Provides a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of taking charge of escalating law firm costs. Provides questions you should be asking and is a starting point to assist in controlling law firm costs. Includes additional resources and references.
This is a checklist of the key terms a start-up company should endeavor to include in any letter of intent for a lease.
A Checklist of best practices for public companies and their counsel to consider when the company and its employees are active in social media. This Checklist offers suggestions in dealing with the limitations and challenges that federal securities laws place on the use of social media and avoiding violations of the securities laws. This Checklist also covers social media use during sensitive disclosure periods, such as during securities offerings and proxy solicitations.
Checklist of forms, agreements, and considerations necessary to complete joint ventures and protecting intellectual property rights.
Provides a guide to optimization of a matter management in the wake of e-billing, Sarbanes-Oxley, and a host of other regulations. Includes defining objectives and initiatives to begin.
A list of ACC legal resources related to each session presented at the Project Management for the In-house Law Department course held at the Boston University Questrom School of Business.
When the general counsel has a seat at the chief executive’s leadership table, it sends a signal to the company’s stakeholders (internal and external) that ethics, compliance, and other legal risk considerations are a top priority of the company. This resource outlines why the general counsel should be a key ally and partner in establishing a corporate culture.
Many non-U.S. companies which own U.S. subsidiaries prefer to operate in such a way as to avoid jurisdiction in the U.S. courts. In order to minimize the chances of becoming a defendant subject to jurisdiction in the U.S. courts, there are certain steps – a checklist of Do’s and Don’ts – that foreign parent companies can take.
This checklist outlines issues and gives tips for policy conditions, sublimits and deductibles, anti-concurrent causation clauses, and liability issues when natural disaster is a factor.