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Ins & Outs — Legal Leaders Use the Matrix to Expand Time. Research shows time pressure and workload are significant pressures facing legal teams. Use of the Legal Matrix can help a legal team's effectiveness in all areas.

In her final ACC Docket column, Whitnie Wiley reflects on her years as the Lead the Way columnist.

The key to good leadership in a membership organization is truly understanding the people who look to you for answers, as well as engaging them on a meaningful level. This takes some individual attention, as people join organizations for a number of reasons.

In a market where job seekers continue to outnumber available positions, legal professionals know it can take more than solid credentials to get hired. Here are tips on what 'more' means.

Learn about key implications of the Spring 2023 situation that saw the United States reach its national debt ceiling.

Flip the coin for a change: what are your employment rights as in-house counsel? May in-house counsel sue the employer?

This ACC Top Ten highlights the top ten ways to improve the pricing and risk profile of a Long Term Service Agreement for owners.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed climate disclosure rule, approved by a 3–1 vote on March 21, 2022, is the agency’s most significant regulatory undertaking in more than a decade. In this resource, learn more about how the decision can impact all domestic registrants and foreign private issuers.

ACC Chair Bill Mordan offers advice and resources to counsel who want to turbo-charge their exposure to the world of corporate law.

This is a sample request for contract review or preparation.

This ACC Guide addresses creating a data retention policy that also complies with privacy requirements, and how to synchronize this policy with other compliance requirements.

This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to product liability laws and regulation.

Council on State Taxation amicus brief, TEXTRON V. US, 1/10

This note contains a brief commentary on some of the main legal terms in international debt issues of or guaranteed by Ukraine. The objective is to analyse the degree to which these bonds are consistent with practice in the international capital markets and to weigh up the balance between the sovereign debtor and the bondholder creditors in terms of the rights and protections granted by the terms of the bonds. The main conclusion is that the bond issue legal terms seek to enhance stability for both Ukraine and the bondholders if there is a crisis.

Despite the hard work and long hours that are synonymous with legal departments, they are often unappreciated and viewed as an impediment to progress. By following the three-step approach presented in this article, however, you can promote cross- organizational cooperation, while still managing risk effectively, and help your company better achieve its overall goals.

Learn about the April 29, 2022 draft of Certification Technical Standards, exploring personal data protection in China - specifically cross-border transfer of that data.

Blockchains present challenges concerning "personal information" and how organizations collect, use, or disclose it under Canadian privacy laws and compliance obligations.

Learn about the Canadian Securities Administrators' year 8 report on trends on the percentage of women on boards and executive positions and the possible effects of ESG on those numbers.

Learn about the EU Data Act and Radio Equipment Directive and how they affect considerations when manufacturing or selling smart devices and data in the EU.

This is a proposed outline for a seminar on antitrust compliance programs.

This is a sample lease agreement involving an office/industrial park.

An appeal may not always be the best course of action. And since your CEO may not understand that an appeal, with the financial burden it can impose and its lengthy process, involves much more than just a second chance to win the case, it is your job to explain it. Find out about the technical details of filing an appeal, decide when your company should pursue one, and when it should settle for the initial judgment.

Kenneth Cutshaw describes in his column some of the best service directories to use when looking for anything from employment lawyers to accounting experts.

Advice for the attorney of a small company.

This article focuses on the end goal of implementing alternative fee arrangements ("AFAs"). Statistics show that more and more firms and in-house counsel are moving their work to some type of AFA, but yet not all of them have a firm understanding as to what they're trying to achieve. This article addresses three basic, attainable, targets that general counsel and law firm leaders alike should keep in mind as they implement and improve their AFAs: (1) reducing the client's total legal costs by a significant amount, (2) providing near-complete predictability in cost and process, and (3) significantly improving outcomes.

<p/>This ACC Value Challenge resource is part 1 of a 3 part series. To view the other resources in this series, please click here:</p>
<p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID=1365193| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365193>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - Law Firm Metrics (Part 2)</a></p><p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID =1365213| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365213>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - The Transition (Part 3)</a></p>