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ACC members and supporters review two new titles, Diversity Dividend and It’s Time to Shine: A Guide for Professionals of Color on How to Advance Their Career, and how they can help in-house counsel reach their goals. #ACCDocket #inhouse

Everbridge’s legal team of Chief Legal and Compliance Officer Noah Webster and VP and Deputy General Counsel Cara Bradley, who provide several techniques in-house counsel can use to successfully navigate and manage complex risks while collaborating with other teams. #ACCDocket #inhouse

Embrace failure, fuel growth! Brittany Leonard, GC of Civix, explores how setbacks are not just bumps in the road, but crucial steps toward success. #GrowthMindset #ACC #ACCDocket #EmbraceFailure

How should in-house counsel find the balance between innovation and regulation? Join Legal Tech columnist Olga Mack in exploring the FTC’s new era of AI regulation. #AI #OpenAI #LegalTech

GCs can help themselves by hiring ESG deputies to prioritize a new era of ESG mandates, writes Mike Dillinger, USAA’s AVP of ESG and Strategic Programs.

Outside GC Partners Anita Drummond and Lakshmi Sarma Ramani provide 4 steps in-house counsel should utilize to ensure vendors implement efficient security measures that protect nonprofit organizations IT systems and data security. #ACCDocket #inhouse #nonprofit

Embracing challenges for growth and navigating the transformative role of generative AI in law — revisit ACC’s recent fireside chat with Microsoft’s CLO Hossein Nowbar. #Microsoft #AI #FiresideChat #Inhouse #ACC #ACCDocket

Understanding AI's role and legislative changes in law can significantly impact your career. Columnist Olga Mack offers insights on adapting and thriving. #InnovationInLaw #CareerProgression #AI #OpenAI #ACC #ACCDocket

Define expectations, establish requirements, insist on robust indemnification, and assemble your own response team advise Kate Krebs, chief privacy officer and senior counsel of American Electric Power Ohio and outside counsel Elizabeth Burgin Waller. #DataBreach #Ransomeware #LegalTech

As the digital terrain evolves with cloud platforms and collaboration tools, legal teams and investigators face unprecedented challenges. Explore the seismic shift in digital forensics and investigations across cloud data sources in this article by Netflix's Zander Brandt, FTI's Tim Anderson and Michael Khoury, and Reed Smith's Anthony Diana and Therese Craparo. #ACCDocket

Celebrate International Women’s Day with 8 Docket contributions from pioneering women in-house counsel. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #ACC #ACCDocket

COVID-19 will not lead to the end of globalization but it has triggered transformative steps that general counsel and compliance officers of globally active legal and risk management functions need to consider to ensure sustainable success in the “next normal.”

Implementing a vendor oversight program that is appropriate for your organization is critical. There are several considerations that factor into setting up your program, similar to building a house. You need a solid foundation, a framework that fits both function and form, a well-positioned structure that covers it all, and the internal and external components that make it comfortable and appealing, along with providing safety and security.

It is clear that the European Union is taking a strong stand on protecting personal information from government intrusion and that the United States is particularly susceptible to restrictions. US companies must take appropriate steps to consider the risk and enact mitigations for personal information being processed from the European Union.

Go ahead and play your strongest cards. Give yourself permission not to be good at everything. Find your lane and become exceptional at something that fits you. That’s what leads to real growth and the best and happiest career.

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) hosted its first-ever virtual conference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jonathan Huie — a recent American University Washington College of Law graduate and ACC Fellow — shares insights from the conference and how in-house and outside counsel can apply them to their careers.

There is much to feel sad and maybe even angry about, and yet, there are silver linings all around us.

The stewardship, clear thinking, and insight that the general counsel brings to the CEO has never been more critical. We need to react quickly — without reacting thoughtlessly. Below are five things you can do right now to equip you in fulfilling your trusted advisor role, on good days and bad.

The area of autonomous vehicle liability will continue to evolve for years to come. Notwithstanding technological novelty, it is unlikely that the existing body of law governing litigated claims will be swept away by sensors and batteries. More likely, new elements will be developed that build on and perhaps morph the laws we currently have.

In a rapidly shifting economy, a legal department's function can be called into question when foundational processes are slow or inefficient. Technology that automates and streamlines to improve document turnaround times are more critical than ever.

Even companies that may bounce back completely after the pandemic have loaded up on extra debt, including drawing down credit facilities, to weather these times. As a result of these trends, many companies are going to need to restructure their balance sheet and will likely use the bankruptcy process to do so.

Blockchain itself is separate from Bitcoin and can be implemented to support myriad other uses. Although cryptocurrency has garnered significant attention, this article focuses on considerations applicable to the use of blockchain in multinational business, apart from cryptocurrency.

A crisis can unfold in infinite ways, and economic recovery, whether your company’s or the economy’s, takes time. That means there will be changes — lots of them. Daily uncertainty and shifts in your job or employment status are all possibilities. But you will get through it.

The better we take care of ourselves, the more effectively we can serve our clients and stakeholders. While there is no quick fix or miracle cure, mindfulness can help lawyers reduce stress and improve leadership.

The following seven steps are critical when investigating allegations of workplace misconduct.

Not only is using a person’s preferred pronoun a basic courtesy but failing to do so could be in violation of human rights law.

Whether you are at a law firm or legal department, legal tech — and specifically Contract Management Software (CMS) — helps create that alignment. This article outlines five skills that CMS enhances that will help ensure your continued job security and career growth in an ever-changing legal market.

This new manufacturing landscape raises questions regarding civil liability for products meant to prevent or treat the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the US Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) and the recent public health emergency declaration by the US Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services provide significant immunity from COVID-19 personal injury lawsuits.

That’s a startling number, even in a high stress field such as law. This May, in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, I want to focus on how in-house counsel can seek help for — and prioritize — their mental health.

Mindfulness has a positive impact on all arenas of human functioning. While most of the research has focused on the positive impact of mindfulness on the individual, a growing body of work in the management area also suggests that mindfulness is linked to better workplace functioning.