The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
The aim of this paper is to assist those who maintain a foothold in each of the legal and business worlds. This paper explores the boundary between legal and business advice provided by in-house counsel, analyzes the potential liability and insurance ramifications associated with these two kinds of advice and examines how the rules of ethics and changes in procedures may help the In-House counsel in maintaining a balance.
Ranging from key technology licenses central to a business model to operational IT licenses for office software, every company’s counsel must advise on inbound licensing. This nuts and bolts course will take the perspective of and focus on the legal issues involved in licensing including coordinating licensed rights from different vendors with the licensee’s business model, impact of standard provisions on the licensee’s operations, and must-have contract clauses for licensees.
Annual Meeting 2006: Managing risk is an important part of every in-house lawyer’s portfolio. How do you balance the negotiations of limitations of liability and indemnification provisions without risking the deal? What can your company live with, and what can you recommend and still sleep at night? What leverage can you exert against a party that is a Goliath when you are David? Learn about legal strategies, and take home best practice methods to apply in your own company.
CCU 2007: Our panel of seasoned labor and employment specialists highlight serious mistakes that could cost your company money, but could have otherwise been avoided with prior warning. Learn how to uncover these prevalent employment law mistakes in your organization, how to fix them, and how to prevent them from becoming serious legal problems.
Developed with the transactional attorney or corporate generalist in mind, this session will provide you with the fundamentals to draft and negotiate legally enforceable environmental terms and conditions for the purchase of real property and the sale of an on-going concern with environmental liabilities. Our panel will focus, in particular, on environmental law including indemnification provisions, baselines, and related insurance. From this program, you will be able to draft and negotiate environmental terms in a contract without being forced to go to outside counsel for assistance.
ACC’s focus on privilege protection led us to look into the evolving (devolving?) relationship between lawyers and auditors for the company, but what we found takes us far beyond problems that arise in the context of auditor access to confidential or privileged files: additional dissatisfactions permeate the relationship. This program will present the results of this year’s examination of how to improve lawyer-auditor rapport and propose ideas to help facilitate the important work that lawyers and auditors should be working together to accomplish.
With intellectual property assertions from third parties becoming increasingly visible to companies, intellectual property indemnity provisions are more heavily negotiated and the focus of supply line and technology licensing agreements. Our licensing experts will discuss the key IP indemnity provisions that are often the most heavily negotiated. Plus they provide tips based on their past experience, share proven methods on how to negotiate provisions, and identify the most important ones to require.
With its rapidly growing economy and expanding middle class, India has become an increasingly attractive market in which to invest and do business. While there has been a liberalization of the Indian economy, regulatory constraints and other challenges remain. Learn about the key bureaucratic, regulatory and legal considerations of making investments, creating joint ventures and distributing products in India, including protecting technology transfers to India and selecting suitable dispute resolution mechanisms.
Add value to your enterprise and learn when and how to put your insurance program out to bid, including bringing in competition for entrenched brokers. The program will discuss how to execute a request for bid to insurance providers, how to utilize your current broker and/or consultants in the process and traps for the unwary in the application process.