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Learn about the meaning of ESG, beyond the acronym and misconceptions.

Maybe you think you don’t have the skills you need to successfully fundraise for your nonprofit organization. You do. Everything you need to know you learned years ago. So let’s talk about what you know and how you can apply it.

As governments continue to crack down on employers for immigration violations, maintaining compliance should be a top priority when it comes to global mobility. For instance, counsel must be diligent of work visas, bribery issues and foreign tax laws, to name just a few. To avoid having those short-term assignments become long-term headaches, take a look at this article.

The most popular session at the ACC Annual Meeting in New Orleans filled a hall with over 600 lawyers. The topic was emotional intelligence. Find out why this is such an important skill as well as how you can develop it.

As companies continue to expand into international markets, counsel must understand the international arena of labor rules, regulations and organizing practices. This article offers a primer on the effects, both foreign and domestic, of international labor concerns.

Whether you work in marketing, sales, operations, business development or finance, you need to know how to spot "corrupt payment" issues and respond appropriately. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

Explore ethical considerations involving electronic file sharing, accessibility and storage, as well as document retention and destruction.

This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).

Consider this checklist to help you assess compliance with the Personal Information Protection Law of China ("PIPL") adopted on 20 August 2021.

This is a sample master materials purchase agreement.

In this ACC guide (InfoPAK) for advanced practitioners with a basic understanding of technology agreements, employment agreements, and commercial lease agreements, learn practical tips for addressing important issues that frequently arise in these areas, and gain critical guidance and necessary best practices designed to help businesses achieve their commercial goals.

This article identifies the industries on the rise in Africa’s emerging markets.

The mobility of the workforce can be a downright menace for companies whose competitive edge depends on proprietary information, and whose doesn’t these days? If you think an employee agreement is sufficient protection against your client’s trade secrets walking out the door with departing employees, you may be wrong. David A. Schwab, of Medshares Management Group shares his secrets for preventing proprietary information from decamping to competitors.

The article discusses three risk areas associated with investing in China, including a pervasive undermining of the legal system because of direct personal relationships, or “guanxi.”

Overview of the Federal Trade Commission's May 7, 2024 final rule banning most noncompete agreements in the United States, including options that employers should consider if the rule is not stayed by the federal courts prior to its effective date in September 2024.

Do you know where to start when seeking venture capital financing? There are a lot of key investment terms to consider, and some approaches to these terms favor the VC, while others favor the company. Before signing the dotted line, be sure to understand the expected timeline and your approach to the process.

This article describes the author's knowledge management experience, using the language of his Southern relatives.

Comment letter in response to a Notice of Proposed Priorities

A focus on efficiency and effectiveness—these were the strategic priorities for the majority of legal teams.
This was a consistent message from corporate law departments around the world. In Europe respondents placed particular emphasis on the drive for efficiency. In this report, in-house counsel will learn about the priorities and implementation strategies of European corporate departments.

The European Commission has extensive powers to investigate possible infringements of EC competition law, including the power to carry out on-the-spot investigations at a company’s premises, if necessary, without prior warning (so-called dawn raids). This article provides information about your company’s rights and obligations in responding to a dawn raid.

As in-house counsel everywhere take on more active roles within the company, many are beginning to feel the looming pressures of corporate interests. To adapt to this new reality, stop thinking of legal as a profession and start thinking of it as a business.

Given the close relationship between the United States (US) and Canada, it is common for commercial disputes with US origins to migrate north and take on cross-border dimensions. There are certain key considerations for in-house counsel to keep in mind once a dispute reaches Canada. All Canadian provinces except for Quebec follow the common law system, to which this article is limited.

Ready to move from the billable hour to value-based fee structures for at least some of your outside counsel spend? Not sure how to decide which fee structures are most appropriate for which matter types or stages of matters? Come to this session to learn how to put together your own decision tree. We’ll walk through the considerations you need to weigh when deciding fee structures – with a focus on two increasingly popular approaches: risk collars and fixed fees. We recommend that you combine this with session 401, to expand your toolkit of options.

The recent story of two New York attorneys “duped” by ChatGPT into citing “fake” cases in a court submission illustrates some of the risks of using artificial intelligence.

But the attorney missteps in the ChatGPT case are entirely avoidable. And the emergence of generative AI carries extraordinary potential if attorneys can learn to use the technology wisely.

This Guide provides an overview of law important to companies doing business in Idaho, USA, including law related to corporate organization, taxation, investment, labor and employment, dispute resolution, etc.

Transborder disputes present special management challenges to in-house counsel because strategies and outcomes depend as much on culture as on legal systems. Your domestic case management system may not identify and cope with all of the cultural differences, and your outside counsel may not have cross-border experience to fill the gaps. This article presents a sampler of types of issues by which you can assess your needs in the complex transborder environment, offers a broad range of relevant and informative questions, illustrated with examples from the authorsÕ experience, and suggests how you can expand the transnational resources of your team.