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ACC Forms & Policies

  • More than 2,000 sample forms and policies that provide a useful starting point as you develop your own contract or policy.

Practice Examples

  • Leading Practices Profiles (ACC.com/lpp): In-depth examinations of corporate counsel practices, including benchmarking, trends, and leading practices.
  • Value Practices: Where law departments and law firms share their leading practices on increasing value for their organization/clients through reducing cost, streamlining processes, and good budget and project management techniques.

Primers

  • InfoPAKs (ACC.com/infopaks): ACC's most in-depth resources on substantive legal issues or law department management methods.
  • Primers: Comprehensive guides for law departments and law firms on implementing value practices.

Publications

  • ACC Docket (ACC.com/accdocket): Articles from the only professional journal written by in-house counsel for in-house counsel.
  • Asian, Canadian, European, Latin American Briefings: Region-focused newsletters published as a supplement to each ACC Docket issue that explore legal issues affecting in-house practice in Asia, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.
  • Third-party articles: Articles from outside publications that are relevant to the in-house practitioner.

Quick References

  • Designed for the busy in-house counsel short on time. Quick references consist of:
    • · QuickCounsels (ACC.com/qc): Brief summaries of important legal topics with links to additional resources.
    • · Top Tens (ACC.com/topten): Articles providing "top ten" issues or tips on various legal topics.
    • · Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC.com/wisdom): Compilations of member responses from ACC Committee eGroups on a particular issue/question
    • · Green-House Counsel: Resources on energy and environmental topics.
    • · How Tos
    • · Lists
    • · Charts

Surveys

  • Results from surveys, questionnaires and polls from a variety of sources.
  • Two ACC signature surveys:
    • · ACC's 2011 Census Report (acc.com/census): Over 5800 in-house counsel reporting on outside legal spend, demographics, and legal department structures.
    • · ACC CLO Survey (acc.com/survey/clo_oct11): over 1100 General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers reporting on demographics, staffing, managing expenses, the changing role of the CLO, expectations for the coming year, and managing outside counsel.
  • Other notable surveys:
    • · Corpedia - Compliance Benchmarking
    • · Serengiti - Outside Counsel Management
    • · Empsight - Compensation on Large, Medium and Small Department
  • Poll Results (acc.com/polls): Results from the weekly ACC.com homepage Quick Poll.

Online Education

  • ACC Webcasts (acc.com/webcasts): Online presentations provide substantive information on legal topics relevant to in-house counsel, many with the option to earn CLE/CPD credit.
    • · ACC hosts more than 70 per year; members can watch live or on-demand for up to one year after the original Webcast date.
    • · Webcasts may be viewed by ACC members without CLE/CPD credit free of charge; CLE/CPD is available at a discounted rate in most jurisdictions in the U.S., Canada, and U.K.
  • Legal Quick Hits (acc.com/lqh): Mini-Webcasts, generally 15-30 minutes in length, recorded on each Committee's monthly teleconference.
    • · CLE/CPD credit is not available.
  • ACC Events
    • · Recorded programs from the ACC Annual Meeting, European Conference and Corporate Counsel University (CCU).
    • · CLE/CPD credit is offered for several jurisdictions through West LegalEdcenter at discounted rates for ACC members.

Presentations

  • PowerPoint™ presentations and program materials from past Annual Meetings, European Conferences, Corporate Counsel Universities and other ACC events.