The ability to effectively manage<br />outside counsel is essential to the success of in-house lawyers. Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing, and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company, developing lists of providers and criteria for preferred legal service providers and specialized firms, implementing alternative billing models, and using legal project and process management techniques with your outside counsel to streamline your engagements.<br />
With the US Department of Justice (DOJ) collecting record corporate fines this year, your board asks if your company’s compliance is up to par. How do you respond? How do you gauge your program? This session will analyze the DOJ’s Federal Sentencing Guidelines for the Prosecution of Business Organizations, set out your minimum requirements, and lay out best practices that you can implement. This will cover leadership, risk assessments, policy development, communications, training, establishment of controls, and monitoring and testing of controls. Presenters will offer firsthand experiences (both positive and negative) and best practices for building and maintaining your compliance program.
In this interview, Brigitte Catellier, vice president, legal affairs and secretary, Astral Media, Inc., shares some of her personal experiences, essential in-house leadership qualities and her key takeaways from "Profiles of Women at the Head of Legal Departments: The Key to Their Success – Quebec."
This is a sample confidentiality agreement between two companies interested in conducting evaluations, discussions and negotiations for the purpose of determining the feasibility of company 2 acquiring company 1.
A consultant agreement that includes provisions regarding the expected services, term, reimbursements, independent contractor status, confidentiality, advertising, confidentiality, intellectual property rights, indemnity, and other considerations.
Private employers should consider the steps discussed in this article to avoid potentially costly litigation.
International Comparative Legal Guide - Cartels & Leniency 2024 covers common issues in cartels & leniency laws and regulations across 18 jurisdictions.
This is a sample confidentiality agreement between two companies.
ACC Comments to Arizona Supreme Court regarding amendments on pro bono services by in-house counsel
This is a sample confidentiality agreement between two companies.
This is a sample severance agreement setting out the terms of the benefits provided by the employer in exchange for a general release of claims.
Want to get involved with ACC? Here's how to contact your local network leaders.
In October's Business Ethics column, James Nortz discusses conscious capitalism.
In recent years, companies specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been increasingly coveted acquisition targets. Foley & Lardner have provided insight into the AI field transforming our approaches to key issues. Accordingly, it is no surprise that AI has emerged as a prime sector for M&A activity. This guide helps breakdown how to approach risks and rewards in dealing with the rising importance of Artificial Intelligence.
The challenge: do more, do it well, do it quickly, and keep costs down. This is a reality facing law departments today. This practice profile explores how nine companies are stepping up to this challenge. Learn about practices utilizing non-lawyer personnel at companies such as 3M Company, ConocoPhillips, DuPont, FMC Technologies, Inc., McDonald's Corporation, Monsanto Company, Southwest Airlines, and Starbucks Coffee Company.
In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about investing in businesses based in New Zealand and developing commercial relationships. This resource was published by Meritas in May 2019.
Cybersecurity touches every aspect of consumer and corporate culture today. Preventing, preparing for and responding to data breaches in real time is a chief concern for individuals, corporate leaders and government regulators. Download the 2015 ACC Foundation: the State of Cybersecurity Report, underwritten by Ballard Spahr LLP, and learn what more than 1,000 corporate counsel say about their cybersecurity experiences, role and practices. The full report includes industry and regional trends, common preventative tactics, lessons learned from those who experienced a breach (including how the breach occurred and who was affected), the impact of regulatory requirements, insurance decision making and coverage information, and managing risk through outside support such as forensic and outside counsel retainers and more.
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 counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a Q&A which gives a high level overview of the key practical issues including the level of activity and recent trends in the Hong Kong market.
What compensation do your in-house peers get? Check out the 2023 Law Department Compensation benchmarking survey results.
This article examines the key disclosure issues and challenges facing companies during the 2013 proxy season and provides examples of company responses to these issues taken from proxy statements filed during the first half of 2013.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many employees to work remotely. In light of statistics from Australian authorities, this article explores how this context increases the risk of data exposure and Intellectual Property (IP) loss or theft.
For almost 250 years, our federal system has allowed each state to “serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” Nowhere have states more clearly operated in this role in recent years than in the area of protecting the privacy of consumers’ data. Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia have their own data breach notification laws. While these laws have similarities, together they require companies that have experienced a data breach to comply with multiple different, and sometimes contradictory, standards, if those companies do business across state lines. This article provides an overview of the current State Attorneys General privacy enforcement landscape.
These retention guidelines are designed to provide transparency on PRUSA’s expectations regarding the provision of legal services by external counsel.
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