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This checklist features 15 items in-house counsel should consider when drafting restrictive covenants.

Gain a baseline understanding of cybersecurity strategies. Learn tips on strengthening your organization's cybersecurity practices, training employees, preparing for data breaches, evaluating insurance policies, responding to cyber incidents, and addressing cybersecurity in contracts.

How to make a strong positive impact when starting a new job as general counsel? Find practical tips and strategies shared by experienced in-house counsel and condensed by ACC in this toolkit. Nine checklists that distill insight from general counsel, from acing your first 90 days to developing your leadership and business skills and retaining talent on your team.

This article breaks down the structure of a typical internal investigation in India. While the overall process may not be markedly different from an international one, we must acknowledge that the nuances of language, culture, and ways of doing business in different parts of the country can impact how the investigation is conducted.

The Indian data protection legal regime is proposed to undergo a major overhaul with the enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act.

This article discusses In-house counsel internal strategies for compliance, including training of key stakeholders and conducting gap assessments.

This is a sample group sales agreement where the Hotel agrees that it will provide, and the Organization agrees that it will be responsible for utilizing a specified number of room nights.

This is a sample group sales agreement between an organization and a hotel where the organization will be permitted to divide its overall room block reserved under the Room Night Commitment into sub-blocks for attendees, faculty, Board members, staff, sponsors, and others groups as the organization might require, for the purposes of segmenting bookings, staggering room night release dates, and other purposes to which the parties reasonably agree.

For healthcare companies, the use of blockchain has the potential to revolutionize data storage practices, at a fraction of the price of traditional processes. This article provides a summary of blockchain, identifies legal issues under US law, and discusses some of the exciting possibilities and challenges to execution in the healthcare sector.

As businesses continue to expand their operations beyond the borders of the United States, the scope of the in-house attorney’s role also grows. Now more than ever, the business is looking to its corporate counsel to evaluate all of the issues that can come about as a result of global operations. This articles looks at how corporate law departments are stepping up to the challenge of managing the environmental, social, and liability risks involved in managing global expansion efforts.

This checklists provides a rolling action item list for the implementation of a global anti-corruption program. It was part of ACC's 2012 Compliance and Ethics Training Program.

This memo was drafted to set out target response times and expectations with regard to the deliverables from the Legal Department.

Subject to limited exemptions, the general rule set out in the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (the “Act”) and the Regulations thereunder (the “Regulations”) is that a foreign national (defined as a person who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada) may not work in Canada without first obtaining a work permit. Further, foreign nationals from certain countries are unable to travel to Canada without first obtaining a temporary resident visa (a “TRV”).

This is a sample internet usage policy.

The authors look to case law and the EEOC Guidance on Psychiatric Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act to determine who is protected under the ADA.

Help audit committees draft a sound pre-approval policy and foster communication between the outside auditor and the audit committee.

Key survey insights on legal transformation initiatives with respect to litigation and internal investigations.

Governments and regulators have struggled to keep pace as new digital asset classes and other blockchain applications have risen to prominence. This regulatory uncertainty has caused confusion in the markets and impeded greater adoption of distributed ledger technologies in the United States. However, on June 7, 2022, US Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act (RFIA), the first major piece of US federal legislation to provide a reasonably comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets. This article discusses the most significant provisions of the RFIA.

The Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 ("the Bill") was recently published and is making its way through the Irish legislative process. The Bill has been introduced to transpose the EU Whistleblowing Directive. This resource is an overview of some of the key provisions of the Bill and their implications for employers, including a requirement for private sector employers with 50 or more employees to establish formal channels and procedures for the making of protected disclosures.

The legal profession still has a long way to go toward building minority representation. The Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline program gives attorneys a chance to increase diversity in the legal profession by reaching out to promising minority students while they're still in high school. Learn how you can get involved with minimal time and maximum impact.

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.

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding Financial Services disputes across a range of jurisdictions.

Unless You Ask: A Guide For Law Departments to Get More From External Relationships

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ACC revisits the topic with an updated Leading Practices Profile that asks law departments — in industries ranging from technology to health and telecommunications — to explain how they’ve successfully allocated lawyer and non-lawyer resources to drive value. This Leading Practices Profile showcases the best operational, technology, metrics and process-improvement strategies for maximizing resources across the entire spectrum of legal operations.

Learn about the profile and practice of fellow in-house counsel Isabel Waida, vice president and associate general counsel for Nuance Communications, a Burlington, Massachusetts-based software company that specializes in voice-recognition technology. It’s appropriate that a polyglot — she speaks six languages — landed at a corporation that is making it easier to communicate.

Do the various companies in the United States stand together in terms of federal legislative and regulatory efforts to harness market forces in reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? The answer is not intuitive, primarily because of the enormous disparity in GHG emission inventories among companies. California utilities, for example, with one of the lowest CO2 inventories in the country, may find themselves on the short end if federal cap-and-trade policy allows tradable rights based on historic CO2 emissions — a starting point that would benefit utilities in coal-burning states. The panel will begin with a brief primer on cap-and-trade basics, and then launch into a debate on the key issues companies will have to work through as they help shape federal cap-and-trade policy for GHG emissions.