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Leading Practices Profiles
Leading Practices Profiles
ACC’s Leading Practices Profiles outline best practices to help in-house counsel across a variety of industries, situations and legal departments. They include insights from practicing attorneys on how their companies and legal departments have addressed these issues. Collectively, Leading Practices Profiles build an ongoing network that shares the knowledge and experience of your peers.
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Knowledge Sharing and Management
Oct 2004 Download pdf
As companies and firms grow larger and more complex with offices distributed around the globe, having systematic ways to identify, capture and access sources of knowledge becomes more important. ...
Strategic Outsourcing And Alternative Service Models
Aug 2004 Download pdf
This practice profile is about the experiences of law departments at seven companies and a national law firm that, for varying reasons, decided to move some legal services to outside providers in ...
Providing In-House Legal Support For Corporate Governance Initiatives
Jun 2004 Download pdf
In-house lawyers for companies around the world are playing leading roles in providing proactive legal guidance to corporate clients on governance initiatives. This practice profile shares ...
Providing In-House Legal Support To The CFO & Finance Function
Jun 2004 Download pdf
Financial reporting and internal control practices are facing increased scrutiny these days, and organizations are taking stock of their existing financial practices, and enhancing and formalizing ...
Compensation Programs and Retention Strategies for In-house Lawyers
May 2004 Download pdf
How are companies setting compensation for in-house lawyers, and what non-monetary things are they doing to help retain them if they can't promote them or pay more? Featured in this practice ...
Using Non-Lawyer Personnel to Help Perform Legal Functions
Apr 2004 Download pdf
The challenge: do more, do it well, do it quickly, and keep costs down. This is a reality facing law departments today. This practice profile explores how nine companies are stepping ...
Board Governance and the Role of In-house Lawyers Post Sarbanes-Oxley: What Companies are Doing
Jan 2004 Download pdf
More than ever before, corporate boards and their lawyers are squarely in the spot light. Transparency, independence, and informed decision-making are among important governance program features ...
Crisis Management and the Role of In-house Lawyers
Jan 2004 Download pdf
Preparedness programs and systems for prompt and effective response to crisis events can make the difference between chaos and a managed response with mitigated loss. This practice profile ...
Indemnification and Insurance Coverage for In-house Lawyers
Jan 2004 Download pdf
Are company protections for in-house lawyers in sync with changing roles and expectations? This Profile provides background information on indemnification and insurance considerations for in-house ...
Conflicts Management Programs
Nov 2003 Download pdf
All companies may encounter situations where outside law firms that represent them request waivers to allow engagements with potential conflicts to proceed. A clear approach for handling these ...
Sarbox 307 Up-The-Ladder Reporting and Attorney Professional Conduct Programs
Sep 2003 Download pdf
Many corporate law departments and outside law firms are taking steps to clarify how attorneys should communicate certain legal matters up-the-ladder within their organizations. This practice ...
Global Law Department Design and Service Models
Sep 2003 Download pdf
This practice profile describes the structure and approaches for providing in-house legal services to support global businesses for seven companies. Featured in this profile are programs for ...
Codes Of Business Conduct And Ethics
Aug 2003 Download pdf
Corporate compliance and ethics programs, including codes of conduct, are receiving more attention these days. This practice profile explores the issues of corporate governance and ethics within ...
Information Management and Records Retention Programs
Aug 2003 Download pdf
All companies create records as part of their business, and managing them is an important challenge. This practice profile looks at what seven companies are doing in the area of information ...
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