Close
Login to MyACC
ACC Members


Not a Member?

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.

Join ACC

Search Filters
 Katie Maechler, Partner; Stephanie Laws, Partner; and Abigail Maier, Associate (Maslon LLP)

It is inescapable: All companies, no matter the industry, face litigation risks through the day-to-day creation of documents. 

"Bad" documents increase your exposure to risks and can threaten your business. This article discusses ways an organization can coach its employees to avoid those documents and instead create "smart" documents that help advance case themes and mitigate risk should litigation arise.

Charles Butcher, Jack Cai, Dickson Ng, and Gabrielle Honey (Eversheds Sutherland)
16 pages

This guide provides an overview of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure obligations within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

Resource Details
Region: Global, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines
Diane Gilhooley (Eversheds Sutherland)
3 pages

The article provides a summary of seven United Kingdom bills that seeks to provide for new employment rights.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Employment and Labor
Region: United Kingdom
Tyron Fourie (Eversheds Sutherland)
2 pages

The article provides a brief overview of open finance, a practice that allows third party service providers access to consumers’ financial data from banks and financial institutions using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).

Jane Southworth and Elodie Brière (Eversheds Sutherland)
2 pages

This article provides an overview of the new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regime for packaging which will start on January 1, 2024.

Paula Barrett, Dave Hughes, Jonathan Palmer (Eversheds Sutherland)
4 pages

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”) in March 2023 published the Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill (“DPDI2”). DPDI2 aims to make a number of changes to the UK data protection regime.

This article discusses what this change actually means for business, both financially and legally.

Resource Details
Region: United Kingdom
William A. Ryan, Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer (AT&T Services Inc.), Allen Garrett, Partner (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), and Brad Sears, Associate (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP)

The recent story of two New York attorneys “duped” by ChatGPT into citing “fake” cases in a court submission illustrates some of the risks of using artificial intelligence.

But the attorney missteps in the ChatGPT case are entirely avoidable. And the emergence of generative AI carries extraordinary potential if attorneys can learn to use the technology wisely.

Global Legal Group
200 pages

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding corporate governance across a range of jurisdictions.

Resource Details
Region: Global, Austria, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Global Legal Group
258 pages

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding shipping law across a range of jurisdictions.

Some topics covered include

Resource Details
Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Region: Global, Angola, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Malta, Mozambique, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela
James Goepel, General Counsel & Director of Education and Content, FutureFeed
8 pages

This article explores how in-house counsel, and particularly those in small and medium businesses, can help bridge the gap between the server room and the boardroom to create a well-structured cybersecurity program that empowers management with the information they need to better assess and prioritize their organization’s cybersecurity spending.

Subscribe to Articles
ACC