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This Top Ten gives ten key tips to avoid common risk allocation drafting pitfalls, and achieve legal and business objectives.

This Top Ten lists the provisions pertaining to enforcement of competition law in India.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses the adoption of a patent invention assignment agreement to protect a company's intellectual property, under US law. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Intellectual Property and Small Law Departments ACC Networks.*

This Top Ten addresses issues that General Counsel should consider when examining anti-bribery and corruption practices in global supply chains.

Although it might not be the document most commonly on the minds of nonprofit directors, officers or staff, bylaws form the backbone of governance for nonprofit organizations; they are a very important document. This article covers some of the most important things to remember when drafting bylaws.

This Top Ten examines ten key issues that should be at the top of directors' minds as we enter 2014 and the upcoming proxy season.

This article uses the top ten considerations as a roadmap for acquirers and their counsel when seeking to acquire a physician practice in the United States.

This Top Ten addresses how activist investors have been utilizing the new inter partes review (IPR) process from the American Invents Act (AIA) to put pressure on stock prices of public companies that heavily rely on patent protection.

This resource presents ten key trends in e-discovery for 2015.

This list, while not exhaustive, highlights issues that United States lenders must consider when engaging in cross-border loan transactions.

This Top Ten discusses considerations for managing your risks before finalizing a plan for a United States capital improvement project.

This brief resource (Top Top) outlines some ways to increase efficiency and pack more of what you need to do in your workday.

Boost your in-house career with this ACC-curated selection of career-focused resources.

This QuickCounsel reviews some of the issues related to fluid trademarks and how in-house counsel can avoid some of the inherent risk.

A brief review of ten of the most important changes in Mexican labor law.

This brief article explains ten compliance strategies organizations may consider in order to comply with Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL).

This brief resource (Top Ten) presents ten legal theories in-house counsel should be familiar with before they must defend against them.

For a new General Counsel ("GC"), the pressure felt as a new employee is amplified because of the high profile nature of the role. This brief resource (Top Ten) contains some key actions a GC can take in the first few months on the job to increase the likelihood of success.

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues related to privacy and ten steps in-house counsel should take to prepare their organization for the evolving privacy landscape in the United States.

Contractual risk allocation tools are powerful, and therefore commonly subject to negotiation and litigation. However, counsel often overlooks or misjudges the provisions' complexities and impacts. Therefore, parties commonly find themselves facing more liability than they thought they bargained for. This article gives ten key tips to avoid common risk allocation drafting pitfalls and achieve legal and business objectives.

This Top Ten provides some hints an investor and in-house counsel should keep in mind when doing business and dealing wtih Value Added Tax (VAT) in Slovakia.

In-house counsel should take a leading role in building upon regulatory actions to adopt cyber risk mitigation measures. This is a list of things that can and should be done before an attack occurs to position your company to effectively respond to a cyber incident.

This Top Ten provides a brief overview of important tips for addressing and mitigating insider threats in a cost-efficient manner.

The aim of a liquidated damages clause is to specify in advance the indemnification for a party that suffers from a breach of contractual obligations. Non-performance of a contract, without any evidence of actual damage, is grounds for pre-estimated compensation. This clause obviously limits the necessity to seek indemnification in court and is in demand in business contracts. However, if challenged, its efficiency may be greatly reduced by the intervention of a judge who has the power to modify the amount of the compensation determined in the contract. The distinction between liquidated damages and penalty clauses has a greater impact in common law countries than in those influenced by Civil Code tradition. This QuickCounsel assesses several court decisions in various European countries that bring to light these differences.

Unless companies are content to serve as fodder for future editions of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Supervisory Highlights report and as the subjects of glowing CFPB press releases announcing eye-popping consumer recoveries and civil money penalties, they will finally make the investments that are necessary to effectively regulate their own conduct and to minimize the risks they pose to consumers.

The number of legal ops roles was exploding. More positions were being given more responsibility and being empowered to run departments and make impactful change. Legal ops leaders were being asked to do this without tools. The ACC Legal Ops group set out to create the first of its kind maturity model, toolkit and Legal Ops 101 (the bootcamp) to really jumpstart the industry.

In a recent article in Harvard Business Review, a team of researchers showed that 78% of transformations fail. Their analysis showed that “people are the catalysts of successful transformation.” Check out this article to find out how to move beyond working in silos, incremental improvement, and isolated innovation to achieve transformation and why it’s important to have a structured process to engage leadership in setting objectives and guiding transformational change.  

This short article offers ten practical tips for drafting and negotiating international agreements.

This article provides an overview of the False Claims Act (FCA).

In this article you will learn about, the types of FCA cases in health care, damages and penalties under the FCA, and cooperation considerations for companies and individuals under government scrutiny.

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