Bill Ojile, chief legal and administrative officer for Alta Colleges, Inc., shares his daily routine, including his favorite conference call.
This article promotes the value of self-reflection as a way to live more ethically, noting how it takes the practitioner through four phases.
Todd Silberman compares learning martial arts to functioning as a small law department practitioner.
As legal process outsourcing becomes more commonplace, India has become the solid base of the LPO industry.
Life may seem empty after suffering a loss or experiencing a tragedy; however, all wounds are healed in time. This columnist discusses her own loss and how she found the strength to move on.
In November's column, Whitnie Wiley reflects on how clearing away the clutter from your mind can improve job performance.
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.
This resource provides a guide to Non-disclosure agreements for non-legal departments.
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 is a sample background check policy.
Schaeffler v. United States, Brief for Amicus Curiae, Association of Corporate Counsel in support of Petitioners-Appellants
This is a sample industrial lease agreement for the state of Delaware.
This article deals with the rise of arbitration in the UAE.
This document sets forth the legal support areas that in-house legal counsel should focus on in order to allow the business team to concentrate their efforts on their key business initiatives. Deliverables will include the optimization of the provision of legal services, the conduct of a gap analysis to identify on a timely basis future legal support requirements and to implement legal cost-saving initiatives. Company can maximize its corporate capabilities by having the legal function become an important driver of competitive advantage.
In China, establishing a well-known trademark is a tool that offers a much broader scope of protection to trademark owners than those offered by normal registered trademarks. Learn about how to take some next steps when applying for this status.
Credit funds are increasingly marketed to French insurance companies (entreprises d'assurance). Other similar institutions, such as contingency institutions (institutions de prévoyance) and complementary pension institutions (institutions de retraite complémentaire), also appear as an important source of debt financing. Learn more about this here.
This article contains some of the most common types of problematic managers, along with suggestions on how to adapt to them.
On 4 February 2014, the Singapore High Court, in The Titan Unity (No. 2), confirmed that a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement can be joined in an arbitration only with the consent of all the parties concerned. The decision is of interest, as it highlights the issue of joining non-signatories to an arbitration and consolidation of related arbitration proceedings.
ACC DOL Persuader Rule Comments 08.08.17
This article developed by Beveridge & Diamond PC provides a summary on how to prepare for unexpected environmental crisis by better developing a crisis management system and maintaining effective management during a crisis.
ACCA’s policy pursuits can provide you with ammunition for proving the value of in-house counsel to the corporate bottom line.
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