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Regulatory & Compliance

The Power of "No"

Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

Legal Operations

Beyond Legal: Today's In-House Lawyer Has More Tools in the Box Than Ever

Veta T. Richardson, Jean-Claude Beaujour | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

  At an ACC-hosted forum in Paris, Jean-Claude Beaujour, a partner with Paris-based law firm Smith d’Oria, and Veta T. Richardson, ACC president and CEO, discuss how law departments can provide and showcase the value they bring to the business. For today’s in-house lawyer,...

Career Development

CLO Will Play a Pivotal Role in Industry Transformation

Veta T. Richardson | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

Veta T. Richardson, president and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel, looks at the impact of technology, diversity and career development within the legal profession. CCBJ: You’ve worked with thousands of in-house counsel. Looking ahead, what do you think will be the most positive...

Career Development

Tapping the GC’s Full Potential

Veta T. Richardson | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

ACC CEO Veta Richardson talks about the organization's new agenda. Her remarks have been edited for length and style. CCBJ: Let’s talk about the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Strategic Plan 2.0. Given the goals ACC has laid out in the plan how is the organizations looking...

Fly In, Fly Out, Stay Put? In-house bar is pushing to open the door for non-Indian lawyers

Amar D. Sarwal | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

In January 2012 Amar Sarwal, chief legal strategist at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), filed an affidavit in a case in India. Ironically, the country where multinationals often outsource their legal work is also a jurisdiction where non-Indians have not been able to practice law...

The Privilege Divide: It’s not like the Atlantic Ocean or the Alps, but it can be a challenge to conduct cross-border business

Carsten Lueers | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

In-house lawyers today advise their companies on new regulations, provide counsel regarding business plans in emerging markets and multiple jurisdictions, and operate in a global environment fraught with risk and ever-evolving legal challenges. Although all in-house counsel face these universal...

ACC and Dubai Join Forces on Anticorruption Program

James A. Merklinger | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

There is no doubt that 2016 was a record-setting year in the history of the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The nearly $2.5 billion in settlements that companies paid to resolve FCPA cases dwarfs the previous year’s figure of $133 million. However, nearly absent from the...