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This article contains ten things to think about when establishing your corporation's legal hold process.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of the main trends and significant deals in Australian construction plans.

Read about the current state of transfers of personal data out of the UK post-Brexit, and how they may or may not diverge from the EU GDPR.

This is a sample application for approval of Binding Corporate Rules for Processors.

This article analyzes data from the FTC’s and the DOJ’s review of mergers over thirty years, from 1981 through 2010, for correlations to shifts in political administration.

An in-depth corporate business code of conduct.

This article lists the key issues in a manufacturing agreement from the manufacturer's perspective.

Around the globe, corporations are overwhelmingly looking to close the diversity gap. However, a disparity remains between the growth of gender and racial diversity — with gender diversity growing at a faster pace. By decoding this phenomenon, in-house counsel can better understand the impact of this shift, and adapt processes to reap the benefits of having a truly diverse work force.

Learn about the January 2023 draft guidance by Canada's Competition Bureau on wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements and how it would affect enforcements as criminal offenses beginning June 23, 2023.

Learn top tips on evaluating options when exporing how Artificial Intelligence can support your law department.

This InfoPAK provides corporate counsel with an overview of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines’ requirements for an effective ethics and compliance program and suggests useful strategies for the small legal department for creating and maintaining such a program. This document reorganizes and distills the baseline “hallmarks” set out in the guidelines into ten essential tasks, with numerous tools and sample resources included. strategies for the Small Legal Department for creating and maintaining such a program.

Based on responses from over 1,300 in-house counsel in 41 countries, the ACC Chief Legal Officer 2016 Survey offers legal departments, law firms, and other legal industry partners insight on the practices, trends and changes in the role of the CLO. The 2016 report examines how CLOs source work in-house, to law firms and legal service providers. In addition, the report highlights plans and historical trends in hiring, staffing and budgeting. Notable findings include what keeps CLOs up at night, how they view the future of departmental budgets and staffing, where they plan to grow their departments, and where data breaches and regulatory issues have the greatest impact.

This article provides a summary of the European Commission’s key proposals under a third Payment Services Directive (PSD3), the EU Payment Services Regulation (PSR) and the EU open finance regime.

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.

While differing generational attitudes and stereotypes can cause friction, there are some specific and deliberate steps that in-house counsel can take to make a more adaptive, high-performing workforce.

Learn practical tips with your peers on handling key provisions such as indemnification, limitation of liability, insurance, warranties, change management, delivery and acceptance, price, payment and performance guarantees; Discuss boilerplate pitfalls and other common contract drafting challenges; Gain a deeper understanding of how your peers handle contract negotiation; Learn practical negotiating tips and discuss common negotiation challenges; Discuss relevant ethics rules that may apply in contract negotiations; and Discuss how to manage tensions between business and legal within your organization during the negotiation process.

This session represents a continued discussion from the 2014 ACC Annual Meeting of the risks and rewards of using open-source software (OSS) for internal applications and in products licensed to end users. The session will focus on OSS licensing and compliance management programs, policies and practices. A successful OSS policy ensures compliance with OSS license terms and protects your company’s IP assets while enabling development teams to get the job done. Discussion will include establishing and maintaining a successful OSS compliance process and review of sample policies and practices.

Provides helpful tips on: measuring outside counsel's performance; taking charge of the inside counsel/outside counsel relationship; strengthening your control over how outside counsel handles your work; improving the quality of outside counsel's work; and reducing the cost of outside counsel. Also provides a list of additional resources for outside counsel relations.

From ACC's 2008 Annual Meeting Benchmarking the Performance of Outside Counsel Session

This article provides a roadmap for how to assess the performance of your outside counsel. It also offers some tips on how you can apply this information to both cut your outside legal bills and improve the quality of services you receive.

This guide from Latham & Watkins and KPMG is designed to provide a roadmap to help navigate the financial statement requirements of the US federal securities laws.

James Nortz weighs in on the paradoxical failures of heavy-handed compliance programs.

This is a sample LLC operating agreement between members of a Virginia Limited Liability Company (LLC).

This article examines the subpoena power of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and provides guidance for employers who receive subpoenas from these agencies. It also looks at how contractors should respond to requests for information from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

Learn about the risks and key takeaways regarding Generative AI in Singapore, as discussed in a paper released by the Infocomm Media Development Authority.

Learn about the EU's FSR, which will apply beginning in July 2023, and implications risks, and steps to be taken in preparation.

Many of the world’s economies have made significant changes to legislation in recent years. Whether it is Brazil, Canada or<br />Germany seeing increased enforcement action, your company needs to be ready with<br />a global, proactive compliance program.

In development or update of a records program it may appear that once a company has its policies and processes, roadmap, tools, and technology in place, some may believe they are done. However, here is still a critical task remaining: employee behavior change management.

Imagine that you are a newly appointed GC tasked with improving the legal function at the company––with the help of a team and leadership development coach. This article uses one such story to demonstrate how you can navigate through unexpected challenges using a few guiding principles and a deliberate approach to leadership.