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Google Data Center Counsel Benita Lee is in the front seat of a rapidly evolving industry. Read about the innovations that earned her #ACCTop30s award. #inhousecounsel #ACCDocket

Corporations face unprecedented challenges with rising regulatory investigations and a surge in emerging data types. Stay ahead in this rapidly evolving landscape of compliance and anti-trust law. #DataGovernance #AntiTrust #EURegulation #ACC #ACCDocket

Well-being is key to setting yourself on a path for a long, enjoyable, and successful career. Sean Hughes, general counsel at Vanguard Australia, shares tips to help avoid burnout and manage the demands of in-house counsel. #ACCDocket #inhouse #WellBeing #Burnout

Ever wondered what happens when law enforcement shows up unannounced with a search warrant? From training lessons to mock drills and handy checklists, learn how a proactive approach can safeguard your company’s interests and maintain compliance. #ACC #ACCDocket #SearchWarrant

Learn how the M&A loop provides a framework for compliance programs, guiding stakeholders in producing high-quality deliverables at each stage. Alex Olsansky, vice president and associate general counsel of Credit One Bank, shares some critical insights. #M&A #Compliance #Inhouse #ACC #ACCDocket

Here are 10 key strategies for receiving feedback and 10 principles for delivering feedback to help foster a feedback-friendly environment in your workplace.

Make every meeting worthwhile. Learn how with tips from ACC Docket Career Path columnist James Bellerjeau in the series, Master Skills to be Effective In-house Counsel.
#ACCDocket #MindfulMonday #MondayMotivation #meetings

Holding fast to the rule of law is not an easy path, but it is the least difficult of all other alternatives, writes James Bellerjeau. #ACC #ACCDocket #CareerPath

Understanding the business from the client perspective gave Kate Shelby an advantage when she became the first GC at Resultant. Read about her innovations that earned her the #ACCTop30s award. #inhousecounsel #generalcounsel #ACCDocket

What exactly is a T-Shaped Lawyer? Peter Connor shares how doing business, not just law, can drastically increase in-house legal value. #ACC #ACCDocket #career

This article includes some questions that will help you and your employees create a better evaluation process.

If you ask Chan about his legal career, he will tell you that his journey from firm to global in-house counsel was a result of “jumping at the opportunity.”

Raj Barot has studied, worked, and lived all over the world. Currently managing director and general counsel at Agile Counsel, Barot has spent the majority of the last 10 years working and living in Singapore, Bangkok, and Mumbai. However, if you ask him where he's from, the lawyer/entrepreneur will claim the San Francisco Bay Area as home.

A day in the life of Edward T. Paulis III, VP & Assistant General Counsel at Zurich North America in Owings Mills, Maryland.

As in-house lawyers, we often focus on helping our clients put deals together. When negotiating agreements to document these deals, we must think ahead about how to measure success, what might go wrong, and what happens next. A key component of “what happens next” should include a plan for ending the relationship in an orderly manner.

In this article we explore some of the new diversification opportunities available to certain oil producing countries in the Middle East as a result of decreasing oil prices. Opportunities such as diversifying income sources, diversifying energy sources, private-public partnerships, and the promotion of entrepreneurship, all of which foretell the future ingredients of the economies of such countries.

With AI governance models in focus, learn the practical steps for legal professionals to lead their organizations towards responsible AI practices in this article from Legal Tech columnist Olga Mack and coauthors Humira Noorestani of DigiCounsel and Kassi Burns of King & Spalding. #LegalTech #OpenAI #AIGovernance

So, how do you tell if your colleague is trying to undermine you, and what can you do about it?

I’ve worked with Phillips for many years on the ACC Law Department Management Network leadership, where he is currently chair. It recently occurred to me that the in-house legal community would benefit from the leadership lessons Phillips has gleaned from his years serving as — and training to become — a Navy SEAL.

Privacy and public health are overlapping in ways that were unimaginable only a few months ago. The critical question raised by this turn of events is whether the right to privacy is more important than the lives of the people at large?

CHRISTUS Health Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel Jeannie Frey had been practicing law for almost a decade before she decided to become actively involved in the American Bar Association (ABA).

As corporate clients, it is easy to place the burden and blame on our outside counsel partners for the pervasive industry challenge of retaining and advancing diverse talent. We suggest law firms need stronger affinity groups, mentor and sponsorship programs, and more inclusive and flexible working environments. As clients, we then demand diverse teams at multiple levels and express frustration when our law firms fail to deliver.

Document requests are a regular part of your life as an in-house lawyer — even when your organization isn’t involved in the litigation for which documents are requested. For corporate counsel, such document requests can present an interesting predicament.

Using in-house counsel to argue in court has advantages, such as saving costs, when used in the right circumstances. Sometimes you can gain a persuasive edge by using in-house at a hearing.

In early 2019, two attorneys in the ACC Southern California Chapter, Jill Kalliomaa and Jeff Compangano — both passionate about health and wellness — became inspired to create an attorney well-being focus for their chapter. A few months later, their chapter formally launched the Attorney Well-being Committee to help its members find healthy ways to manage the stress inherent in the fast-paced in-house law practice.

You are here because you want to work out, but working out as a busy lawyer seems virtually impossible. The good news is that (1) it is possible, and (2) you are done with the hardest part: wanting change.

Contemporary CEOs must not only be experts at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors, but, aided by general counsel, they must also have the experience and capability to address business-in-society issues — legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, and litigation — that create risk and opportunity in all dimensions of corporate activity. These societal issues are the ultimate test of corporate citizenship.

This article includes some of Dr. Obama’s words of wisdom that can help you begin your company’s CSR program.

Our team observes that general counsel struggle to manage outside lawyers while still preserving value and responsiveness alongside cost-effective results. While there are no “silver bullets,” we have listed five techniques for selecting and managing outside counsel without upsetting the applecart.

Inclusion allows for superior decision-making by bringing balance and equilibrium to any team or group and to the environment in which the team operates. And a diverse group will develop different strategies, approaches, solutions, and ideas.