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This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on various ACC Committee eGroups, addresses the "Dos and Don'ts" for a company's first general counsel.

This is a sample corporate employee handbook for under 50 employees.

ACC’s “2014 Top 10 30-Somethings” are passionate change-makers; always seeking opportunities to positively impact their companies, industries and communities. They face challenges like increased regulation and advancing technology with a calculated, patient stamina that many of them learned as athletes. Whether fighting corruption or advancing diversity in the profession, no goal is too far reaching for this group, especially considering the dedicated, talented teams that support them. Our winners may live and work around the globe, but they are banded together in their efforts to make it a better place.

Get a judge's perspective from the bench. What do lawyers overlook during ediscovery? Find out about ediscovery trends that will help you when the time arrives.

The negotiation of good IP agreements can be particularly thorny since the negotiator often doesn't understand the underlying IP. This session will discuss best practices and include practical checklists for would-be IP agreement negotiators.

CLO3 Medium & Large Department CLOs: Getting (and Using!) the Most from Your Attorney Staff

In order to bypass the hazards and strains of litigation, many have chosen to resolve conflict through mediation. this article offers tips on how to prepare for mediation, including strategies for selecting an excellent mediator.

In-house counsel advising businesses that operate in France (or working in French businesses that operate in other countries) should be aware of the French mechanisms for deferred prosecution agreements and plea bargaining. This article gives an overview of what in-house corporate counsel should consider in this respect when their company faces criminal proceedings in France.

Here are the top ten considerations for a whistleblower to consider before acting in cases involving the United States Dodd Frank Act.

This Top Ten provides key explanations about risk prevention associated with the processing of personal information from candidates and employees in Mexico.

This guide provides a legal overview for companies doing business in Kentucky (United States).

This is a sample sales agreement between a hotel and client.

This article discusses the legal and regulatory considerations for Japanese companies contemplating a Hong Kong listing.

This table lists all the overseas jurisdictions (other than People’s Republic of China, Bermuda and Cayman Islands) that the Listing Committee has formally ruled to be acceptable as an issuer’s place of incorporation.

This primer covers issues relating to the insolvency and restructuring market, and the key tools and emerging innovative processes for effecting restructures in 23 jurisdictions.

This multi-jurisdictional guide covers common issues in competition litigation law and regulations – including interim remedies, final remedies, evidence, justification/defenses, settlement, and anticipated reforms.

This guide provides an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding family law across a range of jurisdictions.

Topics covered include jurisdiction, divorce, cohabitation, relocations, cross-border issues, parental responsibility, and marital agreements.

This guide provides an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding mining law across a range of jurisdictions.

Topics covered include the acquisition of rights, ownership requirements and restrictions, transfer and encumbrance, environmental aspects, and land rights.

This multi-jurisdictional guide explores legal issues, rules, and developments regarding sanctions across 14 jurisdictions.

This resource provides a primer on the various forms of sanctions, types of sanctions enforcement, and compliance expectations.

This multi-jurisdictional guide explores an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding copyright across a range of jurisdictions.

Topics covered include ownership, exploitation, owners' rights, copyright enforcement and criminal offenses.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to a Q&A that gives an overview of the legal system; foreign investment, including restrictions, currency regulations and incentives; and business vehicles and their relevant restrictions and liabilities in Australia. It also summarizes the laws regulating employment relationships, including redundancies and mass layoffs, and provides short overviews on competition law; data protection; and product liability and safety. In addition, there are comprehensive summaries on taxation and tax residency; and intellectual property rights over patents, trade marks, registered and unregistered designs.

This report examines several case studies from the spheres of credit and lending, hiring and employment, higher education, and criminal justice to provide snapshots of opportunities and dangers, as well as ways that government policies can work to harness the power of big data and avoid discriminatory outcomes in the United States.

In Hong Kong, Domain names are registered on a first-come-first served basis. In certain situations, competitors can register a domain name in bad faith in order to disrupt another company's business. In this short article, some mechanisms of domain name dispute resolution are explained.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview of privacy rules and principles in the United Kingdom.

This article addresses the practical issue of establishing corporate values and then embedding and sustaining those values in its corporate decision-making structure.

Company demands for cost savings and efficiency are forcing corporate legal departments to do more with less. Metrics quantify performance, enable benchmarking and reporting of trends and can help justify budget and headcounts. But can legal work be measured? “Yes”, say the panelists of this session. Join them to hear their explanation and to learn from their best practices how performance shall, and can, be measured.

The blockchain was just one of many so-called “ground-breaking” technology stories of 2016. An important question for all in-house lawyers to ask is whether this invention is actually breaking new ground or just loosening the soil?

This article explores the increasing popularity of Bitcoin and how it is an attractive asset due to its decentralized nature (as opposed to the centralized retaliation that assets in banks are vulnerable to). It also looks at why Bitcoin being decentralized could prevent it from subject to international sanctions.