This Top Ten provides recommendations for making your IP audit effective and efficient.
Currell on Convergence - Part 1 on Convergence: Why Practice Falls Short of Theory
AdvanceLaw, a network of buyers and suppliers of legal work that seek to drive value by sharing quality metrics and creating data-driven best practices, recently uncovered surprising results on the value of converging law firms. This resource combines 3 blog posts from Managing Director Dan Currell on preferred provider networks: 1) theory vs. practice; 2) how to build a law firm panel that can deliver value; and 3) the necessity of active client management.
This is a checklist of some best practices for implementing a diversity and inclusion program.
Do you find yourself with both an ethical and business dilemma when forced to negotiate with your customers’ buyers, supply chain managers, procurement analysts, or other non-lawyers? Are you frustrated because people in such roles have limited authority to make changes but refuse to put you in touch with their law department? Do you have a product that is unique, yet the customer — who is always right! — rejects your carefully tailored terms and insists on using its own standard template that requires a major overhaul for your particular product or services? You are not alone! This session will be facilitated by both big- and small-company lawyers who share their tips and best practices for situations like these. Learn how to navigate your customers’ supply chain roadblocks ethically and effectively while using your sales and business team to facilitate the effort.
Hot topics covered include Dodd-Frank whistleblower regulation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and data privacy issues and regulations both domestic and global.
With the high rates of depression and anxiety in the legal community, ACC President and CEO Veta T. Richardson underscores the importance of self-care for lawyers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an even hotter topic since the introduction of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, as well as tools like Copilot and OpenAI Codex, which use generative AI to write computer code. This resource from Womble Bond Dickinson discusses the best practices in using Artificial Intelligence to generate code.
Everyone in the legal profession at one time or another experiences setbacks and frustrations, but how can attorneys know when it is time to seriously consider alternative roles or interests? Is it possible to make changes without seeking new employment, or has the time come to move on? Read this article to find out more.
On its surface, the transition from lawyer to CEO may seem like a natural progression. To showcase this unique trajectory, Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, Mitch Garber, CEO of Caesars Acquisition Company, and Anna Santeramo, co-founder of Stylebee.com, provide insight for the next lawyer-turned-entrepreneur.
Diversity within your legal department (and your company as a whole) begins with compliance, expands into an appreciation for differences, and is at its pinnacle when your work environment recognizes and values differing skills. The Minority Corporate Counsel Association's 2006 Study of Law Department Best Practices, summarized here, shows that corporations are past mere diversity compliance and that their diversity practices have proven to be successful for law departments and corporations as a whole.
Data flow is endless, branching out to vendors, affiliates and the personal mobile device of employees. Organizations must manage this data in a legally compliant manner — which is where in-house counsel come in. Corporate attorneys wear multiple hats: the investigator that understands the flow of data and potential threats to its controls; the analyzer that knows legal and contractual obligations; and the advisor that offers reasonable and practical advice.
A presentation on non-immigrant visas and employment-based immigration for in-house counsel.
The cloud should be about more than making your legal department run smoothly. Today’s technology can bring acceptable levels of risk if the solution promotes business transparency and collaboration with global suppliers.
This is a sample agreement between a hotel and company.
This Quick Overview will introduce the mechanism of unitranche financing and the terms of an agreement among lenders, which makes the unitranche financing possible.
This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).
In this session, we will cover important recent U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) developments, rulemaking and enforcement trends. We will update our Dodd-Frank scorecards and review the most significant recently adopted and proposed rules. The session will also cover important lessons from the 2013 proxy season, with a particular focus on stockholder activism, and updates in the auditing and accounting arena — calling out hot spots in SEC accounting reviews. This will be a fast-moving session that assumes participants have a working knowledge of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act.
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