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5 key things that go through the hiring manager's mind and how you, as a job candidate, can avoid making costly interview mistakes.

In order to identify the best potential employees, it's essential to have a logical, systematic process in place. Here are some suggestions that can help counsel improve their approach to assessing prospects.

Increasingly, multinational corporations are conducting internal investigations to assess civil and regulatory risk, particularly in light of increased regulatory scrutiny. Because they face civil and regulatory risk in multiple jurisdictions, those investigations must also be conducted in multiple jurisdictions. Jurisdictions have different rules relating to internal investigations, such as privilege, employee interviews and disclosure obligations. This session will discuss how to conduct a cross-border internal investigation effectively and the pitfalls that may await in-house counsel.

In a difficult business climate, legal departments need to maximize the contributions of all employees and make an extra effort to retain their best people. Performance reviews can be a powerful tool for motivating legal professionals to higher performance levels and inspiring them to meet new challenges.

Read this informative article from ACC Alliance Partner, Robert Half Legal, and find key points on helping your underperforming employees get back on track.

This article discusses trends in hiring, legal department structure, and recruitment and retention initiatives companies are making in this new era of law.

Six tips to improve communication abilities in a variety of workplace encounters, across a range of formats.

This article contains suggestions that can serve as a blueprint to help you put together a strong, productive project team.

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.

The US government, in coordination with the EU, the UK, and other allies, has introduced significant new sanctions and export controls in light of ongoing events across Russia and Ukraine, including new regional embargoes, full blocking sanctions, and other restrictions targeting several major Russian financial institutions, sovereign debt restrictions, the designation of Russian elites and their family members, and sanctions related to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, among other targets.

Sometimes organizations want to refer to outside records management and Information Governance standards and frameworks to ensure their program is both meeting standards as well as industry best practices. The table below details the more prominent frameworks and standards.

Tired of having your advice ignored and resources cut because “Legal is only a cost center”? At different times, the law department leader must be a counselor, futurist, historian, diplomat, analyst and contrarian — all roles of a successful leader. This panel will share key principles of how to establish a leadership position in your companies.

General counsel and their teams work on improving corporate governance to reduce risk and costs, improving practices for communication with directors and management to facilitate parent and subsidiary board meetings and making securities compliance easier and more reliable. There are lots of new—and changing—tools and techniques, such as vetting vendors for board voting tools, securities compliance, cloud-based hosted systems, improving staffing and technology for minute-taking, and updating policies for insider trading, data protection, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and fiduciary duties. Keeping abreast of best practices, vendor-provided trainings, peer group policies and hosted solutions allows a legal department to lower costs, mitigate risks and drive value for the business. This session will address topics of interest to private and public companies, with a focus on issues common to both.

Questions in-house counsel should consider and reasons why they are worth asking during a job interview.

As legal departments bring more work in house to reduce costs, knowing how to leverage key resources to help manage growing workloads is critical for corporate counsel. Lawyers must know how to delegate tasks to legal staff more judiciously than ever before. This article has suggestions for developing these crucial skills.

If you’re ready to move to value-based fee structures, you know that you need to collaborate with your outside counsel to drive efficiency. This session will focus on process management – specifically disaggregating processes to determine which pieces can be improved, making sure that legal knowledge is being leveraged (not re-invented), and making better decisions about who should be doing which piece of the work. We’ll examine internal and external staffing options, include out-sourcing and off-shoring, and connect the options to value-based fee structures that you may be considering.

As stretched legal teams struggle to keep up with expanded responsibilities, managing attorneys may need to take a more active role in helping staff members set priorities, rebalance their workloads and identify when additional assistance may be needed. An especially important skill for those who manage legal professionals today along with a full workload of their own is to know how and when to delegate tasks. Here are some tips for using this proven management tool to maximize the contributions of everyone on a team.

This article contains some examples of hard-to-interview types along with suggestions for seeing their best qualities.

Read this article by ACC Alliance partner Robert Half Legal to learn how to manage and motivate legal teams.

It is helpful to set up three layers of evaluation the resume, the phone screening and the formal, in-person interview. At each of these points, hiring lawyers can look for specific indicators and red flags. This article shows how you can make the most of each stage of the process.

This article gives an overview of the results of the 2012 Robert Half Legal Salary Guide.

This paper continues to focus on Europe, which has long viewed the privacy of personal information and data as a fundamental right.

This is a template for a business plan for the creation and management of a new legal department.

Appendix B to the 2012 Corporate Counsel University Session 700- Adding Value: Strategic Planning and Demonstrating Success. It contains a template for business plan creation.

The new Brazilian Competition Law (Law 12.529/2011), which came into force in May 2012, provided significant changes to the national legal system. The turnover criteria for the mandatory submission of concentration acts refers to a very important one, considering it is responsible for the reduction of cases often involving minor competition concerns.

Read this article from Robert Half Legal to find out why exit interviews matter and what valuable information you can learn from such discussions, to improve your organization.