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ACC Legal Operations is a member-driven organization that supports corporate legal operations professionals by delivering benchmarking, resources and opportunities to collaborate. It also serves as a unified voice to advance this critical business function.

BENEFITS & RESOURCES

As legal operations professionals, you make law departments more effective and efficient. ACC is here to help you succeed by offering the following benefits:

standalone annual conference
interest groups for knowledge-sharing
resource library access
member communications forum & directory
curated industry news feed & newsletter

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benchmarking opportunities
career resources and job listings

If you are currently an ACC member, you can enroll in ACC Legal Operations at no additional charge. Non-member prices vary. Join today!

News & Announcements

ACC Legal Ops Observer - March Issue - Design Thinking, AI, Outside Counsel Management & ACC Legal Ops' New Chair

Check out plans for the design thinking workshop at the 2017 ACC Legal Operations conference, the new chair of the ACC Legal Operations section and the strategic plan he formulated with the Steering Committee, and perspectives from fellow legal ops pros on the status of AI in legal services and outside counsel management. Plus, some suggestions of ways to get involved and contribute to the mission of ACC Legal Ops.

Model Information Protection and Security Controls for Outside Counsel Possessing Company Confidential Information

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and a group of its members have developed this Model Information Protection and Security Controls for Outside Counsel Possessing Company Confidential Information (“Model Controls”) to help in-house counsel as they set expectations with their outside vendors, including outside counsel, regarding the types of data security controls these vendors should employ to protect their company's confidential information. The Model Controls provide a list of baseline security measures and controls some legal departments may consider requiring from outside vendors. It is ACC’s hope that the Model Controls offer legal departments a streamlined and consistent approach to setting expectations with respect to the data security practices of their outside vendors.

Registration Is Open - 2017 ACC Legal Ops Conference

More sessions than ever, and group pricing so that more legal ops professionals from the same company can "divide and conquer." This year, we have added a workshop on design thinking, and shark tanks featuring AI-driven services for prediction, prevention, smart contracting, external spend analytics, and expertise automation. Standing up legal ops in your department? Come early for the boot camp, and sign up for the track of sessions for those in early stages of establishing legal ops.

Interested in Speaking at the ACC Legal Operations Conference?

If you have knowledge to share about what works (and what doesn't), check out the Agenda and use the Faculty Interest Form to indicate for which sessions you can contribute your know-how and your qualifications to speak on that topic. We will use the form to send candidate speakers to program organizers.

Executive Workshop on Value-Based Fees, Project Management & Process Improvement

The ACC Legal Service Management workshop is two days of experiential learning in combining value-based fees with key project and process management tools for in-house and outside counsel (legal ops pros are welcome too!) - blending instruction with facilitated exercises in small groups to practice using effective techniques and tools to drive value in external spend. April 19-20 in Dallas.

JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers 360,000 Hours

At JPMorgan Chase & Co., a learning machine is parsing financial deals that once kept legal teams busy for thousands of hours. The program, called COIN, for Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements that, until the project went online in June, consumed 360,000 hours of work each year by lawyers and loan officers. The software reviews documents in seconds, is less error-prone and never asks for vacation.

Contract Management

Preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); 12 steps to take now

Many of the GDPR’s main concepts and principles are much the same as those in the current Data Protection Act (DPA), so if you are complying properly with the current law then most of your approach to compliance will remain valid under the GDPR and can be the starting point to build from. However, there are new elements and significant enhancements, so you will have to do some things for the first time and some things differently.

Governance Risk Compliance