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This survey is intended to be a reference guide of technology solutions currently being used by ACC Legal Operations members to support their legal function. The survey covered 22 different solution areas.

501 Managing a Domestic & Global IP Portfolio-Strategies Beyond the Basics

Learn about key concerns and new issues affecting the world in 2020.

This article appeared in the Australian Corporate Lawyer Volume 30, Issue 1 - Autumn 2020

Read this article and learn a practical step-by-step approach for transforming your company's well-intentioned workplace policies and procedures into a system that delivers.

An important function of every in-house legal department is to provide compliance and ethics training to its non-legal clients – that is, the organization's employees. Effective training on pertinent laws and regulations can help prevent and detect legal problems, and can also limit or mitigate the organization's exposure if violations occur. This program will provide practical guidance for (i) developing training content that conveys the essential information to the employees who need it, (ii) delivering that information in a comprehensible and engaging manner, (iii) ensuring that all employees who should be trained actually receive their training, and (iv) tracking these activities in order to prove up each employee's training participation if/as needed. Attendees will leave this program with ACC resources that will jump-start your training and save you time and money.

For more compliance and ethics training resources, visit ACC's new Compliance Training Portal at <a href=http://www.acc.com/compliance>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.<br/>

In the current economy, new approaches are necessary when engaging and dealing with outside counsel. Foremost is the criticality of selecting outside counsel to ensure alignment with the needs of your business. By evaluation prospects' qualifications based on the category of the legal work to be performed, you can make the best choice for your company.

When President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, his approval ushered in a plethora of changes that redefined how the law responds to persons with disabilities. In-house counsel need to be in the know in order to comply. Learn about the law's revisions and get a better understanding of its applications for your human resources policies.

English law continues to be one of the most frequently adopted choices of law for international contracts across the world. Likewise, the court service in England, and in London in particular, maintains its reputation worldwide as a destination for international litigation. This article sets out ten key considerations for any person or business considering litigating commercial and corporate disputes in London.

Strict liability will be imposed by the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions starting June 15, 2022, on individuals or companies for violations of the UK’s sanction measures, regardless of whether the individuals or companies knew or should have known they were violating the sanction measures. In this article, learn about the new strict liability offenses and what can be done to manage them.

In 2021, in the context of the common agricultural policy reform 2023-2027, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted a new exemption from competition rules for certain agricultural products. Specifically, Article 210a of Regulation 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products (“CMO Regulation”) introduced an exclusion from the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements (or “cartels”) for certain restrictive agreements in the agricultural sector when those agreements are indispensable to achieve sustainability standards. In this latest development, on 10 January 2023, the European Commission (“Commission”) published for consultation its draft guidelines on how this exclusion should apply. The Guidelines seek to clarify how operators active in the agri-food sector can design joint sustainability initiatives in line with Article 210a.

The US Supreme Court decision of June 29, 2023 in Groff v DeJoy makes it harder for employers to decline religious accommodation requests.

In preparation for future innovation, in-house counsel should consider both the risks and the rewards of advancement to keep the company up to speed with the of the Internet of Things (IoT).

This Top Ten outlines ten recommendations for companies and their board of directors to consider when faced with fiscal distress to help protect against incurring liability.

All in-house counsel know how important it is to train employees on labor and employment law topics including Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments, National Labor Relations Act and wage-and-hour. However, few have cracked the code on the how of training. What training techniques are impactful? What approaches have shown to increase knowledge retention? What are your colleagues doing to keep employees engaged in the training? This session offers a unique look at the newest trends and techniques in employee training.

An overview of risk management from the in-house counsel perspective. Includes tips on prioritizing enterprise risk, advising the board on risk, and the role of in-house counsel in risk mitigation.

Jeffery Hewitt shares his experience as general counsel of Rama First Nation where he advocates for their Aboriginal community in Canada on the First Nation reserve.

How do corporate counsel successfully meet the challenges of the modern legal department? This article has an answer which comes in the form of change management. A successful change management effort challenges the what, why and how of the way the legal department conducts its business. Change is inevitable — process improvement, metrics and benchmarking, once seen as innovative, are the new norm. Don’t be left behind; learn what you can do to get on the change team.

Dealing with employee issues can be as amusing as "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as tragic as "Romeo and Juliet," as perplexing as Hamlet's choice, and at times, as blood as "Macbeth." As the study of Shakespeare is essential to any English major, experience with employment law and related issues is indispensable for the in-house lawyer.

This article provides analysis and insights into Australia’s digital health for 2021. There are a number of key issues germane to digital health that the piece examines with great detail, in addition to providing questions and answers for each one.

This article will highlight some key issues of the new Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO) regime you need to be aware of. In this article, we look at some of the hidden complexities in the new regime.

This is a sample external communications and social media policy.

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

This article lists the top ten considerations for real estate transactions in Kenya.

This updated InfoPAK is designed to provide a summary of the law governing covenants not to compete in multiple countries. The InfoPAK will aid in the counseling and drafting of covenants and provide guidance regarding commonly-occurring contract issues, including factors courts consider when analyzing a covenant not to compete.