This interim report from the unit compliance officer concerns a global compliance program. This resource was part of the ACC's 2012 Compliance and Ethics Training Program
ACC Board Chair Iohann Le Frapper discusses what resources ACC members need, and how ACC can provide them.
This is a case law where employees brought action against employer and its president, asserting discrimination claims under Title VII.
A sample letter requesting seller's confidential information to determine valuation of the seller's company in a merger.
Comments of the Association of Corporate Counsel on The Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines (Proposed Amendments to Chapter Eight, United States Sentencing Guidelines)
Sample form representative of an immigration P-1 support letter for an NBA player.
Different scenarios on how to properly communicate on an international playing field with regard to conflicts of interest.
Byron L. Koepke, senior vice president and chief securities counsel of Avis Budget Group Inc., talks about what drew him to litigation, and how the Litigation Committee provides support to its members.
In 1994, the author left the Army JAG Corps Environmental Law Division and joined the corporate world as senior environmental counsel for a multi-national chemical company. About a year or so into his tenure as a civilian, he discovered that the tank farm at one of the company’s plants lacked sufficient secondary containment and was in violation of the Clean Water Act. Read on to learn how he responded to this situation.
To evaluate employment status, courts commonly rely on one of three tests: the common law agency test (right-to-control test), the economic realities test, or the hybrid test. While the state-law tests vary to some degree from state to state, this table focuses on the tests applied under federal law.
This sample provision illustrates how to incorporate a necessary element of a comprehensive FCPA program into your company’s compliance library and is designed to help compliance professionals ensure they have considered all of the issues. Joint venture conduct policies must clearly state expectations that all partners agree to implement and maintain anti-bribery and anti-corruption controls.
This is a sample litigation hold & document preservation policy informing employees of the company's rules on preserving evidence in contexts where the company is a defendant in a commercial dispute.
Tracking foreign subsidiaries is now a crucial element of compliance for any company, given the current global regulatory climate. In this article, get caught up on this important issue and how you can help manage a global portfolio of subsidiaries.
The author discusses a time when his company failed to comply with the Occupational Health and Safety Agency’s Process Safety Management standards. For years, he blamed the leadership of others; however, in this article he reflects on the role he played.
As in-house counsel, adopting a variety of roles is part of the job description. In this column, the author discusses the different hats she has grown accustomed to wearing throughout her career.
This article takes a look at the role of external counsel and their effectiveness at doing a job well and billing a client fairly in the process.
Discusses the general types of people that commit financial fraud and sets forth the conditions that tend to be present when fraud occurs.
ACC Chair Iohann Le Frapper stresses the importance of being active and present in your legal in-house community.
The apparent pluses of outsourcing are cost efficiencies, preservation of time and speed of services. But a CLO must weigh the positives with the negatives.
A license agreement in which licensor has developed and owns software and licensee wishes to obtain a license to the software, and the licensor wishes to grant such a license for the purposes set forth in this agreement. Software is provided to licensee in programmer form ("object code") and user oriented symbolic form ("source code").
Discuss provisions in cloud computing agreements that address sensitive issues, such as data ownership and protection, privacy and intellectual property. Obtain tips on negotiating liabilities and risks in cloud computing contracts — what provisions SaaS providers commonly include in agreements, provisions large customers typically request, which are negotiable and how to mitigate the impact of terms you cannot change.
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