Your company recently made a strategic acquisition. Now, the CEO has advised you that he and the board have decided to divest and sell the European subsidiaries in order to focus on the group’s core business. As general counsel, you must prepare a share purchase agreement for each subsidiary, and local law governs M&A in every country. What do you do?
ACC's annual survey of global chief legal officers and general counsel.
With the advent of global privacy frameworks, and as companies collect and use more consumer data, additional importance is placed on review and compliance. The chief privacy officer is essential to addressing these priorities.
The legal industry is changing and technology is a big part of that change. Learn more about technology in the legal profession and how learning a little can benefit your practice a lot.
You may have never cared about (or truly understood) commercial mortgage-backed securities. But in the steadily lengthening to-do lists of in-house counsel, you may find yourself navigating the industry at the request of your company’s leadership. What does it mean for your employer’s present and future growth? Or, what does it mean period? Find answers to your burning CMBS inquiries in this article.
Currell on Convergence - Part 1 on Convergence: Why Practice Falls Short of Theory
AdvanceLaw, a network of buyers and suppliers of legal work that seek to drive value by sharing quality metrics and creating data-driven best practices, recently uncovered surprising results on the value of converging law firms. This resource combines 3 blog posts from Managing Director Dan Currell on preferred provider networks: 1) theory vs. practice; 2) how to build a law firm panel that can deliver value; and 3) the necessity of active client management.
In this ACC Leading Practices Profile, learn from the corporate social responsibility programs of five organizations. Understand how their approaches integrate social and environmental imperatives into business operations and interactions with stakeholders.
Do you find yourself with both an ethical and business dilemma when forced to negotiate with your customers’ buyers, supply chain managers, procurement analysts, or other non-lawyers? Are you frustrated because people in such roles have limited authority to make changes but refuse to put you in touch with their law department? Do you have a product that is unique, yet the customer — who is always right! — rejects your carefully tailored terms and insists on using its own standard template that requires a major overhaul for your particular product or services? You are not alone! This session will be facilitated by both big- and small-company lawyers who share their tips and best practices for situations like these. Learn how to navigate your customers’ supply chain roadblocks ethically and effectively while using your sales and business team to facilitate the effort.
When you respond to a federal or state agency's request for proposals, you are creating opportunity for your company. You will, however, need to disclose sensitive intellectual property information at times, including trade secrets. But there are ways to safeguard your corporate confidentiality without compromising the success of your government contract.
Learn the benefits of a strategic HR approach that looks at talent management, how high lawyers can go and what skill sets you’ll need to climb the ladder. Participate in the discussion about a hypothetical Law Department and how to structure it so that both the company and the individual lawyers can benefit.
The article discusses three risk areas associated with investing in China, including a pervasive undermining of the legal system because of direct personal relationships, or “guanxi.”
Known colloquially as “slurp,” a Strategic Long Range Plan (SLRP) helps employees take the enterprise’s major objectives and develop strategies to advance each one.
On its surface, the transition from lawyer to CEO may seem like a natural progression. To showcase this unique trajectory, Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, Mitch Garber, CEO of Caesars Acquisition Company, and Anna Santeramo, co-founder of Stylebee.com, provide insight for the next lawyer-turned-entrepreneur.
Frank Fletcher discusses his time spent as a shipping attorney in Tokyo.
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