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NFTs: How Do They Work? - Enforcing Smart Contracts

This checklist outlines issues and gives tips for policy conditions, sublimits and deductibles, anti-concurrent causation clauses, and liability issues when natural disaster is a factor.

This is a sample guideline to the implementation of an effective internal investigation. It was part of a presentation at ACC's 2012 Compliance and Ethics Training Program.

In Hong Kong, employers are looking for employment guidelines that they can work within to ensure that their employees return to work safely and with support. In this article, ordinances and precautions are explained for Hong Kong employers. This resource was produced in April 2020.

This article discusses when and how companies can access employee personal devices used for business communications.

The general purpose of the basic and specialized checklists that follow are to aid general counsel in drafting and/or reviewing outside counsel equity and phantom equity plan documents to make sure that relevant law changes are included in the documents and that many other traps in interpreting and administering the written documents are avoided.

The capital markets for corporate securities suffer from an inherent information asymmetry. As a way of both improving the quality of and bonding the credibility of its disclosures, so as to reduce its cost of capital, a company will hire various outsiders—such as an outside auditor and underwriters—to function as reputational intermediaries.

"Going green" is a hot topic and growing trend in today’s society. However, most people are not clear on what "going green" actually means. This program will address what it means for a corporation to "go green" in several representative sectors. Faculty will use case studies to show how companies have successfully invested in sustainability, built trust through increased transparency with customers, and created a healthier work environment and surrounding community. Case studies of investments that have not paid off, and the perils of green washing, will also be discussed.

This article points out the risks associated with the use of contingent workers, including significant potential liability for worker misclassification.

ACC Amicus Brief - Iskanian v CLS Transportation

Cyber-security Crisis Management - presentation held in Sydney 13 June 2017 and Melbourne 15 June 2017.

When would it be considered unethical for an attorney to enlist the aid of an undercover investigator? Learn what is and is not considered ethical conduct in this situation.

ACC amicus brief, Textron v. US, 1/27/09

This presentation will walk you through some rules and scenarios regarding the management of employees under the ADA.

Given today's economic challenges, in-house counsel are forced to do more with less and have to watch the company’s bottom line, by approaching transactions, compliance matters and other legal projects with a practical and focused mind-set, befitting that of a project manager. Key project management skills can be adapted by in-house counsel to enhance efficiencies and improve results including team work, defining project goals and objectives, specifying tasks, identifying resource needs, developing budgets and timelines, and implementing controls to stay within a project's critical path. This session will discuss project management fundamentals and in-house counsel will explain how they have applied project management skills to their work. Practical tips and user-friendly techniques that attendees can immediately apply will be supplied.

This is supplemental bibliography for the session.

The ability to manage the professional development and well being of others in a high-pressure corporate environment is a skill that few would have learned at law school or during their years in commercial practice. This article discusses tips and strategies for engaging with your team and helping everyone succeed in high pressure environments.

Video game designing, legal bootcamp, and car racing. Here are a few of the things you missed at ACC Network events.

These are sample Master Terms and Conditions governing a sample Third-Party Charitable Sales Promotion and Licensing Agreement, between a not-for-profit organization and a for-profit company, for the for-profit company to sell products promoting a cause of the non-profit organization in the United States, and for the payment of resulting royalties to the non-profit organization.

Discusses what it takes to be a good people manager through the findings from an employee satisfaction survey.

An important way for lawyers to add value is to help develop systems and processes for the smooth running of day-to-day operations. Read Ron Pol's column to find out more.

This article is about cross-cultural management.

To limit the risks of significant civil fines and potential criminal prosecutions based upon allegations of hiring or continuing to employ unauthorized workers, employers must ensure that their I-9 compliance systems are effective.

Leadership roles and career progression do not just happen. Successful businesses make succession planning a best practice for all managers. Learn how talent is assessed, the role of future needs, and how these items link to the overall business strategy in the planning process. Walk away with information that will help you become part of the succession plan.

An item for your bulletin board, this series of checklists covers project scoping, budgeting, post project reviews and lines of communications. It also includes best practices culled from discussions among a large gathering of inside and outside counsel, as well as a sample project kick-off meeting agenda.

Common Value-Based Fees; Most/least appropriate uses for each VBF; Typical friction points in negotiating & implementing VBFs; Common reasons VBFs do not produce desired results; and Tips on avoiding misses are addressed in this resource.

In-house counsel often play a critical role in hiring and firing—not to mention disciplining, compensating and evaluating—an organization's top leadership, requiring navigation of delicate legal and political issues. A panel of seasoned in-house counsel will share success stories, guiding principles, obstacles, regrets and lessons learned.

Utilizing the practices in this "How To" resource can improve a Legal Department’s approach to engaging vendors, which contributes to better services overall.

This article provides an overview of current trends in using AI systems to meet the challenge of extracting clinically useful information from highly complex genomic data.

An article reviewing SEC rules on management reports on internal control over financial reporting and related requirements applicable to audit committees. Includes an in depth overview of the required elements of the management report, auditor independence considerations, amendments to CEO and CFO certification requirements, and other considerations.