This report provides a summary of the use of technology within legal departments, based on a survey conducted in autumn 2020 at the behest of the Tools & Technology Interest Group of ACC Legal Operations.
When there's a new in-house counsel added to your team, or you might be the new one, you can follow these top ten suggestions to increase the probability of success in such a transition.
This template can be used to plan out the onboarding, tracking, and achievement of a new hire over a 30, 60, and 90 day period.
Why are General Counsels (GCs) being overlooked for board roles, even though many are company secretaries to their company’s boards of directors and have the most experience and exposure to the boards? In this article, find out more about how this happens and ways to move forward.
As today’s digitized and remote-enabled legal marketplace evolves, legal service delivery and the roles supporting in-house and outside legal teams have assumed greater importance in meeting the challenges and opportunities of this new reality. In this article, learn how these professionals have a direct impact on in-house counsel.
This resource is a summary of the Opening Plenary of the Virtual Global General Counsel Summit 2021, titled "Championing Trust in Business in a Brave New World". It contains takeaways distilled from that session's discussion.
In-house legal departments and their client business organizations have felt the excruciating pain of highly administrative contracting processes as the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses into remote working situations. The first reaction many organizations have is "HELP! Get me a contract lifecycle management system." The pain felt across the organization may mean priority for budget, so it seems like a no-brainer. However, when organizations faced the challenge of implementing these tools, they found that the real morass was their approvals process. This article is about recommendations to streamline your organization's approval process for a more successful technology implementation.
In the in-house world, sometimes you need to strike your own path to success. In this Top Ten, find the most valuable and critical characteristics you can learn in order to succeed.
In this sample, the nuances and differences of legal, regulatory and compliance functions are explained so as to best build a successful organizational unit.
This checklist includes key issues to consider for the in-house legal career journey of women in the Middle East. This checklist was prepared by the Association of Corporate Counsel, based mainly on the ACC Webcast titled Finding Your Seat at the Table as a Woman in the Middle East (March 23, 2021) - a webcast delivered by leading GCs in the region along with ACC Women In the House (WITH) and ACC Middle East & North Africa about their career journeys and their recommendations for creating the environment to support more women in finding their seat at the table.