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If you are doing work that’s not meaningful to you — can you recraft and reframe that work in a way that connects it to a larger, more meaningful purpose?

You can institute simple daily habits that will bring joy to your life and, in turn, your career. Get ideas from Positively Legal Columnist Catarina Cavallaro’s interview with six GCs and learn science-based practices known to boost health. #ACCDocket #wellness

In this short Q&A article, members of ACC Europe’s ESG Working Group developed an ESG Framework to highlight the challenges that keep them up at night and showcase how they collaborate with other departments to ensure a cohesive approach to ESG.

Legal operations professionals have become significant change agents for fast-growing companies. Understanding how developing a long-term relationship with appellate counsel offers far-reaching benefits will assist these professionals in fashioning overall legal strategies that achieve optimum results.

And although our busy lives may often get in the way, the basic truth is that to be a good lawyer, you must be a healthy lawyer. There is simply no way around this. There may be temporary fixes to your stress, but the only way to have a healthy long-lasting career is to be making healthy choices every day.

2020 was quite a year. Look forward to 2021 with these takeaways for legal operations.

Being a good lawyer is more than knowing the law, it’s knowing your organization’s business, participating holistically, and living your true self within your job. Learn how #ACCTop30s awardee Mipe Okunseinde does it at Booking.com. #inhousecounsel #ACCDocket #ACCEurope

Positively Legal columnist Caterina Cavallaro speaks with Katrina Bullock, general counsel at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, about cultivating hope – and the impact it can have. #Wellness #Hope #PositivelyLegal

ACC’s President and CEO Veta Richardson reflects on the gender pay gap at the GC level and discusses encouraging data from the most recent ACC Law Department Compensation Survey. #ACCDocket #inhouse

Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Associate General Counsel Kurt Hadley details how in-house counsel can stay compliant with new pay disclosure laws. #ACCDocket #inhouse #paytransparency

This article is meant to spur dialogue and highlight possible changes to the current model, including one that leverages new forms of corporate structure to create a distinct ethical framework for college athletics.

Josh Kaplan, chair of the ACC Energy Network, discusses his position.

Recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcements—with their declinations, record-setting criminal penalties, disgorgements, and independent compliance monitors—are instructive in helping companies navigate that landscape, if and when the time comes. The three biggest resolutions from 2018 and 2019 are rich with guidance on how to appropriately address the discovery of potential FCPA misconduct.

Most eDiscovery platforms are more than just web-based software for viewing and producing documents; if leveraged properly, they can provide powerful insight into the facts, risks, and opportunities of the case. To ensure counsel is working both efficiently for the company’s bottom line and effectively for the benefit of the legal matter, discuss these five questions with them, whether during the process of selecting counsel or in the midst of a matter with existing counsel:

This article focuses on approaches, tips, and preparation pointers that will be needed to effectuate some of the most common types of actions that in-house employment counsel of multinational companies (MNCs) are likely to face in the near future.

While there is reason to believe the experiment with open banking will remake the financial regulatory landscape in the UK, it is still an untested concept in the US. This article examines the open banking standard on both sides of the Atlantic, what it means for the US financial market, and what states are currently doing when it comes to fostering fintech innovation.

So, what is a good in-house counsel to do? Consider it the wave of the future and jump in? Wait for industry norms and regulatory standards to evolve? Adopt off-the-shelf solutions or seek bespoke services? Each approach has its own risk profile, but those judgments should be informed by a working understanding of what AI is and how it is both similar to and different from past technologies.

In this series, the authors focus on and analyze wellness topics to see how we can use them to support our well-being as the COVID-19 pandemic persists.

The last 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has offered a lot to reflect upon. And without question, it has been a bit of a wild ride. Congress, objecting to the narrow interpretation of the ADA, stepped in nearly 20 years later to make the statute apply to pretty much everyone. So now that we have that all settled, what’s next?

This article discusses the importance of independent investigations for global companies and circumstances that might warrant an independent investigation. Practical guidance for general counsel will also be discussed, when evaluating whether to recommend that the audit committee oversee the investigation, and when to make that critical recommendation to the board.

How to accurately find what you need without wasting time or your company's budget.

Positive recognition is a fundamental pillar of leadership. Too often, we interact with people as “human doings” rather than “human beings.” We think of people as their job function, their most recent work product, or their access to information. We focus on their failings, but not on their successes.

Of course, as all in-house lawyers know, what makes for sound legal policy may not find a receptive audience with management, who often view compliance as a hindrance to operations. But the implementation of the new laws may provide a good opportunity not just for legal teams to take stock of their trade secret programs, but to push for the changes needed to ensure that businesses are protected.

It is crucial for new in-house counsel to know best practices of various industries and organisations in hiring and training legal talent in India.

In-house counsel’s best protection against the risk of loss of privilege is preparation. This article focuses on prevention of waiver of US-recognized privileges over documents collected in unannounced government raids of offices.

If you are considering purchasing software or a service from vendor, consider whether its founder or founding team has walked a mile in your shoes. Do they have experience as an in-house attorney? If so how much?

It’s an election year in the United States! Does your company have a Political Participation Policy? #ACCDocket #riskmanagement #politics

We can optimize our chances of success by helping our colleagues achieve a level three understanding of the rules and striving to engage them in the learning process.