This resource presents important tips for how to an in-house job, including networking, creativity, and getting published.
How should in-house counsel deal with new work from home policies due to the Covid-19 Pandemic? In this article, learn skills and takeaways for discussions with you team.
A combination of methodology, case studies, and practical guidance, Trevor Faure’s new book Smarter Law is a helpful how-to of legal service improvement.
This is a glossary of Information Governance terms.
This guide presents an overview of key legal and regulatory issues in the medical device business across a range of jurisdictions.
This guide explores common issues related to corporate investigations across multiple jurisdictions.
Topics covered include internal investigation, self-disclosure to enforcement authorities, investigation process, confidentiality, and attorney-client privileges.
This is a sample master software license and services agreement.
This material covers the typical issues that foreign investors face in the Philippines, such as foreign investment rules, taxes, trade transactions, and litigation matters.
The purpose of this brief note is to help market participants make contingency plans where the political crisis involving Ukraine results in sanctions and embargoes, exchange controls, expropriations and the break up of Ukraine. It focuses in particular on the legal impact these events might have on financial contracts, such as bond issues, bank loan agreements, deposits and investments. It does not deal with wider political and economic consequences, such as the impact on a country’s economy and its banking system.
Cybersecurity touches every aspect of global 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 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.
Mass tort litigation defendants need to have each other’s backs — the common interest privilege allows them to communicate securely, pool resources and drive down costs, promoting fairness for the parties and in the court. This article ad- dresses the murky law of various jurisdictions, and offers key joint defense concepts that are applicable everywhere.
Read how Textron’s law department became a team by abandoning business-as-usual and implementing a Six Sigma program. After a series of Six Sigma-delivered revelations, Textron counsel redefined their priorities and saw a 20 percent raise in customer satisfaction in just one year. Explore this case study and apply your own Six Sigma program.
Those who have ascended to the top of the in-house profession are not "lucky," rather they have made their own luck through self-awareness, development plans, branding, and clear objective-setting. Set yourself up to succeed by investing in yourself and taking smart risks.
This issue discusses guidelines on environmental claims, misconceptions about foreign nationals, and the largest leveraged buyout approved by the Supreme Court in Canada's history.
This article discussed the key factors to consider when thinking about developing a risk management program that uses financial derivatives
This is a sample license agreement between two corporations.
Product Liability Advisory Council, PLAC, amicus brief, Textron v. US, 1/10
This is a review of the availability and process of mediation in 21 jurisdictions across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Want to get involved with ACC? Here's how to contact your local network leaders.
In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding aviation financing and leasing across a range of jurisdictions.
How many times have you experienced the "quick look review"—you know, the one where you get to review a contract 25 minutes before the business people are set to sign it? You don’t want to be the company’s roadblock to revenue, but you need to ensure that your company does not enter into a contract loaded with real risk to the corporation. Read how you can win in this situation and other common, vexing contract negotiation situations.
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