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In-house counsel know the high price for bungled e-discovery. But complying with e-discovery requests can just about put some companies into the poorhouse. Use this guide to proactively reduce e-discovery costs.

Provides helpful tips on: measuring outside counsel's performance; taking charge of the inside counsel/outside counsel relationship; strengthening your control over how outside counsel handles your work; improving the quality of outside counsel's work; and reducing the cost of outside counsel. Also provides a list of additional resources for outside counsel relations.

From ACC's 2008 Annual Meeting Benchmarking the Performance of Outside Counsel Session

This article provides a roadmap for how to assess the performance of your outside counsel. It also offers some tips on how you can apply this information to both cut your outside legal bills and improve the quality of services you receive.

James Lipscomb discusses his views on successful career building, giving back to the global community, and the importance of fostering an inclusive and empowering legal department.

Demands for email, hard drives, and backup tapes are now standard in almost every case. When does an obligation attach to preserve these documents? How do you search for them, while maintaining privilege and work product protections? This excerpt of a recent roundtable discussion provides the key to the complex world of electronic discovery.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of the main trends and significant deals in Australian construction plans.

Transaction standards and approaches
for mergers and acquisitions are not harmonized across jurisdictions. The vagaries in legal systems range from how diligence is used to allocate risk among the parties to the effect of post-closing remedies in a purchase agreement. Learn what levers you need to pull as in-house counsel in order to move the deal forward.

This article lists what you need to know to keep abreast of the ever-changing law regarding trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law.

Fantasy Sports has been in the headlines lately as states and the federal government grapple with the legality of this $2 billion industry. This panel will examine the legal framework around this industry that boasts approximately 60 million participants in the US and Canada alone.

This handbook provides an overview of US state and federal laws and stock exchange rules relating to annual meetings of shareholders. It is intended to assist companies in preparing for their annual meetings.

As hosting and participating in social media become the industry standard, companies must incorporate platforms and develop policies to safeguard rights and privacy. If this brave new world seems somewhat alien, implement these guidelines to navigate your company safely through the obstacles everyone’s worried about.

To assist corporations and individuals in better understanding the nature of the risk they face in Canada, this paper provides an overview of Canada’s foreign corrupt practices regime, highlights recent cases and developments and outlines risk mitigation strategies, including a robust compliance program and anti-corruption due diligence in certain corporate transactions.

This report provides a summary of the use of technology within legal departments, based on a survey conducted in autumn 2020 at the behest of the Tools & Technology Interest Group of ACC Legal Operations.

This report provides a summary of the use of technology within legal departments, based on a survey conducted in autumn 2020 at the behest of the Tools & Technology Interest Group of ACC Legal Operations.

The panel will discuss US Supreme Court decisions from the past term, as well as cases slated to be heard next term, and their potential impact on business, touching on such important areas as IP, securities, class action, etc. Panelists will include in-house counsel, a government lawyer and lawyers who previously worked in the solicitor general’s office.

Although many companies today have adopted sexual orientation nondiscrimination policies, in court they have proven surprisingly hard to enforce. This is a lose-lose situation for both the employee and the company. As in-house counsel, you can help everyone do better. Learn how to rewrite your company's policy and, better yet, adopt an anti-discrimination certification mark. These changes will enhance the corporate image and even limit liability in the process.

A review of procedures for foreign shareholders participating in shareholders meetings in Brazil.

A review of some of the legal issues inherent in job title inflation, with a focus on apparent authority liability and employee misclassification.

This is a sample employee privacy policy.

New technologies mean new legal issues. The authors spotlight five high-profile tech issues, and suggest some practical company policies.

This brief resource (Top Ten) outlines tips for evaluating relevant issues and recommendations for proceeding through bankruptcy issues.

Current legislation creates several cost obstacles for parties seeking to purchase residential property together. One group of buyers that may be very much affected are married couples and families seeking to jointly purchase property. The reality is that for as long as such rules are in place, the practical approach by couples and families may prevail, in that, they may try to see how they can navigate the rules and hold their real estate with whatever tax savings; and to be less sentimental about what a matrimonial home and family home represents.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power in Germany.

In this issue: Implications of the Impending Elimination of Canadian Withholding Tax on Interest Payments by Brian E. Bomstein and Martin Fingerhut; The Socioeconomic and Safety Impact of Counterfeits in Canada by Robert J. ("RJ") Falconi; Cartels in Canada: Practical Approaches to Manage Risk by Patti Phelan and James Musgrove

Provides how in-house counsel can better protect their organizations from the dangers of having records programs that are not enforced.

In this multi-country guide, learn about the rules regarding popular investment vehicles in a wide range of jurisdictions (including many European countries).