This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to joint ventures, including practice notes and standard documents for cross-border deals with detailed drafting notes highlighting the main legal, commercial and negotiating issues in China.
The author traces a path from the dawn of man to a recent court ruling to discover the true meaning of good faith.
Learn how Boards can be drivers of ESG in organizations.
This is a sample software database license agreement.
When it was revealed that employees at Wells Fargo illegally issued nearly two million unauthorized checking and savings accounts, many wondered: How could such a large company overlook a fraudulent act of this magnitude? By learning from the missteps at Wells Fargo, in-house counsel can learn key strategies to prevent a similar scandal from arriving on the company doorstep.
By transforming your legal organization in business interaction, focus, structure and staffing, you can maximize the opportunity to use legal resources to create significant positive value and advance company strategy. A hybrid model allows both functional expertise and alignment with the various business units.
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.
An overview of arbitration in Brazil. Includes a discussion of Brazilian arbitration's history and its use in investment, corporate litigation, and construction. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish.
This paper examines recent and developing fines and settlements resulting from the seven corporate sins of corruption and bribery, money-laundering, sanctions-breaking, conspiracy, tax evasion, sharp practice, and mistreatment of customers.
This resource contains a list of useful benchmarking resources as it pertains to the 2012 ACC Annual Meeting Session 1105.
This survey report aims to better understand the outside counsel selection process for litigation matters, the tools that departments are using for litigation workflows, the most common cost containment strategies, and how litigation needs are expected to change over time.
James Wong provides insight into appropriate eating and drinking habits during a formal Chinese banquet.
This resource consists of a slide deck on the defamation and libel regulations in Canada.
This article deals with the case Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital: Discovery and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
Nationwide's sample Agreement for outside counsel billing and staffing policy.
This Leading Practices Profile, an update to ACC’s 2005 Leading Practices Profile, Leading Practices in Law Departments Adding Value and Moving Beyond the Cost Center Model, features law department leading practices for generating and demonstrating value to the organization, as well as best practices for improving the bottom line and optimizing collaboration with business units. In the wake of the economic downturn and increased pressure to “do more with less,” 10 participating corporations share their best value-generating and value-sustaining practices in law department staffing, targeted practice areas, outside counsel management, strategic planning and the use of metrics to measure and track value practices.
Internal product-safety and regulatory- reporting processes best position companies to defend corporate decisions and minimize adverse regulatory action. In-house counsel are tasked with integrating risk- management considerations into the business process. Learn how to maximize your role as strategic advisor.
What compensation do your in-house peers get? Check out the 2023 Law Department Compensation benchmarking survey results.
This program originally aired on September 20, 2022. Please note that the on-demand format of this program is not eligible for CLE/CPD credit.
In September 2016, Och-Ziff, one of the world's largest publicly-traded asset managers, settled a long running DOJ and SEC investigation into corrupt dealings in private equity investments in several African countries. Six years later, this case still has valuable compliance program insights for the financial services industry, especially industry participants operating in or looking to enter emerging markets. This ACC Webcast will review the transactions with a focus on lessons learned for financial services and what went right and what went wrong from diligence and compliance perspectives.
This panel will feature the following speakers:
Managing Director, Legal, Compliance & Tax in New York Apollo (Bio) |
In this session presentation from October 2016, strategies for effectively managing trade credit risks are discussed and examined.
This sample checklist deals with employer or employee ownership of social media work product.
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