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.
Learn how leading departments deal with the complexity of managing intellectual property in today's global marketplace. What management approaches work? What technology tools and business processes lead to success or to failure? How can communications be best focused to draw from the strengths of the in-house and outside lawyers, subject matter experts, and business team? Our panel of corporate IP specialists will share with you successful models for managing a global patent portfolio, including successful techniques and pitfalls to avoid.
Annual Meeting 2006: Litigation, regardless of what type, can be expensive. Make that very expensive. Your legal knowledge can help you manage lawsuits in such a way that you can reduce your expenses. Take this opportunity to learn some tried and true methods for managing these costs in an IP lawsuit including outside counsel fees, costs of using experts and consultants, and more. We’ll send you home with the knowledge you need to manage these and other costs along with an understanding about why some costs will always be out of your control.
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.
Annual Meeting 2006: As in-house counsel for your company, one of your many roles may be to provide support and guidance to the board. But you need to stay on top of the trends in order to provide the best legal advice possible. Here is your chance to get up to speed as this course will teach you about current best practices in board process, director communication, and on-boarding new directors. You’ll also take home practical tips on the hottest legal issues affecting directors today, including duties and liability, D&O insurance, and corporate governance.
This Executive Report highlights key issues and takeaways discussed by General Counsel during a session in Atlanta on 'Managing the Global Law Department.'
The following outline sets forth several areas within the vast governance landscape that require ongoing attention by CLOs of major companies, some of which may be particularly relevant for collaborative consideration by the participants in the ThinkTank. The topics are organized according to broad conceptual categories that reflect either a principal governance functional area, or the organizational or administrative relationships of the CLO of a typical large public company.
The following outline is intended to provide a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of this discussion topic. There may be other issues not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline. The outline is merely intended as a starting point to help you identify discussion topics and tee up your conversation. This material is from the ACC CLO ThinkTank Series.
A resource list with a sampling of supplemental materials pertaining to the topics raised during this CLO ThinkTank on Corporate Governance and Compliance.
The following outline is intended to provide a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of this discussion topic. There may be other issues we’ve not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline.