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This panel will focus on the first ninety days in-house as a model for
setting and achieving goals and measuring success that is applicable to
in-house counsel at any stage. Experts will address increasing
production in the counsel's office, managing outside projects, improving
value and reducing costs, engaging with client business groups to
identify important issues and benchmarking successes for those outside
the counsel's office.

In this article, learn more about the state of the legal profession in the Asia-Pacific region during 2016.

You may be an accomplished orator, litigator or debater. In front of a captive audience of children, however, even the savviest speaker can feel pressure. This "Take Our Sons / Daughters to Work Day" veteran has outlined a tested - and - true formula for sure success.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses battle of the form situations between a seller's standard terms and conditions, and terms mentioned on the buyer's purchase order. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the IT, Privacy & eCommerce ACC Network.

This article provides an explanation of the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The article also describes the CPP's development, previous legislation that led to its execution as well as the controversies surrounding its release within the United States.

Guidance on transferring management/ownership of a company in Canada. Includes guidance on keeping business in the family or selling to an outsider.

If you had only known you can learn everything you need to know about surviving the transition to in-house law practice from Duran Duran, The Breakfast Club, and Prince, you might have spent a lot more time at concerts than in the library during the 1980s, right? Phil Strauss translates the lessons in his guide to the facts of in-house life.

Learn about developments from 2021 in the Technology, Media and Telecom sector in the Asia and Asia-Pacific region (focus on Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam).

Overcriminalization — specifically, the rise in criminal sanctions for regulatory violations — increases the risk that either you or your company will face a criminal charge. This is, in part, due to countless new regulations and broad prosecutorial discretion. Learn how outside criminal counsel can reduce your exposure to unexpected sanctions.

A guide to doing business in Canada. Includes review of trade and investment regulation, foreign investment rules, environmental laws, and bankruptcy.

In this ACC guide, explore key aspects of managing employees' use of social media, in light of guidance from the US National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB").

This article addresses knowing who is authorised to represent a legal entity and what can you do if directors representing a legal entity are not authorised to do so.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to a Q&A that gives an overview of the legal system; foreign investment, including restrictions, currency regulations and incentives; and business vehicles and their relevant restrictions and liabilities in China.

Investors planning to perform construction activities on the territory of Belarus have to take into account new conditions for carrying-out these activities in Belarus. This article will discuss the new requirements.

Data breaches happen to companies across the globe. In this article, in-house counsel can learn how to plot a successful plan that will protect their company's data. Each section of this article is dedicated to a specific country or region including Hong Kong, China, Europe and the United States. This resource was published by Meritas in 2019.

This guide is part of the Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business series and provides general information about legal and business infrastructures in South Africa.

Any US corporation with multinational operations and an unoptimized corporate structure that would benefit from reorganization of its operations along regional lines and responsibilities should consider whether a principal or other efficiency and profitability promoting restructuring might achieve similar benefits for it.

A new threat, derivative to the immediate damage of data breaches, has arisen. Class action suits from affected customers, or shareholder class litigation are common, albeit largely unsuccessful thus far.

There are many reasons why companies migrate to Switzerland: lower corporate
income tax rates, a stable and predictable legal environment, and a flexible labor law. There are also disadvantages. Before you pack up and head for the snowy Alps, learn more about what relocation really entails.

This QuickCounsel shows how US employers can do better by proactively implementing policies and programs that are inclusive of the transgender community.

Learn about registration by data controllers and data processors under Kenya's Data Protection Act.

A discussion of the costs and benefits of using electronic board books as opposed to physical ones. Includes input from members of the the Corporate & Securities Law Committee eGroup.

General counsels are always under pressure to transform legal departments and through contracts, the legal function’s contribution to the bottom line is clearer and makes it easier to build the business case for a technology enabled and workflow optimised legal department.