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Corporate mergers, asset acquisitions, and divestitures often include a variety of environmental components or considerations – some of which can be nuanced – that can affect and can be affected by other non-environmental components.

This article offers six strategic considerations for businesses to successfully navigate the negotiation and execution of transactions involving industries or operations subject to significant environmental regulations.

Often overlooked are the impacts wildfires can have on oil and gas operations. The potential for wildfires to cause severe damage underscores the need for stringent fire safety protocols. 

This articles provides steps oil and gas operators can take in preparation for and prevention of a wildfire.

Are you an in-house professional interested in teaching a law school course? You may wonder how peers who teach law school designed their syllabus. Take a look at the syllabus developed by Veta T. Richardson, ACC President and CEO, and Justin Connor, Executive Director, Center for Industry Self-Regulation.

Teaching law school is an exciting opportunity for in-house counsel to share their practical knowledge and help develop the next generation of lawyers. View a compilation of course proposals, syllabi, and exams, that have been created and used by members of the in-house community who have taught or are teaching a class in law school.

This is a sample briefing by law school professors to their students regarding graded assignments. This material was created by Veta T. Richardson, President and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel, and Justin Connor, Executive Director of the Center for Industry Self-Regulation, as part of their law school course titled "In-house Counsel: Law and Practice."

This article looks at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s proposed auditing standards which feature major implications for ESG that could upend corporate audits.

This is a brief outline of recent environmental, social, and governance (ESG) developments, together with links to additional materials.

This article covers Governor Newsom's commitment to signing into law two bills that would require certain companies that do business in California to disclose their GHG emissions and climate-related financial risks.

This article provides an overview of California' Single-Use Packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) law. The law imposes prohibitions for certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware in California.

The law also imposes significant recycling and EPR requirements for “producers” of single-use packaging and food service items sold or otherwise distributed in California.

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding renewable energy across a range of jurisdictions.

Some topics include the rise of co-located renewable projects and more.