Instead of pitting the generations against each other, Columnist Whitnie Wiley suggests that millennials, Gen-Xers, and baby boomers should try to understand one another.
Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) is a central repository to track and manage all contracts and related documents. This checklist will help prioritize CLM features and functionality when choosing a platform.
The National People Congress passed the Personal Information Protection Law ("PIPL") in China, effective November 1, 2021. This resource is an overview of the PIPL, including significant challenges it poses to companies' personal data practices.
The cost of living crisis is a challenge that most people are facing. The double impact of rising inflation and interest rates an be crippling for many. Not only do these challenges impact peoples’ pockets but they can also have a negative impact on work performance, morale and engagement in the workplace. In a recent YuLife survey, conducted in partnership with HR Ninjas, 91% of HR professionals said that they felt a responsibility to help. It is in this context that this article sets out how, as an employer, you can provide support to your workforce.
This whitepaper is intended to identify those eight litigation pitfalls and to give the non-litigious company some strategies for avoiding them.
This article focuses on the role that energy storage and in particular battery storage, can play towards the goal of creating a more efficient electricity system and the key challenges that must be addressed.
In the corporate setting, individual actions aren’t limited to individual consequences. The unscrupulous decisions of a few can lead to hefty fines for the whole organization.
Examines the invisible social hand that we live by and how in-house counsel can use it to their advantage in a company's compliance and ethics program.
These are ten steps a Board can take when determining cybersecurity.
Small Law Columnist Maryrose Delahunty expands on taking a break to enjoy the little things in life, like baking bread.
Digital documents are on the rise in the legal industry. This article discusses how you can make the paperless transition.
How effectively in-house counsel can advise on risk-related issues and steer the business towards practical commercial risk mitigation solutions depends on our access to the C-suite.
Jeffrey W. Wheeler, Small Law columnist, stresses the importance of maintaining your credibility to preserve your reputation and career.
The Peter Principle, authored in 1969, is now out of print. But in this column, Bill Mordan re-examines the truths behind the theory which asserts that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
Columnist Bill Mordan uses some of Yogi Berra's famous quotes and applies them to in-house counsel.
What can you, as a leader in your organization, do to change the perception amongst your more tech phobic lawyers?
This interactive session will explore the intersection of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and pro bono, with a particular focus on how legal department leaders can develop pro bono programs to complement their companies’ CSR efforts and increase impact.
This article focuses on the end goal of implementing alternative fee arrangements ("AFAs"). Statistics show that more and more firms and in-house counsel are moving their work to some type of AFA, but yet not all of them have a firm understanding as to what they're trying to achieve. This article addresses three basic, attainable, targets that general counsel and law firm leaders alike should keep in mind as they implement and improve their AFAs: (1) reducing the client's total legal costs by a significant amount, (2) providing near-complete predictability in cost and process, and (3) significantly improving outcomes.
<p/>This ACC Value Challenge resource is part 1 of a 3 part series. To view the other resources in this series, please click here:</p>
<p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID=1365193| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365193>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - Law Firm Metrics (Part 2)</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>
This report spotlights top legal and business concerns weighing on CLOs in Canadian legal departments. CLOs from the region identified emerging trends, business priorities, budget, staffing changes, and more. Nonmembers have the exclusive opportunity to receive the report for free by joining ACC today.
Cybersecurity touches every aspect of consumer and corporate culture. Preventing, preparing for, and responding to data breaches in real time is a chief concern for individuals, corporate leaders, and government regulators. Download the 2018 ACC Foundation: the State of Cybersecurity Report, underwritten by Ballard Spahr LLP, and learn what more than 600 corporate counsel say about their cybersecurity experiences, role, and practices. The full report includes common preventative tactics, lessons learned from those who have experienced a breach (including how the breach occurred and who was affected), and more.
The paper identifies three issues related to the economics of public interest provisions. Firstly, the paper considers the problem of using public interest provisions as motivation for arbitrary (rather than systematic) interventions in competition cases. The paper relates the problem to broader economic policy uncertainty. Secondly, the paper considers the relationship between public interest objectives and the welfare standard in South African competition cases. Thirdly, the paper considers the analytical requirements for investigating public interest issues, including the need for dynamic rather than static analysis as well as the problem of ‘merger-specificity’, especially in relation to job losses.
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.
The rules of civil procedure are once again being amended, this time to update them for document production in the digital age. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin talks about what the proposed changes will mean for in-house counsel. She also gives advice and her top ten tips on conducting e-discovery in the current murky shadow of Rule 26, to avoid garnering sanctions for inadvertently violating a discovery order, or worse yet charges of spoliation of evidence.
It is past time to recognize the primary root cause of corruption — a failure of top leadership
Read Todd Silberman's insights on the balance between work and life. Do we live to work or work to live?
This article examines industry changes resulting from an automated workforce and identifies future trends.
Career Path Columnist Bjarne P. Tellmann discusses the various types of diversity that a company needs in order to succeed.
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