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406 The General Counsel as Risk Manager

This brief resource (Quick Counsel) provides anf overview of legal project management, including points on project management principles, process, and picking the right project manager.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses employees who have legal degrees but are not members of the legal department or otherwise acting as lawyers for the company in their current roles who would like to note the law degree they worked so hard to obtain by using Esq. or JD in their signature line. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Small Law Department Law ACC Network.

901 - Responding to a Patent Attack

An overview of the requirements of in-house counsel. Includes brief biographies of the orientation's faculty, guide to the role of in-house counsel, review of the Reebok Rules, guide to risk analysis and management, and tips for managing the stresses of being in-house counsel.

A summary of developments in class actions, including securities class actions, employment actions, and snapshots of other types of cases.

A presentation on how to properly manage a legal team to harness their core strengths.

Schoenefeld Amicus Brief

During this meeting of the National Association of Corporate Directors, delegates shared their experiences and lessons learned from their current and previous board and executive roles. This article presents the key takeaways from the discussion.

At times, the Bankruptcy Code’s preference provisions may seem to be aimed at unfairly penalizing the creditor. It may be hard to believe the congressional intent of preference avoidance in bankruptcy was to equalize distribution of payments to similarly situated creditors of a debtor - and even harder to explain it to your client! Planning ahead, implementing adequate precautionary measures, and exercising your rights as a creditor, however, will make the preference laws less perplexing. Thomas Federico, of Dobbs International Services, Inc. and Tisha Morris lead the way.

A presentation describing the importance and implementation a litigation metrics management system.

In this presentation, topics such as employee entitlements and how they accrue, sale of business/impact on employees and entitlement upon termination will be discussed.

A presentation on metrics methodologies.

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