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More than ever, 'budget' is the word among in-house counsel, particularly during litigation. Document review can be a pricey part of the process, but it's also a necessary component of the legal puzzle. This article provides cost-cutting suggestions to minimize review spending and offers real-world solutions for controlling costs.

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Mobile devices are now key features of both personal and on-the-job life. Given their proliferation, it’s natural for employees to want to use the same ones both privately and professionally. In the first part of this session, technology experts will provide an overview of the key technology and security risks associated with mobile computing that will enable you to have an informed discussion with your CIO about current issues with Bring your own device (BYOD) for use at work and Corporate-owned, personally enabled (COPE) devices that the employee can take home programs. In the second part of the session, our panel will discuss some of the best practices around policies, procedures and training when implementing a BYOD or COPE program. The panel will also touch on the legal implications of such programs with respect to your employees and your regulatory obligations and litigation concerns.

Over the past four years, a stream of news reports has described SEC enforcement actions and criminal prosecutions of inside corporate lawyers. Many in the corporate bar have asked whether the news coverage is exaggerating the frequency of these actions, and if the frequency is real, whether any common factors prompted these proceedings. If the answer to these critical questions is "yes," then inside lawyers can take steps to reduce their risks.

In this multi-jurisdictional article, in-house counsel will learn the laws and regulations of product safety and liability for regions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Meritas produced this resource in 2018.

This is a sample form of guarantee agreement among a borrower, a lender and an administrative agent.

Environmental risks and liabilities, which can be substantial, are a part of most commercial and real estate transactions involving in-house counsel. Parties to a transaction must identify, evaluate and allocate those risks and liabilities in order to protect their interests; and the parties—sellers, purchasers, lenders and insurance companies—have diverse perspectives and methods for managing environmental risks. Learn the sources of environmental liabilities, including federal and state statutes, implementing regulations, local ordinances and rules and common law. Then discover contractual provisions for allocating or limiting environmental risks, including definitions, representations and warranties, covenants and conditions precedent, indemnities, releases and other contractual mechanisms to allocate or limit such risks. Speakers also will reveal non-contractual ways to allocate or limit environmental risks, including deed restrictions and environmental insurance.

ACC Repsonse to White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India

Some exhibit materials are samples or articles to be used as a general guide. These are from personal archives of panel members and are provided without warranty as to accuracy or completeness, and without any attorney-client relationship with the participants.

The last few years have brought big changes in California's employment laws. There's a Private Attorneys General Act, dubbed "the bounty hunter law," that allows private rights of action on many Labor Code provisions, along with new whistleblower protections, and new employee rights to take time off to tend to personal matters. Obviously California employers must pay attention to these changes. Moreover, employers in other parts of the country would be wise to take notice of the legal and legislative developments that have emerged from the Golden State. Taking proactive measures to prevent workplace discrimination and harassment, and ensuring that proper measures are in place to protect whistleblowers and comply with wage and hour laws will go a long way toward establishing a productive workplace and avoiding financially crippling and potentially devastating.

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

Discuss the various roles in-house counsel tend to play and how they are affected by attorney-client privilege rules.

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

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.

This Top Ten discusses the most important topics in due diligence that a General Counsel should know in 2015. This article is relevant beyond 2015.

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.

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

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

How will that contract you just drafted stand up to the scrutiny of a judge or jury? Each year, some of the largest jury verdicts in the United States are awarded in breach-of-contract cases. In this program, faculty will discuss lessons learned from trying contract cases to help you evaluate, prepare for, and win contract-related litigation. Topics will include unique issues that arise in trying contract claims; how commonly used contractual clauses can backfire at trial; minimizing risk in contract drafting and negotiation; restricting application of fiduciary duty and the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; third-party vendor liability; and damages.