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This session focuses on small, privately held companies who are involved in building and maintaining an effective compliance program on a limited budget.

Much has been said about the lack of diversity in the legal profession. However, by highlighting a successful partnership program between manufacturing company Corning Incorporated and law firm Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy, LLP, in-house counsel can learn to make the business case for encouraging collaborative diversity initiatives in the workplace.

Discover how to expedite complex reviews and respond to common contracting issues that often arise with data security addendums.

Marie Van In, general counsel and division counsel at Cytec Industry, discusses the planning, execution and importance of legal services' global meetings.

Patent litigation can be pricey — approximately 2.5 million USD through trial. Additionally, litigation demands the valuable time of key executives. Limiting the number and degree of harmful litigation cases is the responsibility of in-house counsel. Read this article to learn how to reduce your company’s risk of IP litigation.

Law firms have access to highly sensitive information about their corporate clients and, as a result, are prime targets for cybercrime. Corporations need to know what their outside counsel are doing to protect their sensitive data.

When a company decides to expand internationally, ensuring compliance with local legislation can become a nightmare issue for the Ethics and Compliance Office. If the budget to build a new program is approved, the first thing to consider: What is at the heart of an effective compliance program? The US Federal Sentencing Guidelines (USFSG) offer a seven-element outline. Learn more about the USFSG guidelines so that your company’s global development is a dream, not a nightmare.

Before you expand your business internationally, consider exactly what your expansion goals are -- and what the legal and business landscape holds for you abroad. You will need to know exactly what sort of candidates you are looking to head your new legal department, decide on a reporting structure, set the relevant expectations, and of course be aware of cross-cultural differences in education and training.

In this issue of Canadian Briefings, a quarterly supplement of the ACC Docket, learn more about small law department operations.

Christy Neuhoff, system VP general counsel of St. Luke's Health System, discusses dealing with change in her industry, career and life in general.

Arbitration is notorious for consuming too much time and money, especially when multinational businesses are involved. Fortunately, there are ways to prevent this headache. Corporate counsel can strategically minimize costs and promote efficiencies during the entire process, from creating the contract to selecting the country of arbitration.

This Checklist addresses hiring outside counsel, outside counsel guidelines, applying legal project management principles to legal matters, insourcing and outsourcing legal work, analyzing matter outcomes, and terminating outside counsel.

This survey solicits information regarding code of ethics and business conduct, leadership and tone from the top, internal control systems, training and communication and respondent demographics.

This program will explore the best practices for companies that manage vendors and cybersecurity concerns. Some of the significant questions to be addressed include: What are some best practices for vendor due diligence? How can vendor cybersecurity risks be addressed and mitigated, both contractually and otherwise? What role, if any, should in-house counsel have in vendor management?

This brief overview (QuickCounsel) outlines the importance of foreseeing exchange rate risks by including provisions in a contract between parties involved in overseas transactions.

Immigration reform continues to be one of the hottest and most controversial debates in the United States. Issues concerning immigration can, and likely will, hit your legal department. Corporate counsel need to understand the immigration process and be prepared to navigate it.

Some countries have either banned or are proposing to ban the use of certain ingredients and flavours on the basis that they make risky products more appealing. Learn how this could affect your company’s brand.

Reentry into the workforce can be difficult for women who have taken extended leave from their legal careers. The OnRamp Fellowship eases this transition through its unique reentry platform.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of matters relating to practical issues concerning oil and gas and power including, the domestic oil and gas and electricity sectors, rights to oil and gas, electricity generation and renewable energy, oil and gas health and safety and the environment, and electricity transmission, distribution and supply in the United Kingdom.

As governments around the world enact and enforce ever stricter anticorruption laws, the need to effectively manage sales intermediary corruption risks has become more important than ever.

This guide is the 2013 edition from Austria-based law firm Wolf Theiss. This guide is meant as a practical guide to renewable energy legislation throughout Europe.

This short article summarizes ten key areas where in-house counsel may consider the use of data analytics either as a solely in-house measure or in connection with engagements with outside counsel.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the lending mark, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees and loan agreements in Jersey.

Analysis of the nature of antitrust infringements, the rationale of company
liability for antitrust infringements, and the possible positive and possible negative effects of compliance programmes.

This is a Forbes article addressing how crowdfunding has changed real estate investing.

Breaches of patient privacy/security are considered the number one risk for liability in the healthcare industry today. Control over patient information in today’s society is becoming ever increasingly difficult with the expanding use of electronic health records, personal health records and social media, plus the advent of Health Information Exchanges. Outsourcing of healthcare operations provides additional risk, especially the enforceability of patient privacy/security law when patient information is sent outside the US. Unfavorable media, government enforcement, class action litigation and identity theft all pose a constant concern to in-house counsel, and vendors themselves are now at greater risk of liability with penalties now imposed on business associates. This panel will provide an overview of the principal federal laws & regulations concerning privacy/security (HIPAA/HITECH/Red Flags), their interaction with select state laws, international laws (EU Data Protection), and practical ways to minimize risk and keep patient information private and secure.

This article identifies the complexities and potential pitfalls of the relationship between in-house and outside counsel in litigation and suggests strategies that in-house counsel can use to manage the in-house/outside counsel relationship effectively and accomplish the corporation's goal of successful dispute resolution. This article also includes a handy checklist.