This Leading Practices Profile presents themes, trends and leading contingent worker practices of six legal departments, a professional association and one law firm in managing contingent workforces and mitigating risks associated with these types of workforces.
This ACC Value Practice explores key issues to consider in constructing virtual trial teams. In addition, it emphasizes how value-based client service relationships, staffing options, and project management practices can result in value-add for the corporate client.
In recent years, the compliance landscape for health industry companies has become more
complex, in part because of increasingly aggressive enforcement of privacy breaches and false claims by regulators. At the same time, unprecedented pushes for transparency and disclosure by both the government and the public continue to gain traction. This Practice Profile highlights elements presented by four healthcare organizations as crucial for responding to these trends and nurturing successful compliance programs. Organizational leaders featured here explain department leading practices designed to bolster cultures of compliance while better managing risk and encouraging innovation. They also offer their best practices in areas that can inform your own organization’s approach to compliance, its pursuit of an excellence culture and its effective reliance on outside counsel in responding to
government inquiries.
ACC revisits the topic with an updated Leading Practices Profile that asks law departments — in industries ranging from technology to health and telecommunications — to explain how they’ve successfully allocated lawyer and non-lawyer resources to drive value. This Leading Practices Profile showcases the best operational, technology, metrics and process-improvement strategies for maximizing resources across the entire spectrum of legal operations.
Converging External Counsel Leading Practices in Selecting Implementing and Managing Value Driven Preferred Network
Getting Away from the Hourly Rate - Clearing the Hurdles Part 1
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This Leading Practices Profile, a supplement to ACC’s 2006 Leading Practices Profile, Contract Management for Small Law Departments, features the law department leading contract management practices of seven entities who provided background on databases and repository systems, and contract review, approval and archiving policies.
This Leading Practices Profile, an update to ACC’s 2011 Crisis Management and the Role of In-House Lawyers: Company Leading Practices, features the leading business continuity and crisis management plans of four entities that share plan aspects, including core components, operational strategies, and lessons learned. The Profile also addresses the law departments’ role in prevention planning, training, risk assessment, crisis management, and continuity planning.
Our 2014 update explores objectives, content and coordination of board education and training programs, as well as the process of on-boarding new directors. This Leading Practices Profile also identifies the role of the legal department, corporate secretary and board committees in coordinating content and managing logistics.