Close
Login to MyACC
ACC Members


Not a Member?

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.

Join ACC

21 Results

Resource Listings

Articles

Your Brand in the Consumer's Hands

By Amber Wood, Senior Legal Counsel, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)

User-generated content and influencer marketing allow organisations to engage more closely with consumers. However, both carry legal and reputational risk. In-house legal teams are uniquely placed to add value to their organisations by recognising and responding to these risks.

Program Materials

"Don't Panic. OK, Panic!" (Crisis Management)

By Massimiliano Carpino, Nick Holland, Bruce Macmillan, Stathis Mihos

The participants will go through a mock crisis management exercise. This session will explore the complementary roles of legal, communications and PR, and business continuity management, presenting best practices in crisis management planning, stakeholder management, and proactive communications management.

Articles

Responding to an Environmental Disaster: The First 48 Hours

By Debra Sabatini Hennelly, Vincent M. Gonzales, and Charles C. Read

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.

Sample Forms, Policies, and Contracts

Contract Between Advertising Agency and Advertiser

By ACC and others

A sample contract between advertising agency and a company for the services of the advertising agency. Contract provides for the scope of services, compensation, method of payment, property rights to any product, and an arbitration clause.

Articles

A Litigator’s Look at Crisis Management

By James D. Shomper and Kathleen Taylor Sooy

This article focuses on the three stages of crisis management: the immediate stage, when you manage short-term effects; the intermediate stage, when you manage litigation and other collateral consequences and the final stage, when you evaluate long-term effects and put the crisis behind you.

ACC