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In this ACC Leading Practices Profile, learn from the corporate social responsibility programs of five organizations. Understand how their approaches integrate social and environmental imperatives into business operations and interactions with stakeholders.

This Leading Practices Profile (LPP), an update from ACC’s 2009 LPP on the same subject, examines how the roles of the general counsel and in-house counsel in Europe have evolved from legal advisors to trusted business partners.

This guide includes case studies that demonstrate how value approaches can hold rich potential for small in-house legal departments, in a variety of scalable and replicable ways.

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.

The Clorox Company, after implementing a program focused on cost savings and driving incremental value, realized a significant cost savings in intellectual property matters.

Sun Microsystems has successfully developed partner relationships with several Legal Provider Organizations (LPO) in India to complete selected legal assignments that are generally process oriented.

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, an update to ACC’s 2010 piece, features law department leading practices for generating and demonstrating value through a number of value levers, as well as best practices for improving the bottom line and enhancing collation across business units. In wake of the economic downturn in the last decade and the increased pressure to “do more with less,” six participating corporations share their best value-sustaining practices in law department staffing, targeted practice areas, outside counsel management, strategic planning and the use of metrics to measure and track best practices.

This Leading Practices Profile presents themes, trends and leading convergence practices of six legal departments and three law firms in selecting and managing preferred outside counsel networks as value partners.

Converging External Counsel Leading Practices in Selecting Implementing and Managing Value Driven Preferred Network