The attorney hiring practice of limiting applicant pools based on law school ranking is an outdated method. This article supports a merit-based system for advancement in the legal profession, arguing against using standardized test scores and top-tier ranking as indicators of an attorney’s potential.
This is a sample corporate employee handbook for under 50 employees.
Explores how a legal department achieved many of the benefits of a matter management system simply by making more effective use of the technological tools already available.
Materials from the June 2, 2014 Corporate Counsel University Lunch and Keynote Presentation on social media standards.
Get a judge's perspective from the bench. What do lawyers overlook during ediscovery? Find out about ediscovery trends that will help you when the time arrives.
The negotiation of good IP agreements can be particularly thorny since the negotiator often doesn't understand the underlying IP. This session will discuss best practices and include practical checklists for would-be IP agreement negotiators.
This article deals with legislation requiring private or government entities to notify individuals of security breaches of information involving personally identifiable information.
A review of the most impactful ways in-house counsel are using big data, including predicting legal costs and case outcomes, compliance, and privacy.
For the most part, the acquiring side of the payments industry — which attends to merchants that accept credit and debit cards — has remained out of the public eye. However, in recent years, government actors have considerably increased enforcement actions against such processors in an effort to prevent businesses engaged in risky transactions from inadvertently harming the consumer. Here’s what to expect.
This is a sample employment handbook.
Introduces approaches, as well as practical tools, to improve organization, productivity and workflow management skills as in-house counsel. Provides four sections: self assessment, time management and team building, matter management, and effective communications.
Improve your work-life balance, and foster well-being in your team and organization with this ACC toolkit. Find practical strategies and information on work-life balance, time management, seeking help, helping others seek help, overcoming adversity, crises, and failure, and supporting your team's well-being.
Learn about the UAE's law on personal data processing, the Federal Decree Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (the DPL).
This is a list of documents to support third-party litigation financing.
Hosted by the Internal Resource Mgmt. Interest Group
Members from 4 legal departments (Yazaki, Brother, Micron and Chubb) will show how their systems work in an open forum.
Learn about legal issues that frequently arise in social media advertising, at an era where negative posts can be extremely damaging and hard to effectively control after their release. This short article discusses commercial social media posts, giveaways, contests, sweepstakes and similar promotions, confidential information, copyright and trademark infringement, rights of publicity and privacy, user generated content, endorsements, direct messages, privacy and data security, records retention and spoliation.
This InfoPAK is designed for use by both large and small corporate law departments in evaluating and discerning what technologies are available and best-suited to their company’s needs. As more technological resources become available to in-house counsel, counsel’s use of technology becomes more and more critical to running successful law departments. The InfoPAK begins by introducing counsel to basic technology and tools available. It then highlights some of the newer technologies that are becoming increasingly common within corporate legal departments, such as eDiscovery and Information Governance solutions, as well as advanced and emerging technology and trends within corporate legal departments. It then explores technology administration and best practices for managing technology, and concludes with key trends in the industry, including social media governance and cross-border eDiscovery.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a Q&A which gives a high level overview of the key practical issues including the level of activity and recent trends in the German market.
Learn about the continued increased enforcement activity combatting economic crime in Ireland.
Part of risk management is managing the enterprise’s insurance coverage, submitting claims and getting claims paid. Insurance companies often avoid paying claims. You will learn: what the insurance companies’ obligations are with respect to claims adjusting; how to manage the process and maximize your recovery; insurer duties and the insured’s obligations; what to do when you get denials or reservation of rights letters; how the tri-party relationship of insurer, defense counsel and insured works; whether you can get in-house attorneys’ fees paid; and some creative ways to settle claims with insurers.
Show results exclusively from the ACC Resource Library with customizable filters