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.
An interview with Thomas Wardell and R. William Ide of McKenna, Long & Aldridge on how companies can find general counsel that will adequately look after corporate compliance.
This powerpoint presentation on Managing Competition Law Risk by the law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin was presented to the ACC Ontario Chapter on Thursday, Jan 31, 2008
Presented on February 7, 2008 to the Oregon Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, this program examined some of the critical intellectual property and commercial issues in joint ventures and development deals and identified ways to address these issues in legal documents.
Does your company have a compliance program? Do you know what to do in the event of a dawn raid from your national competition authority or from the EU? Is your company within the radar of competition rules? Should you be concerned about your current practices? Corporate attorneys practicing within the EU need to be intimately familiar with competition laws and how they could affect a company’s business.
While Washington appears to have lost interest in pre-merger antitrust review, such reviews are intensifying in Brussels. Thanks to appeal judgments requiring the European Commission to justify its decisions more thoroughly, a new era of more lengthy and fact-intensive reviews has arrived. It seems that competitors are more easily able to create delays by exploiting this trend, which two case studies will illustrate.
Learn "best practices" from colleagues, how to build effective and mutually beneficial working relationship with outside counsel and perform strategic planning to control costs and align the law department with the company’s goals.
The Data Protection Directive requires anyone who handles personal information to comply with a number of important principles. Among them: ensure that the personal information is lawfully processed, accurate and up to date, processed in line with the individual’s rights, secure and not transferred to other countries without adequate protection.
This session will give you an introduction into the complexities of electronic discovery. It will provide you with some suggested practical tips and watch-outs. It will put E-discovery in the total context of document and data management in general within a global corporation. Following this session you should be able to identify most pitfalls if faced with E-discovery and know what to do and how to (proactively) minimize risk and efforts in dealing with it.
This session focuses on a range of aspects that are often to be addressed when outsourcing information technology and communication services to a third party. After a general introduction on outsourcing, the different phases from business lead to contract and finally to contract termination will be discussed identifying relevant legal and commercial aspects.