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An outline and overview to dealing with contested situations teams.

Finding and keeping skilled and enthusiastic in-house counsel for your legal department can be difficult. Career paths are ever-changing and the skills your company might need evolve as well. In this article, learn how to develop connections within the legal world to cultivate and keep top talent.

Issues around corporate governance are becoming increasingly complex and there is an increasing need for officers of corporations to receive advice on an ongoing basis in implementing company policies and making necessary disclosures to markets and to the regulators. In this article, learn how in-house counsel can inform themselves of issues and engage with the board.

Let’s face it, “running your department like a business” is no longer a goal but an expectation of the C-suite. Whether you are fully on board or still struggling to catch up, there are a few basic principles that will help you think and manage like a business owner. This intermediate-level program will give participants proven strategies to enhance the bottom line of the legal departments they manage. Your budget conversations with the CFO will never be the same!

This is a sample company social media policy.

This is a sample social media usage policy.

This toolkit provides a guide to some of the basics of financial accounting terms and concepts that are key to in-house lawyers for understanding the company's financial statements as well as a guide to establishing a law department from scratch.

Summarizes how to meet the deadline, study the response, get authorization to respond, and understand the ethical and regulatory rules regarding audit response letters.

This is a sample two-party escrow service agreement where the company provides flexible, comprehensive escrow services that generate the type of agreement that gives customers the right level of protection in each unique situation.

Richard Dammery, Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary of Woolworths Limited, explores some of the current, and not so new, challenges and opportunities for in-house lawyers.

This ACC Guide (InfoPAK) is a primer for in-house counsel starting, building, executing, and refining an Information Governance program.

This survey explores the areas of personal career history, personal demographics, profile of the corporate legal department and the use of legal research and other products and services.

This article deals with resolving international disputes in Singapore.

Notice of the Texas Attorney General's intent to file administrative expense claim for post-petition civil fines and penalties

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Intellectual Property, IT, Privacy & eCommerce, and Small Law Departments eGroups, addresses issues involving software license agreements and digital contracts in general. The issues discussed include acceptance of software license agreements, requirement of acceptance and click-wrap agreements.

Overcriminalization — specifically, the rise in criminal sanctions for regulatory violations — increases the risk that either you or your company will face a criminal charge. This is, in part, due to countless new regulations and broad prosecutorial discretion. Learn how outside criminal counsel can reduce your exposure to unexpected sanctions.

This issue discusses in-house salaries, electronic monitoring in the global workplace, building successful relationships with work councils in Europe, and more.

2011 ACC Annual Meeting Session 104 materials which details current status and practices of legal outsourcing.

These are sample rules and guidelines for communicating company-related information via social networking forums whether used in or outside the workplace.

This is a review of the availability and process of mediation in 21 jurisdictions across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide of data protection rules and principles, right to access personal data or object to its collection in Brazil.

Labor and employment laws in the United Kingdom are notoriously employee-friendly. Learn how to navigate the minefield of disciplining, and ultimately dismissing, UK employees.

High up in the clouds is unsettled legal terrain. A growing number of businesses now outsource data center functions to cloud service providers, and how this will impact the legal realm is currently being decided. Learn about the possible application of international privacy law in a multijurisdictional cloud and whether traditional licensing contracts are still relevant.

The proverbial gauntlet has been thrown down — law departments are increasingly challenged to be more service-oriented and less costly. It may sound like an impossible task and for some, it may well be. But there’s another possible solution: off shoring.

As a tenant or a landlord entering into a commercial lease agreement, are you confident enough to negotiate the best possible lease? Overlooking any number of provisions could result in an unnecessary, long-term legal dispute. Learn the basics of commercial lease negotiations, other than just what you are paying in rent.