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This brief resource outlines some of the most common errors made in filing construction liens in Florida.

Explores an alternative billing method that uses a risk/reward model for working with outside counsel.

A great legal department is like a car: It’s an important investment that requires regular maintenance. Similarly, when you invest in your paralegals and other legal professionals, it’s like giving your in-house team a tune-up. Learn how to hire and develop in-house legal professionals who will keep your department running smoothly.

To ensure that multinational corporations operate ethically, in-house counsel should pay heed to a number of guidelines, specifically the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This article reviews the scope of the Guiding Principles, their potential implications, and how to put these recommendations into action.

Does your company have a plan of action for maintaining electronically stored information? Without policies to control its storage and usage, things can get hairy. Like every other part of your department, discovery needs strategy. This article provides the know-how to get one started.

ACCA and its CA Chapters' comments to The Judicial Council of California Supreme Court Multijurisdictional Practice Implementation Committee regarding its report: The Multijurisdictional Practice of Law by Lawyers Not Admitted to the State Bar of California.

This article shows how timely and accurate disclosure is encouraged to be made accordingly in order to avoid any sorts of penalty with regarding a director or chief executive, who is also a director or chief executive of and is interested in the share of an associated corporation of that listed corporation in Hong Kong.

This article shows how although employers generally have broad powers to terminate the employment relationship with employees, they should now consider whether the employee can reasonably challenge the dismissal on the basis that it is in bad faith and intended to deprive them of a benefit.

This fact sheet provides general information concerning the meaning of "employment relationship" and the significance of that determination in applying provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

This presenter speaks about developments and considerations for 2015 disclosures regarding conflict minerals.

As in-house counsel, you will most likely be dealing with technology licensing agreements. Here are some key tips based on “FAQs – What Every Lawyer Should Know About Technology Licensing Agreements” - a webcast hosted by the Association of Corporate Counsel’s New to In-house Network, sponsored by Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters are of high importance during the pandemic. In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about how to spotlight these initiatives and shift these issue from a "compliance" issue to a "commercial issue" within their companies.

Karen Wiwchar, the vice president of legal at H&R Block Canada, Inc., and the first president of ACC’s Alberta Chapter, is a lifelong resident of Calgary who wants to see her hometown shine. Besides a few years spent in neighboring Saskatchewan, where she earned her LLB (Canada’s equivalent to the JD) from the University of Saskatchewan, Wiwchar has been a fixture in “The Stampede City.”

This article discusses the judgments recently passed by several European courts in cases that involve age discrimination.

Read about the implications of the crisis in Ukraine for contracts governed by English law, especially for clauses pertaining to force majeure, price escalation, material change, and sanctions. Learn key steps that companies can take to limit exposure.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview of privacy rules and principles in Switzerland.

As president of ACC Singapore, James Ford discusses how he became involved and how the chapter promotes meaningful connections to its members.

This is a sample data map example showing data map system table fields.

Sample agreement between a business and a celebrity or influencer hired to promote its products or services.

This article discusses the Cyberspace Administration of China's (“CAC”) May 30, 2023 release of the long-awaited “Guidelines for the Filing of Standard Contracts Regarding Export of Personal Information (First Edition).

The guidelines provide clarity for organizations that are looking to rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to transfer personal information collected in Mainland China (“PRC Data”) to an offshore recipient.

In this increasingly connected world, an international cyberattack is no longer a possibility but an inevitability. The difference between success and catastrophe in defending against international cyberattacks comes down to not just preventing them, but responding quickly and appropriately when one does occur. In-house counsel must be prepared to work with internal clients to anticipate potential consequences of an international cyberattack, mitigate the risks of an attack, and implement an agreed strategy that effectively deals with the business and legal risks. This session will give in-house counsel the tools to have constructive conversations with their company's business leaders and technical teams to ensure that their program for dealing with international cyberattacks fits the needs of the company and the customers it serves and addresses the company's legal obligations relating to the attack.

This is a sample mutual non-disclosure agreement between two companies.

This guide covers common issues in restructuring and insolvency, including issues that arise when a company is in financial difficulties, restructuring options, insolvency procedures, and cross-border issues.

After a decade of one ABA Section Committee that covered both Superfund and
Hazardous Waste, we decided to realign to better reflect the way practitioners have segmented
their practices. Thus, this is the maiden voyage of a new committee known as the Superfund and
Natural Resource Damages Litigation Committee. Note the emphasis on litigation. As we step
into the next phase of Superfund and NRD, we all expect the litigation to continue. This
committee is devoted to providing practical information, resources and tools to assist those
lawyers whose focus is in the Superfund and NRD areas.

This is a sample stock purchase agreement.

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A sample template of an internal preservation notice memorandum relating to litigation or investigation.

This article outlines the steps that should be taken after an employee is caught steeling from the company.

This article addresses Intellectual Property protection challenges faced by overseas companies in China.

This brief article addresses how to apply for trademark protection in multiple jurisdictions under the "Madrid System" - the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (the “Madrid Protocol”), and/or the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (“Madrid Agreement”). The article also addresses how to proceed in Hong Kong, which is not a party to the Madrid Agreement.