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Avoid Frostbite in a Cross-border Transaction: Top Ten Things to Consider When Doing a Deal in Canada
Nov 10, 2009 - This "Top Ten" highlights key matters that are unique to Canadian cross-border transactions.
Top Ten Tips for Speaking the Language of Your Business Partners
Oct 1, 2009 - Today, we must thoroughly understand and be able to define our role, and agree on and communicate a shared legal vision to demonstrate legal collaboration and unity.
Top Ten Practical Ways to Enrich and Empower Your Compliance Program
Sep 2, 2009 - What more could you be doing to promote your company's ethics and compliance program? Times may be tight now
Top Ten Recommendations for Improving Your Company's Data Security Compliance
Aug 4, 2009 - The combination of increasingly complex laws and a dramatic increase in data losses makes data security compliance an urgent matter for corporate counsel.
The Top Ten Force Majeure Imposters
Jul 1, 2009 - Do “soft” excuses really amount to force majeure events that would permit a party to delay or suspend performance or delivery under an agreement, or even terminate a contract?
Top Ten Things to Consider When You’re the First In-House Counsel
Jun 1, 2009 - Read this ACC Top Ten to learn the best way to enter a new environment as the company's first in-house counsel
Counsel for Closely-Held Corporations: Top Ten Ways to Juggle Your Many Roles without Dropping the Ball
May 2, 2009 - This month's ACC Top Ten focuses on the needs of the Small Law Department attorney in a closely-held corporation. Read on to learn how to better balance your roles.
Top Ten Tips for Online Professional Networking in the Legal Community
Apr 3, 2009 - Top Ten Tips for Online Professional Networking in the Legal Community
Top Ten Tips for Being Green in Your Professional Life
Apr 1, 2009 - Top Ten Tips for Being Green in Your Professional Life by Holland + Knight
Top Ten Indemnification Concerns in M&A Transactions
Mar 2, 2009 - Top Ten Indemnification Concerns in M&A Transactions
Top Ten Tips for Maximizing Transition Time
Feb 16, 2009 - Tips on the best way to spend your time transitioning from one job to the next.
Top Ten Tips for Dealing With Job Loss
Feb 9, 2009 - Great tips on how to deal with losing your job.
Top Ten Tips for Job Applicants
Feb 2, 2009 - Top Ten Tips job-seeking tips from Deborah House.
Top Ten Networking Tips for Professionals
Jan 1, 2009 - Ten tips on how to really network to get where you want to go in your career.
To Cut or Not to Cut? Top Ten Value Adds of Your ACC Membership
Dec 3, 2008 - Although there are many variations, the scenario usually looks something like this. Given the hard economic times, your CFO has asked the legal department to cut its budget.
Top Ten Technical Questions from Litigators on Collecting, Reviewing, and Processing Electronic Data
Nov 1, 2008 - Fortunately, formulating an efficient and effective process for collecting, reviewing, and processing electronic data isn’t a shot in the dark. This month's Top Ten shares straightforward answers to e-Discovery questions.
Top Ten Trends Nonprofit Counsel Need to Know
Oct 1, 2008 - As always, there are legal trends of which you should be cognizant. Identified here are ten key current legal issues and trends to which every nonprofit should pay close attention.
Top Ten Questions Regarding Political Dialogue in the Workplace
Oct 1, 2008 - During a presidential election season, political discussion and debate are everywhere—including the workplace. These ten questions will help you determine if your company is ready for the political campaign season.
Top Ten Things You Should Know About States Attorneys General Activities
Sep 1, 2008 - Over the past two decades, State Attorneys General (AGs) have increased significantly the number of investigations and litigations they have brought targeting business and industry.
Top Ten Reasons Corporate Counsel Should Be on Alert to the FASB’s Proposed Amendments to FAS 5, Accounting for Contingencies
Jul 1, 2008 - Reasons corporate counsel should be extremely concerned and advising the company’s CFO/CEO about the dangers these proposals present.
Top Ten Key Questions for Complying with United States Export and Embargo/Sanctions Law and Regulations
Jul 1, 2008 - Ten key questions (and answers) to help facilitate an understanding of U.S. export control laws and better manage compliance risks inherent to global business.
Top Ten Key Questions (and Answers) for Dealing with Financially Distressed Suppliers
Jun 2, 2008 - To help you better protect your company from key suppliers’ financial distress and perhaps filing for bankruptcy, this article presents 10 key questions (and answers).
Top Ten Questions (and Answers) for Protecting Your Company’s Trade Secrets
May 1, 2008 - In an economy more driven by information than large capital investment, the greatest risk faced by many companies is the prospect that their most valuable assets – company employees and the knowledge in their heads – will walk out the door.
Top Ten Tips to Protect and Enforce Your Company's Copyrights in the Global Marketplace
Apr 1, 2008 - Whether you are a large corporation or a small business, odds are very high that somewhere within your operations you are creating original materials which are protected by copyright.
Top Ten Key Questions (and Answers) for Navigating Records and Information Management
Mar 3, 2008 - Corporate counsel are discovering that how their companies create and store business records influences how well the lawyers do their job. Here are tips to help you navigate engagement with records and information management services.
Top Ten Ways to Achieve Good Legal Writing
Dec 3, 2007 - Good powerful writing is in significant demand in this multimedia and soundbite age. Here are the top ten ways that anyone in the legal profession can improve their writing skills.
Top Ten Reasons For Corporate Counsel To Outsource First-Pass Document Review
Nov 1, 2007 - In-house counsel are increasingly outsourcing first-pass document and e-mail review. Here are our top ten reasons for them to do so.
Top Ten Ways to Conserve Energy and Protect the Environment at Work
Oct 1, 2007 - Get tips for protecting the environment and "going green" at the office.
Top Ten Tips for Turning Your e-Billing Initiative Into A Powerful Tool for Managing Legal Spending
Sep 3, 2007 - In these days of extreme competition and corporate belt cinching, CLOs, like other heads of corporate business units, are being asked to engage in the corporation’s strategic planning process. Here are nuggets of wisdom from their planning experiences.
Strategic Planning for Law Departments: Top Ten Nuggets from the Knowledgeable
Jul 2, 2007 - In these days of extreme competition and corporate belt cinching, CLOs, like other heads of corporate business units, are being asked to engage in the corporation’s strategic planning process. Here are nuggets of wisdom from their planning experiences.
Top Ten Suggestions for In-house Counsel of Venture-Backed Private Companies
Jun 1, 2007 - You have taken the leap; you’ve jumped out of your safe, secure law firm or big-company job and into the frying pan of a venture-capital funded startup. Here are some thoughts as you start your adventure.
Top Ten Pragmatic Practices in Privilege Protection
May 1, 2007 - ACC conducted research with in-house and outside counsel, as well as former government lawyers, to identify the key issues ACC members face in combating privilege erosion, and to catalogue the various approaches employed to address those issues.
Top Ten Areas of Focus for a Corporate-wide Employment Law Audit
Apr 2, 2007 - Not only must corporate counsel be vigilant regarding the minimization of risk with a maximum emphasis on compliance, more often than not working toward these ends is the right thing to do for employees!
Top Ten Tips for Keeping Up without Burning Out
Mar 1, 2007 - How do you keep up with it all without burning out? Here are our top ten tips.
Top Ten Ways To Avoid Becoming the Sales Prevention Department
Feb 1, 2007 - Tested tips and best practices which will allow you to avoid being labeled as the ”Sales Prevention Department”.
Top Ten Lessons Learned by CLOs about Executive Compensation From the Stock Options Crises
Jan 1, 2007 - From the large number of companies under scrutiny for backdating stock options we have learned many lessons, but at least two of them should assist us as we enter the challenging new land of highly regulated executive compensation.
Top Ten Methods to Manage Outside Counsel
Dec 1, 2006 - The successful management of the relationship with outside counsel often involves a delicate balance between cooperation and oversight. These recommended policies (which address criticisms raised in the Audit Report) are a good start.
Top Ten Tips For Corporate Counsel In Dealing With The New FRCP on e-Discovery
Nov 1, 2006 - The amendments to the FRCP forced deep changes in how corporations approach litigation. It is often best to refer back to the learned statements of the past when examining methods of how corporations can prepare for these coming changes.
Top Ten New to In-house Pointers
Oct 2, 2006 - Top 10 things you need to know as you begin your in-house career.
Top Ten Things Corporate Counsel Should Know About Blogs
Sep 1, 2006 - Blogs have special implications for corporations — good, bad, and ugly. For this reason it behooves corporate counsel to know what they are, how they operate, and what steps the company should take to address them.
Top Ten Things Your Board Needs to Know About Effective Compliance and Ethics Programs
Aug 1, 2006 - This isn’t just about criminal misconduct and sentencing. Rather, whether an organization has an effective compliance and ethics program that meets the Guidelines is an important consideration.