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Discusses what happens to the attorney-client privilege when the interest of a parent corporation and its affiliated companies diverge and ultimately become adverse, and provides useful guidance for corporate counsel representing corporate families.

Most in-house professionals have to wrestle with questions related to open source on a regular basis. This panel will use recent case law to discuss whether we still worry about open source and to what extent. For example, what about indemnification for open source and third-party claims? How does recent case law about licensing application programming interfaces have an impact?

Alternative Fee Arrangements ("AFAs") are increasingly becoming an effective tool for in-house legal departments to use in lowering outside legal spending and adding some predictability to anticipated costs on a given matter.

This is a sample promissory note in favor of a Delaware limited partnership.

This is a sample document for outside counsel billing guidelines and instructions.

This article provides an analysis on the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia’s report, entitled Never Again: Inquiry into the destruction of 46,000 year old caves at the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region of Western Australia – Interim Report (released on 9 December 2020).

One of the most uncomfortable discussions any in-house counsel will have is justifying to the CFO why large amounts of money were/are being spent for outside legal work, especially litigation spend. Law departments are still viewed as cost centers in most corporations. Pressure is greater than ever to defend return on investment for litigation spend. If the in-house counsel can''t quantify why amounts are being spent in litigation, he will have a difficult time becoming a valued business partner — or worse. This program will share best practices/metrics and look to ways the in-house counsel can quantify legal spend (particularly litigation spend) against the results from their outside counsel.

This sample form is an agreement between a medical facility and a billing company to provide billing and collection services.

This is a sample employee non-disclosure, non-solicitation and intellectual property agreement.

This article highlights areas where the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and state workers' compensation laws overlap and conflict and offers practical considerations for employers.

This article involves moving beyond the initial step of any law enforcement agency taking your company's report of criminal activity if it falls within their jurisdiction, leading to a criminal investigation and eventual prosecution.

Sample employee intellectual property assignment agreement.

This is an excerpt taken from the Code of Federal Regulations concerning religious discrimination.

This is a sample agency agreement for the manufacture and supplier of a product.

In this article key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding mergers and acquisitions.

Learn how to implement a robust risk-based strategy that defines your third-party risk profile, standardizes the due diligence process, and performs continuous monitoring of third-party partners.

Spanish outsourcing agreement

This Report summarizes the discussion at the ACC’s CLO Roundtable session “Diversity and Privacy (Risks and Compliance” held in Toronto on May 20, 2014.

A sample agency agreement between a company incorporated under the laws of Italy and a company incorporated under the laws of the U.S. Includes articles for appointment of the agent, responsibilities of the agent, orders, payments and commissions, information, etc.

Board Members discuss the importance of reassuring stakeholders that in-house counsel are making the right strategic decisions to move their companies forward in these difficult economic times.

This article details steps to building successful minority programs in corporations.

Aggressive use of ADR can save a company endless hours of time and millions of dollars in expenses. Here's how Georgia-Pacific Corporation's revamped litigation tactics are paying off.

This article provides an overview of California' Single-Use Packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) law. The law imposes prohibitions for certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware in California.

The law also imposes significant recycling and EPR requirements for “producers” of single-use packaging and food service items sold or otherwise distributed in California.

ACC Comment Letter

Sample environmental, health, and safety protocol and procedures.

Comments of the Association of Corporate Counsel on The Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines (Proposed Amendments to Chapter Eight, United States Sentencing Guidelines)

Learn about key features captive insurance vs. traditional insurance in the United States, and aspects to keep in mind when considering setting up captive insurance.

This sample concerns issues for US employers doing business in Japan.

This document is a sample professional services agreement.