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This InfoPAK seeks to guide the first general counsel through the process of establishing a legal department, addressing the range of topics he/she will encounter, from understanding company expectations to how to communicate with the new client to establishing budgets and processes. In addition, this InfoPAK includes firsthand experiences shared by five in-house counsel who served as their organizations’ first general counsel, ranging in experience, industry/company size, and perspective.

The content of this handout supplements the course materials on the drafting of dispute resolution clauses.

The ACC Docket interviews James Williams about his work at the Liquidity Services and risk management.

This article, titled Doing Business in Australia, is a complete guide for foreign investors who are looking to invest in Australia. The guide’s aim is to provide an introduction to Australian laws for overseas legal practitioners.

General counsel are expected to not only be lawyers but also leaders of a team. Legal acumen is honed through years of law firm and in-house practice, but a high-profile leadership position demands additional skills. From setting the strategic vision to building relationships and developing talent, learn what it takes to lead a law department.

The Canadian government announced that most of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), including the provisions relating to commercial electronic messages (CEMs), will come into force on July 1, 2014. Intended to be one of the most stringent anti-spam regimes in the world, CASL will have a significant impact on the electronic communication practices of charitable organizations and not-for-profit entities (NFP).

Every year brings new privacy and security responsibilities for healthcare organizations. Is your organization vulnerable to the top threats to data privacy and security? How do you protect yourself against them? For those risks that cannot be prevented, what steps can you take to minimize your company's exposure? Get updated on these and other developments from the last year. Join us for a fun, interactive program. We asked a hundred attorneys three questions....can you guess the answers?

The concept of a 'litigation hold' is not new: A litigant must not accidentally or purposefully destroy documents that may be discoverable in real or anticipated litigation. Read about two real world cases that provide insight into this issue so you can implement policy and procedure changes to protect your organization.

We all have a tendency at times to believe that it’s far better to deal with work misery that you know about rather than a potentially worse situation. But what if a new situation or new set of circumstances could offer more?

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released version 1.0 of its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework. The framework identifies 6 factors for mitigating risk and evaluating the trustworthiness of an artificial intelligence (AI) system.

This checklist is for use by licensees when reviewing a licensor's terms for the licence of commercially available packaged software. The checklist covers key issues that frequently arise in these types of licensing arrangements. However, it is not intended to be an exhaustive list and licensees should be careful to review all licence terms carefully. Agreements in respect of software that is to be developed or heavily configured specifically for the licensee are outside the scope of this checklist. In those circumstances, the contract is likely to (and should) contain additional detailed provisions relating to the ownership of intellectual property rights in the new software, acceptance, conformity with specification, delivery of bespoke elements and warranties. The checklist is written from a European perspective. For non-European software licences, users should ensure that they take into account relevant local law issues.

This article provides an overview of the Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Development Fund, which was launched on 1 March 2021 in order to support the growth of carbon capture, use, and storage opportunities in Australia.

Discusses things that you can do to better your chances of getting that coveted seat on the board of directors.

The "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals.

Five thousand in-house counsel from 73 countries told the Association of Corporate Counsel what they thought about job satisfaction and career mobility in the recently published 2015 Global Census Report. As a member of the Brazilian corporate lawyers community for five years and an ACC member, I encouraged my compatriots to participate in the census.

The rise of technological innovation brings a surge of patents - and worse - patent trolls.

Nominations Sought for ACC's Board of Directors - ACC and Altman Weil Release Results of 2003 Chief Legal Officer Survey - Have an Interest in Judicial Elections? - More Valuable Insights from the 2003 ACC/Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel Survey - New to In-house: The Running Man - Shoveling Smoke: Professional Standards: Beyond Conduct Rules

This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to digital health laws and regulations around the world.

Topics covered include digital health technologies, data use, data sharing, intellectual property, commercial agreements, AI and machine learning, and liability.

Telecommunications services—those things that connect your corporate offices, data centers, e-commerce sites, call centers, and cell phones—are vital to most companies, and with multiyear, multimillion-dollar contracts at stake, in-house counsel can help save company money through informed negotiations with potential providers. Learn the pricing and cost strategies, standard agreement pitfalls, and remedies to insist on (or avoid) in negotiating your next telecom services agreement.

The worldwide economic distress caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has certainly not spared the GCC region. In this article, deals with the repercussions of the pandemics impact on the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and how new laws provide for a process in which the injection of new capital via strategic investment.

This primer considers in detail the use of English law in Belt & Road transactions.

This guide provides an overview of cryptoasset regulation (prior to the introduction of MiCA), focussing at this point on European jurisdictions, both inside and outside the EU. It summarizes the regulations applying to the main activities performed by cryptoasset service providers and the requirements of the licensing regimes, including time and cost.

This article is a summary of major copyright developments between December 2014 and March 2015.

This InfoPAK examines the concept of organizational effectiveness and how corporate counsel can use its principles to effectively develop an international, “world-class” legal department. The InfoPAK focuses primarily on “soft” organizational development issues, including those relating to development of a shared vision and organizational culture for the legal department, and development of the people who make up the department. The InfoPAK begins with a discussion of the important foundational step of aligning the legal department’s priorities with the organization’s business strategy and developing a corresponding shared vision for the department. Discussions of successful management of client relationships and internal departmental issues including leadership issues and team management follow. Because change is the one constant in today’s legal department, the InfoPAK also discusses change management and creating a “one team” culture. Finally, it discusses metrics and measurement tools for managing organizational development.