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

Search Filters

This HIPAA Privacy and Security training course will explain our policy regarding the privacy and security of electronic healthcare information in compliance with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

To access the HIPAA Privacy and Security Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35542-hipaa-privacy-and-security>www…;.

This Hazard Communication (HazCom) training course provides the information and training on HazCom required by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and many states' laws. After completing some basic material, quizzes and exercises, you'll play a game that will test you on the key topics.

Come and hear experts discuss how to avoid becoming a target of the regulators, i.e., EEOC or DOL. The panelists will address how to best respond to a systemic discrimination or class claim investigation from the agencies, including a discussion of their subpoena power and the subject matters on which they have been focusing over the past year.

Companies with server networks to bring "infrastructure on demand" to their customers provide cloud computing. In busy times, customers can dramatically ramp up their computer usage without investing in equipment and software, and then quickly ramp down when the extra capacity is no longer needed. This session will address challenges faced by companies that use or provide cloud computing services.

This extensive powerpoint outlines competitor agreements, mergers, pricing and distribution agreements, as well as misleading advertising. In both English and French, this will help you decide if your company is ready for Canada's Competition Act.

Last year we presented you with a number of professionally acted hypotheticals that ask the audience to interactively navigate a series of ethical close calls. We got such good reviews and the discussion was so active that we are back again with more this year. Visit again with our in-house colleagues as they address a slew of ethical issues that arise in their practices and try to navigate the right course.

Conventional views of records and discovery are failing organizations in their quest to effectively tackle the challenge of managing corporate information. Many in the legal and records management community talk about the intersection of records and discovery, implying that these are two distinct parts of a larger information paradigm. They are not.

The company's subsidiary is being sold to a competitor. The CEO's daughter wants to buy a house. An employee confesses an inappropriate activity to you. Conflict can be tough to avoid for in-house counsel. This program will help you assess the critical issues of who your client is, what constitutes a conflict, how far you can go in providing advice to those who aren't your corporate client, and how you can avoid or extricate yourself from this logjam of issues.

Serving as a witness is a particularly tricky situation for in-house counsel, who are often involved in both business and legal affairs and communications posing vexing ethical issues. When called as witnesses, however, how do in-house counsel manage the expectations of their company, protect confidential information, live up to the legal and ethical standards set by the profession, and still abide by the law?

Since the 2004 revisions to the US Sentencing Guidelines, many companies have invested significant time, energy and funds to enhance their internal ethics and compliance programs and infrastructures to ensure that they are effective at detecting and deterring criminal and unethical conduct.

Subscribe to Compliance &amp; Ethics