Jeffrey W. Wheeler, Small Law columnist, stresses the importance of maintaining your credibility to preserve your reputation and career.
As with any “crisis” situation, we need to remember to step back and gather all the facts before jumping to conclusions.
This article reflects on the human need to be acknowledged; it looks at various scenarios in which people go unseen or are hyper-visible.
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.
Columnist Bill Mordan uses some of Yogi Berra's famous quotes and applies them to in-house counsel.
Jeffrey W. Wheeler, Small Law columnist, discusses the importance of having soft skills being second-nature in case a work issue should arise.
ACC Board Chair John Page introduces the September Technology and IP Issue.
What can you, as a leader in your organization, do to change the perception amongst your more tech phobic lawyers?
There is a difference between encountering negative events and possessing a negative mindset. Here are a few ways that these negative events can benefit our lives, if we choose to let them.
In ACC Docket's inaugural Legal Ops Brief, Columnist Julie Richer explains the buzz behind legal operations and how it can help your department.
This is a sample internet usage policy.
An extensive network of professional contacts is one of the greatest career assets a corporate attorney can have. Most lawyers work hard to establish contacts, particularly in the early stages of their careers, but over time, many misuse their networks or forget about them altogether. To prevent this from happening, in-house lawyers need to be sure to avoid the most common mistakes even seasoned attorneys can make when it comes to the care and feeding of their networks.
The report, Technology’s Transformation of the Legal Field, is part of Robert Half Legal’s 12th annual Future Law Office project. Following are highlights from the research.
Important points to consider about your current position and how to keep your job safe.
Come to a discussion of best practices for managing commercial software licensing and acquisition of software as a service (SAAS) offerings for internal use and customer deployment. The session will address trends in software and SAAS contracting, cloud computing, and global contracts. A panel of experts will provide practical advice on key clauses and terms found in software licenses and SAAS contracts, including an analysis of the plain meaning and effect of common obligations and responsibilities found in these agreements.
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 guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to employment and labor laws and regulations around the world.
Topics covered include terms and conditions of employment, employee representation and industrial relations, discrimination, maternity and family leave rights, and business sales.
The purpose of this plan is to provide a comprehensive Disaster Recovery-Business Continuity Plan (DRBC) for a company to minimize any impact upon continuity of services to customers or employees in the event of a “major business productivity breach.”
“It takes a different mentality to be a successful in-house lawyer than to be a private practice lawyer,” says Adam Walters, assistant general counsel, Asia Pacific for First Solar Inc. It also means being on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “The idea that you go in-house to get a cushy job with great work-life balance is not something I have experienced.”
In-house counsel need look no further than the headlines for validation that it is not a matter of whether they will confront a cyber incident; instead, it is simply a matter of when. This program will explore the ways that digital risk affects all aspects of an in-house legal practice. From M&A to employment to litigation, managing cyber risks is no longer the exclusive domain of IT. This program will provide practical guidance on how all members of the in-house legal team can better prepare for and respond to cyber incidents to reduce their company’s financial, legal and reputational exposure.
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.
Non-compete agreements are almost an essential part of today’s business environment composed of a mobile workforce with easily accessible and transportable data. Multinational employers face the added challenge of ensuring that restrictive covenants (i.e., non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements) will be enforceable in the United States, Asia and Europe. The legal standards governing the enforceability of non-compete agreements vary around the world, but nevertheless, common principles can help guide employers in drafting and enforcing global restrictive covenants. Authoritative in-house and outside employment attorneys from around the world will provide cutting edge suggestions for multinational employers to draft restrictive covenants that should greatly increase their effectiveness and enforceability in Asia and Europe. The panel will also compare and contrast the non-compete laws in Asian and European countries against US restrictive covenant laws.
This report presents results on a subset of respondents from the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Chief Legal Officer (CLO) 2013 Survey, published in January 2013. A total of 1,104 individuals from 36 countries participated in this survey to provide a global outlook of CLOs worldwide. This report provides results and analysis of respondents from Canada (n=50) as well as demographic information, such as staffing, budget changes, revenue and more, while also exploring intangibles such as CCLOs’ top legal and business concerns for the past 12 months and their anticipations for the future.
A sample RFP for legal services.
This is a request for proposals from associations to provide outside counsel services on a broad range of areas of the law.
A selection of resources on US sanctions and export controls against Russia in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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