trade-association-meeting-review

# Trade Association Meeting Review ## Purpose Review trade-association activity — an upcoming agenda, the minutes or notes of a past meeting, attendee lists, and output products such as statistics and benchmarking reports — and organize the antitrust record: an attendee map by competitive relationship, a per-agenda-item risk matrix with the controls in place, verbatim excerpts of high-risk discussion, an output-product inventory, and separate standard-setting and boycott flags. The deliverable is **draft legal work product for attorney review**: the skill flags for counsel and never approves attendance, blesses a topic as safe, or concludes lawfulness. ## Use When - An employee asks whether they can attend an upcoming association meeting, and counsel wants the agenda and attendee list screened first. - The board or compliance asks whether the association's benchmarking or statistics program is safe to join, and its aggregation and recipient controls need review. - Minutes or notes from a past meeting record discussion of prices, capacity, customers, or "industry discipline," and the exposure needs to be documented. - A working group is drafting a standard, joint position, or model contract, raising standard-setting (F/RAND, patent-disclosure) questions. - Association communications contain language about members collectively declining to deal with a supplier, customer, or non-member. - Hallway, dinner, or side-meeting conversations at an association event may have touched...