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.
UBIT, Lobbying, political activity, and involvement in commercial ventures. Sound familiar? In-house counsel will appreciate this review of the major tax issues confronting nonprofits.
In today's global economy, strategic alliances have taken center stage. Organizations of all shapes and sizes, across all geographic and industry sectors, are actively building partner-centric business models and designing partner-leveraged strategies. These corporate networks of alliance relationships pose some interesting legal challenges for in-house counsel. How are strategic alliances structured, negotiated and implemented? How should issues such as limitation of liability, protection of intellectual property and confidentiality be addressed?
This Guide to Conducting an Effective Internal Investigation (“Guide”) sets forth how to investigate effectively matters arising within the company that have been referred to the legal department. This Guide does not address how to determine whether a matter should be referred to the legal department as opposed to another corporate function. Even though this Guide is designed to provide this guidance to the legal department in conducting Investigations, many of the principals in the Guide are universal and could be applied to investigations conducted by non-lawyers.
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.