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Proper management of personal information is key to customer confidence, trust and business reputation. This Top Ten presents key tips regarding data privacy in Australia.

Before your company launches its international charity endeavor, ask yourself: Are we legally allowed to operate in this country? By learning the 10 key legal considerations for conducting charity work across borders, in-house counsel can mitigate risk and ensure that the company executives won’t be saying, “No good deed goes unpunished.”

With little public sympathy left for big business, compliance management is nothing to take lightly. If you disagree, prepare for the inevitable: legal sanctions, financial losses and a tarnished reputation. based on the Swiss corporate environment, learn the five fundamentals of effective compliance management and ensure your company remains in the public spotlight for all the right reasons.

As the East continues to seduce business, more in-house counsel will be asked to manage legal services in China. Your new legal team will adhere to and be motivated by different cultural norms, which you as their leader should know. Learn basic cultural concepts relevant to all facets of life — including business — in China.

There is a series of steps in-house counsel must take after their company is served with a new lawsuit. These steps ensure compliance with requirements placed on a civil litigant, and they put the company in the best position to defend against the claims. Don’t miss the simple tasks and responsibilities — use this checklist as a guide.

This material covers the various roles in-house counsel may be called upon to play during a corporate crisis.

This multi-PAK provides a high level overview of the lending market, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees, and loan agreements. It covers creation and registration requirements for security interests; problem assets over which security is difficult to grant; risk areas for lenders; structuring the priority of debt; debt trading and transfer mechanisms; agent and trust concepts; enforcement of security interests and borrower insolvency; cross-border issues on loans; taxes; and proposals for reform.

In-house counsel need look no further than the headlines for validation that it is not a matter of whether they will confront a cyber incident; instead, it is simply a matter of when. This program will explore the ways that digital risk affects all aspects of an in-house legal practice. From M&A to employment to litigation, managing cyber risks is no longer the exclusive domain of IT. This program will provide practical guidance on how all members of the in-house legal team can better prepare for and respond to cyber incidents to reduce their company’s financial, legal and reputational exposure.

A review of Brazil's new anti-corruption law. Discusses the potential corruption liabilities of companies doing business, directly or indirectly, in Brazil.

This article is intended to provide a general guide to the matter of green bonds.

In this article, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is explained in the context of small businesses and non-profits. Resources are available to these sectors impacted by the current crisis.

This ACC Foundation report explores the current landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within legal departments.

This checklist is for use by licensees when reviewing a licensor's terms for the licence of commercially available packaged software. The checklist covers key issues that frequently arise in these types of licensing arrangements. However, it is not intended to be an exhaustive list and licensees should be careful to review all licence terms carefully. Agreements in respect of software that is to be developed or heavily configured specifically for the licensee are outside the scope of this checklist. In those circumstances, the contract is likely to (and should) contain additional detailed provisions relating to the ownership of intellectual property rights in the new software, acceptance, conformity with specification, delivery of bespoke elements and warranties. The checklist is written from a European perspective. For non-European software licences, users should ensure that they take into account relevant local law issues.

This session focuses on how to structure the transaction, what to watch out for when conducting IP due diligence and which contractual protections are advisable to ensure that such risks are mitigated.

In this sample, find practical tips to consider when drafting and negotiating contracts.

The tables are turned in the continuing dialogue between N. Side, general counsel for Federated Overseas Operations Logistics, Inc. (FOOLS, Inc.) and the firm of Oliver, Wendell & Holmes.

This article provides an overview of legal process outsourcing and some guidance for thinking about the “fitness for purpose” of different possible outsourcing moves within law firms and in-house law departments.

This guide covers common issues in public investment funds – including registration, regulatory framework, marketing of public funds, and tax treatment – in 19 jurisdictions.

This short article (QuickCounsel) provides an overview of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) that came into effect on July 1st, 2014.

Many have discussed the topic of selecting and retaining quality outside counsel, especially as it relates to efficient litigation. Here, the author explores this topic, with a focus on the law firm qualities that in-house attorneys should be looking for during this process.

Boards increasingly recognize the value proposition of corporate directors who come from an in-house counsel background. The role of the general counsel (GC) today extends well beyond legal and requires an array of skills — notably business acumen and leadership. This Quick Overview discusses optimization of Board performance.

In recent years, the compliance landscape for health industry companies has become more
complex, in part because of increasingly aggressive enforcement of privacy breaches and false claims by regulators. At the same time, unprecedented pushes for transparency and disclosure by both the government and the public continue to gain traction. This Practice Profile highlights elements presented by four healthcare organizations as crucial for responding to these trends and nurturing successful compliance programs. Organizational leaders featured here explain department leading practices designed to bolster cultures of compliance while better managing risk and encouraging innovation. They also offer their best practices in areas that can inform your own organization’s approach to compliance, its pursuit of an excellence culture and its effective reliance on outside counsel in responding to
government inquiries.

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 the United Arab Emirates.

Although nonprofits have continued to grow in size and sophistication, they are under constant pressure to increase transparency and justify their tax-exempt status. Instead of a threat, view this as an opportunity to define your organization to your stakeholders, resulting in better management and continued independence from excessive regulations.

We’ve all been there — swamped, in a new job and not knowing where to start. Hear veterans tell their war stories and the top five things they did (or wish they did) in their first year in-house.

This guide covers common issues in project finance laws and regulations including security, bankruptcy, restrictions, insurance, and arbitration.

This ACC guide, sponsored by Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, provides an overview of some of the protection frameworks for data and software.