Learn practical tips with your peers on handling key provisions such as indemnification, limitation of liability, insurance, warranties, change management, delivery and acceptance, price, payment and performance guarantees; Discuss boilerplate pitfalls and other common contract drafting challenges; Gain a deeper understanding of how your peers handle contract negotiation; Learn practical negotiating tips and discuss common negotiation challenges; Discuss relevant ethics rules that may apply in contract negotiations; and Discuss how to manage tensions between business and legal within your organization during the negotiation process.
This session represents a continued discussion from the 2014 ACC Annual Meeting of the risks and rewards of using open-source software (OSS) for internal applications and in products licensed to end users. The session will focus on OSS licensing and compliance management programs, policies and practices. A successful OSS policy ensures compliance with OSS license terms and protects your company’s IP assets while enabling development teams to get the job done. Discussion will include establishing and maintaining a successful OSS compliance process and review of sample policies and practices.
This course will explain what conflicts of interest are and how to avoid them. It will also help you maintain the highest levels of integrity and fairness in the way you conduct business on behalf of our organization. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)
Recent regulations and future proposed changes likely will encourage in-house counsel to involve themselves in their client's financial affairs and to report improper conduct. In-house counsel need to consider corporate conduct and investigate misconduct. This article discusses the broad responsibilities of in-house counsel and provides an overview of the
post-Enron environment from the in-house perspective.
"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"
US corporate counsel tend to prefer litigation. Nonetheless, there are advantages to domestic and international commercial arbitration. The most significant advantage is that conflicting parties can participate in the selection of an arbitrator.
This training course will help you recognize these "red flags" and respond appropriately. If you have any questions about how this material applies to your job responsibilities, please direct them to your supervisor
This course will help you to understand what retaliation is and how to avoid it while carrying out your day-to-day managerial responsibilities.
This course includes information about (1) workplace-violence prevention, (2) risk factors, (3) how to identify a threatening situation, and (4) what to do if you're in or near one. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)
These guidelines describe private, individual participation in social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs, forums, YouTube, Flickr etc. for company employees.
Although globalization offers tremendous promise, it also presents companies with many new challenges. Among them is the need to develop creative, efficient, and responsive functional models for the provision of legal services. Companies establishing operations beyond their home market must decide whether and how to create in-house legal teams to support the broad spectrum of legal needs in other countries. This article offers a glimpse into the myriad of issues that surround those decisions and outlines how some global company law departments have structured themselves in response.
Three elements work together to comprise an effective and successful software license transaction. You may not know them offhand but after reading this article, which details how certain information can raise potential licensing issues, you’ll glean a better understanding of the practical matters swirling around the process.
This September Docket article discusses considerations in drafting contractual indemnification provisions for what we call the “multiple supplier scenario.”
This survey addresses issues including staffing, departmental organization, hiring plans, cost accounting, expectations for the coming year, changes to the role of the CLO, outside auditors and counsel, and firm demographics. Additionally, the survey focused on the relationship of the CLOs and GCs with outside counsel through questions that explored alternative fee arrangements and challenges brought with the economic downturn.<br/><a href=surveys/upload/2008-clo-survey-executive-summary.pdf>2008 CLO Survey - Executive Summary</a>
This Top Ten lists 10 tips to create a comprehensive crisis communications plan.
Sample Outside Counsel Billing Guidelines Contributed by ACC Legal Operations Members
The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in recent years has overlapped with the enactment of comprehensive privacy laws by U.S. states. Several of the comprehensive state privacy laws have provisions that specifically address certain uses of AI systems, in particular use in profiling.
This article surveys those provisions and assumes the reader is already familiar with basic concepts in the comprehensive privacy laws, such as controllership and applicability thresholds.
In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding corporate tax across a range of jurisdictions.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Employment & Labor and Compliance & Ethics Network Forums addresses concerns about internal investigation policies and authorization of an employee's computer and electronic records in the US.
This Top Ten focuses on protections needed in a ground lease in order for a leasehold mortgagee to consider the ground lease financeable.
This training course provides an overview of OFAC sanctions and their key provisions. It will help you recognize situations presenting a risk of legal violations and deal with them properly.
Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains regulatory documents having general applicability and legal effect, most of which are keyed to and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which is published under 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.
When you are trying to figure out whether to go to outside counsel for a legal opinion or to recommend that your company obtain UCC insurance, you need to consider several factors: what constitutes UCC insurance, comparison of typical legal opinions and UCC insurance coverage, multijurisdictional issues under the UCC, and cases requiring UCC insurance.
A review of merger controls under Portuguese law. Includes discussion of relevant authorities, qualifying transactions, remedies, and enforcement procedures.
This course outlines the policies and procedures that help safeguard the safety and health of all employees.
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