Partner Lawrence Levin will speak on "Shareholder Proposals and Corporate Governance" at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, January 12.

Topics of the conference include:

• The Division of Corporation Finance organizational structure and processes
• SEC staff review practices, priorities and initiatives
• Hot-button disclosure items
• Lessons learned after the second year of the new executive compensation disclosure requirements
• Corporate governance hot topics
• Compliance topics faced by auditors, audit committees, and independent directors
• Forecast for the 2009 shareholder proposal season
• How to understand and work with a public company's investor base
• Hot-button accounting issues affecting financial disclosures
• The lawyer's ethical responsibilities
• The nuts and bolts of planning the annual meeting
• Practice points from the faculty

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