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This is a sample memorandum of understanding for interim services with drafting notes.

This resource discusses gaining interest and knowledge retention on complex legal issues, such as the use of policies to inform, educate and deal with issues and global engagement.

Learn tips for in-house counsel on designing a global compliance plan that addresses changing regulations in various markets and regions.

LSM Agenda

Comments to USPTO on Privilege

Confidentiality in arbitration proceedings can be varied on a global scale. In this article, confidentiality and privacy are clarified during arbitration as a dispute mechanism. This resource was published in November 2018.

In Australia, whistleblowers are protected by law and recently, are gaining more protections. In this article, learn more about how company's interact with whistleblowers, who constitutes a whistleblower and how in-house counsel can prepare for such issues.

This article contains questions to consider when lawyers face an unsolicited job offer.

This article focuses on the different value-based approaches and what it takes to not just make them work, but thrive. It stresses the need for a true partnership to develop between in-house and outside counsel. When a true partnership is formed, waste is eliminated for in-house counsel, while profits are maintained, and sometimes even enhanced, for outside counsel. The article delves into the need to diverge from the "I hire the lawyer, not the firm" mentality and place emphasis on the product that is the practice group instead. Finally, it touches on a few misconceptions concerning alternative fee arrangements and how to best measure the value from those arrangements.

<p/>This ACC Value Challenge resource is part 3 of a 3 part series. To view the other resources in this series, please click here:</p>
<p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID=1365185| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365185>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - The Case for Change (Part 1)</a></p><p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID =1365193| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365193>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - Law Firm Metrics (Part 2)</a></p>

UK executive services agreement

A sample executive service agreement between a London employer and an individual. Includes preconditions, renumeration, and commencement and duration provisions, among others.

This case law is concerning a female employee under federal, state, and city law for gender discrimination, failure to promote, and retaliation, employee moved for sanctions against employer for its failure to preserve backup tapes containing potentially relevant e-mail correspondence of key employees.

Learn the importance of your focus as in-house counsel – it’s not just on getting those pleadings filed, but also implementing litigation holds, managing outside counsel, conducting investigations, analyzing your position, determining strategy and much more.

To better understand the state of work-life balance among in-house lawyers, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), the world’s largest organization dedicated to corporate counsel, reached out to more than 30,000 lawyers. This study explored the perceptions, experiences and intentions of in-house counsel by tenure, department size, industry, region, gender, caregiving status and other key metrics. Findings from this study provide insight into how organizations and leaders can benefit from the positive business outcomes of encouraging and fostering a climate of work-life balance for corporate lawyers.

This is a sample lease agreement for property in the state of Colorado.

This panel program will offer a comparative analysis of intellectual property laws in the United States, Europe and other countries, and will seek to address the idiosyncrasies that a business might expect to confront when dealing with multi-jurisdictional IP litigation. The panel is expected to address recent developments in European IP law (particularly patent law), explore recent notable IP cases (patent, trademark, copyright, etc.), and share key points they consider in their multi-jurisdictional IP litigation strategies.

This is a sample risk assessment template.

A code of business conduct that covers a wide range of business practices and procedures, and sets out basic principles to guide all employees of the company.

ACC/The American Lawyer Alternative Billing Survey Results

Legal Service Management Sample Agenda

This checklist will help determine key quality and organizational provisions for outside counsel retainer agreements.

This is a sample M&A due diligence checklist – IT security

This is an EPA clean power plan, including implementation, compliance timeline and options.

This is a sample contract review and approval form.

This is a sample confidentiality agreement between a company and its employee.

This panel will examine the application of process reengineering to legal functions and the interrelationship of in-house legal, law firms, and legal process outsourcing providers. Attendees will learn from experienced practitioners who have transformed in-house legal departments by optimizing the mix and use of technology (including recent developments in data analytics supporting the integration of e-discovery and information governance), applying best practices and analyzing which aspects of work performed by lawyers, paralegals, and support staff really add value and which are likely candidates to be eliminated, automated, or delivered by alternative resources.

This document outlines the responsibilities of each person's role in the Department at each stage of the strategic planning process.

This is a sample lease guaranty.

This is a sample personnel secondment agreement.

This document is a sample staffing services agreement.