
In-house Counsel Certified (ICC) is the designation you will earn upon completing the requirements of the ACC In-house Counsel Certification Program. On the road to becoming an ICC, you will receive training and demonstrate proficiency across three core areas: stakeholder relationships, law department management, and legal services. Here is a look at the day-by-day learning outcomes.
This session examines organizational fundamentals and the expectations of today’s in-house counsel. Faculty will discuss how the business units, executive suite, and legal department work in tandem to achieve the organization’s goals. As a topic that is too often overlooked, there will be a focus on understanding the revenue generation activities of your organization. From there, faculty will take a deep dive into the corporate legal department, including a discussion of generalist versus specialist roles and an analysis of reporting lines: direct versus indirect, centralized versus decentralized, and operational versus geographic.
Students will learn how to:
March 4-7, 2019
Dubai, UAE
Email certification@acc.com or call +1 202.285.4183
Building on earlier instruction, this session offers practical tips for communicating effectively with the executive suite and board of directors. There will be an in-depth discussion of the strategic planning process, including how to align the law department’s goals with the greater organization. The discussion will cover related budgetary considerations, performance management, and the use of technology-driven solutions. Finally, faculty will introduce recurring issues around international attorney-client privilege.
Students will learn how to:
During this interactive project, students will break into teams to work on a hypothetical situation involving a new general counsel. Students will address how the general counsel should educate the board of directors on their duties and responsibilities when a major violation of law occurs. This project requires students to examine reporting lines and determine when to update the board on developments.
Teams will deliver a mock presentation to the board of directors. Each presentation will be 10 minutes long. Following the presentation, faculty will provide evaluation and feedback. Each presentation will be graded.
This session addresses what it means for in-house counsel to have the corporation as the client. Faculty will return to attorney-client privilege, discussing how to manage expectations when a stakeholder—whether board member, officer, or field-based employee—views in-house counsel as their personal representative. Through this discussion, effective communication skills will be emphasized again as characteristic that distinguishes excellent in-house counsel. The second half of the session will revisit the topic of measuring and demonstrating law department value.
Students will learn how to:
This session highlights the unique challenges of international negotiations, particularly where the negotiating parties might bring different cultural experiences and expectations. There will be practical strategies for interpreting signals during the negotiation, coping with cultural differences, and successfully managing the process to seal the deal. From there, the session will outline effective contract management strategies for global law departments.
Students will learn how to:
During this interactive project, students will break into teams to negotiate opposite sides of a deal. The project involves implementing negotiation strategies, using emotional intelligence, and taking into account cultural considerations.
Teams will deliver a mock presentation to their executive team about the outcome of their negotiations and the impact on the company. Each presentation will be 10 minutes long. Following the presentation, faculty will provide evaluation and feedback. Each presentation will be graded.
This session explores what an effective compliance and risk management program comprises, and how to build and maintain one. At the center of the discussion is drafting solid policies, procedures, and internal controls. The session also addresses backgrounds checks, employee training programs, auditing and reporting, and protecting intellectual property assets. There will be special attention to evaluating third-party issues on a global stage.
Students will learn how to:
This session presents the information that every in-house counsel needs to know about crisis management, from crisis audits and other pre-incident planning tools, to crisis response, to managing the effects of a crisis on the corporate brand. There will be an emphasis on developing flexible policies and procedures, since each crisis presents a unique set of challenges. The session will conclude with an overview of related insurance issues, including when and how to notify your insurance company of a triggering event.
Students will learn how to:
During this interactive project, students will break into teams to work on a hypothetical situation involving a new general counsel. students will create a compliance program and a crisis management program for a company, and then apply those programs to a crisis.
Teams will present their compliance and crisis management programs. Each presentation will be 10 minutes long. Following the presentation, faculty will provide evaluation and feedback. Each presentation will be graded.
This session outlines best practices for internal investigations. It will begin with a discussion of who might lead a given investigation, between outside counsel, in-house counsel, and other corporate departments (e.g. compliance, human resources). Next, faculty will address the steps to conducting an internal investigation, including obligations to notify and update the appropriate stakeholders. As an underlying consideration, this session will address the possibility of investigation-related materials being subject to discovery in future litigation.
Students will learn how to:
This session offers a customizable blueprint for selecting the legal service providers that best suit your organizational needs. Specific topics that will be covered include recognizing when it is time to outsource work, determining the scope of the project, and setting a budget that sticks. There will also be a discussion of using team-building skills to improve your relationships with legal service providers.
Students will learn how to:
The ACC Credentialing Institute reserves the right to modify program content at its discretion.
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