Resource Library

This Leading Practices Profile, which updates 2010’s Leading Practices in Privacy and Data Protection: What Companies Are Doing, examines the data security and privacy practices of six companies with operations spanning the globe.

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.

This Leading Practices Profile (LPP) presents themes, trends and leading practices of general counsel at the helm of six legal departments located in the Asia-Pacific region. The resource explores how the roles of general counsel and in-house counsel in that region have evolved from legal advisors to trusted business partners. It also provides leading practices for the success of legal teams of global organizations located in the Asia-Pacific region.

This Value Practice resource give background and benefits to Viacom's legal department use of a matter management system for its domestic legal operations.

This Value Practice Resource highlights key elements of Nationwide's Approved Counsel Program (ACP) and gives insights to key success factors.

This Leading Practices Profile examines the law department management role of general counsel and in-house counsel that work for companies in Europe. General counsel and in-house counsel in European legal departments contend with restrictive bar admission rules, cultural and linguistic differences, and legal issues that arise in transnational practice. In this Profile, in-house counsel from 13 companies reveal how their in-house legal departments are structured and operate, and how they manage the various functions of their law departments, including
compliance, contract management, guarding privilege, retention of outside counsel and providing
value to the corporations they serve.

This Value Practice resource summarizes how the law department at Mozilla uses a customized, and free, software development tool to manage workflow, communicate with clients and track results.

Sun Microsystems has focused on an in-house training for attorneys, with its "Get Smart Training" and tiered training programs implemented by select legal functions.

This resource highlights Hewlett-Packards' program to onboard law school graduates, train them, and mentor them each step on their way toward full engagement within the law department.

This Leading Practices Profile examines knowledge sharing and management practices of six companies and two law firms. Organizations featured in this Profile described practices and approaches for managing and sharing knowledge across a variety of industries, as well as law firms.