From board discussions to business decisions, see what’s keeping CLOs awake at night.
In his first message as ACC board chair, Simon Fish tells ACC members how the organization is becoming more global and earth-conscious.
Columnist Jeffrey W. Wheeler opens about how finding a job can't happen without the care and support of family and friends.
As with any “crisis” situation, we need to remember to step back and gather all the facts before jumping to conclusions.
Here’s the thing: You are a “computer person,” just like you’re a “telephone person” and a “doorknob person.” You may not love it, and it may exasperate you daily, but it’s integral to your life, and a few minutes’ effort can go a long way toward tamping down chaos.
Does the general counsel fit in your CEO's group of trusted companions?
ACC Chair Bill Mordan offers advice and resources to counsel who want to turbo-charge their exposure to the world of corporate law.
Is leadership relevant to a legal department, particularly a small one? According to this article it is, read on to find out why.
The author discusses the difference between studying leadership and studying mathematics. She observes: We are actually required to immerse ourselves in the material — something I never did with differential equations.
This resource is a detailed statement of corporate policies for social media usage.
Employers monitor off-site employees for numerous reasons—not simply to ensure productivity, but to protect trade secrets, avoid data breaches, track an employee’s physical location, and generally discourage or identify misconduct. Most recently, monitoring has been used for COVID-19-related contact tracing purposes. However, privacy-related legal pitfalls abound.
This Quick Overview aims to provide company executives who are not tax professionals with a brief explanation of key tax points relevant to the transfer of patent assets in the United States.
In this multijurisdictional guide, learn about rules of legal privilege and disclosures in several common law and civil law jurisdictions.
Meet our 2012 Value Champions, an inaugural group that has not only sought value but demonstrated it, in ways that other in-house
counsel and their external law firm partners can emulate.
Top ten tips on how to thoroughly understand and be able to define in-house counsel's role and communicate a shared vision to demonstrate collaboration and unity between legal and business.
In his final column as ACC board chair, Simon Fish reflects on how the association has grown and changed during his tenure.
Learn how to implement comprehensive incident management program that reinforces an organization’s commitment to ethical business practices.
Today's mobile workforce mandates that succession management plans be in place at all times. A laissez-faire approach yields leaders, but in an inefficient and haphazard way. Successful transitions must take into account the needs of the client, long-term departmental goals, and industry context.
This article discusses the five rules of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PFWA), which became effective on June 27, 2023.
This memo was drafted to set out target response times and expectations with regard to the deliverables from the Legal Department.
This article focuses on a shift in the billable hour paradigm and how law firms and clients must look forward and focus on the outcomes that are desired, rather than looking backwards at the cost of production. The billable hour has diametrically opposed functions for both sides in the relationship: (1) unit of production and (2) basis of profitability. Not until both sides understand that you can't have the same unit serving dual purposes, will they truly understand alternative fees and value-based relationships. This article delves into what is required to establish a new model for law firm economics.
<p/>This ACC Value Challenge resource is part 2 of a 3 part series. To view the other resources in this series, please click here:</p>
<p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID=1365185| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365185>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - The Case for Change (Part 1)</a></p><p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID =1365213| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365213>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - The Transition (Part 3)</a></p>
As career professionals, the question isn’t “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The question is “What do you want to be when you grow?”
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an even hotter topic since the introduction of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, as well as tools like Copilot and OpenAI Codex, which use generative AI to write computer code. This resource from Womble Bond Dickinson discusses the best practices in using Artificial Intelligence to generate code.
From the executive team to the human resources professionals to every employee in the company, ACC President and CEO Veta T. Richardson believes we all have a responsibility to be respectful not only to our companies’ policies and procedures, but on a basic level, to each other.
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