Compliance and Ethics Committee

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Leading Practices Profiles

Corporate Political Compliance: Best Practices for Legal Departments in Lobbying, Campaigning, and Gifts and Enterntainment

This Leading Practices Profile examines the important role of in-house counsel with respect to a company or nonprofit organization’s participation in the political process. Representatives from each of the five profiled entities provide valuable information regarding oversight, policies, training and compliance, as well as pitfalls, risks and vulnerabilities in the area of political participation. In doing so, in-house counsel Profile Participants emphasize corporate political compliance issues that arise in lobbying, campaign activities, and gifts and entertainment.

QuickCounsel

Infopak

Influencing Government: The Rules of the Game (Campaign Finance, Lobbying Disclosure, and Gift Laws)

This InfoPAK is designed to help a company understand three areas of law that regulate efforts to influence government decision-making: campaign finance law, lobbying disclosure law, and gift law. In this day and age, a successful company often needs to: (1) participate in selecting those who control government; (2) know what disclosure consequences arise from lobbying government; and (3) avoid nasty pitfalls relating to developing friendships in the government sector.

Quick Reference

Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)

A sample Risk and Control Self-Assessment Statement for internal and external fraud.  Includes the risk category, corporate risk statement, definitions, and schemes/examples of each risk.

Sample forms

ITAR Compliance Reminder

A sample of an ITAR (U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations) compliance reminder (of basic rule) memo.From ACC's 2008 Annual Meeting ITAR Compliance Reminder Session.

Privileged Documents

Template in reply to a regulatory agency's request for attorney-client privileged and confidential matters.

From ACC's 2008 Annual Meeting Privileged Documents Session 

Sample Clauses

Contains examples of sample clauses relating to trademarks, compliance with laws, and relating to intellectual property and improvements.

From ACC's 2008 Annual Meeting Sample Clauses

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