As I’m sure you’ve heard, ACC is celebrating its 30th year. It’s hard to believe that a shared lunch between distinguished members of our profession yielded an idea that has evolved into the leading, global association for in-house counsel. Well, it’s really not that hard to believe — after all, we have more than 30,000 members around the world contributing to the success of the organization, and to our ever-changing profession. Without your contributions of time, expertise and invaluable resources, we would not have made it this far.
Speaking of resources, over the last 30 years, ACC has introduced a variety of tools to better serve our growing membership, along with its expanding needs as in-house counsel. We offer InfoPaksSM — in-depth, practical primers that are smartly packaged to save you time — and ACC Newsstand — a collaborative initiative (and a favorite of our members) with newsfeed service Lexology that delivers essential know-how and market intelligence to you. Our Contract Advisor is (not to toot our own horn) the very first resource of its kind, and our Census Survey is the only comprehensive industry study providing unique insight into the in-house counsel community. Newer resources include the ACC Docket column, “Wisdom of the Crowd,” which poses members’ questions and answers from ACC eGroups, and the much-anticipated ACC Chief Legal Officers (CLO) 2013 Survey.
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The business opportunities opening up to international companies in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) are fast increasing, but the six Persian Gulf countries that comprise it have different commercial attractions and potentially competing economic goals, participants learned at a recent Doing Business in the GCC conference held in London.