The term ESG has gotten much attention lately, but many aren’t even sure what it means. “ESG” stands for “Environmental, Social, and Governance” and is a framework to evaluate a company’s business as it relates to meeting its environmental, social, and governance strategic objectives. Investors, regulators, employees, and customers express increasing concern that the companies they deal with are concentrating on and improving their ESG metrics. It is without a doubt an area of focus that is here to stay.

In this article, we discuss examples of how General Counsel and law departments can burnish their profile while doing good and helping their employers with ESG matters.

These are the top 10 considerations for financial institutions when outsourcing master trading documentation processes.

To better understand the chief legal officer’s perspective, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) contacted 9,489 individuals holding the title of chief legal officer or general counsel, gathering responses from 1,289 CLOs in 46 countries. The ACC Chief Legal Officers Survey examines the practices, trends and changes in the role of the CLO by key segments such as industry, compensation, gender and region.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses whether to include a written acknowledgment for the employee handbook, under US law. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Employment & Labor Law ACC Network.*

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

When drafting contracts, using indemnity provisions and insurance clauses should be more than just a “copy and paste” operation. Such clauses should be tailored to the specific needs of the contracting parties. This article provides tips on drafting effective indemnification provisions and insurance clauses in contracts involving the sale or purchase of goods and services.

This is a sample master services agreement between a company and supplier.

This material provides an overview of the various factors that a foreign investor should consider when establishing a business in Nicaragua.

This is a sample term loan agreement.

This article presents the full year of 2015 data and reflects recent developments related to proxy access in the United States.