As last week’s sessions at ACC Boston (click here) certainly stressed — stress being the operative word — in-house legal departments have been forced to cut their budgets just like their “sisters”, the law firms.   But with a greatly increased workload.  And it is due not just to the increase in litigation/investigations but because of regulatory/compliance [...]

The recap of the first four of the six formal presentations we covered you can find by clicking here.
In this Part 2 we cover:  the personal liabilty of a general counsel; DOJ/SEC enforcement efforts in 2009
1.  Don’t Prosecute the General Counsel
The panel consisted of Peter Anderson (partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan), Kirk Forrest (Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary Minerals Technologies [...]

As we have said in several of our posts about last week’s ACC meeting, there was a lot to cover.  There was a cornucopia of information:  excellent panels on intellectual property, doing business in China, handling bankruptcy litigation, real estate practices, creating an in-house law department, pro bono opportunities for in-house counsel, HR and employment [...]

We are still in Boston (we had some post-ACC interviews to do today) and we have about 6 detailed posts to complete on ACC but we thought we’d post our initial reflections of the conference.”
First, a million thanks to Kim Howard, Marthea Davis and Robin Scullin of ACC for all they did to assist us at [...]

 
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to add evaluation of a law firm’s flextime policies to its list of criteria for evaluating outside firms, according to a panelist at the ACC annual meeting in Boston.
Joseph West, associate general counsel at Wal-Mart, said the company plans to add flextime policies to its current list of law firm measures: cost-effectiveness, performance [...]

There have been two major press releases issued by the ACC during its annual meeting here in Boston.  (They were included in our registration packet but there is so much to cover we overlooked them).
The first:  the Association of Corporate Counsel will launch what it calls the ACC Value Index. According to a press release from the [...]

              
 
 
Fios Inc. and Ajilon Legal today unveiled at ACC a partnership to help
corporations and law firms effectively inject cost control and predictability into the complex e-discovery process.
The full press release can be found here:  http://sn.im/sma3q

ACC kicked off its Annual Meeting with a Welcome Reception and networking event in the Exhibit Hall last ight.  The Posse List team is here all week to cover the event.  Posse List members will recall the ACC Docket provided us copies of its May 2009 issue on document review (click here) and we starting covering the [...]

The May 2009 issue of the ACC Docket, the magazine of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), is devoted to the subject of litigation: effective management of e-discovery, running large document reviews, litigation holds, managing expenses, etc.    Although written for the in-house counsel audience, the issue is nevertheless a gold mine of information for everyone [...]