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Most lawyers are seriously deficient at using the time-saving features built into the basic tools of the trade — standard software like Outlook, Word and Adobe. Could you pass a technology competency assessment? If not, don’t dismay, these skills aren’t innate; sometimes training is necessary.

Gone are the days of the precedent libraries stored in bulky three ring binders. Here, Gregory Stern offers tech tips on consolidating and simplifying the drafting process.

Sample joint promotion agreement.

Program material from Session 109 of ACC's 2012 Annual Meeting at which members of the 2012 ACC Value Champions presented on what makes a metric a “Metric that Matters”, what MTM’s you can use to best manage costs and improve quality of non-financial results, how to get data you need from inside and outside your organization, how MTM can help you engage/ lead teams, and how you can use metrics that matter to strengthen your department’s position as a strategic business partner.

This program will build on Part I, Risk Assessment, and offer guidelines and tips for creating a compliance program, best practices for maintenance and updating the program once it is in place.

For better or worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the way in-house counsel work. While managing childcare, elder care, and self-care, lawyers have been forced to work from home while living through a global pandemic. The five tips in this resource can help you organize your time more efficiently.

ACC's comments to the Standing Committee examining changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence regarding proposed amendments to Rule 502 on limited waiver.

Examines the invisible social hand that we live by and how in-house counsel can use it to their advantage in a company's compliance and ethics program.

This is a sample internet usage policy.

This is a short course on written advocacy in mediation.

These are ten steps a Board can take when determining cybersecurity.

Digital documents are on the rise in the legal industry. This article discusses how you can make the paperless transition.

Jeffrey W. Wheeler, Small Law columnist, stresses the importance of maintaining your credibility to preserve your reputation and career.

As with any “crisis” situation, we need to remember to step back and gather all the facts before jumping to conclusions.

This article reflects on the human need to be acknowledged; it looks at various scenarios in which people go unseen or are hyper-visible.

Columnist Bill Mordan uses some of Yogi Berra's famous quotes and applies them to in-house counsel.

There is a difference between encountering negative events and possessing a negative mindset. Here are a few ways that these negative events can benefit our lives, if we choose to let them.

This is a sample internet usage policy.

Come to a discussion of best practices for managing commercial software licensing and acquisition of software as a service (SAAS) offerings for internal use and customer deployment. The session will address trends in software and SAAS contracting, cloud computing, and global contracts. A panel of experts will provide practical advice on key clauses and terms found in software licenses and SAAS contracts, including an analysis of the plain meaning and effect of common obligations and responsibilities found in these agreements.

This interactive session will explore the intersection of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and pro bono, with a particular focus on how legal department leaders can develop pro bono programs to complement their companies’ CSR efforts and increase impact.

This is an ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 report to the House Delegates on Pro Hac Vice Admission.

This is a sample joint venture agreement in which the members agree to form a limited liability company.

This is a sample company code of conduct and ethics policy.

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.