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A humorous analysis of the likelihood of George Clooney’s mileage conquest in the film “Up in the Air.”

In October's Small Law column, Maryrose Delahunty offers uplifting words to in-house counsel facing the standard difficulties of the profession.

This Value Practice piece details what Reed Smith's Knowledge Management team does, and how it adds value through global collaboration and increased access to work product and knowledge.

Sun Microsystems has focused on an in-house training for attorneys, with its "Get Smart Training" and tiered training programs implemented by select legal functions.

The Policy-Making Process: Role and Responsibility of ACC's Board of Directors, National Committees, Chapters and Staff

Read this article from Robert Half Legal to find out why exit interviews matter and what valuable information you can learn from such discussions, to improve your organization.

This is a sample information types Inventory.

Many companies are starting to form their own venture capital groups to explore different avenues to generate return on investment (ROI) and partner with emerging companies less expensively than through organic growth. An experienced panel of in-house practitioners and external counsel will provide a thorough understanding of current market practice, terms and conditions and applicable securities and ethical issues. You will learn the essentials of corporate venture capital, from examining the anatomy of a venture capital deal, dissecting term sheets and their negotiation, to exploring key issues in financing rounds, exit strategies and securities law compliance. You will also learn about the latest financing trends, regional differences in deal practice and ethical issues that arise when your employees act as directors of start-ups and venture-backed companies.

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.

ACC Amicus Brief - Iskanian v CLS Transportation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.