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.
Canadian CCU 2007: Whether you are brand new to in-house practice, or have spent a few years working for a company, your career depends upon some basic skills. Learn how to provide the legal support your client needs, including how to set priorities, communicate legal concepts with management, and understand the legal issues relevant to all businesses.
Canadian CCU 2007: Companies have to walk the walk. If a company does not have a culture that is committed to ethical conduct and compliance with all applicable laws and regulation, all the talk in the world will be o f no use. After all, Enron had an excellent code of conduct on the books; the problem was that no one paid any attention to it. Learn more about what constitutes a culture of compliance and why it is so important that it exists at your company.
Give your company a competitive advantage while positioning your department as a proactive business partner by building an effective government relations program without adding additional staff. How you say? Learn the law of lobbying. Join your in-house peers to learn how to develop a national (or state) strategy, how to find and hire lobbyists, and how to launch a legally compliant grassroots effort and create, manage, and evaluate a successful PAC.
More than ever, CEOs are looking to their general counsel to run the law department like a business. Typically a cost-center, the legal function in many companies often faces particularly stringent standards for efficiency and sometimes-outright skepticism from CEOs and boards about bottom-line orientation. How are leading GCs and department managers responding to this pressure and demonstrating creative, proactive, and business-savvy leadership in managing the legal function?
The counselor to a smaller business is often asked to take on duties for which law school has not prepared her; functions such as human resources, risk management, real estate, media response, or government relations. How does she successfully fulfill these roles without compromising her primary responsibility as legal counsel?
Looking for optimal work flow, organization, and productivity in your legal department? Who isn’t! Here is a thought provoking, effective session on how to apply top down and bottom up principles in conjunction with Six Sigma practices to turn a disorganized legal department with circular work patterns and other inefficiencies into a highly productive team with quality on-time deliverables.
Real estate is a basic part of doing business, whether your employer owns, leases or subleases facilities. Learn the law from your in-house peers who have of necessity become real estate law experts, and discover the key considerations and potential traps that every in-house attorney must know for basic real estate transactions and managing your companies' real property assets.
The greatest challenge for corporate counsel is to reconcile the dual, and sometimes contradictory role, of being both a productive business partner and guardian of the corporation's integrity and reputation. Successfully resolving this tension is essential if a company is to attain the two fundamental goals of contemporary capitalism: high performance and high integrity. We are most fortunate to have Ben W. Heineman Jr., share his thoughts and observations about this dilemma with us.
Corporations operating internationally take legal and other risks in sending employees abroad. The dangers of international travel are very real for corporate travelers, often deemed ideal targets for criminals. Kidnappings are a daily occurrence, even in cities once thought to be safe.
When a dispute arises concerning the sale of a business, your clever lawyering and intricate draftsmanship can get lost in front of judge and jury. How can you draft your contract to insure the intention of the parties is enforced as well as maximize the protection to your client? Our panel of your litigation peers will share their 20-20 hindsight on the M&A deal and what M&A practitioners should know about how your contracts are received and interpreted, and what you can do to help in case the business deal ends up in the courtroom or arbitration.