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Given the current level of uncertainty in the legal profession, it would be prudent to proactively consider potential future career paths. Whether you would like to remain in-house, move to an outside firm or even open your own practice, you should weigh the pros and cons of each before choosing a path you may regret later.

John P. Frantz, vice president and associate general counsel at Verizon, discusses how his role as chair of the company’s pro bono program is one of the most rewarding aspects of his job.

The survey reports Chief Legal Officers focused on performance and effectiveness in an increasingly demanding corporate environment. Includes hiring patterns, relationships with outside counsel, company revenues, and other information about surveyed companies.

Comment letter in response to a Notice of Proposed Priorities

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in its 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 chapter focuses on the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC).

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to<br />publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a<br />volume in our series of annual reports,<br />which provide international analysis in<br />key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and<br />business people.

Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.

This is a sample bill of sale regarding used equipment.

This is a sample code of conduct and conflicts of interest policy.

The "STARR" framework involves coordination between client and law firm to achieve better value in complex litigation. This Value Practice resource gives details.

A powerpoint presentation of the Corporate Counsel University session 201- Tech Solutions for Your Law Department.

You’ve recently been tapped to create your company’s compliance and ethics program from scratch, but quickly realize that each step seems more complicated than the last. However, fear not. With an acute understanding of your company’s compliance needs, in-house counsel can set the stage for future success.

It’s not a great time to be looking for a job; similarly, it’s not a great time to lose some of your company’s legal talent. The strength of a law department is in its ability to assemble — and hold on to — strong attorneys. Learn how to build and maintain your legal dream team.

Law remains one of the least racially diverse professions in the United States and is still predominately male. Faced with this reality, Diversity Lab came up with a novel idea to resolve lingering inequalities in the field.

As in-house counsel, you're constantly trying to find ways to turn a company's lemons into lemonade. So imagine if you could turn litigation, one of legal's sourest lemons, into a source of revenue. By making use of litigation financing, what was once a costly burden can transform into a functioning profit center.

The purpose of this Guidebook is to help the law departments of life sciences and medical devices industry, their affiliates and business associates, clinical researchers (CROs), and third-party vendors focus on the cybersecurity and IP asset protection issues in an accessible and practical way.

This Quick Counsel outlines how to hire, train, develop objectives for, and supervise a records management & information governance team.

A brief article on what new rules sponsors face in Hong Kong.

This article outlines GE's view on corporate social responsibility and its approach to creating and adopting new corporate governance standards in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the proposed New York Stock Exchange listing requirements. It explains how GE intends for these new standards to be a positive model for the corporate community to review and debate.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power in Switzerland.

Preliminary findings of a five year perspective on the progress of women and visible minorities in senior leadership roles in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Part of risk management is managing the enterprise’s insurance coverage, submitting claims and getting claims paid. Insurance companies often avoid paying claims. You will learn: what the insurance companies’ obligations are with respect to claims adjusting; how to manage the process and maximize your recovery; insurer duties and the insured’s obligations; what to do when you get denials or reservation of rights letters; how the tri-party relationship of insurer, defense counsel and insured works; whether you can get in-house attorneys’ fees paid; and some creative ways to settle claims with insurers.

This social media policy concerns the ethical rules that must be followed by all company personnel participating in social media to keep the company from violating these rules.

This primer discusses the asset management review for Hong Kong.

Corporate Governance One Year Later. Keep yourself up to date on NYSE/Nasdaq Corporate Governance rules and SEC disclosure.

This articles discusses the ongoing legal, ethical, and social debate regarding the role, if any, to afford personal privacy in a globalized and electronic public health surveillance system during a pandemic response.

It isn't hard to collect data in this day and age. What is hard is figuring out what to do with it. Learn how to tame that data and turn it into useful information with value by using data analytics for budgeting, training, alternative fee arrangements, resourcing, investing in new technologies and more.

Discusses how to realize some of the many benefits, including reducing legal costs, improving quality in legal services, producing better legal outcomes and restructuring relationships, that flow from strategic management ideas to legal functions.