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.
The introduction of EU-wide design rights in 2003 heralded a new era of pan-European intellectual property protection. Since then around 400,000 designs have been registered and this number is increasing at a rate of about 80,000 a year. This document discusses what can be protected, the registration process, and the scope of protection.
This Antitrust Basics training course will provide an overview of antitrust law and help you recognize and deal with "red flags" — situations that present a risk of antitrust violations and legal liability.
This Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) training course will help you recognize situations that raise various ADA issues in the workplace and teach you how to deal with these issues legally and effectively.
This ThinkTank, hosted by Pat Hatler, Nationwide, included discussion of Enterprise Risk Management, the Board's role, communications and IT considerations, trends and review processes as they relate to the insurance industry.
Compliance in Asia: It is harder than you think. Each country in Asia has its own compliance issues and in-house counsel must be alert to them. You must know how to spot the main red flags and to determine what is coming next. And, you must handle these issues effectively and with consideration of the cultural impact of your proposed solution. This session was a straight talking, direct and open assessment of what goes on and what to look out for.
Allegations are being made from unauthorized practice of law to conflicts of interest. From where do these accusations arise and how are they resolved? How should a lawyer respond when confronted with an allegation of impropriety originating from an adversary, the judiciary, legislatively, or from a committee within a bar association? What steps can you take to quickly bring to the decision maker’s attention the plethora of ethics and ABA opinions, treatises and authoritative decisions that support, justify, or authorize the actions challenged?
Don’t miss this session if your responsibilities involve the review and creation of NDAs, or sales, vendor, license or other types of contracts. If you’re still using basic technology (e.g., Word and email) to manage your contract processes, you’re missing out on the emerging world of enterprise contract management. Technology is now available to help companies automate and improve the entire contract creation and management life cycle, and doing so can bring tremendous value to your organization.
When it comes to green, the focus is no longer just on cars and smokestacks. Society at large—legislators and regulators in particular—are focusing on the third largest cause of greenhouse gases: commercial office and retail buildings. Learn from a panel of authorities about the types of environmentally enlightened actions and purchases that commercial-building owners and occupants will volunteer (or be required) to make—and how those actions and purchases affect the legal department.
How do you handicap the likely result of a “make or break” jury trial? What can you do as in-house counsel to present the facts strategically and influence the outcome? This program put you in the frame of mind necessary to “think like a trial lawyer” and answered questions about trial strategy, witness examination, and evidentiary rulings. You witnessed a mock trail and volunteered to participate as a juror on one of several empanelled juries.