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This is a sample master software license agreement.

Read Laura Stein's first Chair's Message in ACC Docket on mentoring, grooming, and fostering good relationships in your in-house legal department.

This article is a report on a survey on corporate responsibility.

This note provides a very brief description of user-friendly guidance provided by US federal agencies on compliance with data privacy laws.

This article discusses a survey on corporate responsibility.

This article discusses protecting you and your business in Puerto Rico when sales taxes are owed.

ACC is actively listening to the thoughts and concerns of the membership. What is in-house counsel dealing with this year? Read Richard White's perspective on how ACC can help you do your job better.

This article discusses the EU Council and Parliament September 2023 announcement that they have provisionally agreed to new rules to specifically prohibit certain types of misleading green claims.

View checklists on building a law department, in the materials from this presentation by in-house counsel.

This is a list of supplemental resources for the session.

The article provides a brief overview of open finance, a practice that allows third party service providers access to consumers’ financial data from banks and financial institutions using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).

This article speaks about the international financial and debt crisis (Lehman Brothers, Madoff, etc.) and other economic and political events which have triggered a wave of new regulations in Switzerland in the last few years.

This article is about Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations: challenges and strategies for white collar attorneys and their clients.

This article contains the chapter covering Australia and information regarding enforcement, appeals and damages in that country.

In this article key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding private antitrust litigation.

This is a sample manufacturing services agreement between a company and buyer.

A sample letter regarding a proposal for a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment. Includes a request to provide a survey depicting the property boundaries prior to the site visit, any extended purchase and sale agreement that stipulates any specific requirements for environmental due diligence, and any conceptual plans for site development. Then provides the estimate for work to be performed at the above-referenced facility.

When a company hires an employee away from a competitor, alarms are likely to go off for the in-house counsel. The new employee may be on the up and up, but what happens if your competitor claims that they stole confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information––transferring it all through their email––and are now subpoenaing your company’s computers? Technological advances have made the transferring of such data easy for employees who move around so frequently and in-house attorneys need to know how to respond while protecting their company’s own confidential information.

Over the past decade, with the pressure to cut costs wherever possible, many legal departments continue to rely on a smaller core group of external firms to help achieve higher levels of business performance. Often termed 'convergence,' these and related strategies allow greater accountability for results and greater efficiency from dealing with fewer outside firms, particularly as each panel firm gets to know your organization better. As this trend continues, however, of the hidden problems of convergence is gradually beginning to emerge. Some companies beginning to find that even their preferred law firms' 'other' offices may fail to measure up the high standards of the main office with whom you had been used to dealing with and on which, in truth, your original selection process might mostly have concentrated.

If you’re ready to move to value-based fee structures, you probably know that data and metrics are key to determining fee structures and benchmarking your legal spend. In this session, we’ll examine what data is needed to map to a suitable fee structure, and consider data mining techniques and technology options.

605 - In-house Response to Auditors' Requests for Information: Does This System (Still) Work?

Discuss key steps your peers take when faced with a new lawsuit; Discuss why, when and how your peers establish and manage a litigation hold; Learn the importance of your focus as in-house counsel – it’s not just on getting those pleadings filed, but also implementing litigation holds, managing outside counsel, conducting investigations, analyzing your position, determining strategy and much more; Understand how your peers assess the financial impact a particular piece of litigation may have on your organization, and how they provide management with the tools and knowledge that management needs to make decisions about risk; Learn to take steps and create programs to prevent litigation and, when disputes occur, how to resolve them as early as appropriate for your business; discuss cost benefit analysis and risk assessment to determine whether to get in, stay in or get out; and Discuss how to conduct a thorough post mortem of each case in order to develop a list of “lessons learned” that will direct you in the future.

Tax Executives Institute, TEI, amicus brief, Textron v. US, 1/10

In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about investing in businesses based in the Thailand and developing commercial relationships. This resource was published by Meritas in February 2018.

This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).

This article explains what happens when employers fail to maintain worker’s compensation insurance.

This article lists the four situations that guarantors and creditors can find themselves in the event that the primary debtor goes into liquidation.

This is a brief Legal Quick Hit Overview