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Though the advent of technology assisted review is a blessing to many time-pressed attorneys, some remain hesitant to accept automated methods of reviewing documents.

This is a sample standard lease agreement.

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

This is a sample employee video recording and photo release form.

This is a sample employment agreement between the company and is executive.

In this sampling of surveys, read about why ACC Docket is honored and what Canadian lawyers have pinpointed as the most pressing law issues.

The following Statement of Principles was endorsed by the National Center for State Courts General Counsel Committee and is commended to businesses and courts throughout the United States as a means of promoting jury service.

This is a sample interview authorization form.

This is a crisis management simulation hypothetical from the 2012 ACC Annual Meeting Session 803.

A brief summary of Fannie Mae's remote telecommuting policy.

These micro-blogging guidelines are intended to complement the general guidance and address issues more specific to micro-blogging and third party micro-blogging services.

If your company has ever had to release employees, you have most likely been faced with the question of whether or not to use statistical measurements, or adverse impact analyses, to determine whether employees of protected groups have been disproportionately selected for termination. This article looks at how common termination-related claims actually are, and identifies the most effective ways to use an adverse impact analysis as a tool to reduce litigation risks associated with reductions in force.

Don't pay big bucks to outside counsel for a corporate code of conduct. Use one of the many available in ACC's Virtual LibrarySM, like this one.

Rapid advancements in technology and globalization have led to an unprecedented rise in data collection. While this information provides a unique insight into global human behavior, it can also promote unethical business practices that violate international privacy standards. As we enter into a new era of data analytics, in-house counsel must strike an important balance between driving revenue and ensuring the continued integrity of company practices under the law.

Letter from the ABA to the SEC advocating a modification to the Commission’s policy as outlined in the 2001 “Seaboard Report”1

The Association of Corporate Counsel U.S. States' Privacy Capability Maturity Model provides a detailed maturity model for all aspects of an organization's privacy program. It seeks to gauge program capability across a variety of program elements, taking a "big picture" view on how ready organizations are to comply with these requirements.

This panel program will offer a comparative analysis of intellectual property laws in the United States, Europe and other countries, and will seek to address the idiosyncrasies that a business might expect to confront when dealing with multi-jurisdictional IP litigation. The panel is expected to address recent developments in European IP law (particularly patent law), explore recent notable IP cases (patent, trademark, copyright, etc.), and share key points they consider in their multi-jurisdictional IP litigation strategies.

This Standard Document and the integrated drafting notes are for guidance in the preparation of a patent and know-how license agreement from the perspective of the licensor.

This study looks at the fundamentally different experiences of law students when it comes to racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and provides information about how these differences may impact their professional opportunities.

For questions about the report, please contact centerforwomeninlaw@law.utexas.edu or info@nalpfoundation.org.

The Justice Department reached an agreement with Travel Management Company, a private airplane charter company based in Elkhart, Indiana, resolving claims that the company engaged in citizenship status discrimination in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Ownership by an investor of 5% or more of outstanding shares or securities entitling rights to such shares, issued by a publicly-held company in Brazil, triggers the investor’s disclosure obligation, which must report such ownership to the Company that for its part will notify the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission

This is a sample cybersquatting cease and desist order.

To support your global practice, ACC Docket offers country-specific fun facts from your peers who've been there – literally. In this issue, learn more about France.

This is a sample of information governance project plans.

An excerpt from the ACC Leading Practice Profile, "Leading Practices in Knowledge Sharing and Management: How Companies and Law Firms Manage Knowledge."

This is a sample industrial lease agreement.

Cross-border compliance obligations for multi-nationals means a lot more headaches for in-house litigators tasked with managing cross-border discovery. Discovery obligations vary from country to country — but try telling that to your home regulator who is clamoring for you to turn over documents that another regulator forbids you to. Explore the growing international complexity of discovery/ediscovery compliance with a lively panel discussion that looks at recent regulatory actions, litigations and sanctions, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Code of Business Conduct and the Eighth Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China.

This is an outline for the session.

This article shows how you, as a member of the in-house legal department, can determine and implement the best records/information retention and litigation hold policy for your company, so that it can efficiently and properly respond to any inevitable e-discovery request?