A draft covenant between law firms and clients that lists provisions to select from based on what works best for their particular needs.
Sample "at will" employment provisions. Provisions essentially state that employment is conditioned on the consent of both parties. If one party, such as the company, no longer consents to employment, employment will end.
To support your global practice, read fun facts about Singapore – a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-racial country where English is the commercial language of choice.
This is a sample policy to provide guidelines with regard to employee blogging.
Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations
Sprint-Nextel's General Counsel circulates a monthly budget report and is implementing settlement and recovery reporting to all legal staff to help the department in understanding decisions and related costs on a regular basis.
This check list helps employers ensure that their I-9 compliance systems are effective.
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
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>
"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"
A sample executive service agreement between a London employer and an individual. Includes preconditions, renumeration, and commencement and duration provisions, among others.
If you're ready to move away from the billable hour as your default fee basis and adopt fee structures that will motivate your firms to help achieve your business objectives, this session will give you some practical guidance.
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 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.
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