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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.

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.

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.

Discusses how to provide a beneficial, engaging global legal conference.

This article lists the five customer requests you should not agree to, and some suggested actions you should consider instead when fulfilling conflict minerals and customer requests. The article relates to 2014-2015 regulatory disclosures to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding conflict minerals (in connection with the US Dodd Frank Act).

Effective September 4, 2013, the Government of Manitoba proclaimed into force The Public-Private Partnerships Transparency and Accountability Act. The Act applies to all major capital projects undertaken by public sector entities in which a P3 procurement method is used. The term “public sector entity” includes municipalities and other local government entities as well as the Government of Manitoba.

This is an act to amend Title 8 of the Delaware Code relating to the General Counsel Corporation law.

Embedded within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are significant employment litigation risks that have virtually nothing to do with the structure or content of health insurance plans. Read on to learn more.

When developing a records retention schedule or creating a data map, it is often useful to create an inventory of all the types of information in the enterprise. This article provides an overview of how to inventory that information.

Demonstrating the Value of the Legal Team: Create a True Competitve Advantage for the Enterprise

In-house counsel are constantly called to manage the many challenges that come across their desks while remaining compliant in a scenario of ever increasing regulations. General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers from leading international companies will gather at this dedicated forum to share innovative and forward thinking ways to address their evolving roles. Come to this session if you would like to gain insights into the complexities and challenges some of your in-house colleagues are dealing with or if you would like comfort that you are not alone in tackling such matters.

The author discusses a case involving a contract with an anti-modification clause, and how "always" can come to mean "sometimes."

This checklist shows how the reputational and legal risks associated with not being in control of corporate data should be enough to capture the attention of the corporate C-suite.