Resource Library

During a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic, the principles of good communication remain the same: values matter and communicate with your stakeholders.

Sometimes the best career advice can come from an overlooked source. This feature article points out how in-house counsel can use musicians as models for improving their careers and subsequently their companies.

Bruce Kuhlik, executive vice president and general counsel of Merck, explains what it takes to get a corporate pro bono program off the ground and to maintain people's commitment to it.

Rebecca Arvizu, senior counsel of Legal and Business Affairs for DTS, Inc. explains the most critical components in IP licensing based on her career experience.

This course explains the basic laws and regulations governing the most common marketing practices and provides guidelines for employees involved in marketing-related tasks. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

If your company operates in the area of hazardous materials, you need to have a comprehensive plan in place to deal with sudden environmental emergencies. This article describes the fundamentals of a comprehensive emergency plan that deals with environmental disasters and presents the precise steps that should be taken, on an hour-by-hour basis, to implement the plan following a disaster.

The legal department at McDonald's adds to the bottom line by investing in the community through a diversity pipeline project.

Check out this 2014 Apex, Excel and Communicator Award-winning article! The standard “no comment” response to a media frenzy surrounding pending litigation is an approach that some legal counsel have opted out of in favor of more detailed disclosure. Such an approach addresses not
only the media, but also other company constituencies who are impacted by the negative attention. This article details how to create a platform for proactive responses.

The author discusses how in-house counsel should deal with a crisis situation.

In a simpler time, defending your company typically meant slogging
through litigation. Your adversary is now a self-appointed cyberspace vigilante. On the internet, the juiciest material doesn’t come from the networks or newspapers, it comes from one of over 70 million internet blogs and user-created websites. It comes from individuals who post whatever they
want.