proceedings in the United States, including Department of Justice (DOJ), International Trade Commission (ITC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations and more than 700 corporate investigations in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan and Singapore. Assisted by highly experienced litigation attorneys, UBIC provides a range of services facilitating fact discovery, patent management, security, internal audit and regulatory compliance that can provide a significant cost savings to its clients.
For more information about UBIC, contact [email protected] or visit http://www.ubicna.com
Sasha L. Hefler, UBIC, Inc., http://www.ubicna.com, (650) 868-2623, [email protected]
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