This resource contains helpful charts and graphs concerning SOE and the value of disputes.
Read Sean Venden's rules for the new to in-house counselor.
A collateral refers to that property in which a creditor can take a security interest. We also realize that the rest of the English-speaking world mostly uses collateral as an adjective to mean something that is parallel or corresponding.
The shift from outside to in-house counsel disrupts common assumption, changes perspective, and encourages
creativity. Great attorneys either naturally or strategically embrace that opportunity. Great attorneys just “think laterally” every day.
John B. Ross is the general counsel of Williams Scotsman International, Inc., a company headquartered in Baltimore, MD, that sells and leases modular buildings, mobile offices, and storage containers through its subsidiary companies located throughout the United states, Canada, Mexico, and Spain. He can be contacted at jbross@willscot.com.
This article outlines the requirements and risks of assigning employees to a German company.
With the AIFMD now in force, we thought it would be helpful to cover some of the questions we are frequently being asked across all of Ashurst's offices.
The design and operational failures of the federal insurance exchange and comparable failures of a number of state exchanges will generate contract disputes and litigations. Read on for more information.
This session will focus on the creation of a strategic plan that establishes the law department as a creator of value in addition to delivering superior service of core legal functions. Starting with how a legal department can create strategy that delivers a financial benefit to the company, as well as moving the function to becoming a cost-neutral function, and in some circumstances, a positive financial contributor to the company. The program will review different law department structures and current trends in how to optimize your structure, align with your business, build an inclusive law department, and assess how to optimally source and staff work internally for different tasks to achieve your strategic goals. This program is designed to benefit every corporate attorney, from the entry-level associate to the experienced general counsel, as it argues for a less traditional perspective of the legal department within the modern corporate structure.
Which scenarios should a company investigate and which should it ignore? Who should conduct the investigation? What should the goals be? How should interviews be conducted? This evaluation is a mix of practical and legal considerations. The session will analyse the numerous aspects to be taken into account when facing an alleged violation of internal policies or local law.
The focus on culture has become more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic, as investors and consumers observe and judge companies based on their navigation of the crisis, particularly treatment of employees and wider societal stakeholders. In our view, the global regulatory direction of travel is clear. Companies and investors planning an exit must consider the impact that poor corporate culture may have on their potential to achieve an exit, in particular an IPO, and to prosper as a company in the longer term.
A list of ACC legal resources related to each session presented at the Risk Management Track of the Mini MBA Business Education course held at Boston University.
In these tough economic times, actual or threatened corporate downsizing has forced in-house counsel to take stock of their careers as well as their future in general. Am I valuable enough to the organization to avoid the next layoff? Do I have the passion to take my in-house career to the next level? Or is my passion focused on something different? If so, how do I make the leap? This program seeks to provide a new perspective as in-house counsel look ahead to an uncertain future. After discussing how best to remain marketable in a down cycle, our panel of both former and current in-house counsel who have found other pursuits or undertaken new ventures will share unique insights on how to make sure you remain passion-powered!
How do you deal with employee data after termination? In this article, various companies provide answers in post-termination situations dealing with electronic and company data.
This is a sample gifts and entertainment policy.
Bob Feldman discusses indemnification, Article 2 of the U.C.C. and possible changes in the coverage of the code.
A business school education does not necessarily prepare you to be managerially efficient. Here are a few simple tips to help improve your management style.
Sara Hall, chief legal officer and general counsel of ALSAC, the Fundraising and Awareness Organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, discusses her challenges that she faces in her career.
As virtual and augmented reality applications become more intertwined in mainstream society, Tech Toolbox Columnist Gregory Stern waxes poetic about how these developments will impact the legal world.
Use of data for commercial and research purposes - session held in Tasmania 22 November 2016.
The author discusses his experience becoming an in-house lawyer and no longer being surrounded by dozens of other legal professionals. He notes the upsides of this transition, like being considered an expert, as well as the downsides, which include missing the camaraderie of likeminded colleagues.
Check out this 2014 Communicator Award-winning column! The author discusses the importance of being realistic and pragmatic about dangers and probabilities instead of anticipating the rare, colossal corporate slip-up.
James Nortz uses references to the American TV show Gilligan's Island to reiterate the importance of always following your moral compass, no matter how much pressure you may be under to do just the opposite.
Columnist Kenneth Cutshaw finds interesting statistics on leadership competencies, and shows CLOs their potential to be change agents for their companies.
Powerful people — or at least people we perceive as being powerful — speak in abstractions. You have probably noticed it. When a veteran politician speaks, she talks of grand ideas, but offers few specifics.
Discusses several instruments available to help corporations make informed decisions on these compliance and ethical issues and increase overall job performance.
Karen M. Redford discusses how to do more with less in her column.
Andrew Bos discusses the importance of using any and all resources that new to in-house attorneys have to learn about the company and clients in this ACC Docket article.
Read this 2010 Clarion Award-winning column!
As lawyers, we are usually faced with complex systems of safety nets. The risk analysis is over. This article discusses how we can reduce the chance that a normal accident will occur for existing systems.
In carefully monitored experiments, researchers have placed subjects in the middle<br />of a train station or shopping thoroughfare and asked them to just look at a particular location in the distance. As expected, others stop and stare. While the reaction varies by setting, distance and sometimes gender, human beings have a natural tendency to follow the gaze of others.<br />
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