ACC Alliance

ACC has formed working partnerships with leading legal and business services providers to ensure the accessibility of high-quality products and services for corporate counsel. The ACC Alliance Program offers professional products and services specifically designed for the in-house practitioner at special rates.

Bridgeway is honored to be a member of the ACC Alliance for the 9th consecutive year. Bridgeway brings best practices to corporate legal departments for matter management, corporate governance, electronic invoicing / cost management, mass tort and contracts management. Bridgeway helps clients build high performance legal departments through technology-based best practice solutions, collaboration and outstanding support. Solutions include consulting, training and software.

Many corporations are bringing corporate governance into their legal departments, consolidating data with legal matter management. And many legal departments need enterprise-wide matter management so that they can exchange information with remote offices anywhere in the world.

Bridgeway's best practice solutions are eCounsel(tm) for legal matter management, Secretariat(tm) for corporate secretary governance, and Smart Invoice(tm) for electronic invoicing and cost management. All applications integrate into one uniform data management system for optimal efficiency and information flow. All legal data from practice areas and corporate governance is stored in one database so legal departments have information at their fingertips when they need it, quickly and easily.

eCounsel key features:

• Matter tracking — Provides quick information access with online search capabilities
• Outside counsel management — Allows benchmarking and monitoring of law firm performance
• Budgeting — Analyzes costs versus budgeted amounts
• Calendaring events and docketing — Tracks scheduled items and reminds user about due dates
• Staff management — Maintains complete records of employees
• Reporting — Generates standard or custom reports quickly and easily.

Secretariat key features:

• Managing all corporate minute-book records — Makes all content instantly searchable and tracks related data such as notes and correspondence.
• Highly customizable — Permits data fields defined by the user
• Fast and easy professional reports — Report wizard and custom report tools allow user to create clear and on-point reports in a variety of formats including PDF and HTML
• Tracks subsidiary hierarchy and percentage of ownership — Optionally integrates with Bridgeway's Corp Charts to display the information in a graphical format.
• Calendar integration — Secretariat is integrated with popular calendar programs such as Outlook and Lotus Notes
• Controls access — Security features limit access to data for each staff member at each location.

Smart Invoice key features:

• 100 percent invoice capture — Imports electronic invoices, tracks approval and integrates data with accounting system (both LEDES and non-LEDES formats)
• Budgeting — Analyzes costs versus budgeted amounts
• Streamlined routing and review — Improves processes for greater efficiency
• Billing guidelines adherence — Follows each company's unique workflow and business rules
• Spending trend analysis — Provides information by capturing and "mining" legal costs over time
• Reporting — Generates comprehensive set of analytical reports and user-definable Crystal reports
• Flexibility — Can be hosted or installed onsite behind client's firewall.

For smaller corporate legal departments, eCounsel and Secretariat are available individually. Secretariat Desktop is designed to meet the office needs of one to four corporate secretary staff members.

Bridgeway will work with a corporate legal IT staff to configure eCounsel, Secretariat, and Smart Invoice for corporate intranets. For every technical platform used by legal departments, Bridgeway has a best practices solution fit for optimal efficiency in legal data management. For more information, visit http://www.bridge-way.com/ or call (888) 272-4699.

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Employed Lawyers Professional Liability

As cost-conscious companies seek to have in-house counsel perform services traditionally delegated to law firms, corporate attorneys face increasing liability exposures, especially to non-client third parties. Chubb is proud to be the Employed Lawyers Professional (ELP) Liability Insurance provider recommended by ACC and to be part of the ACC Alliance program.

At Chubb, we understand the unique risks faced by corporate attorneys and offer many coverage features specifically designed to meet the special needs of in-house counsel, including:

• Extensive definition of professional services.
• Defense costs for certain claims brought by the employer, directors, or officers.
• Coverage for violations of Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Worldwide coverage, both as to where the wrongful act occurred and where the claim was made.
• No deductible for claims not indemnified by the employer.
• The "Full House" endorsement (2005), offering the following enhancements:
  • Expanded definition of insured to include independent contractor attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, and notaries public working under the supervision of employed lawyers.
  • Personal legal services coverage for officers or employees of the company.
  • Punitive and exemplary damages, where permitted by law.
• Other endorsements available include:
  • Moonlighting.
  • Choice of counsel .
  • Most favorable jurisdiction (with respect to punitive and exemplary damages).

Chubb's unparalleled experience underwriting both lawyers' professional liability and directors and officers liability insurance coverages enables us to assess the risks faced by in-house attorneys and to offer in-depth coverage. Our commitment to our customers has earned us an enviable reputation for unparalleled claims service.

To learn more about Chubb, call 800.432.8168, or visit www.chubb.com.

Stephen Goldstein
Assistant Vice President, Strategic Alliances
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
3 Mountain View Road
Warren, NJ 07059
Phone: 908.903.4104
Fax: 908.903.4216
Email: spgoldstein@chubb.com

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Is Digital Content Challenging Your Compliance Process? No Problem.

The Internet and e-mail have made it easier than ever to copy and distribute information from books, journals and other copyrighted materials. But are these conveniences making it harder for you to ensure your firm's compliance with copyright law?

If so there's a simple solution: Copyright Clearance Center.

With licensing solutions from Copyright Clearance Center, an ACC Alliance Partner, your company can:

• Lawfully copy and share content in-house and externally, in the U.S. and abroad, via photocopy, Web, e-mail, and much more.
• Quickly and easily obtain rights to use content from the world's largest selection of leading industry print and online publications.

We've assisted attorneys from thousands of U.S. corporations and law firms with their copyright compliance challenges. Let us help map our solutions to your compliance needs.

Please call 978-750-8400 to speak with one of our licensing consultants or e-mail us at licensing@copyright.com . See how simple compliance can be. You may even qualify for a special ACC member discount.

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Fios® provides electronic discovery services to corporate counsel and their law firms, enabling them to reduce costs, ensure defensibility in court and increase the likelihood of success by fully leveraging the growing universe of electronic evidence that is a part of every litigated matter and compliance request.

ACC members receive our Litigation Readiness Assessment at a discounted price. The assessment identifies gaps and areas of risk as well as opportunities for "quick wins" and immediate successes. The resulting report provides a baseline for process improvement as well as offers a good overview of the required people, processes and technology essential for your ideal level of litigation readiness. Exclusive to ACC members is our litigation readiness benchmark reporting where members for whom we have conducted an assessment can compare their results to aggregated peer data.

The Litigation Readiness Assessment enables you to:

• Assess readiness in each step of the discovery response process
• Determine overall level of readiness for litigation response
• Explore potential "root causes" where there is a lack of readiness
• Outline possible impacts of a lack of readiness
• Plan for action in specific areas to reduce litigation risk, gain control over costs and make process improvements over time

FREE WEBCAST
Discovery Readiness: Know where you are, where you're going and how to get there
June 19, 2008 – 1:00 PM EDT
Duration: One Hour

This webcast will provide an overview of the affirmative steps organizations can take to become "discovery ready" and mitigate the risks related to spoliation of evidence, missed court-ordered production deadlines, and the inability to effectively control the scope of discovery.

REGISTER TODAY

Members may reach us at alliance@fiosinc.com or call us toll-free at 877.700.3467 for more information about the Litigation Readiness Assessment and our other services for ACC members. Visit Fios at www.fiosinc.com.

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IntraLinks is pleased to be the online workspace provider of choice for the in-house legal community. Recognized as the market leader in online workspace solutions, IntraLinks offers corporate legal departments a better way to manage the exchange and storage of their company’s most confidential and sensitive information.

An IntraLinks On-Demand Workspace™ is a flexible virtual environment where you control and monitor access to your confidential information. Using IntraLinks’ web-based service, legal departments can safely share sensitive materials with internal and external parties — without the security and compliance risks inherent in fax, email and shared drives, and without the administrative burden, cost and uncertainties of overnight mail. With an online workspace, in-house counsel can create a permission-only area where documents can be shared and accessed anytime, and from anywhere. With IntraLinks, you can rest assured that your sensitive business information is protected at all times.

In addition, because IntraLinks online workspaces are 100% web-based, your workspace can be up and running quickly without the involvement of your IT department — no software to install, implement or integrate. And, our award-winning, live customer service team is available to help you 24/7/365.

Since 1997, IntraLinks has transformed the way companies in many different industries exchange information and streamline business processes. Find out how IntraLinks can help you and learn about the exclusive discount you receive, as an ACC member:

Phone: 1-866-INTRALINKS or +1 212-342-7684
Email: americas@intralinks.com
Web: www.intralinks.com/accalliance

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Helping companies assess, develop and enforce legally-defensible corporate records and information management policies and programs.

Jordan Lawrence helps companies make better records-related decisions and integrate their policies into day-to-day practices. As a specialty consulting firm for the past two decades, we have worked with companies of all size and developed unparalleled experience and leadership in the industry.

Our records assessment and policy enforcement services can help your company protect its legal and financial interests by using our proven, world-class benchmarking and best practice standards. Jordan Lawrence specializes in the identification and maintenance of all record types, from the dusty, forgotten about hardcopies hiding in a back closet to the constant barrage of daily email traffic.

In brief Jordan Lawrence will help your company:

• Prepare for the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Create a formal "Hold management" process
• Develop practical strategies for managing the challenges of email and electronic information
• Meet privacy requirements
• Put records and information management policies into practice

Founded in 1987, Jordan Lawrence has continued to evolve its services in
order to provide current, objective solutions in today¹s ever changing
business environment.

Our Assessment, Development and Hold management programs have helped major corporations throughout the world implement, a defensible and actionable records program.

Jordan Lawrence recognizes the ACC as a forum for corporate professionals to stay current on changing rules and regulations. We are happy to offer all ACC members a 10% discount on our services.

To learn more about Jordan Lawrence, please contact:
Marty Provin
Jordan Lawrence
Phone: 636.821.2250
Fax: 636.527.1809
Email: mprovin@jlgroup.com
or visit http://www.jlgroup.com/ .

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Robert Half Legal is proud to be ACC's exclusive staffing partner. You can save up to $1000 when you hire a project attorney or $500 when you hire a project paralegal from Robert Half Legal. ACC members always save when they hire project lawyers and paralegals from Robert Half Legal. For more discount opportunities and details see www.acc.com/certificate.html

Robert Half Legal is North America's leading legal staffing service and a division of Robert Half International, Inc., the worldwide Leader in Specialized Staffing Services since 1948. Robert Half Legal provides top-notch attorneys, paralegals and legal support staff on a project and direct hire basis. Robert Half Legal partners with you to help your organization realize significant cost savings, strategic staffing flexibility and immediate access to specialized expertise.

Robert Half Legal has more than 30 offices in major cities in North America. Clients with national and/or multi-national offices benefit from our network, which provides skilled legal professionals whenever and wherever the need arises. Our candidates include first-rate lawyers and paralegals trained and experienced in practice areas ranging from corporate governance, litigation and bankruptcy to real estate and patent prosecution.

Our Account Executives are experienced attorneys and administrators who possess an in-depth knowledge of the legal industry and close ties in the legal community. They understand your business and your needs and can assist you whether you need to build a team of project professionals or find a single lawyer with a specific practice area expertise.

Robert Half Legal offers important industry information useful in managing your business and your career. From our timely research project, Future Law Office, to our annual Salary Guide, Robert Half Legal provides you with important industry information as well as first-rate legal personnel. Robert Half Legal is the only legal staffing partner you'll ever need.

Robert Half Legal
A division of Robert Half International, Inc.
2884 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200
Menlo Park, California 94025
800-870-8367
roberthalflegal.com

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WeComply’s ever-expanding library of online compliance training programs includes new programs on "Fraud Awareness and Detection," "Information Security," “Healthcare Fraud and Abuse” and "Whistleblowing."

Why WeComply?

Superior Programs

• Comprehensive — Programs are authored and edited by attorneys, HR professionals, and educators.
• Customizable — Programs are 100% customizable, allowing you to make the content industry- or company-specific.
• "Edutaining" — Programs hold your employees' interest with learning games, pop quizzes, clever illustrations, and real-life examples.

Superior Technology

• Powerful — Patented training-management system lets you administer programs from the web in real time.
  
• Compatible — Programs are designed to industry-standard guidelines and can be tracked from any learning management system.
  
• Accessible — Programs are accessible without special hardware, software, or a fast Internet connection.
• Secure —Our system complies with the strict security requirements of Verisign and TRUSTe, the industry standards for online security.

Special Offer for ACC Members

WeComply is pleased to offer ACC members either (a) 100 free training credits to apply to any WeComply training program or (b) $1,500 in content-customization services on any purchase of 500 or more credits.

For more information, including program summaries and sample programs, please visit http://www.wecomply.com/ or contact WeComply by phone at 1-866-WeComply (1-866-932-6675) or by e-mail at sales@wecomply.com .

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Thomson-West, the leading provider of legal and regulatory information, is proud to announce the details of its newest partnership with the leading organization for corporate counsel. The new alliance is proof of West Group's commitment to serving the needs of the corporate counsel community. The result of the partnership is an exciting new program uniting the shared missions of West Group and ACC to provide corporate counsel with the best tools and finest resources available.

Through the ACC Alliance Program, ACC members are able to choose from thousands of West 's valuable print, CD-ROM, and online products and services to customize a package that suits their company's needs. With each purchase, members earn "ACC Dollars" that can be used toward any ACC-related purchase, such as membership dues, registration fees, or local or national ACC programs. For details, members can consult with their local chapters or call their dedicated local West Corporate Representative: 800/248-2449.

Thomson-West is the preeminent provider of information to the U.S. legal and regulatory market. Headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, West is a division of the Thomson Corporation (TSE:TOC). For more information on West and its products and services, visit its website: http://www.westgroup.com/ .

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