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Visibility is everything in the legal world. To better market yourself to your peers, step up for a speaking engagement — you’ll be glad you did.

In-house counsel are under even more pressure to demonstrate not only their value, but the value of the outside firms they chose to work with. You must reduce costs, but not at the expense of securing high quality outside counsel. High quality does not mean big firms. This article explores using law firm networks.

Immediate Past Chair John Page writes about the discrimination and under-representation still extant in the corporate legal field today. Changing the dynamics of an institution must also involve a shift in power structures.

As employers everywhere rack their brains to find the next breakthrough in workplace efficiency, the answer is simple: mindfulness, or the “present-centered attention and awareness."

The ACC Records Management Program Maturity model provides a detailed maturity model for all aspects of an organization’s records program.

It seeks to gauge program effectiveness across a variety of program elements, taking a “big picture” view to increase program value.

This Leading Practices Profile presents themes, trends and leading contingent worker practices of six legal departments, a professional association and one law firm in managing contingent workforces and mitigating risks associated with these types of workforces.

Discusses the differences in customs procedures throughout the European Union and provides important tips for any company interested in the EU market.

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?

Without complicated stimulus bills or other governmental prodding of their economies, China and India stand to become the collective antithesis of American recession. How will their free markets play a part in the rebuilding of global finance? Readers of this article will better understand the present and predicted standings of these potential powerhouses.

This document is intended as an aid to assist entities in establishing an organizational code of conduct.

Cybersecurity touches every aspect of global consumer and corporate culture today. Preventing, preparing for, and responding to data breaches in real time is a chief concern for individuals, corporate leaders, and government regulators. Download the 2018 ACC Foundation: the State of Cybersecurity Report, underwritten by Ballard Spahr LLP, and learn what more than 600 corporate counsel say about their cybersecurity experiences, role, and practices.

Hate it or love it, employ it or avoid it, the billable hour has been the primary expensing tool used in the industry. In often variable and unpredictable litigation matters, it seems to be the only practical option to recoup charges - or is it?

This article taps into the wisdom of military leaders in order to chart a course for successful litigation. In addition to conducting risk assessments and developing a strategic budget, litigation readiness involves executing a plan and leading smart people. Before you walk onto the battlefield that is the courtroom, learn how to prepare like a seasoned general.

While in-house legal departments pride themselves on not being like law firms, there are things that corporate counsel can learn from them, especially those representing the plaintiff. Find out how DuPont's legal team's defense strategies could work at your company.

How much oversight in-house counsel should exercise in connection with document preservation and collection in ediscovery is a delicate balance of push and pull. Should you allow executives and employees to decide what is relevant and have them push the data for production? Or should your team pull the data and then review for relevancy? This article considers leading court cases in order to provide some suggestions for how you can best supervise the ediscovery process.

This is a sample End User License and Services Agreement used in connection with equipment.

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and re-organisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent in the European Union?

This article discusses the Australian law implications of the acquisition of an Australian resident's shares of a non-Australian company by a European company.

This article highlights the most significant modifications to the Brazilian Corporation Law over the past 40 years.

A recent change in federal law enforcement policy governing federal criminal investigations of corporate crime has corporations and their lawyers wondering whether it will effect a real difference in practice. The question that remains to be answered is whether the practice of demanding waivers of privilege and pressuring companies not to advance attorneys' fees to employees has become so entrench in white-collar practice that, in order to curry favor with prosecutors, corporations will "willingly" offer them without a request.

This is a sample computer, e-mail and internet usage policy.

In-house counsel are constantly called to manage the many challenges that come across their desks while remaining compliant in a scenario of ever increasing regulations. General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers from leading international companies will gather at this dedicated forum to share innovative and forward thinking ways to address their evolving roles. Come to this session if you would like to gain insights into the complexities and challenges some of your in-house colleagues are dealing with or if you would like comfort that you are not alone in tackling such matters.

This is a sample computer, e-mail and internet usage policy.

A company’s board of directors is responsible
for investigating allegations of wrongdoing by officers and employees of the company. However, sometimes it is a board member who ends up in the investigatory hot seat. This article examines the best practices companies should consider when investigating alleged board member misconduct.

The U.S. Department of Labor has blogged about the safety of workers during the busy holiday season, indicating an area of potential enforcement for OSHA in the coming weeks. As this is the season for office holiday parties, check out this article from Seyfarth Shaw detailing tips to minimize your organization’s exposure to legal liability and, more importantly, prevent an undesirable incident from occurring at your office holiday party.