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Charles A. Volkert, Esq.
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This article, written by Robert Half Legal, provides insight on how succession planning will help keep your company afloat. Learn about talent trends, the benefits of succession planning, and how to really build a plan for when the workplace starts to change.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
Charles A. Volkert, Esq.

Read this informative article from ACC Alliance Partner, Robert Half Legal, and find key points on helping your underperforming employees get back on track.

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Source: Resource Library

An exploration of corporate employee wellness programs, highlighting the benefits and challenges employees face when developing such programs. It examines both mandatory and voluntary employee wellness programs, and discusses how to successfully design each type.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
Allen R. Grogan, Henry W. (Hank) Jones, III

Sometimes the best career advice can come from an overlooked source. This feature article points out how in-house counsel can use musicians as models for improving their careers and subsequently their companies.

Bill Mordan

The Peter Principle, authored in 1969, is now out of print. But in this column, Bill Mordan re-examines the truths behind the theory which asserts that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

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Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
Cheryl Rouge

Sample guarantee agreement

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
Gregory R. Watchman - associate general counsel for employment law, Freddie Mac

Read for Gregory's tips about employment and HR issues for in-house counsel.

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Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
Susanna McDonald

Firing an employee can be a sticky issue, particularly when there are company assets at stake. Most people do not want to get near these delicate and often emotional issues, but in-house counsel is always involved. Here are a few tips that can make the process go a little more smoothly.

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Interest Area: Employment and Labor
Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
Mark E. Harrington -- general counsel and corporate secretary, Guidance Software, Inc., and Izabella Stepanyan -- member, Guidance Software legal department

Can a woman, or man, be a great attorney, promoted to the top of their legal department—and a great parent, promoted to the head of the PTA? This is not a new debate for professionals who have only 24 hours a day to do both. Being a parent should not stop that climb up the ladder, and no one should have to choose one or the other. However, are rewards in the workplace given to those who put career first?

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Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
Lisa Barrett and Teresa Rider Bult

While a corporate legal department may not be the ideal environment to foster a balance between work and life­ is it even possible to achieve? Here, the authors look at the obstacles standing in the way of in-house counsel attempting to strike that balance in order to find out if work/life balance is in fact possible to find­ or if it is merely a myth.

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Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
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