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This article seeks to demystify the “how” part of the path to in-house leadership, sharing eight key strategies for in-house lawyers aspiring to lead.

Having a voice inside ACC that specifically focuses on those of us who are new to in-house work helps ensure that programming throughout ACC doesn’t skip over new folks, especially since most leaders in the other parts of ACC are not new.

Compliance should be reflected in a company’s culture and core values and should address ethical principles as well as legal imperatives.

I’ve been chief legal officer and general counsel of ALSAC since 2010. ALSAC exists solely to raise the funds and awareness necessary to operate and maintain St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. Chief Legal Officer Masahiro Homma has spent nearly 20 years advocating for the position of in-house counsel in Japan.

It is important to remember that you are under no obligation to respond to such provocation. You can still achieve your objectives with civility, poise, and professionalism. Herein, we will identify the Rambo litigator’s most common dirty tactics and provide you with the proper tools to disarm and defeat this difficult adversary.

In the wake of the Equifax security breach, it’s hard to find any in-house counsel who isn’t reviewing their respective company’s data security breach management response plan.

I think that keeping up with the pace of regulatory change in the asset management space is tough. Particularly because so many solutions rely on different technologies that do not always integrate as much as I would like.

2021 is off to a hot start with privacy legislation around the world.

I’ve held business and legal positions throughout my career, but in-house always seemed more interesting and active because we are involved in the success of the business.

A day in the life of Julie S. Maresca, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Motion Picture Licensing Corporation in Los Angeles, California.

Energy encompasses a wide and varied universe of substantive areas of law such as transactions, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, privacy and many more.

Cognitive bias is an inescapable part of being human. As a lawyer, it’s important to have a playbook to minimize its effects.

In her most recent Positively Legal column, Caterina Cavallaro explains how unfocusing one's mind can help in-house counsel be more resilient and creative and better problem solvers.

When we don’t give people the opportunity to fail, we prevent them from needing to think.

I love the experience that I’ve had with the Litigation Committee and know that it has helped me professionally on several different levels.

After what we’ve all been through, it’s time to devote some energy to finding more fun in life and at work.

A day in the life of Larissa Meli, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Alenia Aermacchi North America Inc., US.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are too often reduced to signing symbolic statements of commitment. Loop Capital’s Managing Director and General Counsel Adrienne Pitts says it is now time to move past symbols and act. She describes how in-house counsel can be more assertive in demanding change.

Whether you are in a company that is considering a convergence project for the first time, a company working on a new round of convergence, or in a law firm preparing for convergence, here are 10 points for you to consider — from the perspective of both in-house and outside counsel.

In this article, we will explain the various regulatory regimes that impose successor liability for trade-related violations, provide specific examples of these types of violations and the government enforcement actions and penalties they generated, and create a checklist to help structure the export/import aspect of your M&A due diligence review.

In-house counsel are surrounded by data issues. This article provides practical perspectives on how in-house counsel can help their organization get data under control.

In this article, we draw from hundreds of due diligence processes in intellectual property that have been undertaken in both multi-hundred-million dollar transactions and day-today operations. Through this experience, it is easy to conclude that, while intellectual property is a specialized subject matter giving rise to unique issues, it is essentially the same as any other asset being examined for acquisition.

Villa’s career is far from over. He expects to stay at Versar for many more years where he wants to continue to mentor younger lawyers, and keep an eye out for openings for people in his network.

Like many organizations, the Fieldfisher privacy and information team is monitoring the progress of the legislative changes, and we are cautious of recommending any significant preparatory steps until the exact make-up of the final rules are better understood (hopefully in early 2016).

These decisions have significant implications for labour relations in Canada and will inevitably have far-reaching effects for Canadian employers.

In its first ruling on the Competition Act’s merger-review provisions in more than 20 years, the SCC allowed Tervita’s appeal and overturned the earlier decisions.

In-house counsel serving as litigators may see mediators as unnecessary for achieving a settlement, but professional neutral Mike Lampert offers advice on how to reach an agreement using a mediator.

Cherie Blair was gracious enough to speak with ACC about her career, the current state of the legal profession and the women working within it and in the business arena as whole — and offered advice for those entering the field.

With earnings announcement season upon us, entities will need to be wary of their compliance with the continuous disclosure obligations, as the penalties that result from a contravention can be far reaching, both in respect of financial impact and reputational damage.