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This Value Practice Resource describes how Squire Sanders challenges its attorneys to remedy disconnects between costs for outside legal services and value the client receives.

Diversity initiatives continue to grow and change with corporate business models: taking on a different complexion when applied in companies with significant global presence and offering new challenges in an era defined by bottom-line attention to corporate compliance and social responsibility. Read ACC's newest leading practice profile and find out how the legal departments of 10 different companies have developed diversity initiatives that are making a difference.

From the time lawyers join Howrey, they have access to personal training and coaching, carefully designed group training, and a wide array of on-line training resources that include Howrey’s own courses as well as those of the Practicing Law Institute and Harvard ManageMentor.

This resource details Prudential Financial's structured approach to project management, including a Project Management Office, focusing on project definition, scope, risk assessment, training, and review.

● Responding to activist challenges in the boardroom.
● Building the boardroom of the future—effective “board refresh” practices.
● Emerging issues and priorities for nominating and governance committee chairs.

Learn how other in-house counsel and their legal department support corporate governance and compliance and ethics programs. In-house counsel from seven companies share governance practices and examine the alignment of ethics and compliance with the culture and strategic plan of the organization. At the end of the guide, find practical tools and samples, such as a company compliance newsletter, a compliance checklist, a compliance program assessment table and a management attestation questionnaire for legislative compliance.

This resource presents the leading practices of legal departments that leverage dedicated legal operations staff to manage the business aspects of Legal. Through profiles of 11 legal departments, it conveys who leads the legal operations function, relationships between general counsel and their legal operations leaders, reasons for the legal operations function, how it functions, its scope and impacts.

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.

LEADING PRACTICES IN COMPENSATION PROGRAMS AND RETENTION STRATEGIES FOR IN-HOUSE LAWYERS: What Companies are Doing

This Leading Practices Profile features the best practices of five ACC law department members for planning and hosting successful legal retreats. In the wake of the economic downturn and increased pressure to do more with less, these participating corporations share their best planning practices to deliver retreats that inspire, teach, and fortify legal teams to continue delivering results to their organizations that will offset meeting costs.