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.
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 panel discussion provides insight in how to plan, prepare, coordinate, and implement a document collection no matter the size or scope. The program covers how to collect and process hard copy information, electronically stored information, and other types of data. It also covers what paralegals need to consider in order to process and get the information their team needs from the data set after the document collection is complete. The paralegal is the front line of defense when finding, collecting, and processing documents.
The ability to effectively manage outside counsel is essential to the success of in-house lawyers. Learn how to select, evaluate, compare, and retain the outside counsel that best suits the organizational
The genesis of the vast majority of corporate scandals erupting over the last decade has been financial bad behavior. Thus, it behooves in-house counsel to understand the basic how, what, when, where, and why of financial statements, balance sheets, and accounting principles. Otherwise even in the best-case scenario in-house counsel might find himself/herself fiddling while Rome burns, or worse, active or passive participants in financial mismanagement. The good news is that you don't have to become an accountant to understand these concepts, but you do have to educate yourself.
In this session panelists discuss how to effectively manage risk in a cloud computing contract and provide you with a due diligence checklist to choose your company's cloud provider wisely.
Find out what executives say about etiquette in the workplace, and learn how to tend to your network in just five minutes a day. You will gain better insight into your social networking style through interaction with panelists, including an engaging quiz.
This materials covers new regulations, including the new rules on misconduct in science and financial conflicts of interest and other developments; acquire best practices and good resources for management policies and procedures; and discuss what to do when something goes wrong with your organization's federal funding.
In this session you will learn about the four main financial statements: balance sheets; income statements; cash flow statements; statements of shareholders’ equity and
the difference in publicly-traded vs. private companies’ perspectives on these reports. Understanding the dynamics of the main four is critical to any senior counsel managing a business unit or General Counsel and will assist you in tracking areas of concern and providing the appropriate strategic recommendations.
Cross-border M&As have become part of the global business landscape. Global customers require companies to obtain scale and have a global presence in the markets. Through a detailed review of the key factors and recommendations, the panelists will provide a practical approach to a bullet-proof cross-border merger.