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This sample survey is designed to assess client feedback. Asks questions related to satisfaction with legal services, projected legal needs, and training needs.

This is a sample guarantee agreement between Company and banking institution.

This is an employment agreement between the company and its executive.

This is a sample employment agreement between a nonprofit association and its President and CEO as approved by the Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

This is sample confidentiality agreement between two Delaware corporations where each company desires to protect the confidentiality of the information that it provides and to have the other party take or abstain from taking certain actions in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement.

This white paper explores how the GC can be leveraged as a corporate culture influencer, and how their standing and stature vis-à-vis the CEO and other C-suite executives should be a topic of board inquiry.

A brief addressing the question of whether it is appropriate for the trier of fact to draw an adverse inference with respect to willful infringement when the attorney-client privilege and/or work product privilege is invoked by a defendant in an infringement suit.

This is a sample temporary staffing services agreement where the provider company is based in Ontario, Canada.

This is sample leave of absence policy for the state of California.

A Model Association CEO Employment Agreement, which is favorable to the executive.

This is a sample severance agreement setting out the rights and responsibilities of the employer and the separating executive, including the benefits that the employer will provide to the executive in exchange for a release of claims.

This is a sample software license agreement.

This is a sample sales agreement regarding guestroom block and special group rates.

This is a sample of purchase order standard terms and conditions.

Wadler v Bio-Rad - Case Management Statement

This is a template non-compete agreement between a corporation and parties involving an acquisition.

When in-house counsel join a legal department, they might be tasked with building a compliance and ethics program. This article explains some basic starting points on how in-house counsel can start this project.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses whether a publicly-traded company should enforce quarterly trading blackout periods for all employees or just a select group (directors, executives, etc.). This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Corporate and Securities Law and Law Department Management Law ACC Network.

This is a sample severance agreement setting out the terms of the benefits provided by the employer in exchange for claims relinquished by the departing executive.

It has become crucial for in-house attorneys to pay close attention to application data and compliance issues. Following the numerous reports of security data breaches that left many people with their personal information made public, a need to develop and implement policies and procedures to protect personal information has presented itself. Find out how to strengthen you current policy or get a good one into place.

This is a sample agreement between a hotel and client.

Most companies have key business suppliers upon which they rely. In these relationships, comprehensive agreements are created to memorialize contractual understandings and provide indemnity rights/obligations if things do not go as planned. What do you do if your key business supplier or franchisee does not meet expectations and causes your company a large loss in breach of the protective agreement? Should you write it off as the cost of doing business? Should you retain counsel and sue for indemnity at the risk of souring the relationship and losing future business? Panelists will address approaches that create a satisfying middle ground to enforce indemnity rights and potentially strengthen business relationships.

Dealing effectively with a crisis requires organizational readiness for almost any eventuality. This program will promote preparedness, enhanced decision-making and institutional integrity. Using polling devices, attendees will navigate their way through a number of crisis scenarios, focusing on the role of in-house counsel. The session will highlight best practices in crisis management planning, assembling the crisis management team, stakeholder relations, fact-finding and internal investigations, preserving evidence, communication and litigation in multiple jurisdictions. The scenarios will also address the tensions that sometimes exist between “business” and “legal.” Panelists, including a crisis management expert, will offer their perspectives as we work through each scenario. You will receive access to sample crisis management protocol documents that you can then customize. The presentation will cover MRPC 1.13, 1.1, MRCP 3 and sub-rules for ethics credit.

When the general counsel has a seat at the chief executive’s leadership table, it sends a signal to the company’s stakeholders (internal and external) that ethics, compliance, and other legal risk considerations are a top priority of the company. This resource outlines why the general counsel should be a key ally and partner in establishing a corporate culture.

Employment-related claims can affect the productivity and morale of a business unit in a way few other business disputes can. Not surprisingly then, employment claims are among the most tempting to settle quickly. Yet in the author's experience, an employer's record of early settlements with employees inspires the plaintiffs' bar. To avoid painting a bulls-eye on your company's back, you should develop a deliberate protocol for handling employment-related claims that discourages recreational or speculative claims.

This report summarizes findings from 240 corporate counsel respondents from a wide variety of industries and companies of all sizes. Includes information regarding respondent demographics, current trends, and suggested action to be taken.

This is a sample convertible subordinated promissory note.

This case law is an order on Plaintiff's two motions to compel depositions.

The Association of Corporate Counsel and Laurence Simons surveyed corporate legal departments to learn more about their teams in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The ACC/Laurence Simons 2012 EMEA Legal Department Survey is available to members and non-members.

This is a sample independent contractor agreement between a company and consultant.